Job Flows Data from Job Creation and Destruction, with updates

This page contains the publicly available annual and quarterly gross job flows data from Job Creation and Destruction by Steven Davis, John Haltiwanger, and Scott Schuh. To access these files and documentation, please click on the links below. Note that the 1994-1998 link should be used by most users, since it contains the full time series on an annual and quarterly basis from 1972-98 for most classifications.

Annual files

Quarterly files

1989-1993 updates

1994-1998 updates (view information on the new measurement methodology)

Spreadsheet: 1947-2005 quarterly job flow series for U.S. manufacturing, as well as 1990-2005 quarterly job flows for U.S. total private sector

Useful links

Business employment dynamics, US Bureau of Labor Statistics