📊 In Case You Missed It: ACES, ARTS, and More

This week we released data from the 2021 Annual Capital Expenditures Survey (ACES). The ACES provides the only comprehensive estimates of annual U.S. capital expenditures data covering all domestic nonfarm businesses and detailing investments by type and industry.

Retail sales for the nation increased 17.1% from $5,572.0 billion in 2020 to $6,522.6 billion in 2021, according to new estimates from our 2021 Annual Retail Trade Survey.

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On Thursday, we released data from the 2021 Annual Survey of Manufactures. Statistics showed the value of shipments in the nation’s #manufacturing sector increased 16.8% from 2020 to $6.1 trillion in 2021.

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a sharp rise in the number of business closures. Our new experimental data product – Business Dynamics Statistics of Single-Unit Firms – shows the pandemic impact on small businesses by geography and industry.

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