Skip this top of page navigation  |
 |
 |
 |
||||||
![US Census Bureau [masthead] 10 Years on the Web](images/USCBtop.jpg){kind=small} |
 |
|
|||||||
 |
![Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics [masthead]](images/LEHDbanner.jpg){kind=small} |
||||||||
 |
|
||||||||
 |
 |
|
|
||||||
 Print |
 |
|
|||||||
 |
Brochures The Archive of the Library contains older documents generated during the development of LEHD and LED data. These range from fact sheets to brochures, and include InfoDocs (informational documents) and Historical Announcements (from What's New).
Twice a year, a newsletter is released which lists a summary of events, developments, training, and research effort occuring in LED.
December 05, 2006: Georgia OnTheMap The Census Bureau released version 1.1.2 of OnTheMap on December 5 , 2006 . OnTheMap is a web-based, interactive mapping application that shows where people work and where workers live on maps with companion reports on their age, earnings, and industry distributions, city/county of residence or employment, and quarterly workforce indicators for workers. It is also supported by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor based on integrated data from the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership. This release will conclude the completion of OnTheMap Version 1. Original plan for OnTheMap Version 1.2 will be transitioned to OnTheMap Version 2, development of which has started. Major features of the new version will include expansion to as many as 44 states, addition of 2004 data, and implementation of cross-state patterns. OnTheMap Version 2 is scheduled for phased releases between March and September 2007. OnTheMap is located at http://lehd.did.census.gov. It is a high definition, intensive data processing application that requires adequate memory (256GB or more RAM), high graphical resolution (1280x1024 or higher), and rapid access speed (download speed of 500 Kb/p or faster) for optimal performance. The application is accessible by commonly used browsers including Firefox version 1.0 or higher, Internet Explorer version 6.0 or higher, or Netscape version 7.1 or higher, with Popup Blocker turned off. Please send your comments and questions about OnTheMap via email to [an error occurred while processing this directive] and visit the LED website at http://lehd.did.census.gov. November 06, 2006: Mississippi QWI Data on LED Website Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of Mississippi have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and Industry Focus. Mississippi becomes the 37th state to post its QWI data on the LED website. October 20, 2006: Utah QWI Data on LED Website Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of Utah have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and Industry Focus. Utah becomes the 36th state to post its QWI data on the LED website. October 20, 2006: OnTheMap Data Available from Cornell University
Oregon and Texas data for OnTheMap are now available through the Census Bureau's partnership with the Cornell Institute for Social
and Economic Research (CISER) at Cornell University. OnTheMap went live on the Internet in February, and it has grown to 16 states with
Georgia to be added in November. OnTheMap is the first synthetic data product released by the Census Bureau. Ten (10) distinct copies of
the synthetic data, known as implicates, are produced; one of them is used for the current implementation of OnTheMap.
The CISER site provides an Internet-accessible computing environment dedicated to the exploration and development of synthetic data.
Data for other states will be added over time. See attached update for more details or visit
http://lehd.did.census.gov. October 12, 2006: Georgia QWI Data on LED Website Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of Georgia have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and Industry Focus. Georgia becomes the 35th state to post its QWI data on the LED website. October 11, 2006: OnTheMap Version 2
Under the agreement with the Employment and Training Admininstration, the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership will be
developing OnTheMap Version 2 in the coming year. Major features of the new version will include expansion to as many as 44 states,
addition of 2004 data, and implementation of cross-state patterns. Tentative release schedules are provided in the attached update
about the web-based, interactive mapping and reporting application. A separate Questions and Answers sheet is also provided to anticipate
some of the potential questions about the development of OnTheMap Version 2. Please send your questions or comments
to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov or visit the LED website located
at http://lehd.did.census.gov. October 03, 2006: New York Enacts Legislation to Join LED New York state legislature has passed a bill (Assembly A11619 and Senate S08072) to allow the sharing of state data with the Census Bureau and the state joining the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership. The bill was signed by the New York Governor on September 13. Additional information about the bill may be found at http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A11619. September 12, 2006: ETA and Census Bureau Reached Agreement The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and the Census Bureau have reached agreement to pursue the expansion of the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership to a national program. There are currently 43 state partners in LED. In addition to other tasks, ETA will support the Census Bureau's development of OnTheMap Version 2, an online mapping application to show where people live and work with companion reports. OnTheMap Version 2 will cover 2002-2004 data for up to 44 states, including cross-state commuting patterns. For more information, visit the LED website at http://lehd.did.census.gov and send your comments to [an error occurred while processing this directive]. August 18, 2006: Conversion to NAICS-based QWI Production The Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership plans to begin applying back-codes of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) to the production of Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) beginning with the 2006 fourth quarter production. This would extend the QWI time series to as far back as 1990, wherever historical data are available. Parallel production of QWI for the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes will continue for two additional quarters; it will then cease to be updated. NAICS replaced SIC as the official standard in 2001. Additional details about the conversion may be found at http://lehd.did.census.gov/led/led/led.html. August 1, 2006: North Dakota QWI Data on LED Website Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of North Dakota have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and Industry Focus. North Dakota becomes the 34th state to post its QWI data on the LED website. July 28, 2006: OnTheMap Version 1.1.1 Released The Census Bureau released the latest version of OnTheMap on July 28, 2006. OnTheMap is a web-based, interactive mapping application that shows where people work and where workers live on maps with companion reports on their age, earnings, and industry distributions, city/county of residence or employment, and quarterly workforce indicators for workers. Sixteen states are partners in OnTheMap, with the state of Iowa as the latest addition. Version 1.1.1 features: addition of Iowa data; a number of fixes including resolution of known bugs associated with large overlay queries; certain multi-part counties that were not selectable; the overlay key disappearing during resizing; and being unable to select the same circle or buffer center point twice in a row. Additions include a hand/pointer to show tools in the selector panels and a 'clear' button which permits the user to stop the loading process. A list of known bugs can be found at http://lehd.did.census.gov/led/datatools/onthemap.html#unresolvedbugs. OnTheMap is located at http://lehd.did.census.gov. It is a high definition, intensive data processing application that requires adequate memory (256GB or more RAM), high graphical resolution (1280x1024 or higher), and rapid access speed (download speed of 500 Kb/p or faster) for optimal performance. The application is accessible by commonly used browsers including Firefox version 1.0 or higher, Internet Explorer version 6.0 or higher, or Netscape version 7.1 or higher, with Popup Blocker turned off. Send your comments and questions about OnTheMap via email to [an error occurred while processing this directive]. July 12, 2006: Louisiana Joins LED Louisiana has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program this month, as one of 43 partners including the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce new and improved labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data. June 23, 2006: Michigan Joins LED Michigan has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program this month, as one of 42 partners including the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce new and improved labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data. June 23, 2006: Tennessee QWI Data on LED Website Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of Tennessee have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and Industry Focus. Tennessee becomes the 33rd state to post its QWI data on the LED website. June 14, 2006: Mississippi Joins LED Mississippi has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program this month, as one of 41 partners including the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce new and improved labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data. June 14, 2006: Updated QWI definitions are now available A list of detailed definitions for the variables on QWI Online can be found in Appendix A in Abowd, Stephens and Vilhuber (2006) technical documentation paper [PDF; File Size: 760KB]. To simply view the definitions, Appendix A is available here [PDF; File Size: 272KB]. For a more general and less detailed list of definitions, a less comprehensive list of definitions provided by Cynthia Tauber and Erika McEntarfer is also available [PDF; File Size: 76KB] May 31, 2006: OnTheMap Version 1.1 Released The Census Bureau announced the release of the latest version of OnTheMap on May 31, 2006. OnTheMap is a web-based, interactive mapping application that shows where people work and where workers live on maps with companion reports on their age, earnings, and industry distributions, city/county of residence or employment, and quarterly workforce indicators for workers. Fifteen states are partners in OnTheMap and three more states are in the process of joining. Version 1.1 features: clickable U.S. state map that takes you directly to the state; expanded report output options, offering PDF, XLS, formatted text or tab delimited text; standardized decimal placement in percentages; enhanced OnTheMap tool bars; additional and updated Help documentation and screens; and enhanced map overlay display including showing only the outline for the selected area. OnTheMap is located at http://lehd.did.census.gov. It is a high definition, intensive data processing application that requires adequate memory (256GB or more RAM), high graphical resolution (1280x1024 or higher), and rapid access speed (download speed of 500 Kb/p or faster) for optimal performance. The application is accessible by commonly used browsers including Firefox version 5.0 or higher, Internet Explorer version 6.0 or higher, or Netscape version 7.1 or higher, with Popup Blocker turned off. Send your comments and questions about OnTheMap via an email to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov. April 26, 2006: ETA Hosts Webinar