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Business Dynamics Statistics
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- BLS Business Employment Dynamics
- County Business Patterns
- Longitudinal Business Database
- Nonemployer Statistics
- Statistics of U.S. Businesses
- Synthetic Longitudinal Business Database
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Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS)
About the BDS
2016 Update!
The Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) provides annual measures of business dynamics (such as job creation and destruction, establishment births and deaths, and firm startups and shutdowns) for the economy and aggregated by establishment and firm characteristics. The BDS is created from the Longitudinal Business Database (LBD), a confidential database available to qualified researchers through secure Federal Statistical Research Data Centers. The use of the LBD as its source data permits tracking establishments and firms over time.
BDS data tables show key economic data:
- Employment – job creation and destruction
- Job expansions and contractions
- Number of establishments
- Establishment openings and closings
- Number of startups and firm shutdowns
The BDS series provides:
- Annual statistics for 1977–2016
- Age and size of firms and establishments
- State
- Metro/Non-metro and MSA
- Standard Industrial Classification sectors
- Coverage of the entire U.S. economy
This release of the Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) provides a limited set of statistics for the year 2016. Historical time series are available from earlier releases. This temporary reduction in detail will allow the team supporting the program to focus on modernizing the methodology that generates the BDS. The goal for the next release is to provide an expanded set of tables that incorporate long-planned enhancements, including a switch from the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).
2016 statistics are tabulated for the following categories.- Economy wide
- State
- Sector
- Firm age
- Firm size
- Firm initial size
- Metro/non metro
- Economy wide
- State
- Sector
- Establishment age
- Establishment size
- Establishment initial size
Learn More
- Methodology – Learn more about key concepts and methodology
- Publications – Read statistical briefs, papers, and presentations
- Data – Access data tables
- Visualization Tools – Visualize data across multiple dimensions
- Definitions – Find definitions of variables and concepts
- FAQs – Get answers to frequently asked questions
- Business Dynamics Statistics API
2016 BDS Released
2016 Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) are now available. Look up employment flows data by firm size, firm age, inustry sector, state, and metro vs. non-metro. New data available are available for 2016
>> BDS Statistics
>> BDS Visualization Tools
BDS Partners
The Center for Economic Studies development of the BDS was partially funded by:
Kauffman Foundation
Small Business Administration
What is the SynLBD?
The Synthetic Longitudinal Business Database (SynLBD) is a beta version of a public–use synthetic longitudinal business microdata product that provides researchers a way to explore relationships in the microdata while protecting the confidentiality of establishments' information.
Business Formation Statistics
Explore Business Formation Statistics (BFS), a new public-use data product released on February 14, 2018 in beta form that provides quarterly series on new business applications and formations in the U.S.