January 23, 2025: The LED Webinar Series Continues on February 19
Join us on Wednesday, February 19, 2025, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes David Wasser as he presents, "Exploring the Enhanced Veteran Employment Outcomes Data Tool." Recently the U.S. Census Bureau released an expanded version of Veteran Employment Outcomes (VEO). The updated experimental data product now includes earnings and employment outcomes for veterans honorably discharged between 2002 and 2021 as well as from additional branches of the Armed Services. These data show important differences across military rank and occupation, regardless of the branch of service. The Census Bureau partnered with the Department of Defense to update and expand VEO. Earnings and employment outcomes for more than 2.8 million enlisted service members are now available.
Webinar Details: https://www.census.gov/data/academy/webinars/2025/exploring-enhanced-veo-data-tool.html
January 22, 2025: Call for Workshop Presentations for the 2025 LED Partnership Virtual Workshop
The LEHD program is welcoming proposals to present at the 2025 LED Partnership Virtual Workshop held on April 8-10, 2025. We will be highlighting the work of our state Labor Market Information (LMI) partners and other data users through plenary sessions. We are interested in presentations from a wide variety of disciplines, including, but not limited to: workforce development, economic development, transportation planning, economic analysis, and emergency management. We are particularly interested in examples from our state partners and strongly encourage LMI shops to apply.
Additional information regarding the agenda and the workshop will be posted to lehd.ces.census.gov/workshops_webinars/workshop/2025.html in the coming weeks. Please see this document 
(548 KB) for additional proposal guidelines and contact information.
The deadline to submit proposals is Tuesday, February 18, 2025. Direct any additional questions about the workshop to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
January 14, 2025: Expanded Veteran Employment Outcomes (VEO) Statistics Released (Experimental)
Today the U.S. Census Bureau released an expansion of the experimental Veteran Employment Outcomes (VEO) statistics. The v2.0 release includes veterans from additional branches of the military and more recent cohorts (up to 2021). VEO tabulations show earnings and employment outcomes for veterans of the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, and Navy. Earnings and employment outcomes are calculated by rank and military occupation, as well as veteran and employer characteristics. VEO are generated by linking veteran records provided by the U.S. Department of Defense to national administrative data on jobs at the U.S. Census Bureau. Coverage includes discharged veterans' labor market outcomes one, five, and 10 years after discharge, by military occupation, rank, demographics (age, sex, race, ethnicity, education), industry and geography of employment.
Documentation and CSV files are available for download here: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/veo_experimental.html. VEO data can also be accessed via the VEO Explorer visualization tool. This interactive tool allows for comparisons of veterans outcomes via an easy-to-use line and bar chart interface.
Please send questions and comments to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
January 10, 2025: PSEO Expanded to include Institutions for Two New Data Partners
Today the U.S. Census Bureau released data for institutions from two new data partners in the Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) experimental data product. PSEO now includes data on 928 institutions, which cover more than 33% of all college graduates in the United States in 2015. PSEO is an experimental data product generated by linking graduate transcript records to LEHD data on graduates of participating post-secondary institutions in the United States. PSEO Explorer has been updated to display data for these new institutions. PSEO is also available to query via the Census API, go to census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/pseo.html
CSV files and coverage details can be found here: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_experimental.html and methodology and data source details can be found here: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_documentation.html. The PSEO Explorer visualization tool can be found at: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_explorer.html. Modifications to the PSEO release have been documented in the published LEHD schema located at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/schema/latest/lehd_public_use_schema.html.
Please send questions and comments to CES.PSEO.Feedback@census.gov.
December 17, 2024: LEHD Snapshot 2023 and Documentation Available
Today the U.S. Census Bureau updated the LEHD Snapshot documentation for the S2023 release of the LEHD Snapshot, now available in the FSRDC network for approved projects. This update adds all available job data through 2024Q1. In order to facilitate researcher use of LEHD microdata, infrastructure files are periodically collected into a standardized form known as the LEHD Snapshot, which are accessible through the FSRDC. The purpose of this documentation and codebook is to provide a limited overview of the components of the LEHD Snapshot files, as well as detailed codebooks for researcher use. This documentation can be found at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/lehd-snapshot-doc/latest/.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
November 22, 2024: Ellen Zentner will keynote the 2025 LED Partnership Workshop
The LEHD program is pleased to announce that Ellen Zentner, Chief Economic Strategist and Global Head of Thematic and Macro Investing at Morgan Stanley, will serve as the keynote speaker for the 2025 Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership Workshop being held virtually on April 8-10, 2025. The workshop will highlight the work of our state Labor Market Information (LMI) partners and other data users through plenary sessions.
Additional information regarding the agenda and registration details will be posted to lehd.ces.census.gov/workshops_webinars/workshop/2025.html in the coming weeks. Direct any additional questions about the workshop to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
November 19, 2024: 2022 LODES Data Released, OnTheMap Updated
The U.S. Census Bureau released an updated version of the LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) data product today. The 8.3 version of LODES adds data for 2022. The OnTheMap application has been updated to include these new LODES tabulations and now contains 21 years of data (2002-2022).
Data for 2022 does not contain information on Alaska, Michigan, and Mississippi workers. These data may be added in the future. The underlying geography in OnTheMap has also been updated to the TIGER 2023 vintage.
LODES data files can be accessed at
lehd.ces.census.gov/data/#lodes and an updated technical document at lehd.ces.census.gov/doc/help/onthemap/LODESTechDoc.pdf (199 KB). OnTheMap can be accessed via the Application links at lehd.ces.census.gov or directly at onthemap.ces.census.gov. For additional information about OnTheMap and LODES, go to lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/onthemap.html
The data and data tools are supported by the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau.
Comments should be sent to CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
October 24, 2024: Save the Date - 2025 LED Partnership Workshop Scheduled for April 8-10
Please save the date for our 2025 Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership Workshop! The LED Partnership is a collaboration between state data agencies and the U.S. Census Bureau to leverage existing data in the development of new sources of economic and demographic information for policy makers and data users. The workshop provides professional development and networking for Labor Market Information directors, data analysts and data providers at state and federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and other data users.
The workshop take place on April 8-10. Further details will be posted to lehd.ces.census.gov/workshops_webinars/workshop/2025.html. Information on previous workshops can be found at lehd.ces.census.gov/workshops_webinars/.
If you have any questions about the workshop, please email CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
October 23, 2024: The LED Webinar Series Continues on November 20
Join us on Wednesday, November 20, 2024, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Spencer Knoll and Richard Beem as they present, "Dynamics of Business Establishments and Firms: A Complement to the Dynamics of Workers." In this presentation, Spencer gives an overview of the recently released 2022 Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) time series and the BDS Explorer Tool, which provides access to the entire BDS dataset via line charts, bar charts, and thematic maps. The time series provides measures of business dynamics, such as job creation and destruction, establishment births and deaths, and firm startups and shutdowns across a wide range of establishment and firm characteristics. In addition, Richard introduces a new experimental BDS data product that measures the business dynamics of firms that received pandemic aid backed by the Small Business Administration (SBA). Focusing specifically on firms that received funding from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), Richard will describe what types of businesses participated in PPP and how their measures of business resilience compared to non-recipients.
Webinar Details: https://www.census.gov/data/academy/webinars/2024/dynamics-of-business-establishments-and-firms.html
September 24, 2024: Processing Issue with R2024Q3 Florida Earnings Data Resolved
The U.S. Census Bureau discovered a processing issue with the earnings tabulations in the R2024Q3 release of Florida's Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) and Job-to-Job Flows (J2J) data. The R2024Q3 QWI vintage for Florida has been removed from the LEHD website. The LEHD website and data tools have reverted to the previous release of Florida QWIs. An updated set of Florida's QWIs will be released with the R2024Q4 vintage. The raw J2J data files for R2024Q3 have been reprocessed with additional suppressions and are available at https://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/j2j/R2024Q3/. We anticipate these data will be available in J2J Explorer and the LED Extraction Tool the week of 9/30.
Please send questions and comments to CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov or CES.J2J.Feedback@census.gov.
September 19, 2024: The LED Webinar Series Continues on October 15
Join us on Tuesday, October 15, 2024, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Aurelia Glass, as she presents, "New Policy Benefits Communities That Lost Manufacturing Jobs." In this presentation, Glass shares her analysis using the Census Bureau's Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) to determine the percentage of counties with a lower proportion of manufacturing jobs, by receipt of private investment.
Webinar Details: https://www.census.gov/data/academy/webinars/2024/new-policy-benefits-communities-that-lost-manufacturing-jobs.html
August 8, 2024: The LED Webinar Series Continues on September 18
Join us on Wednesday, September 18, 2024, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Justin Krohn as he presents, "Decoding Commuting Distance Patterns Using Census Data." This presentation will provide a brief overview of the Machine Learning model trained to predict the average commuting distance for each census tract in the U.S. Audience will gain insights into the methodology employed for calculating the average commuting distance using Census Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Origin-Destination Statistics (LODES) dataset.
Webinar Details: https://www.census.gov/data/academy/webinars/2024/decoding-commuting-distance-patterns-census-data.html
August 1, 2024: The LED Webinar Series Continues on August 27
Join us on Tuesday, August 27, 2024, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Matthew Staiger as he presents, "The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers and the Earnings of Young Workers." This study shows how the intergenerational persistence in earnings is shaped by jobs obtained at a parent's employer. Combining data from the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) program and Decennial Census provides information on parent-child and employer-employee linkages.
Webinar Details: https://www.census.gov/data/academy/webinars/2024/intergenerational-transmission-employers-and-earnings-of-young-workers.html
June 27, 2024: PSEO Expanded to include Institutions for Five New Data Partners
Today the U.S. Census Bureau released data for institutions from five new data partners in the Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) experimental data product. PSEO now includes data on 926 institutions, which cover more than 33% of all college graduates in the United States in 2015. PSEO is an experimental data product generated by linking graduate transcript records to LEHD data on graduates of participating post-secondary institutions in the United States. PSEO is an experimental data product generated by linking graduate transcript records to LEHD data on graduates of participating post-secondary institutions in the United States. PSEO Explorer has been updated to display data for these new institutions. PSEO is also available to query via the Census API, go to census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/pseo.html for more details.