on LED The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) at the U.S. Department of Labor hosted a webinar on how Local Employment Dynamics (LED) can be used to respond to real life situations such as tornadoes and multi-state economic and transportation development efforts. The 90-minute webinar features new and powerful web-based LED tools, including OnTheMap, QWI Online, Industry Focus, and e-Learning modules, that employ integrated data to meet the demands of local workforce and economic development. The recorded webinar is available for registered access at http://www.workforce3one.org [an error occurred while processing this directive] under Workforce Investment System. April 6, 2006: Final e-Learning Module Now Available: OnTheMap The last of four e-learning modules, called OnTheMap Tour, is now available in QuickLinks and also in DataTools. This e-learning module features voice and animation to illustrate the features of LED's newest analytic tool, OnTheMap. OnTheMap is a geographic map-based analytic tool. This powerful tool can show where workers live, where they work, the extent of their travel, and generally how they might get to work, illustrated using a scenario relevant to LMIs and WIBs. Users must download Flash [an error occurred while processing this directive] to view the module with voice and animation. Unlike previous e-learning modules, you must advance each screen of the OnTheMap Tour e-learning module, using the right arrow. You may want to expand the view to include the navigation box on the left and then select the Text tab to follow along with the narration. March 29, 2006: OnTheMap Version 1.0.1 Released The Census Bureau announced the release of the latest version of OnTheMap on March 29, 2006. OnTheMap is a web-based, interactive mapping application that shows where people work and where workers live on maps with companion reports on their age, earnings, and industry distributions. The addition of Oklahoma to the pilot states participating in OnTheMap brings that number to 15. Version 1.0.1 features several labeling and title changes to reports and to the mapping display. For example, the shed reports showing origin and destination cities and counties now also includes the states in which each city or county is located. This is an important enhancement for Illinois and Missouri where worker travel between these two states can now be tracked using this version of OnTheMap OnTheMap is located at http://lehd.did.census.gov. It is a high definition, intensive data processing application that requires adequate memory (256GB or more RAM), high graphical resolution (1280x1024 or higher), and rapid access speed (download speed of 500 Kb/p or faster) for optimal performance. The application is accessible by commonly used browsers including Firefox version 5.0 or higher, Internet Explorer version 6.0 or higher, or Netscape version 7.1 or higher, with Popup Blocker turned off. Send your comments and questions about OnTheMap via an email to [an error occurred while processing this directive]. March 22, 2006: Third e-Learning Module Now Available: QWI Online The third of four e-learning modules, called QWI Online Tour, is now available in QuickLinks and also in DataTools. This e-learning module features voice and animation to illustrate the features of LED's flag ship analytic tool, the QWI Online, which provides quarterly information, at the local level, for eight workforce indicators. Use of QWI Online is illustrated using a scenario relevant to LMIs and WIBs. Users must download Flash [an error occurred while processing this directive] to view the module with voice and animation March 14, 2006: Second e-Learning Module Now Available: Industry Focus The second of four e-learning modules, called Industry Focus Tour, is now available in QuickLinks and also in DataTools. This e-learning module features voice and animation to illustrate the features of Industry Focus, the easy-to-use analytic tool that provides top industries and workforce characteristics at the local level, using a scenario relevant to LMIs and WIBs. Users must download Flash [an error occurred while processing this directive] to view the module with voice and animation. March 9, 2006: Nevada QWI Data on LED Website Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of Nevada have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and Industry Focus. Nevada becomes the 32nd state to post its QWI data on the LED website. February 23, 2006: Hawaii QWI Data on LED Website Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of Hawaii have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and Industry Focus. Hawaii becomes the 31st state to post its QWI data on the LED website. February 13, 2006: Annual LED State Workshop Successfully Concluded The 2006 annual Local Employment Dynamics (LED) state workshop was successfully concluded on January 20 after two days of active exchange of ideas among the state labor market information agencies and the Census Bureau, as well as state workforce boards, federal agencies, stateholder organizations, and interested parties. Accomplishments of 2005 were reviewed; challenges and goals for 2006 were presented. "OnTheMap" and "DataFerrett for LED" were demonstrated. Presentations form the annual workshop are available now on the LED website. Select Library, then Workshops to view the 2006 annual state workshop agenda and presentations. Feburary 13, 2006: First e-Learning Module Now Available. The first of four e-learning modules, called Site Tour, is now available in QuickLinks and also in DataTools. This e-learning module was rolled out at the LED Annual State Partners Conference in Washington, DC on 20 January. The modules feature voice and animation to illustrate the features of the website and of the three analytic tools, OnTheMap, Industry Focus and QWI Online, using scenarios relevant to LMIs and WIBs. Users must download Flash [an error occurred while processing this directive] to view the module with voice and animation. February 3, 2006: OnTheMap Released
The Census Bureau announced the inaugural release of OnTheMap on February 3, 2006. OnTheMap is a web-based, interactive mapping application that shows where people work and where workers live on maps with companion reports on their age, earnings, and industry distributions. January 26, 2006: Arizona Joins LED. Arizona has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program this month, as one of 40 partners including the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce new and improved labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data. January 09, 2006: Brookings Institute Workshop on Increasing the Applicability of LED. On November 16, 2005 the Urban Markets Initiative (UMI) of the Brookings Institution hosted a workshop "Increasing the Applicability of Local Employment Dynamics," attended by over 40 users representing federal agencies, national users, and state and local users. Andrew Reamer from UMI served as the host; Jeremy Wu from the Census Bureau represented the LED program; John Dorrer from the State of Maine represented the partners from State Labor Market Information (LMI) offices. The meeting was facilitated by Gary Yakimov, Corporation for a Skilled Workforce, and Cynthia Taeuber, Jacob France Institute, University of Baltimore. UMI agreed to serve as host in light of its mission of increasing the availability and accessibility of federally provided data on small areas. The purpose of the workshop was to improve the understanding and usability of the LED program.
December 22, 2005: Detailed Definitions, Formulas and Examples for Quarterly Workforce Indicators. Now available to all users, detailed definitions are provided in .pdf format for measures of Worker Employment (3 measures), Worker Employment Change (7 measures), Worker Earnings (5 measures) and Firm Employment Change (6 measures) as used in the Quarterly Workforce Indicators.
December 05, 2005: Rhode Island Joins LED. Rhode Island has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program this month, as one of 39 partners including the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce new and improved labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data. November 01, 2005: "OnTheMap Beta" Available at LED Website. The beta version of "OnTheMap" has been moved to the Quick Links section of the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website at http://lehd.did.census.gov. The new location will offer faster processing and greater capacity to the users. The original Excensus site will remain a development and test server, as well as a fail-over site. The same ID and password are used for access to the LED site. If you are new to the OnTheMap application and wish to serve as a beta tester in this pilot project, please contact LED at [an error occurred while processing this directive]. Comments and suggestions should also be directed to this email address. The thermal feature has not been activated at this time, but will be shortly. Barring unforeseen major problems and issues for the remainder of this pilot project, 1. Delivery of the last version of mapping interface and functionalities, including paired-area analysis and concentric rings, is expected from Excensus to the Census Bureau in about 7- 10 days. Loading on the LED website is anticipated within about 48 hours of delivery. 2. Delivery of session history, print and save capabilities, and text only version is expected from Excensus to the Census Bureau in about another 7-10 days. Loading on the LED website is anticipated within about 48 hours of delivery. 3. Final bug fixes and refinements based on comments and suggestions are expected in the following weeks to complete beta testing of the project. This pilot project is partially funded by the Employment and Training Administration. LED states interested in joining the mapping pilot should contact the program manager at Jeremy.S.Wu@census.gov. October 24, 2005: Wyoming Joins LED Wyoming has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program this month, as one of 38 partners including the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data. October 13, 2005: Arkansas QWI Data on LED Website. Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of Arkansas have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and will be available on Industry Focus shortly. Arkansas becomes the 30th state to post its QWI data on the LED website. August 25, 2005: "Industry Focus" Unveiled. Today, the new analytic tool called "Industry Focus" was added to the LED web site. "Industry Focus" combines the best of two soon-to-be-retired tools (Top Industries and Local Workforce) with many new features. In addition to generating a list of the top 3-digit NAICS industries or 2-digit NAICS sectors for your area and workers, you can focus on a particular sector or industry to see where it ranks among other industries and then drill in on it to look at characteristics of those who work in that industry. You can select one or more of eight labor market indicators to provide context to industry/workforce characteristics, as well as being able to select a single measure on which to rank. August 15, 2005: South Carolina QWI Data on LED Website. Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of South Carolina have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and Industry Focus. South Carolina becomes the 29th state to post its QWI data on the LED website. August 15, 2005: North Carolina QWI Data on LED Website. Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of North Carolina have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and will be made available in the soon-to-be-released Industry Focus shortly. North Carolina becomes the 28th state to post its QWI data on the LED website. August 04, 2005: Preparing for "Industry Focus"; Retiring Analytic Tools "Local Workforce" and "Top Industries". Within the next two weeks, a new analytic tool called "Industry Focus" will be added to the LED web site. Two tools, "Local Workforce" and "Top Industries", will be retired at that time. "Industry Focus" combines the best of the soon-to-be-retired tools with many new features. "Industry Focus" has been available for beta testing for several months and finishing touches and enhancements are being made now. State partners will receive separate notification and directions for skinning the new "Industry Focus" tool to their state web sites. July 05, 2005: Changing from MSAs to CBSAs. The Office of Management and Budget announced new definitions of metropolitan areas effective June 6, 2003. The new definitions change the standard from Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) as defined in 1999 to Core-Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs). Briefly, a CBSA can be a Metropolitan Area (a core of at least 50,000 in population) or a Micropolitan Area (an area of between 10,000 and 50,000 in population). Metropolitan and Micropolitan Areas comprise one or more entire counties. As of June 6, 2003, there were 935 Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas in the United States. Additional information about the change from MSAs to CBSAs can be found at the Census Bureau website located at http://www.census.gov/population/www/estimates/metroarea.html. The Census Bureau plans to implement the new definitions in the production of the Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) beginning with the next quarterly production cycle (October 1- December 31, 2005). QWI and related products released at the end of this production cycle will be based on the new CBSA definitions. At that time, QWI based on the old definitions of MSAs will no longer be produced. If you have questions about this change, please send your inquiries to [an error occurred while processing this directive]. June 29, 2005: Update on LED OnTheMap. The Local Employment Dynamics (LED) recently released a new beta version of the pilot-mapping tool called OnTheMap. For the first time in the project, all 12 pilot states (California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington) are now included in the application. The states of Alabama and Texas joined the project recently and data will be rolled out shortly. This pilot project is supported by the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) at the U.S. Department of Labor. The application has two major functions, in accord with the ETA agreement: (a) illustrating the origin-destination data infrastructure for workers within a state (in this beta version of OnTheMap, cross-state patterns in two neighboring states -- Illinois and Missouri -- are also shown), and (b) mapping where workers live and where workers work within a state and cross-state, in the case of Illinois and Missouri. The final beta version is scheduled for release on August 15, and the pilot project will conclude in September. OnTheMap will include companion reports based on 2002-2003 data. The online application will be implemented on the LED website. May 16, 2005: Hawaii Joins LED. Hawaii has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program this month, as one of 37 partners including the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data. March 28, 2005: New State Representatives on LED Steering Committee. Alexandra Hall, co-chair of the Local Employment Dynamics(LED) Steering Committee, announced today that the following state representatives will serve as new members of the Committee:. John Dorrer, LMI Director, Maine State representatives who continue to serve on the Committee are: Rebecca Rust, LMI Director, Florida The Census Bureau representatives of the Committee are: Jeremy Wu, Program Manager, LEHD,Census Bureau, Co-chair A recent amendment to the LED Steering Committee by-laws expanded the number of state representatives from six to eight in an attempt to represent Labor Market Information offices from each Bureau of Labor Statistics region. March 08, 2005: Alabama QWI Data on LED Website. Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of Alabama have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and other applications. Alabama becomes the 27th state to post its QWI data on the LED website. Alabama has ported or "skinned" the QWI application with data for the state of Alabama directly to their website . February 18, 2005: Vermont QWI Data on LED Website. Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of Vermont have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and other applications. Vermont becomes the 26th state to post its QWI data on the LED website. February 16, 2005: South Carolina Joins LED. South Carolina has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program this month, becoming the 36th LED state partner in addition to the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data. February 1, 2005: Indiana QWI Data on LED Website Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of Indiana have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and other applications. Indiana becomes the 24th state to post its QWI data on the LED website. Additional efforts are being made to port or "skin" the applications directly to the Indiana website. January 28, 2005: Annual LED State Workshop Successfully Concluded The 2005 annual Local Employment Dynamics (LED) state workshop was successfully concluded on January 28 after two days of active exchange of ideas among the state labor market information agencies and the Census Bureau, as well as state workforce boards, federal agencies, stakeholder organizations, and interested parties. Accomplishments of 2004 were reviewed; challenges and goals for 2005 were presented. Presentations in the annual workshop will be collected and posted in the LED website next week. January 28, 2005: Delaware QWI Data on LED Website Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of Delaware have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and other applications. Delaware becomes the 23rd state to post its QWI data on the LED website. Additional efforts are being made to port or "skin" the applications directly to the Delaware website. January 14, 2005: LED is Site of The Month by EconData.net The Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website has been recognized as Site of the Month by EconData.net (under What's New in http://www.EconData.net ). [an error occurred while processing this directive] After many years of research and development, LED is cited as a major breakthrough in socioeconomic data, and its full potential is yet to come. The four LED signature applications were hailed as impressive and revolutionary, and the website "does things like no one else on the web." We share this honor with all of you and will strive to make continuous improvement in the LED partnership. topJanuary 4, 2005: Georgia Joins LED. Georgia has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program this month, making it one of 36 LED state partner in addition to the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data. January 1, 2005: Invitation to Annual Workshop We are pleased to invite you to participate in an annual Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Workshop, hosted by the U.S. Census Bureau on Friday, January 28, 2005, at The Madison Hotel, 15th and M Streets,NW, Washington, DC. Local decision makers increasingly need up-to-date information for policy planning and to help identify strategic trends. The Local Employment Dynamics partnership is the cornerstone of an innovative program designed to develop new information about local labor markets. The LED partnership helps fill critical data gaps for state and local authorities. This partnership between state labor market information agencies and the Census Bureau provides Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) - new measures such as employment, hiring, jobs gains and losses, turnover, and earnings that are for the first time available by geographic area, industry, age, and gender over time, in addition to a pilot mapping application showing the origin-destination patterns of workers in 12 states. At this workshop, you will see how this new information is being used to improve workforce, economic development, and transportation decisions by federal, state, and local agencies. The workshop is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. and end at 2:30 p.m. The registration form and directions to the hotel are attached. Registration Please complete and fax the attached registration form by Wednesday, January 12, 2005. Our fax number is (301) 457-3682. If you have any questions, please contact Anna Holaus or Carol McDaniel at (301) 763-2308. Ground Transportation If you are traveling by privately-owned vehicle, valet parking at the hotel is $12 per day. The hotel is conveniently located approximately three blocks from either the McPherson Square Metro (Blue and Orange Lines) or the Farragut North Metro (Red Line). December 23, 2004: Utah Joins LED. Utah has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program this month, becoming the 36th LED state partner in addition to the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data. December 15, 2004: Vermont Joins LED. Vermont has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program this month, becoming the 35th LED state partner in addition to the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data. December 6, 2004: Redesigned Web Site Launched The Census Bureau launched a redesigned web site this week to provide users with an easy-to-navigate site for the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics program (LEHD). It is available at http://lehd.did.census.gov. The redesigned web site adds a number of new applications and features, introduces consistency in navigation and look and feel, builds a structure for adding content and integration with the Local Employment Dynamics program's state partners' web sites, and seeks to improve responsiveness to the users. For example, two new applications - Local Workforce and Top Industries - have been added to provide the latest information on the composition of the local workforce and the "hot" industries in terms of hiring and earnings. The popular QWI Online continues to provide 8 quarterly workforce indicators by geography, industry, and demographics. The new site also offers a glimpse of the pilot project, OnTheMap, where the origin and destination patterns of workers between home and workplace are mapped. Featured sections such as "Quick Links", "What's New?", "Q&A", "Did You Know?", and "Partners Only" are included in the new web package, along with a chance to provide "Feedback" and perform a Google "Search" within the web site. The web site will be continuously upgraded in the next 6-9 months. The next major milestone is the introduction of the mapping application between June and September 2005. Visit http://lehd.did.census.gov for more information about the LEHD/LED program. November 29, 2004: LED Offers Training on QWI The Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program and the LMI Training Institute will jointly offer a training session for analysts on Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI). This class is designed for analysts who have basic knowledge of LMI programs and principles. The class will take place on January 24-26, 2005 at the Census Bureau Headquarters in Suitland, Maryland. The class size is limited to 15. Nomination deadline is December 10, 2004. Registration questions should be directed to LMI Training Institute at 800-644-4226 or lmiti@sces.org . Questions on content should be directed to George Putnam, Illinois Department of Employment Security at 312-793-9826 or gputnam@ides.state.il.us. November 12, 2004: Nevada joins LED Nevada has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program this month, becoming the 34th LED state partner in addition to the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to Produce labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data. November 8, 2004: LED Annual Workshop. The next Local Employment Dynamics (LED) annual workshop will
be held in
the Madison Hotel on January 27-28,
2005 in Washington, D.C. The first day of the workshop is a business meeting of the state labor market
information agencies.
The second day will be open to interested parties covering ongoing developmental and planned new activities for
the coming year. October 5, 2004: Maryland's Work Force Remains on the Job, As It Ages. Between 1990 and 2002, a higher proportion of working Marylanders were age 45 or over and the proportion of workers who were 65 years old and over increased slightly to 3.1 percent, the U.S. Census Bureau said today. The analysis of Maryland’s older workers is based on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) program . The report, A Profile of Older Workers in Maryland [PDF; File Size: 161KB], highlights the age composition of the state’s work force, job gains and losses for older workers by industry, industries in which older workers are concentrated and their job stability and earnings. "With these new data we can see trends develop each quarter within a state or substate area, in what industries the changes occur and the characteristics of workers involved in the changes," Census Bureau Director Louis Kincannon said. "These indicators give new insight into Maryland’seconomy and how fluid employment is in its communities." Some highlights from the Maryland report:
Among industries in 2002 that employed more than 500 people 65 or older, the highest-paying was legal
services, whose workers received average earnings of $4,281 per month. In addition, quarterly work force indicators on such subjects as job creation and new hires are currently available for Maryland and several other partner states for selected years, age groups and geographic areas, as well as for men and women, at http://lehd.did.census.gov. Because the statistics come from a variety of sources, including state administrative records, they are not directly comparable with statistics from household surveys such as the decennial census long form, the American Community Survey and the Current Population Survey. Industries are organized by the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system. The LED program will soon move from the SIC system to the North American Industry Classification System. As in all data-estimation processes, the results are subject to error arising from data processing or incomplete records. The Census Bureau uses a variety of procedures to minimize such errors. October 1, 2004: NSF Funds Confidentiality Research. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made awards supporting nearly 120 new Information Technology Research (ITR) projects dedicated to addressing the information technology priorities facing the country. Among these ITR projects is an award to the Cornell University on maintaining the confidentiality guaranteed to Census participants. The press release includes the following description: Data from the U.S. Census Bureau provide a unique window onto society, but social scientists have limited access to the data due to strict confidentiality requirements. To provide greater access for cutting-edge social science analysis, a $2.9 million project led by Cornell University is tackling the issues required to maintain the confidentiality guaranteed to Census participants, as well as to create synthetic versions of these data sets which are analytically valid but protect the identity of census respondents. Visit http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/newsroom/pr.cfm?ni=15100000000113 for more of the press release. September 20, 2004: Advisory to LED State Partners on Submission of ES202/QCEW Data Files. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) sent a communication to our state Labor Market Information (LMI) agency partners on July 8, 2004 regarding the BLS interpretation of the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act (CIPSEA). One part of this communication informed the LMI agencies that data collected under the Current Employment Statistics (CES) program should not be included as improvements in the ES202/QCEW files sent to the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) program. Since that date, we have been actively pursuing a written agreement with BLS that would permit the continuation of current practice in order to avoid disruption to the production of the Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) before October 1, 2004. As of today, we have not reached such an agreement with BLS. Consequently, we advise the LED state partners to send in their preliminary 2004Q1 and final 2003Q4 ES202/QCEW files according to the 1060-column Enhanced Quarterly Unemployment Insurance (EQUI) file layout, free of CES data, for the QWI production cycle beginning on October 1, 2004. The effect of this production change on the QWIs is still being investigated, and we expect the effect to vary by state:
We recognize that this adjustment will mean some loss of statistical efficiency. We are committed to continue to pursue an agreement with BLS. At the same time, we plan to consult and work closely with each state partner to carefully assess and understand the impact of this change. For further information, please contact Jeremy Wu, Program Manager, at Jeremy.S.Wu@census.gov
. Visit http://lehd.did.census.gov for more information about the LED
program. September 20, 2004: Vermont and Tennessee Join LED. Vermont and Tennessee have joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program this month,
becoming the 32nd and 33rd LED state partners in addition to the District of Columbia.
LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers
with multiple other data sources to produce labor market information about the dynamics of the local
economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the
data. August 22, 2004: Alabama Joins LED. Alabama has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program this month, becoming the 31st LED
state partner
in
addition to the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates
data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce labor
market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the
confidentiality of
individuals and firms that provide the data. August 16, 2004: Participating States for Mapping Pilot. The Local Employment Dynamics program announced today that the following states will be participating in the LED Origin/Destination Mapping Project: California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Virginia A listserv has been set up for the project participants. In addition, the following tentative schedule has been established: September - November: Monthly conference calls. For additional information, contact Julia Lane at julia.ingrid.lane@census.gov or Jeremy Wu at jeremy.s.wu@census.gov
August 4, 2004: Upcoming Training Sessions About Local Employment Dynamics(LED). Sep 1-3 Introductory Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) Training - Focus is on QWI measures. Trainers - George Putnam and Eric Moore. Contact George at GPutnam@ides.state.il.us for more information. Sep 27-29 Industry/Area Report Training - Focus is
on template reports for use by Workforce Investment Board staff and employers. Trainers - Eric Moore and
George Putnam. Contact Eric at Eric.M.Moore@state.or.us for more
information. August 2, 2004: NSF Makes Major Award to Cornell University for Confidentiality Protection Research. The National Science Foundation has notified Professor John Abowd of the Cornell University and Senior Research Fellow for the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program on the award of almost $3 million to fund confidentiality protection research for the next three years. This award will greatly enhance the partnership between
the Census Bureau and the university-based researchers who contribute to the Census Bureau Research Data Centers
and the protection of confidential data that the LED Program processes and produces. July 30, 2004: Last Day to Apply for Participation in Mapping Pilot. Today is the last day for partner states in the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program to apply for participation in a pilot program to develop mapping applications to portray labor market information. Funded by the Employment and Training
Administration of the Department of Labor, the LED Program will select 10 states to participate in
the pilot project, which will provide origin-destination worker flows for two years 2002-2003 and cover
such workplace and worker characteristics as industry, earnings, age, job gain and loss, hires and
separations, and geographic location. An online mapping system is part of the objective of this important
initiative. Announcement of the selection of the 10 participating states is scheduled for August 16, 2004. July 22, 2004: And The Winner Is .... Julia Lane. Dr. Julia Lane, senior research fellow of the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program, is the winner of the 2004 Vladimir Chavrid Memorial Award, the most prestigious award given by the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA). The award recognizes Dr. Lane's excellence and
contributions
to the operation and understanding in the field of Labor Market Information (LMI) and Employment Security
operations research. The award was established in the early 1970s to memorialize Mr. Vladimir Charvid,
a former employment security officials, who was an early pioneer in the LMI area. The award ceremony was
held today at the NASWA LMI National Annual Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
[PDF] or |
 |
|||||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|||||
|
Census Bureau Links: Home
· Search
· Subjects A-Z
· FAQs
· Data Tools
· Catalog
· Census 2000
· Quality
· Privacy Policy
· Contacts
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies · Contact Us · Last Revised: October 30, 2008 |
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
available free from Adobe.