This site 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 following link. The annual files are in directory
ANNUAL, the quarterly files in the director QUARTER, and the 1989-93 updates
are in the 8993 directory. The
1994-98 updates are in the directory 9498_update and an accompanying
forthcoming working paper by Foster, Haltiwanger and Kim (2006) describes the
updates along with important changes in the ASM sampling methodology that have
been incorporated into the measurement methodology to make them consistent over
time (a preliminary version of this working paper can be found in the directory
from the link below in the file Gross_flows_7298.pdf). Note that the 9498 directory 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. Finally, the 1947-2005 quarterly job
flow series for U.S. Manufacturing developed by Davis, Faberman and Haltiwanger
(Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2006) and the 1990-2005 quarterly job flows
for the U.S. total private sector are available in an excel spreadsheet in the
directory
DFH_JEP_JobFlows.
Link:
http://econweb.umd.edu/~haltiwan/download
Update (2009):
The Bureau of the Census has now released job creation and
destruction measures on an annual basis from 1977-2005 for U.S.
private, non-agricultural businesses with breakouts by
major sector, state, firm size and firm age (and various
interactions). The methodology for
these measures follows Davis, Haltiwanger and Schuh (2006). These data are described and can be
downloaded from:
hhttp://www.census.gov/ces/dataproducts/bds/index.html