CSV files and coverage details can be found here: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_experimental.html and methodology and data source details can be found here: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_documentation.html. The PSEO Explorer visualization tool can be found at: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_explorer.html. Modifications to the PSEO release have been documented in the published LEHD schema located at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/schema/latest/lehd_public_use_schema.html.
Please send questions and comments to CES.PSEO.Feedback@census.gov.
June 25, 2024: The LED Webinar Series Continues on July 10
Join us on Wednesday, July 10, 2024, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Camille Gilchriest, as she presents, "Win Grants with LODES Data: Success Stories and Shortcuts from Texas' Largest Community College System." Winning grants is a foundational component of regional economic development initiatives, but it can be difficult to quickly craft compelling, data-driven narratives that respond to major funding opportunities. In this presentation, the Dallas College Labor Market Intelligence Center (LMIC) will present case studies that showcase how to utilize the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) data to support a variety of economic development activities, such as campus planning, relationship building with external partners, and grant development from project design to post-award implementation.
Webinar Details: https://www.census.gov/data/academy/webinars/2024/win-grants-lodes-data.html
May 24, 2024: The LED Webinar Series Continues on June 12
Join us on Wednesday, June 12, 2024, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Hubert Janicki, as he presents, “How the COVID-19 Pandemic Prompted More People to Change Jobs.” New U.S. Census Bureau statistics from the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) show to what extent U.S. workers changed jobs across industries during and after the pandemic emergency was declared over in 2023. LEHD’s Job-to-Job Flows (J2J) data product now includes an experimental research release of job flow counts across industries from the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) down to a more detailed subsector level (3-digit NAICS). Analyzing industry subsectors rather than just industry sectors captures job shifts within and across industries, painting a richer picture of how frequently workers changed jobs during the pandemic.
Webinar Details: https://www.census.gov/data/academy/webinars/2024/covid-19-prompted-change-jobs.html
May 13, 2024: Job-to-Job Flows NAICS Subsector Research Tabulations Released
Today the U.S. Census Bureau published a research release of NAICS 3-digit tabulations for the Job-to-Job Flows (J2J) data product. This release expands on the job flow-by-NAICS sector tabulations provided in the R2024Q1 production J2J data, so users can trace worker earnings and movements by more detailed industries - as well as geographic labor markets and to/from spells of employment. Analyzing industry subsectors rather than just industry sectors captures job shifts within and across industries, painting a rich picture of how frequently workers change jobs. To accompany the data, the following PDF document (1.71 MB) includes tables showing the top origin/destinations for flows between subsector industries.
A detailed analysis of these data can be found in the following America Counts story: census.gov/library/stories/2024/05/great-reshuffling.html. For more information and to access the data, please go to: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/j2j_subsector_research.html.
May 9, 2024: 6.24.1 Version of OnTheMap Released
Today the U.S. Census Bureau released the 6.24.1 version of OnTheMap. This release redesigns the Identify tool and adds worker/firm detail to the Area Comparison and Destination Analysis summary reports, as well as other small bug fixes. To access the tool, please go to: onthemap.ces.census.gov. For help and documentation, please go to: lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/onthemap.html.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
May 1, 2024: Agenda and Teams Links Set for 2024 LED Partnership Workshop
Microsoft Teams meeting links have been established for the 2024 Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership Virtual Workshop. This year's theme is, "Multidimensional Perspectives of the Labor Market" The workshop will be highlighting the work of our state Labor Market Information (LMI) partners, state and local data users, and U.S. Census Bureau researchers through plenary sessions.
See the 2024 LED Workshop Agenda (185 KB) document for session and connection details. Additional workshop information is available at lehd.ces.census.gov/learning/workshop/2024.html.
To join the workshop and/or training sessions, please use the following Microsoft Teams links:
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Tuesday, May 14, 2024
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Wednesday, May 15, 2024
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Training sessions on Thursday, May 16, 2024 (Note: training sessions still in development, so Teams link may change)
April 30, 2024: The LED Webinar Series Continues on May 22
Join us on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Maggie Smith, as she presents, “Has the Gender Gap Improved Since Covid-19?” This study examines women’s progress in the labor market utilizing the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) data set. In this presentation Smith looks at wage growth to see how women have fared compared to men specifically in North Carolina.
Webinar Details: https://www.census.gov/data/academy/webinars/2024/has-the-gender-gap-improved-since-covid-19.html
April 3, 2024: The LED Webinar Series Continues on April 17
Join us on Wednesday, April 17, 2024, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Bryce Hill as he presents, “Mom and Pop Shops Lead Job Recovery from Economic Downturn after Covid-19.” The Census Bureau’s Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) data set indicates that small businesses with fewer than 50 employees create the majority of new jobs in the state of Illinois. Despite obstacles from the pandemic and government policies, Hill shares insight on how small businesses thrived in new jobs, employment, and payroll.
