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Time Series Economic Indicators Time Series -: Business Formation Statistics

Metadata Updated: July 19, 2023

The U.S. Census Bureau.s economic indicator surveys provide monthly and quarterly data that are timely, reliable, and offer comprehensive measures of the U.S. economy. These surveys produce a variety of statistics covering construction, housing, international trade, retail trade, wholesale trade, services and manufacturing. The survey data provide measures of economic activity that allow analysis of economic performance and inform business investment and policy decisions. Other data included, which are not considered principal economic indicators, are the Quarterly Summary of State & Local Taxes, Quarterly Survey of Public Pensions, and the Manufactured Homes Survey. For information on the reliability and use of the data, including important notes on estimation and sampling variance, seasonal adjustment, measures of sampling variability, and other information pertinent to the economic indicators, visit the individual programs' webpages - http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/briefroom/BriefRm.

Access & Use Information

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

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References

http://www.census.gov/developers/

Dates

Metadata Created Date July 15, 2022
Metadata Updated Date July 19, 2023

Metadata Source

Harvested from Commerce Non Spatial Data.json Harvest Source

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date July 15, 2022
Metadata Updated Date July 19, 2023
Publisher U.S. Census Bureau
Maintainer
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Data Last Modified 2019-07-17
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Program Code 006:007
Publisher Hierarchy U.S. Government > U.S. Department Of Commerce > U.S. Census Bureau
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