Source: U.S. Census Bureau  

Release: Business Formation Statistics  

Units:  Number, Not Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency:  Quarterly

The Business Formation Statistics are now released on a monthly basis, and the quarterly series will no longer be updated. See BFSBF8QTOTALNSAWV for an alternative.

This series combines (splices) https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BF8QNSAWV and https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PBF8QNSAWV to provide the entire time series for the actual and projected business formations within 8 quarters.