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    • Time Series: Business Dynamics Statistics

    Metadata Updated: September 30, 2025

    The Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) is a public use data set providing annual aggregate measures of establishment openings and closings, firm startups and shutdowns, and job creation and destruction. These measures are available for the entire economy, and by industrial sector, 3-digit and 4-digit NAICS, state, MSA, and county. They are also available by firm and establishment size and age. For more information about the dataset see: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds.html

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons CCZero

    Downloads & Resources

    References

    https://www.census.gov/developers/

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date July 15, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date September 30, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Commerce Non Spatial Data.json Harvest Source

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date July 15, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date September 30, 2025
    Publisher U.S. Census Bureau
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://api.census.gov/data/id/BDSTIMESERIES
    Data Last Modified 2021-01-13 00:00:00.0
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 006:07
    C Dataset "timeseries", "bds"
    C Documentationlink https://www.census.gov/developer/
    C Exampleslink http://api.census.gov/data/timeseries/bds/examples.json
    C Geographylink http://api.census.gov/data/timeseries/bds/geography.json
    C Groupslink http://api.census.gov/data/timeseries/bds/groups.json
    C Isavailable True
    C Istimeseries True
    C Sorts Url http://api.census.gov/data/timeseries/bds/sorts.json
    C Tagslink http://api.census.gov/data/timeseries/bds/tags.json
    C Variableslink http://api.census.gov/data/timeseries/bds/variables.json
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id d22ff71a-a243-4e19-904a-cdb81d63f9d3
    Harvest Source Id bce99b55-29c1-47be-b214-b8e71e9180b1
    Harvest Source Title Commerce Non Spatial Data.json Harvest Source
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Old Spatial United States
    Program Code 006:007
    Publisher Hierarchy U.S. Government > U.S. Department Of Commerce > U.S. Census Bureau
    Related Documents https://www.census.gov/developers/
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 1a801146a8996559909f7ea613e0dec8e7b4312bead7b31a88862a78a1518844
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type":"Polygon","coordinates":-124.733253,24.544245,-124.733253,49.388611,-66.954811,49.388611,-66.954811,24.544245,-124.733253,24.544245}
    Temporal 1978/2023

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