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Business Employment Dynamics is
a set of statistics generated from the Quarterly Census of
Employment and Wages, or ES-202, program. These quarterly data
series consist of gross job gains and gross job losses statistics
from 1992 forward. These data help to provide a picture of the
dynamic state of the labor market.
Business Employment Dynamics: Third Quarter, 2008
May 19, 2009
From June 2008 to September 2008, the number of job gains from opening
and expanding private sector establishments was 6.8 million, and the
number of job losses from closing and contracting establishments was
7.8 million.
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Current
- Quarterly Data on Business Employment Dynamics (HTML) (PDF) — this release includes updates for the private sector as a whole and for firm size classes.
- Quarterly Data From BLS on Business Employment Dynamics by State (TXT) (PDF) — State-level Business Employment Dynamics.
- Firm Size Class Quarterly Data (HTML) (PDF) — this initial release of firm size class data includes analysis of data series that begin in 1992.
- County Employment and Wages (HTML)
(PDF)
- Subscribe to the BLS News Service — receive the Quarterly Data on Business Employment Dynamics news releases by e-mail.
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- Flat files FTP Site —For those who want it all. Download a flat file of the entire database or large subset of the database.
- Sherly L. Konigsberg, James R. Spletzer, David M. Talan, “Business employment dynamics: tabulations by size of employment change.” April 2009 Monthly Labor Review
- Akbar Sadeghi, “The births and deaths of business establishments in the United States.” December 2008 Monthly Labor Review
- Zhi Boon, Charles M. Carson, R. Jason Faberman, and Randy E. Ilg, “Studying the labor market using BLS labor dynamics data.” February 2008 Monthly Labor Review
- Amy E. Knaup and Merissa C. Piazza, “Business Employment Dynamics data: survival and longevity, II” September 2007 Monthly Labor Review
- Sheryl Konigsberg, “The Geospatial Distribution of Employment: A New Visual Asset.” March 2007 Monthly Labor Review
- Jessica Helfand, Akbar Sadeghi and David Talan, “Employment Dynamics: Small and Large Firms Over the Business Cycle.” March 2007 Monthly Labor Review
- Cordelia Okolie, “Why Size Class Methodology Matters in Analyses of Net and Gross Job Flows.” July 2004 Monthly Labor Review
- James R. Spletzer, R. Jason Faberman, Akbar Sadeghi, David M. Talan, and Richard L. Clayton, “Business Employment Dynamics: New Data on Gross Job Gains and Losses.” April 2004 Monthly Labor Review
- Joshua Pinkston and James Spletzer, “Annual Measures of Job Creation and Job Destruction Created from Quarterly Microdata.”
- Timothy R. Pivetz, Michael A. Searson, and James R. Spletzer, “Measuring Job and Establishment Flows with BLS Longitudinal Microdata.” April 2001 Monthly Labor Review
- NOTE: Two new sets of Business Employment Dynamics (BED) data series are coming available with the release of third quarter 2008 data. New national series on total private sector births and deaths (number of establishments and employment) are included as a regular feature of the news release. New national series on births and deaths by major industry sector are available at www.bls.gov/bdm/bdmind.htm, and new State series on total private sector births and deaths are at www.bls.gov/bdm/bdmstate.htm.
The other new BED series coming available are annual data, which measure gross job gains and losses by comparing establishment employment for a month to establishment employment for the same month one year later. Annual BED data are at www.bls.gov/bdm/bdmann.htm and will be updated once a year with the release of first quarter data.
- Assessing the Timeliness of Business Births in BLS Establishment Statistics (PDF 71K)
Other BLS Programs
- Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages — a quarterly count of employment and wages reported by employers covering 98 percent of U.S. jobs, available at the county, metropolitan area, state and national levels by industry.
- Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the CES survey (National) — monthly national data by detailed industry on employment, hours, and earnings of workers on the payrolls of nonfarm establishments.
- Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the CES survey (State and Area) — monthly data on employment, hours, and earnings by industry and geographic area.
Other Useful Links
Office of Employment and Unemployment
Statistics Business Employment Dynamics Suite 4840 2
Massachusetts Ave, NE Washington, DC 20212-0001
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Latest Numbers
Gross Job Gains:
Total Private
6,822,000 in 3rd Qtr of 2008
Historical Data
Goods-Producing
1,397,000 in 3rd Qtr of 2008
Historical Data
Service-providing
5,425,000 in 3rd Qtr of 2008
Historical Data
Gross Job Losses:
Total Private
7,754,000 in 3rd Qtr of 2008
Historical Data
Goods-Producing
1,767,000 in 3rd Qtr of 2008
Historical Data
Service-Providing
5,987,000 in 3rd Qtr of 2008
Historical Data
Number of establishments gaining jobs:
Total Private
1,788,000 in 3rd Qtr of 2008
Historical Data
Goods-Producing
315,000 in 3rd Qtr of 2008
Historical Data
Service-Providing
1,473,000 in 3rd Qtr of 2008
Historical Data
Total Private
1,987,000 in 3rd Qtr of 2008
Historical Data
Goods-Producing
383,000 in 3rd Qtr of 2008
Historical Data
Service-Providing
1,604,000 in 3rd Qtr of 2008
Historical Data
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