1 A whirlwind tour of EDS Almis Database Seminar August 15-17, 2005

A whirlwind tour of EDS 2 What is OES?  Federal-state cooperative program  Semi-annual mail survey  Produces employment and wage estimates for over 700 occupations  Produces estimates by geographic area and for over 450 industry classifications

A whirlwind tour of EDS 3 Who uses the data?  Employers  Workers  Workforce boards  Economic developers  Legislators

A whirlwind tour of EDS 4 The sample Full and part-time wage and salary workers in non-farm industries Includes probability and certainty units Stratified, weighted sample based on FIPS, MSA, industry, and size Up to 200,000 establishments per panel

A whirlwind tour of EDS 5 The survey Industry-specific forms Collects raw employment by occupation and class of wage Collected by state workforce agencies and nationally Survey Processing And Management system

A whirlwind tour of EDS 6 The calculation Up to six panels combine to produce a single set of estimates Uses imputation for non-response Employment cost index updates old data Weighted employment is benchmarked against the 202 Employment, P10/25/50/75/90, mean, entry experienced wage, generally annual and hourly

A whirlwind tour of EDS 7 Files provided to states Finished estimates for the following geographies and industries –National, Statewide, MSA, and BOS –Cross-industry, division, NAICS-3, NAICS-4, and partial NAICS-5 "Establishment" and "detail" microdata files Imputation donor lists ALMIS files

A whirlwind tour of EDS 8 Produces estimates for areas other than MSA/BOS Custom occupation and industry rollups Ad-hoc requests Tools for data review and post-estimation screening Can update finished estimates using ECI factors Exports for Almis, MM, and a Q&D web presence What is EDS?

A whirlwind tour of EDS 9 Currently two versions, 3.3 and 4.1 –3.3 based on Visual Foxpro desktop database –4.1 uses MySQL  Load data  Define areas and estimates  Calculate results  Review and suppress questionable cells  Export the results System basics

A whirlwind tour of EDS 10  Selecting data to load  Applicable pub files  Applicable microdata  Imputation donors  Pub files and microdata can be loaded in any order  Donors must be loaded after establishment data Loading data

A whirlwind tour of EDS 11 EDS 4.1 signon panel

A whirlwind tour of EDS 12 The EDS pub import

A whirlwind tour of EDS 13 Main panel – Import tab

A whirlwind tour of EDS 14 Main panel – Estimates tab

A whirlwind tour of EDS 15 Area properties – Details

A whirlwind tour of EDS 16 Area properties – Map

A whirlwind tour of EDS 17 Estimate properties – classes

A whirlwind tour of EDS 18 Estimate properties - options

A whirlwind tour of EDS 19 Estimate properties – results

A whirlwind tour of EDS 20 Estimate properties – history

A whirlwind tour of EDS 21 Cell properties – results

A whirlwind tour of EDS 22 Cell properties – schedules

A whirlwind tour of EDS 23 A questionable schedule that seems to negatively affect results Effect is based on contribution of all questionable schedules as a percentage of final result –Small contribution, little effect –Larger contributions “kill” the result Work like waivers, applied to both current and future cells involving the schedule What is a poison schedule?

A whirlwind tour of EDS 24 Cell properties – related occs

A whirlwind tour of EDS 25 Based on O*Net nearest neighbor matrix Six possible (adjustable) salary relations –Pays much less –Pays somewhat less –Pays about the same –Pays somewhat more –Pays much more –N/A Related cell must be publishable to be compared What is a related occupation?

A whirlwind tour of EDS 26 Cell properties – area and year comparison

A whirlwind tour of EDS 27 Cell properties – history

A whirlwind tour of EDS 28 Underlying microdata

A whirlwind tour of EDS 29 Cell properties – related occs

A whirlwind tour of EDS 30  Employment and wages may be set independently  Publish settings  Always publish  Never publish  Publish based on screening  Locked cells are ineligible for rescreening  Advanced options allow screening to be applied to ranges of cells Suppressions

A whirlwind tour of EDS 31 Almis export

A whirlwind tour of EDS 32  EDS web site:  EDS Yahoo! Group message archive  R esources: