Abstract
Michael Searson (2002) "Automation Strategies
for the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) Program."
With potentially declining budgets and increasing workloads, the QCEW
program faces enormous challenges for the next decade. QCEW is the
cornerstone of the other statistical surveys of businesses at BLS, since
it is used extensively as a sampling frame and population controls for
employment levels. QCEW uses the administrative records of the State's
Unemployment Insurance (UI) system and supplements these data with
information collected from two surveys. Since these data are
administrative based, BLS has no option but to process all of these
data.
This paper focuses on efforts to automate and reduce burden and
decrease data collection and processing costs of the surveys—-the
Annual Refiling Survey (ARS) and Multiple Worksite Report (MWR). The ARS
is used to review and update the industrial and geographical codes
initially assigned to an employer. The MWR is used to collect
employment, wages, and business identification information for each
establishment from large employers. This paper addresses the current use
of a pilot Touch-tone Data Entry system for the ARS and future research
projects as well as the electronic collection of the MWR data, and
future Web-based projects
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