Webinar Details: https://www.census.gov/data/academy/webinars/2024/mom-and-pop-shops-lead-job-recovery.html
March 21, 2024: Call for 2024 LED Partnership Virtual Workshop Presentations Extended
The call for presentations has been extended to April 1. Submit your proposal for the 2024 LED Partnership Virtual Workshop held on May 14-16, 2024! The workshop theme is "Multidimensional Perspectives of the Labor Market." Highlight your work among peer data users with your research in topics including, but not limited to workforce development, economic development, transportation planning, economic analysis, and emergency management.
The focus of presentations at the workshop is useful utilization of data made possible through the LED Partnership: the Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI), the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) Origin-Destination Employee Statistics (LODES), OnTheMap, Job-to-Job Flows (J2J), Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO), or Veteran Employment Outcomes (VEO).
Please see this document (660 KB) for additional proposal guidelines and contact information. Direct any additional questions about the workshop to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
March 6, 2024: The LED Webinar Series Continues on March 20
Join us on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Nidaal Jubran as he presents, “New Enhancements of the Census Business Builder.” Recently the U.S. Census Bureau released version 5.4 of the Census Business Builder tool. This update will feature a new enhancement that will allow users to evaluate declared disaster areas and their impacts. CBB v5.4 will also include enhancements to existing functionality and the latest data available including workforce data from the Quarterly Workforce Indicators. More information on Census Business Builder is available online.
Webinar Details: https://www.census.gov/data/academy/webinars/2024/new-enhancements-of-the-cbb.html
February 29, 2024: 6.23.5 Version of OnTheMap Released
Today the U.S. Census Bureau released the 6.23.5 version of OnTheMap. This release improves analysis titles and subtitles, report formatting, chart labeling, the Import Geography tool, as well as other small bug fixes. To access the tool, please go to: onthemap.ces.census.gov. For help and documentation, please go to: lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/onthemap.html.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
February 12, 2024: Call for Workshop Presentations for the 2024 LED Partnership Virtual Workshop
The LEHD program is welcoming proposals to present at the 2024 LED Partnership Virtual Workshop held on May 14-16, 2024. We will be highlighting the work of our state Labor Market Information (LMI) partners and other data users through plenary sessions.
This year’s theme is “Multidimensional Perspectives of the Labor Market,” and we are interested in presentations from a wide variety of disciplines, including, but not limited to: workforce development, economic development, transportation planning, economic analysis, and emergency management. We are particularly interested in examples from our state partners and strongly encourage LMI shops to apply.
Additional information regarding the agenda and the workshop will be posted to lehd.ces.census.gov/learning/workshop/2024.html in the coming weeks. Please see this document (605 KB)
for additional proposal guidelines and contact information. The deadline to submit proposals is Monday, March 4, 2024.
Direct any additional questions about the workshop to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
January 22, 2024: Save the Date - 2024 LED Partnership Workshop Scheduled for May 14-16
Please save the date for our 2024 Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership Workshop! The LED Partnership is a collaboration between state data agencies and the U.S. Census Bureau to leverage existing data in the development of new sources of economic and demographic information for policy makers and data users. The workshop provides professional development and networking for Labor Market Information directors, data analysts and data providers at state and federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and other data users.
The workshop will run from noon to 5 p.m. (ET) on May 14-16. Further details will be posted on our website. Information on previous workshops can be found at lehd.ces.census.gov/learning/.
If you have any questions about the workshop, please email CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
January 22, 2024: Julia Pollak will keynote the 2024 LED Partnership Virtual Workshop
The LEHD program is pleased to announce that Julia Pollak, Chief Economist at ZipRecruiter, will serve as the keynote speaker for the 2024 LED Partnership Workshop, May 14-16. The workshop will highlight the work of our state Labor Market Information (LMI) partners and other data users through plenary sessions.
Additional information regarding the agenda and registration details will be posted to lehd.ces.census.gov/learning/workshop/2024.html in the coming weeks. Direct any additional questions about the workshop to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
January 11, 2024: PSEO Expanded to include State Aggregations
Today the U.S. Census Bureau released new state-level aggregations of partner institutions for the Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) experimental data product. PSEO includes data on 825 institutions, which cover more than 29% of all college graduates in the United States in 2015. PSEO is an experimental data product generated by linking graduate transcript records to LEHD data on graduates of participating post-secondary institutions in the United States. PSEO is an experimental data product generated by linking graduate transcript records to LEHD data on graduates of participating post-secondary institutions in the United States. PSEO Explorer has been updated to display data for these new institutions. PSEO is also available to query via the Census API, go to census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/pseo.html for more details.
CSV files and coverage details can be found here: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_experimental.html and methodology and data source details can be found here: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_documentation.html. The PSEO Explorer visualization tool can be found at: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_explorer.html. Modifications to the PSEO release have been documented in the published LEHD schema located at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/schema/latest/lehd_public_use_schema.html.
Please send questions and comments to CES.PSEO.Feedback@census.gov.
