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Q05 / Business dynamics / Business-flow contextHow much of the change in net job creation comes from gross creation versus destruction, and which sectors or firm-age groups drive it?
United States business dynamics / Net job creation rate- 2022
- 5.4%
- prior anchor
- Observed change
- -2.89 pp
- 1 year
- 2023
- 2.5%
- latest anchor
- Current custody
- 1
- source record
Published signal
The observation behind the question
Latest published Census BDS year versus the immediately preceding national annual record; the full 1978-2023 history remains available in the underlying explorer.The latest published national net job creation is lower than the prior annual BDS record. This business-flow movement does not measure concentration, market power, or a competitive cause.
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.Declared empirical track
Business-flow context
Disaggregate national entry, exit, job-flow, and reallocation movement by sector, place, and firm age before proposing a competitive mechanism.- Evidence base
- 46 national annual records / 1978-2023
- Data status
- verified
- Confidence
- high
- Metric family
- net-job-creation-rate
Evidence to collect
4 declared requests- 01
National and broad-sector BDS rows for both annual anchors using the same published rate definition.
- 02
Firm-age, establishment-age, state, and industry decompositions that can localize the aggregate movement.
- 03
Entry, exit, opening, closure, expansion, contraction, creation, and destruction components kept separately identified.
- 04
Financing, demand, technology, regulation, ownership, and merger context tested without treating co-movement as a competitive cause.
Current source custody
Evidence already attached to the observed signal
Collection requests above remain separate from these published source records.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.
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