Observations

2025-11-29: 80,820

Updated: Dec 18, 2025 3:11 PM CST

Units:

Number,

Not Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency:

Weekly,

Ending Saturday

Notes

Title	Release Dates

Business Applications for the United States	2020-04-09	2025-12-12

Source

U.S. Census Bureau	2020-04-09	2025-12-12

Release

Weekly Business Formation Statistics	2020-04-09	2025-12-12

Units

Number	2020-04-09	2025-12-12

Frequency

Weekly, Ending Saturday	2020-04-09	2025-12-12

Seasonal Adjustment

Not Seasonally Adjusted	2020-04-09	2025-12-12

Notes

Business Applications (BA): The core business applications series that corresponds to a subset of all EIN applications. BA includes all applications for an EIN, except for applications for tax liens, estates, trusts, or certain financial filings, applications with no state-county geocodes, applications from certain agricultural, public entities, and applications in certain industries (e.g. private households, civic and social organizations). See "About the Data" (https://www.census.gov/econ/bfs/about_the_data.html) for more details.	2020-04-09	2025-12-12

Business Applications for the United States (BUSAPPWNSAUS)