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2023 Business Dynamics Statistics

Annual national and two-digit NAICS sector measures of establishment entry and exit job creation and destruction net job creation and employment reallocation from 1978 through 2023.

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1/7 direct domains · 5,520 normalized indicators · 0 markets · 1978-2026

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Definitions0Not encoded Observations0Not encoded Participants0Not encoded Policy records0Not encoded Reports1Direct domain Industries0Not encoded Geographies0Not encoded Indicators5,520Normalized route

Public source2023 Business Dynamics StatisticsU.S. Census Bureau / 2 active routes / 1978-2026

Record identitycensus-business-dynamics-2023U.S. Census Bureau, 2025
Source classPublic datasetAccessed Jul 19, 2026
Encoded scope2 active routes1 direct / 5,520 indicator rows
Permitted inferenceTrace + reproduceNo automatic endorsement or comparability

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2 active routes / 6 not encoded

Definitions0Not encoded Observations0Not encoded Participants0Not encoded Policy records0Not encoded Reports1public reports Industries0Not encoded Geographies0Not encoded Indicators5,520normalized indicator observations / normalized route

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Jul 20, 2026

Business Dynamism Across U.S. Sectors, 1978-2023

A source-backed research brief on 46 years of establishment and job flows, the different entry paths of 19 broad sectors, and a guarded cross-section linking 2023 entry to 2022 detailed-industry structure.

U.S. Census Bureau 2023 Business Dynamics Statistics national and broad-sector annual tables for 1978-2023, paired only in a separately labeled cross-section with 2022 Economic Census medians of published six-digit industry HHI.

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U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Business Dynamics Statistics, economy-wide and sector time-series tables, released September 2025.

Annual national and two-digit NAICS sector measures of establishment entry and exit job creation and destruction net job creation and employment reallocation from 1978 through 2023.

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U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Business Dynamics Statistics, economy-wide and sector time-series tables, released September 2025. Available at https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/data.Datasets.html. Accessed Jul 19, 2026. Antitrust Radar source record census-business-dynamics-2023: https://antitrustradar.org/sources/census-business-dynamics-2023

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Publisher: U.S. Census Bureau
Access date: Jul 19, 2026
License note: Public federal government dataset
Archive: No archive URL recorded

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