Attachment 1 - Examples of Inquiries to the States 2024 clearance

Examples of Inquiries to the States

Below are examples of some BLS inquiries to the states:

1. Request for state opinion on the functionality of the new QCEW Q2A application that replaced email communication between the QCEW program office, the regional office, and the states.

2. Request for information from the states documenting their methodology for generating M01 inputs for non-CES areas.

3. Request for state information on how frequently they adjust their state published series, the impact on their work in the context of re-estimates, estimation, and benchmarking used to assess potential updates to the CES application ACESweb.

4. Request for OEWS states to provide requested changes to their balance-of-state definitions after the release of OMB’s updated MSA definitions.

5. Request for feedback from OSHS states for the 2022 OSHS virtual conference.

6. Request for OEWS states to fill out a stakeholder survey to provide feedback on BLS publication products and the option for them to provide the survey to state specific data users.