December 20, 2023: LEHD Snapshot 2022 and Documentation Available
Today the U.S. Census Bureau updated the LEHD Snapshot documentation for the S2022 release of the LEHD Snapshot, now available in the FSRDC network for approved projects. This update adds all available job data through 2023Q1 as well as 2022 NAICS codes. In order to facilitate researcher use of LEHD microdata, infrastructure files are periodically collected into a standardized form known as the LEHD Snapshot, which are accessible through the FSRDC. The purpose of this documentation and codebook is to provide a limited overview of the components of the LEHD Snapshot files, as well as detailed codebooks for researcher use. This documentation can be found at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/lehd-snapshot-doc/latest/.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
December 19, 2023: The LED Webinar Series Continues on February 21
Join us on Wednesday, February 21, 2024, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Sadra Sharifi, Emanuel Lucban, and Liang Tian as they present, “Studying Workers’ Travel Patterns to Employment Centers Using Census Data.” This study explores workers historical travel patterns, utilizing the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) data to gain insight into the relationship between demographic characteristics and primary employment centers in the San Diego region. Results of this study will help local policy makers and key stakeholders to institute data driven programs and policies to improve regional transportation systems leading to reduced congestion and emissions.
Webinar Login:
https://uscensus.webex.com/uscensus/j.php?MTID=m8a849fca8c14cdaf01eb7d10673b0f6e 
November 15, 2023: 2021 LODES Data Released, OnTheMap and OnTheMap for Emergency Management Updated
The U.S. Census Bureau released an updated version of the LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) data product today. The 8.1 version of LODES adds data for 2021. The OnTheMap application has been updated to include these new LODES tabulations and now contains 20 years of data (2002-2021). The OnTheMap for Emergency Management application has also been updated to use 2021 LODES.
Data for 2021 does not contain information on Alaska, Arkansas, and Mississippi workers. These data may be added in the future. LODES data files can be accessed at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/#lodes and an updated technical document at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/lodes/LODES8/LODESTechDoc8.1.pdf (199 KB).
The data tools can be accessed via the Quick Links at lehd.ces.census.gov or directly at onthemap.ces.census.gov and onthemap.ces.census.gov/em/. For additional information about OnTheMap and LODES, go to lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/onthemap.html. For additional information about OnTheMap for Emergency Management, go to lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/onthemap_em.html. The data and data tools are supported by the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau.
Comments should be sent to CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
November 6, 2023: The LED Webinar Series Continues on November 15
Join us on Wednesday, November 15, 2023, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Andrew Foote as he presents, “Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) the Past, the Present and the Future.” Recently the U.S. Census Bureau released data for institutions from six new data partners in the PSEO experimental data product. PSEO now includes data on 825 institutions, which cover more than 29% of all college graduates in the United States in 2015. PSEO is an experimental data product generated by linking graduate transcript records to LEHD data on graduates of participating post-secondary institutions in the United States. PSEO Explorer has been updated to display data for these new institutions.
Webinar Login: https://www.census.gov/data/academy/webinars/2023/pseo-past-present-and-the-future.html
Comments should be sent to CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
October 25, 2023: Draft LEHD Public-Use Data Schema Available for Review
The LEHD program has published a draft schema in anticipation of the official update to V4.11.1 early next year. This schema version includes:
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Beginning with 2024 LEHD Production, the QWI and J2J data products will be published in 2023 Geography, which includes the new Connecticut county-equivalent tabulation areas (75 KB).
- The forthcoming PSEO release will include select state-level aggregations in earnings and flows tables.
State partners and application developers can review the draft schema at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/schema/V4.11.0-draft/lehd_public_use_schema.html. As this update could impact how LEHD stakeholders interact with our data tools and products, feedback is welcome.
For more information on the schema in general, see the schema versioning documentation or the LEHD Data Schema at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/schema/.
Please send feedback to CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.October 18, 2023: 2024 LED Partnership Workshop to be Scheduled for Late Spring 2024
The LED Partnership is a collaboration between state data agencies and the U.S. Census Bureau to leverage existing data in the development of new sources of economic and demographic information for policy makers and data users. The workshop provides professional development and networking for Labor Market Information directors, data analysts and data providers at state and federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and other data users.
The official workshop dates and further details will be posted on our website. Information on previous workshops can be found at lehd.ces.census.gov/learning/.
If you have any questions about the workshop, please CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
October 16, 2023: October LED Webinar Cancelled
The October LED webinar titled “Studying Workers' Travel Patterns to Employment Centers Using Census Data” has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. A rescheduled date will be available soon.
October 4, 2023: The LED Webinar Series Continues on October 18
Join us on Wednesday, October 18, 2023, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Sadra Sharifi, Emanuel Lucban, and Liang Tian as theu present, “Studying Workers' Travel Patterns to Employment Centers Using Census Data.” This study explores workers historical travel patterns, utilizing the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) data to gain insight into the relationship between demographic characteristics and primary employment centers in the San Diego region. Results of this study will help local policy makers and key stakeholders to institute data driven programs and policies to improve regional transportation systems leading to reduced congestion and emissions.
