Business Dynamics Statistics of U.S. Goods?Traders?Experimental Data Product Updated

Today the U.S. Census Bureau releases an update to the?Business Dynamics Statistics of U.S. Goods?Traders?(BDS-Goods?Traders)?experimental data product. BDS-Goods Traders?provides annual measures of business dynamics by four mutually exclusive goods-trading classifications: exporter only, importer only, exporter and importer, non-trader. This update adds 2020 data tabulations.

BDS-Goods?Traders?data tables show key economic data:

• Employment ? job creation and destruction
• Job expansions and contractions
• Number of establishments and firms
• Establishment openings and closings
• Number of startups and firm shutdowns

The?BDS-Goods?Traders?series provides annual statistics for 1992 to 2020 by:

• Economy-wide
• Firm size
• Initial firm size
• Firm age
• Division
• 4-digit NAICS

Data tables can be accessed at?https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/ces/data/public-use-data/experimental-bds/bds-goods-traders/data.html?and methodology can be accessed at?https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/ces/data/public-use-data/experimental-bds/bds-goods-traders/methodology.html.
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