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YE focuses an accurate lens on your community so you can understand the dynamics of its unique economy.

Existing, expanding companies contribute most to U.S. job creation. In fact, from 1990 to 2008, existing companies generated 71 percent more new jobs than startups.

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From 1995 - 2009, the net expansion of Stage 2 companies (those with 10-99 employees) represented 10.9% of all establishments and 33.2% of total job expansion in the United States.

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Expanding companies have the most significant impact on job creation when compared to new or relocated companies. From 1995 to 2009, expanding companies created over 22.9 million jobs.

From 2001 to 2008, “Resident/local businesses jobs grew 5.9% – while Nonresident jobs decreased by 16.4%.

From 1995 to 2009, resident establishments averaged 88.8% of total establishments in the U.S. and accounted for 65.4% of all jobs while resident expanding jobs totaled 67.1%.

WHO IS YE FOR?

YourEconomy.org (YE) is designed to be a practical tool for researchers, business and community leaders, and economic-growth professionals. It provides timely, detailed - yet quick and easy-to-access - information about businesses, agencies and organizations (establishments), and jobs at the national, state, metropolitan (MSA), and county levels. The site also gives policymakers and journalists the benefit of being able to look at regional economies and their business and industry activities in a new way.

YE HIGHLIGHTS

Unique establishment sectors - resident, nonresident, and noncommercial - take a closer look at your community.

Resident establishments are subdivided into employment stages and growth factors that reflect different issues companies face as they grow.

Insights offers current expert analysis of economic activity and job creation from the Institute for Exceptional Growth Companies (IEGC).

Trends uniquely defines and tracks sectors of the economy over the entire time series.

HOW DOES YE WORK?

We offer three data source options:

YourEconomy.org (YE) is a free business census containing 22 million active establishments (over 44 million total) providing unique aggregate information about the performance of businesses through time from a local to a national perspective.

YE lets you view businesses through their composition, growth, rankings, and summary graphs showing companies in your community.

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YE+ is a subscription service that lets you view details of composition and growth through openings, closings, expansions, contractions, move-ins and move-outs of business establishments and jobs by 3-digit NAICS; build custom regions, and cluster 3-digit NAICS.

YE+ also lets NETS subscribers target companies by growth factors and match DUNS back to their licensed data.

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YE derives its information from the NETS Database, developed by Walls & Associates in conjunction with Dun and Bradstreet (D&B). This valuable database provides a unique 21-year historical snapshot of all D&B establishments.

A time series resource, the NETS Database has over 300 fields that uniquely describe each establishment from 1990 to 2010, and can be customized to meet your specific research or project needs.

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