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Census BTOS: AI use: Business Trends and Outlook Survey: AI use (Core and 2025–26 AI Supplement)

The Business Trends and Outlook Survey asks businesses whether they use AI to produce goods or services. Census labels BTOS an experimental data product. The Core series is current, refreshed data, and JobMarketHealth uses it only as employer-adoption context.

AI research contextCore question biweekly; AI Supplement collected once (Nov 17, 2025 to Feb 8, 2026)

What it measures

  • Business-level AI use: national, state, sector and firm size
  • Core: the current adoption trend across biweekly survey periods
  • AI Supplement 2025–26: a one-time look at how businesses use AI. It is not a trend

What it does not measure

Most misreadings of labor data come from asking a dataset a question it was not built to answer. These are the limits worth holding onto.

  • AI use by occupation or by individual workers
  • Jobs gained or lost because of AI

Update cadence

Core question biweekly; AI Supplement collected once (Nov 17, 2025 to Feb 8, 2026).

Occupation pages name the specific release behind each figure and when it was imported, so you can see how current a number is rather than assuming it is new. More on that on about the data.

How JobMarketHealth uses it

  • Employer-adoption context on the AI & Jobs page, including the state map, which uses the latest national survey period for every state.
  • Core and Supplement are tracked, dated and labeled as separate series, so a problem with one never hides or mislabels the other.
  • Never an input to the Job Market Health score.

Where it sits

This dataset is AI & Jobs research context. It is never an input to the Job Market Health score. Read the methodology.

Official source

U.S. Census Bureau publishes Business Trends and Outlook Survey: AI use (Core and 2025–26 AI Supplement). JobMarketHealth organizes and derives from that public data and is not its publisher.

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