Small businesses open

This dataset represents a single index value representing the percent change in the number of open small businesses in North Carolina counties. It is calculated as a seven-day moving average, seasonally adjusted and indexed to January 4-31 2020. Temporal and spatial resolution The data obtained from the Opportunity Insights data repository in Github reports daily percentage change in the number of open small businesses compared to January levels. The data is then aggregated as a rolling seven-day average. Twenty-two of North Carolina’s 100 counties are represented in this dataset, none of which are non-CBSA (outside of both metropolitan and micropolitan areas). Additionally, only one county is identified as having high pre-existing unemployment, and two as having lower median income. As a result, the dataset disproportionately represents relatively prosperous metropolitan centers and does not represent other regions of the state.