Business formation and closure trends
How are counts and rates of operating-firm startups and shutdowns and establishment openings and closures changing in this industry and area?
The data that answers it
Ranked by fit · best firstBDS publishes annual establishment entries and exits with explicit rates and denominators, age-zero firm startup tabulations, and firm-death counts by supported geography, NAICS, and year. Its measures describe employment-based operating openings, closures, startups, and shutdowns rather than applications or registry filings.
BED publishes establishment openings, closings, births, and deaths as distinct documented classes, with count/job levels and rates by supported geography, industry, period, and seasonal-adjustment status. This directly supports establishment operating-entry and exit trends, but not firm startup or firm-death trends.
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