Webinar Login:
https://www.census.gov/data/academy/webinars/2023/workers-travel-patterns.html
September 12, 2023: The LED Webinar Series Continues on September 20
Join us on Wednesday, September 20, 2023, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Jamie Vaughn, Jeff DeBellis and Maggie Smith as they present, “Using LED Tools for Special Research Projects to Inform Customers.” This presentation will share how the North Carolina (NC) Labor and Economic Analysis Division (LEAD) leverages LED research tools to answer questions about what is going on in their economy. Particularly using tools like OnTheMap, Job-to-Job (J2J) Explorer, Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) Explorer and more to answer questions and inform their customers about economic trends through articles, presentations, and social media posts to help better explain North Carolina’s economy.
Webinar Login:
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August 28, 2023: 6.23.3 Version of OnTheMap Released
Today the U.S. Census Bureau released the 6.23.3 version of OnTheMap. This release incorporates several minor fixes. To access the tool, please go to: onthemap.ces.census.gov. For help and documentation, please go to: lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/onthemap.html.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
August 11, 2023: PSEO Data Correction in Progress for Texarkana College and Texas A&M University - Texarkana
We recently discovered an error in the calculations generating PSEO tabulations for the "All Cohorts" aggregation for Texarkana College and Texas A&M University - Texarkana. We are actively working on a fix. In the meantime, please disregard statistics for the "All Cohorts" aggregation for these two colleges. Results for the disaggregated cohorts (e.g., 2006-2010) are unaffected by this issue.
Please send questions and comments to CES.PSEO.Feedback@census.gov.
July 24, 2023: The LED Webinar Series Continues on August 9
Join us on Wednesday, August 9, 2023, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Cameron Macht as he presents, “Analyzing Economic Disparities Related to Race & Ethnicity in the Labor Force Using Census Data.” Using demographic details from Census data, researchers with the Minnesota Department of Employment & Economic Development (DEED) Labor Market Information office have started publishing a series of reports on Minnesota’s labor force and economic disparities by race and ethnicity. Black or African Americans and Hispanic or Latino residents in particular face some of the deepest disparities in our country and Minnesota, as foundational systemic barriers to prosperity persist. As policymakers, community leaders, businesses, and workforce leaders craft approaches to remove these barriers, one thing we hear consistently is that disaggregated data by race is essential.
Webinar Details: https://www.census.gov/data/academy/webinars/2023/analyzing-economic-disparities-related-to-race-and-ethnicity.html
July 13, 2023: OnTheMap for Emergency Management Updates Decennial and LODES Tabulations
Today the Census Bureau released version 4.23.1 of OnTheMap for Emergency Management. OnTheMap for Emergency Management provides real-time access to a range of detailed U.S. Census Bureau data about the people living and working in areas being affected by hurricanes, floods, wildfires, winter storms, and federal disaster declaration areas. Version 4.23.1 updates Decennial and LODES tabulations to 2020. To access the tool, please go to: onthemap.ces.census.gov/em.html. For help and documentation, please go to: lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/onthemap_em.html. For comments or questions, please contact CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
June 29, 2023: PSEO Expanded to include Institutions for Six New Data Partners
Today the U.S. Census Bureau released data for institutions from six new data partners in the Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) experimental data product. PSEO now includes data on 825 institutions, which cover more than 29% of all college graduates in the United States in 2015. PSEO is an experimental data product generated by linking graduate transcript records to LEHD data on graduates of participating post-secondary institutions in the United States. PSEO Explorer has been updated to display data for these new institutions. PSEO is also available to query via the Census API, go to census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/pseo.html for more details.
CSV files and coverage details can be found here: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_experimental.html and methodology and data source details can be found here: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_documentation.html. The PSEO Explorer visualization tool can be found at: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_explorer.html. Modifications to the PSEO release have been documented in the published LEHD schema located at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/schema/latest/lehd_public_use_schema.html.
Please send questions and comments to CES.PSEO.Feedback@census.gov.
June 29, 2023: 6.23.2 Version of OnTheMap Released
Today the U.S. Census Bureau released the 6.23.2 version of OnTheMap. This release updates the roads reference layer, adds the ability to quickly select previously-used analysis areas, improves the settings and geography import functionality, and other small fixes. To access the tool, please go to: onthemap.ces.census.gov. For help and documentation, please go to: lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/onthemap.html.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
June 27, 2023: The LED Webinar Series Continues on July 19
Join us on Wednesday, July 19, 2023, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Steven Hossack and Mark Jackman as they present, “Visualizing Home to Work Job Locations and Income Demographics using Census LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) Data in a Web-based Application.” This presentation will provide background information of a web-based geographic tool that assists transportation planners in understanding home/work travel flows and income demographics. Users can easily select origin census blocks, associated job destinations, and job income metrics based on LODES data to be displayed in a map. Using the application, planners can quickly discover travel and job demographic patterns.
