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Monthly survey-based small-business labor panel from NFIB's Economic Survey drawn from a ~750,000-member owner universe, newly consolidated into a composite Small Business Employment Index combining actual and planned hiring with actual and planned compensation change into one reading (higher = tighter labor market, lower = looser). Component series published alongside: share hiring or trying to hire, qualified-applicant availability (none / few / few-or-no), unfilled openings split skilled versus unskilled, labor-quality-as-most-important-problem by industry, and net shares raising compensation now versus planning to raise in the next three months

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Industry: Human Resource & Employment ServicesFinancial Exchanges & Data
Instruments: equitiesfixed_income

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Type: not stated
Format: Tabular monthly time series of survey percentages, net shares and a seasonally adjusted composite index, released as a report with press tables; underlying data are individual survey responses at firm grain (industry, region, firm size, owner responses)
Volume: Micro layer: the monthly Economic Survey fielding typically yields thousands of usable firm-level responses per wave (a sample drawn from a ~750,000-member frame), giving on the order of 10^5 individual responses across a decade of monthly waves. Published layer is small: a few dozen index and component series with industry, region and demographic cuts
Users: NFIB's membership universe is roughly 750,000 small-business members, which is the sampling frame behind the survey rather than a registered product user base; the index itself is a published report with no account requirement
History: not stated
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Growth: Active and expanding the product surface — the Small Business Employment Index is a newly launched composite introduced in this year's January Jobs Report, layered onto a survey series that has run for decades, and the organization reports ~$116M revenue with ~950 staff, i.e. a well-resourced institution investing in new analytics rather than winding down
Launched: Composite index: launched with this year's January Jobs Report. The underlying asset is far older — NFIB's monthly Economic Survey has run since the mid-1970s, so the survey lineage predates the new index by roughly fifty years
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