America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers
Business Trends and Outlook Survey: New Light on Business Health
This summer, the U.S. Census Bureau will launch a new experimental survey that will provide biweekly business data on businesses of all sizes and a multitude of geographies.
The new Business Trends and Outlook Survey (BTOS) is the successor to and builds upon the Census Bureau?s Small Business Pulse Survey (SBPS), which was created in response to the Coronavirus pandemic.
The SBPS demonstrated the Census Bureau?s ability to collect and publish high frequency and timely data during a national emergency with severe economic impacts. BTOS will capitalize on this success and expand the original survey?s (SBPS) scope of SBPS to include large single location employer businesses (500 or more employees).
The survey will collect and publish data products every two weeks along with measures of quality based on national representative samples. BTOS will provide information on a broad array of businesses by sector, state, and the 25 most populous Metropolitan Statistical Areas.
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