WebEx Participant Login:
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Participant Passcode: Census#1
June 12, 2023: Bug with 2010 Decennial Race Categories in OnTheMap for Emergency Management Resolved
The OnTheMap for Emergency Management application has been updated to resolve a bug that had incorrectly exchanged two race categories from the 2010 Decennial data. 2010 Decennial tabulations for the "Asian" and "American Indian and Alaska Native" race categories were swapped in the "Population by Race" table in both the "Detail by: Characteristics" and "Detail by: Geography" views. The bug originally appeared in February 2020. Please send questions and comments to CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
June 5, 2023: The LED Webinar Series Continues on June 21
Join us on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Anneliese Vance-Sherman and Scott Bailey as they present, “Using Census Data and Quarterly Wage Files to Analyze the COVID Recession and Recovery.” The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a period of swift and deep labor market disruption and uneven recovery that varied by industry and community. This presentation begins with a high-level overview of impacts of the recession and recovery in Washington using standard measures of the labor market – the unemployment rate and nonfarm employment. LEHD products were particularly valuable for adding insights on the connection between employment (jobs) and characteristics of people who are employed in different industries by exploring selected industry employment patterns to determine how different communities were impacted.
WebEx Participant Login:
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May 10, 2023: The LED Webinar Series Continues on May 17
Join us on Wednesday, May 17, 2023, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Alan Spell and Justin Krohn as they present, “The Importance of Off-Farm Income to the Agriculture Economy.” Off-farm jobs and income are critically important to farmers and ranchers, as the rural and agricultural economy has evolved over the past half century to benefit connected and diverse communities. While growing rural and urban economic interdependence can be hard to see at times, an appreciation of this dynamic relationship is vital to informing policies that strengthen the financial health of communities and agricultural producers alike. Misunderstanding of “rural” connectiveness and industry diversity can lead to well-intentioned federal programs that actually hinder policy efforts to support these communities. Using the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) data, studies found commuting gains speed, especially in rural counties.
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May 4, 2023: OnTheMap for Emergency Management 4.7 Released
Today the U.S. Census Bureau released version 4.7 of the OnTheMap for Emergency Management tool. OnTheMap for Emergency Management provides real-time access to a range of detailed U.S. Census Bureau data about the people living and working in areas being affected by hurricanes, floods, wildfires, winter storms, and federal disaster declaration areas.
Version 4.7 updates ACS data to use the 2017-2021 5-year estimates and resolves an issue with the wildfires event feed.
To access the tool, please go to: onthemap.ces.census.gov/em.html.
For help and documentation, please go to: lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/onthemap_em.html. For comments or questions, please contact CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
April 12, 2023: The LED Webinar Series Continues on April 18
Join us on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Tim O’Neill as he presents, “Minnesota’s Aging Workforce and How It Compares to Other States Using Census Data.” U.S. Census Bureau's Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) along with other resources, allows economist to track Minnesota’s aging workforce over several decades. This trend will continue to be seen as the baby boomer generation continues to age unless there is an increase in immigration or an unlikely increase in birth rate. The following presentation is based on a recent article that reveals how Minnesota's share of older workers has shifted in recent history, as well as how this aging compares with other states and the nation.
WebEx Participant Login:
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Participant Passcode: Census#1
April 4, 2023: LODES Data Released, OnTheMap Updated
The U.S. Census Bureau released an updated version of the LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) data product today. The 8.0 version of LODES adds data for 2020 and recasts all historical LODES years into 2020 census blocks. The OnTheMap application has been updated to include these new LODES tabulations and now contains 19 years of data (2002-2020). The underlying geography associated with the data has also been updated to the TIGER 2021 vintage.
2017 through 2020 data are not available for jobs with employment locations in Alaska. Additionally, 2019 through 2020 data are not available for jobs with employment locations in Arkansas and Mississippi. These data may be added in the future. LODES data files can be accessed at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/#lodes and an updated technical document at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/lodes/LODES8/LODESTechDoc8.0.pdf (199 KB).
The most recent releases of LODES in 2010 census blocks (version 7.5) and 2000 census blocks (version 5.0) will continue to be hosted on the website for the foreseeable future, but they will not receive any further updates.
OnTheMap can be accessed by clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links at lehd.ces.census.gov or directly at onthemap.ces.census.gov. For additional information about OnTheMap and LODES, go to lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/onthemap.html. OnTheMap is supported by the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau.
Comments should be sent to CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
March 14, 2023: Final Agenda and Teams Links Set for 2023 LED Partnership Workshop
Microsoft Teams meeting links have been established for the 2023 Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership Virtual Workshop. This year's theme is, "LED: Big Data Illuminating Local Outcomes." The workshop will be highlighting the work of our state Labor Market Information (LMI) partners, state and local data users, and U.S. Census Bureau researchers through plenary sessions.
Information regarding the agenda and the workshop is available at lehd.ces.census.gov/learning/workshop/2023.html.
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Tuesday, March 28, 2023
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Wednesday, March 29, 2023
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February 15, 2023: The LED Webinar Series Continues on March 15
Join us on Wednesday, March 15, 2023, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Jacob Docking as he presents, “Benefits of Using Census Data to Recruit Students into Liberal Arts Programs.” With humanities and social science degree completions declining over the past 10 years, college liberal arts programs should consider sharing new U.S. Census Bureau salary and industry data to teach prospective students about the programs’ strong economic returns. Docking presents how colleges can use this data to take further steps toward helping students understand the return on investment they can expect from a liberal arts education.
