2023 Business Dynamics Statistics
U.S. Census Bureau
- Rows
- 920
- Years
- 1978-2023
- Accessed
- Jul 19, 2026
Canonical indicator / reallocation-rate
Job creation plus job destruction minus the absolute net job creation rate, measuring reallocation beyond the amount required by the net employment change.
Snapshot median
22.6%Middle of 20 bounded observations01 / Measurement contract
The unit, universe, period, and source boundary travel with every observation.
Job creation plus job destruction minus the absolute net job creation rate, measuring reallocation beyond the amount required by the net employment change.
Business Dynamics Statistics measure establishment, firm, and job flows within published national and NAICS-sector universes. They do not measure concentration, market power, legal antitrust markets, or the competitive cause of entry, exit, creation, or destruction.
02 / Observed variation
2023; absent and withheld values do not enter the distribution.
03 / Coverage and quality
Observed rows are counted explicitly by period, group, verification status, and confidence level.
Data status
100.0%Verified / 920Confidence
100.0%High / 920| Group | Rows | Average | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| NAICS sector | 19 | 21.9% | 12.5% to 28.7% |
| National total | 1 | 22.1% | 22.1% to 22.1% |
04 / Exact paired lens
This indicator is documented independently.
No exact companion series is registered.The indicator remains available as a standalone bounded dataset.
05 / Source custody
1 source family, 0 contextual references, and 1 encoded methodology note.
U.S. Census Bureau
Job creation plus job destruction minus the absolute net job creation rate, measuring reallocation beyond the amount required by the net employment change. Census BDS rates retain the published national or two-digit NAICS sector universe.
Indicator evidence guardrail
This profile documents one bounded indicator at a time. Its ranks, distributions, histories, and paired views remain inside the stated universe, period basis, source, unit, and methodology; they are descriptive research screens, not legal findings or components of a composite score.
Business Dynamics Statistics measure establishment, firm, and job flows within published national and NAICS-sector universes. They do not measure concentration, market power, legal antitrust markets, or the competitive cause of entry, exit, creation, or destruction.