Business Employment Dynamics - BD

Data - BLS

Last observation: 2025 (N = 136200)

First observation: 1992 (N = 63920)

Last data update: 23 sept. 2026, 23:31

Last compile: 23 sept. 2026, 23:38

bd.dataclass

bd.data.1.AllItems |>
  left_join(bd.series, by = "series_id") |>
  left_join(bd.dataclass, by = "dataclass_code") |>
  group_by(dataclass_code, dataclass_name) |>
  summarise(Nobs = n()) |>
  print_table_conditional()

dataclass_code	dataclass_name	Nobs
1	Gross Job Gains	741848
2	Expansions	741848
3	Openings	741848
4	Gross Job Losses	741848
5	Contractions	741848
6	Closings	741848
7	Establishment Births	73728
8	Establishment Deaths	73728

bd.dataelement

bd.data.1.AllItems |>
  left_join(bd.series, by = "series_id") |>
  left_join(bd.dataelement, by = "dataelement_code") |>
  group_by(dataelement_code, dataelement_name) |>
  summarise(Nobs = n()) |>
  print_table_conditional()

dataelement_code	dataelement_name	Nobs
1	Employment	2313744
2	Number of Establishments	2284800

bd.sizeclass

bd.data.1.AllItems |>
  left_join(bd.series, by = "series_id") |>
  left_join(bd.sizeclass, by = "sizeclass_code") |>
  group_by(sizeclass_code, sizeclass_name) |>
  summarise(Nobs = n()) %>%
  {if (is_html_output()) datatable(., filter = 'top', rownames = F) else .}

bd.state

bd.data.1.AllItems |>
  left_join(bd.series, by = "series_id") |>
  left_join(bd.state, by = "state_code") |>
  group_by(state_code, state_name) |>
  summarise(Nobs = n()) %>%
  {if (is_html_output()) datatable(., filter = 'top', rownames = F) else .}

bd.industry

bd.data.1.AllItems |>
  left_join(bd.series, by = "series_id") |>
  left_join(bd.industry, by = "industry_code") |>
  group_by(industry_code, industry_name) |>
  summarise(Nobs = n()) %>%
  {if (is_html_output()) datatable(., filter = 'top', rownames = F) else .}

bd.series

bd.data.1.AllItems |>
  left_join(bd.series, by = "series_id") |>
  group_by(series_id, series_title) |>
  summarise(Nobs = n()) %>%
  {if (is_html_output()) datatable(., filter = 'top', rownames = F) else .}