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GroundView: US Business Summary Data Product Guide
Product type
Data
Portfolio
Enrich
Product family
Enrich Demographics > Demographic Estimates and Projections
Product
GroundView Demographics > Business Summary
Version
Latest
ft:locale
en-US
Product name
GroundView: US Business Summary Data
ft:title
GroundView: US Business Summary Data Product Guide
Copyright
2025
First publish date
2016
ft:lastEdition
2025-10-23
ft:lastPublication
2025-10-23T14:31:12.974900
Coverage United States (including the District of Columbia)
Reference Date Business Summary Data (BSD) is based on Precisely's World Points of Interest - Premium dataset for the United States, for the Current Year
Update Frequency Annual
Geographic Levels 10 levels, from Census Block Group to national totals. Refer to the Geographic Levels section of this product guide for additional information.
File Format MapInfo Extended TAB (XTAB):
  • Non-mappable – BSD dataset does not include boundary polygons/points
  • Census Bureau’s 2024 TIGER/line boundaries with coastal shorelines cut from the boundary are included in the data > census_boundaries folder.

Pipe-delimited text

  • Census Bureau’s 2024 TIGER/line boundaries with coastal shorelines cut from the boundary are included in the data > census_boundaries folder. Boundary text files show geometry in WKT format.
Character Encoding UTF-8
Variables List This product contains 504 variables. Refer to the groundview_business_summary_usa_data_schema.xlsx workbook, packaged in the product delivery file, for a complete list of the variables in this product.