5. Acronyms Used

BR

Business Register, formerly known as the SSEL

BRB

Business Register Bridge

BLS

Bureau of Labor Statistics

CBSA

Core-Based Statistical Area

CPR

Composite Person Record. A source of residence prior to 2011.

DRB

Disclosure Review Board

ECF

Employer Characteristics File

EHF

Earnings History File

EIN

(Federal) Employer Identification Number

ES202

Historic reference for the employer data provided for the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW). The “ES” mnemonic appears in variable names and data values to indicate derivation from this source.

FIPS

Federal Information Processing Standards

FSRDC

Federal Statistical Research Data Center

FTI

Federal Tax Information. This term describes data that derive from Internal Revenue Service (IRS) information. It is also referred to as Title 26, or T26.

GAL

Geocoded Address List.

ICF

Individual Characteristics File. This family of tables collects observed and imputed person-level demographic characteristics.

J2J

Job-To-Job Flows

LBD

Longitudinal Business Database.

LED

Local Employment Dynamics. This term is used to refer to the voluntary partnership between the U.S. Census Bureau and state entities. The public use data products are considered LED products (QWI, J2J, LODES, PSEO, etc.).

LEHD

Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics. This refers to the data infrastructure assembled within Census to generate the LED data products. The LEHD Snapshot is a product of that data infrastructure. The term can also refer to the program within the Center for Economic Studies at Census that manages this infrastructure.

LMI

Labor Market Information. These are state government offices responsible for collecting and disseminating data on the labor market within the states. Most have joined the LED partnership with Census, and provide some of the core data of the LEHD infrastructure.

LODES

LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics. This is the public use data product providing information on linkages between place of residence and employment for jobs. This forms the microdata for the OnTheMap application.

MAF

Master Address File. An internal frame of residences and associated geographic characteristics.

MAF-ARF

Master Address File - Administrative Records File. A source of residence information in 2011.

MAFX

Master Address File Extract. An extract of the MAF that can be requested by researchers.

MOU

Memorandum of Understanding. These are agreements between agencies that govern data sharing and usage of that data.

MSA

Metropolitan Statistical Area

OPM

Office of Personnel Management. OPM partners with LEHD to provide job information for federal employees. This data is not part of the LEHD Snapshot.

OTM

OnTheMap. This the public use LED application displaying places of work and residence for jobs.

PIK

Protected Identification Key. This is an encrypted Social Security number used within Census and at the FSRDCs for linking person-level data from multiple sources. See Wagner and Layne [2014] and Mulrow et al. [2011] for more information.

PSEO

Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes. This is a public use LED data product reporting earnings, location, and industry of employment after completion of post-secondary education.

QCEW

Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. The microdata for this BLS public use data product is collected by state LMI offices and shared with Census through the LED partnership.

QWI

Quarterly Workforce Indicators

RCF

Residence Candidate File. A source for residence information after 2011.

RDC

Research Data Centers. Predecessor to the FSRDC system.

SEIN

State employer identification number. It is constructed from the state numeric (FIPS) code and the UI account number. The BLS refers to the UI account number in combination with the reporting unit number as SESA-ID.

SEINUNIT

SEIN reporting unit. This is the place of work (establishment) reported on the QCEW.

SSEL

Standard Statistical Establishment List

SPF

Successor-Predecessor File

SSN

Social Security Number

U2W

Unit-to-Worker Impute. This is an imputation procedure to assign establishments (SEINUNITs) to jobs at multi-establishment SEINs in the LEHD infrastructure.

UI

Unemployment Insurance. In the LEHD Infrastructure, UI wage records are the quarterly earnings reports that form the jobs data. These records are used in the administration of the state unemployment insurance system.

VEO

Veteran Employment Outcomes. This is a public use LED data product reporting earnings outcomes after millitary service.