Data field · Geographic area

Net job change

Net change in jobs for a defined establishment cohort and period.

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Sources that carry it

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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Business Employment Dynamics

BLS aggregate BED product derived from longitudinally linked QCEW establishment records. It publishes quarterly/annual job-flow levels and rates for openings, expansions, closings, contractions, births and deaths, with employment and establishment-count measures by supported national/state, industry, firm-size and employment-change-size dimensions. Coordinated downloadable establishment-age and annual-opening-cohort survival tables add surviving counts, survivor employment, survival since birth, prior-year conditional survival and average survivor employment. API and text tables are delivery surfaces of one product.

Free APIFull file National US 18 fields

Questions it helps answer

Business age distribution Business survival and continuation trends Establishment stock change trends Business formation and closure trends

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