Uses of QCEW

BLS Publications

County Employment and Wages
• Quarterly Release: County by
detailed NAICS
• Annual Employment and Wages
• Special publications
• Hurricane maps
Business Employment Dynamics
• Job Creation/Destruction
• Quarterly and Annual
• Size Class Dynamics
• Firm and establishment births/
deaths-- Survival Rates
Monthly Labor Review Articles
Spotlight on Statistics
The Economics Daily

Gross Domestic Product (BEA)

Current Employment Statistics

Personal Income (BEA)-- largest single input

Occupational Employment Statistics

State Revenue Projections

Occupational Safety and Health Statistics

Economic Forecasting

Job Openings & Labor Turnover Survey

General Economic Uses

Benchmarking

(Employment Base)

Census Bureau
• LEHD: QCEW is essential matching key and
source of geography and industry and link to
other datasets, and employment

Analytical

The Many
Uses of

Sampling

QCEW

Current Employment Statistics

• Business Register: Sharing to reduce costs,
burden and improve consistency

Consumer Price Index

• Industry Code Sharing (3 M/year)

Occupational Employment Statistics

• COS: Multi-unit sharing- reduces cost and
improves consistency
• CPS Redesign: QCEW used after decennial
Census to improve sample design

Occupational Safety and Health Statistics

Programmatic Uses

Job Openings & Labor Turnover Survey

UI Tax Rate & Actuarial Analysis
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Industrial Price Program

State and Local Government

Services Planning
Transportation planning
Emergency planning

Economic Development Indicators
Cluster Analysis
Shift Share
Industry Diversity Indexes
Location Quotients
Local Impact analysis
Site planning decisions

National Compensation Survey

Federal Funds Allocation
$321 Billion
(HUD, USDA, HCFA/CHIP)
UI-Covered Employment
Local Area Unemployment
Social Security Administration

Occupational Requirements Survey

Other Agencies and States
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Energy Information Administration (EIA)
NAWS/DOL
NASS: Rural Innovation Survey
States: Job Vacancies, Green Jobs
Wage and Benefits Surveys