Abstract
Michael A. Searson (1997) "Quality of
the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Business Establishment List as a
Sampling Frame," Proceedings of the Section on Survey
Research Methods, American Statistical Association.
The Business Establishment List (BEL) is one of the
outputs of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) Covered
Employment and Wages (ES-202) program. The ES-202 program is
a Federal/State statistical program managed by BLS and the
State Employment Security Agencies (SESA) in the 50 States,
the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin
Islands. The BEL is used as the sampling frame for most of
the BLS' programs. Nationwide, in 1996, Federal and
State Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs covered 118
million full- and part-time workers who received $3.42
trillion in pay. ES-202 program data were collected for
approximately 7.2 million employer establishments in 1996.
The BEL is the most complete and timely source of business
establishment information used as a sampling frame. The SESAs
conduct four principal ES-202 program activities: data
collection; assigning industrial and geographical codes;
periodic review of these codes including review of the
business identification information (names, addresses, etc.);
and, micro/macro data editing. The SESAs submit both
micro-level data (Quarterly Unemployment Insurance Name and
Address File-QUI) and macro-level data (ES-202 Report) to
BLS. The QUI is an input to the BEL.
Last Modified Date: July 19, 2008
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