1. Local Employment Dynamics:
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Local Employment Dynamics:
Utilizing Quarterly Workforce Indicators for Detailed Worker and Industry Characteristics
Earlene Dowell
LEHD Program
Center for Economic Studies
U.S. Census Bureau

2. Outline The hierarchy What is LED and how can I use it?
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Outline
The hierarchy
What is LED and how can I use it?
LED Public-use Data and Web Tools
Live Demonstration and hands-on activity
Introduction to Job-to-Job Flows

3. Center for Economic Studies
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Center for Economic Studies
CES was established in 1982, designed to house longitudinal business databases
The Longitudinal Household-Employer Dynamics (LEHD) program is a subgroup of CES
CES partners with stakeholders inside and outside the Census Bureau to improve measures of the economy and people of the United States through research and the development of innovative data products
CES also facilitates the research of others through the Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) program
Currently 23 open RDC locations with 7 new locations coming soon

4. CES Data Products and Data Tools
Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS)
Tabulations on establishments, firms, and employment with unique information on firm age and firm size
Synthetic Longitudinal Business Database (SynLBD)
Beta version of synthetic microdata on all U.S. establishments
TOOLS
BDS Visualization Tool
Visualize BDS data across multiple dimensions
Geographic – Thematic Map
Cross Sectional – Bar Charts
Time – Time Series
Virtual RDC – Through Cornell University
Experimental synthetic data product
21 million establishment records covering all sectors for the years 1976 – 2000
Contains the establishment's synthetic 3–digit SIC code, first year, last year, annual payroll, annual employment, and multi–unit status
Contains no geographic or firm-level information

5. BDS Visualization Tool Census.Gov/CES/
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BDS Visualization Tool Census.Gov/CES/
Go Live
Job Creation

6. LED vs LEHD Local Employment Dynamics Partnership
Partnership between Census Bureau and States
States voluntarily submit quarterly data
Core data from UI Wage Records and QCEW reports
Additional records from OPM and other Federal sources
Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program
Creates linked employer-employee database
Releases public-use data products
Develops web tools for data dissemination

7. Where Do the Data Come From?
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Where Do the Data Come From?
Local Employment Dynamics Partnership
Begun in late 1990s with a few states
Some states have time series back to 1990
Not currently producing data for Wyoming, Puerto Rico, and Virgin Islands

8. Admin. Records & LED Infrastructure
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UI* Wage Records
OPM*
Economic Survey Data
Linked National Jobs Data
Firm Data
Jobs Data
Person Data
Business Register
Federal Records
Demographic Census/Survey Data
QCEW*
QCEW = Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages
UI = Unemployment Insurance
OPM = Office of Personnel Management
Public-Use Data Products…
Job data cover over 95% of private employment and most state, local, and federal jobs
Data availability: , start year varies by state, rolling end date

9. Why Are LED Data Special?
100% Coverage of UI Covered Jobs
Firm Characteristics crossed with Worker Characteristics
Detailed Geography
Data Currency
Accessible via powerful and easy-to-use tools
Flexible outputs: PDF reports, Excel tables, high-quality images, and shapefiles

10. LED Data Products Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI)
Employment, Job Creation, Job Destruction, Hires, Separations, Turnover, Earnings
By industry, county, and worker characteristics
LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES)
Employment-Residence connections
Detailed geography + firm/worker characteristics
Job-to-Job Flows (J2J)
Data on job transitions broken down by origin/destination industry and geography and worker characteristics
Flows between jobs
Flows to/from nonemployment
Ongoing beta release of data
Job-to-Job Explorer application forthcoming this fall

11. Choosing Among LED Data Products
What do you want?
Potential Drawbacks
Data Product
Employment, hires, separations, turnover, or earnings by detailed firm and person characteristics; quarterly time resolution; relatively short data lag
No geography below county; no residential information
QWI
Employment for detailed or customized geography; residential patterns of the workforce; relationship between worker employment and home locations
Annual time resolution; less detailed firm/person characteristics
LODES
Transitions between jobs by timing and firm or worker characteristics; transitions to/from nonemployment
No worker characteristics by firm characteristics (except geography), no geography below states*
J2J
*Data product is still under development.

12. Choosing Among LED Data Access Points
Data Product
Explore the data, answer questions, or get visualizations
Bulk data for use in analysis process/software
Live queries for building web applications
QWI
QWI Explorer
LED Extraction Tool Raw data download
Census Bureau API
LODES
OnTheMap
OnTheMap for Emergency Management
Raw data download
Future development
J2J
Job-to-Job Explorer (forthcoming)
Future Development

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Data Tools

15. Recognized by United Nations as a major U.S. statistical innovation
OnTheMap
Recognized by United Nations as a major U.S. statistical innovation
Where do workers live?
Where do residents work?
What are the commuter flows of a particular area?
Analyze/report by worker demographics: age, earnings, race, ethnicity, educational attainment, and sex
Analyze/report by firm characteristics: NAICS Sector, firm age, and firm size
annual data
50 states available (plus DC)
User-selected areas
Based on Census Blocks
Disclosure protection
Flexible Inputs/Outputs

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Getting Started
OnTheMap.CES.Census.Gov

17. Area Profile

18. Home Area Comparison

19. Distance/Direction

20. Destination

21. Inflow/Outflow

22. Paired Area

23. Selection and Base Map Tabs
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Selection and Base Map Tabs

24. OnTheMap for Emergency Management
Hurricanes, Floods,
Winter Storms
Disaster Areas
Wildfires
Demographic & Economic Data
Comprehensive Reports
Real-time Data Updates
Easy-to-use & Interoperable
Historical Event Archive
Flexible Analyses & Visualizations
New Public Data Service for Emergency Preparedness & Response

25. Real Time

26. DR-4211

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Vulnerabilities

28. Economic Migration All Educational Background

29. Economic Migration Bachelor’s Degree or Higher

30. Job-to-Job Explorer (forthcoming)
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Job-to-Job Explorer (forthcoming)

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Guided Entry

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Are Hires To Jobs In Tennessee Coming From Nonemployment Or Another Job?
MHires – Hires into workers main job
J2JHires – Hires following a separation
NEPersist – Hires following a spell of persistent nonemployment

33. Job-to-Job Hires to 20 Industries in Tennessee by Year/Quarter Q2 Series 2000 - 2015

34. Job-to-Job Hires in Healthcare and Social Services

35. Web Addresses for Tools
LED Extraction Tool
QWI Explorer
OnTheMap
OnTheMap for Emergency Management

36. Takeaways
The LED Partnership provides unique workforce information and analysis tools at a relatively low cost
LED data products (QWI, LODES, J2J) can give insight into local and regional economies and labor markets
LED’s web tools provide free, 24/7 access to a basic analytical platform for the data

37. Useful Links QWI Explorer
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QWI Explorer
Video Walkthrough:
Example Scenarios: