Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD)

ICR 202012-0607-006

OMB: 0607-1001

Federal Form Document

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Document
Name
Status
Supporting Statement B
2020-12-16
Supporting Statement A
2020-12-16
IC Document Collections
ICR Details
0607-1001 202012-0607-006
Received in OIRA 201710-0607-001
DOC/CENSUS
Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD)
Extension without change of a currently approved collection   No
Regular 12/22/2020
  Requested Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved 01/31/2021
1,728 1,664
0 0
0 0

A 21st century statistical system must provide information about the dynamic economy quickly, using data assets efficiently while minimizing the burden of collecting and providing data and fully preserving confidentiality. The Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) program has demonstrated the power and usefulness of linking multiple business and employee data sets with state-of-the-art confidentiality protections to build a longitudinal national frame of jobs. This program supports the Department of Commerce plan to improve American competitiveness and measures of innovation. It provides federal, state, and local policymakers and planners, businesses, private sector decision makers, and Congress with comprehensive and timely national, state, and local information on the dynamic nature of employers and employees. The LEHD program significantly reduces the overall effort for the generation of its quarterly data product by: • Leveraging exiting federal administrative and state data • Avoiding costs required to expand existing surveys to collect the information directly • Reducing respondent burden by limiting the number of required resources to just the owners of the required data The LEHD program is a member of a partnership between the US Census Bureau and the Labor Market Information (LMI) agencies from 49 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. This partnership supports the development, promotion, and distribution of the following data products: • QWI Public Use—The flagship data product of the LEHD program is the QWI Public Use which provides 32 statistical indicators on employment, job creation and destruction, accessions (hires and recalls), and separations (e.g. exits and layoffs). These statistics are released for the following by-groups for all quarters for which data are available for each partner state: - County, metropolitan, and workforce investment area - Age, sex, race, and ethnicity categories - Detailed industry (i.e., type, firm age, firm size) • LEHD Origin Destination Employment Statistics (LODES)—LODES data provide detailed spatial distributions of workers’ employment and residential locations and the relation between the two at the Census Block level. LODES also provides characteristic detail on age, earnings, industry distributions, and local workforce indicators. • Job-to-Job Flows (J2J)—Job-to-Job Flows (J2J) is a new set of statistics on worker reallocation in the United States constructed from the LEHD data. The initial release of national data distinguishes hires and separations associated with job change from hires and separations to non-employment. Future releases will be published at more detailed levels of aggregations, and will tabulate the origin and destination job characteristics of workers changing jobs. These data products highlight state and local labor market dynamics that cannot be learned from other statistical sources and are therefore used in many different arenas. For example, the QWI can be used as local-labor-market controls in regression analysis; to identify long-term trends; to provide local context in performance evaluations, and a host of other applications.

None
None

Not associated with rulemaking

  85 FR 60418 09/25/2020
85 FR 83513 12/22/2020
No

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IC Title Form No. Form Name
LEHD Information Collection

  Total Request Previously Approved Change Due to New Statute Change Due to Agency Discretion Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate Change Due to Potential Violation of the PRA
Annual Number of Responses 1,728 1,664 0 64 0 0
Annual Time Burden (Hours) 0 0 0 0 0 0
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars) 0 0 0 0 0 0
No
No

$2,613,000
No
    Yes
    Yes
No
No
No
No
Keith Bailey 301 763-2923

  No

On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    (i) Why the information is being collected;
    (ii) Use of information;
    (iii) Burden estimate;
    (iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
    (v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
    (vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
 
 
 
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
12/22/2020


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