WebEx Participant Login:
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Participant Passcode: Census#1
January 30, 2023: The LED Webinar Series Continues on February 14
Join us on Wednesday, February 14, 2023, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Patrick Clapp as he presents, “The Disproportionate Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women in the Workforce.” Women in the workforce faced steeper job losses and slower job recovery than men across the nation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Patrick will share research prepared using the LEHD program’s Quarterly Workforce Indicators data with breakdowns of which industries were heavily impacted, how the impacts to women differed by state, and what recovery looks like in the latest available data.
WebEx Participant Login:
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Participant Passcode: Census#1
January 26, 2023: PSEO Expanded to Include Institutions in Oklahoma
Today the U.S. Census Bureau released data for institutions in Oklahoma and adjusted graduate earnings to 2020 dollars. PSEO now includes data on 680 institutions, which cover approximately 26% of all college graduates. PSEO is an experimental data product generated by linking graduate transcript records to LEHD data on graduates of participating post-secondary institutions in the United States. PSEO Explorer has been updated to display data for these new institutions. PSEO is also available to query via the Census API, go to census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/pseo.html for more details.
CSV files and coverage details can be found here: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_experimental.html and methodology and data source details can be found here: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_documentation.html. The PSEO Explorer visualization tool can be found at: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_explorer.html. Modifications to the PSEO release have been documented in the published LEHD schema located at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/schema/V4.9.2/lehd_public_use_schema.html.
Please send questions and comments to CES.PSEO.Feedback@census.gov.
January 25, 2023: Keynote Speaker Announced and Registration Now Available for the 2023 LED Partnership Virtual Workshop
The LEHD program is pleased to announce that Jesse Rothstein will serve as the keynote speaker for the 2023 LED Partnership Workshop, March 28-30.
Jesse Rothstein is a Professor of Public Policy and Economics, the Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Public Policy, and the Faculty Director of the California Policy Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. The theme of this year’s workshop is “LED: Big Data Illuminating Local Outcomes,” and we will be highlighting the work of our state Labor Market Information (LMI) partners and other data users through plenary sessions.
Space is limited, so early registration is encouraged. Please visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2023-local-employment-dynamics-led-partnership-virtual-workshop-tickets-518058586177 to register. Additional information regarding the agenda will be posted to lehd.ces.census.gov/learning/workshop/2023.html in the coming weeks. Direct any additional questions about the workshop to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
December 14, 2022: Call for Workshop Presentations for the 2023 LED Partnership Virtual Workshop
The LEHD program is welcoming proposals to present at the 2023 LED Partnership Virtual Workshop held on March 28-30, 2023. We will be highlighting the work of our state Labor Market Information (LMI) partners and other data users through plenary sessions.
This year’s theme is “LED: Big Data Illuminating Local Outcomes,” and we are interested in presentations from a wide variety of disciplines, including, but not limited to: workforce development, economic development, transportation planning, economic analysis, and emergency management. We are particularly interested in examples from our state partners and strongly encourage LMI shops to apply.
Additional information regarding the agenda and the workshop will be posted to lehd.ces.census.gov/learning/workshop/2023.html in the coming weeks. Please see this document (873 KB)
for additional proposal guidelines and contact information.
The deadline to submit proposals is Monday, January 9, 2023. Direct any additional questions about the workshop to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
December 14, 2022: Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) to be Reported in NAICS 2022 Industry Codes
The Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) will transition from the 2017 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) to the 2022 NAICS beginning with the first quarter of 2023 data release (R2023Q1). As with all QWI releases, the 2022 NAICS coding system will be applied to the entire QWI time series. For further information, please refer to the latest LEHD Data Schema and the U.S. Census Bureau's NAICS page. Please send questions and comments to CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
December 8, 2022: Save the Date - 2023 LED Partnership Virtual Workshop Scheduled for March 28-30
Please join us for our 2023 Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership Virtual Workshop. This year’s theme is, “LED: Big Data Illuminating Local Outcomes”. We will be highlighting the work of our state Labor Market Information (LMI) partners, state and local data users, and U.S. Census Bureau researchers through plenary sessions.
The LED Partnership is a collaboration between state data agencies and the U.S. Census Bureau to leverage existing data in the development of new sources of economic and demographic information for policy makers and data users. The workshop provides professional development and networking for Labor Market Information directors, data analysts and data providers at state and federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and other data users.
Further details and an agenda, when available, will be posted on our website. Information on previous workshops can also be found at lehd.ces.census.gov/learning/.
If you have any questions about the workshop, please email CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
November 9, 2022: LEHD Snapshot Documentation Released
Today the U.S. Census Bureau publishes the LEHD Snapshot documentation. In order to facilitate researcher use of LEHD microdata, infrastructure files are periodically collected into a standardized form known as the LEHD Snapshot, which is then released into the FSRDC network for approved projects. The purpose of this documentation and codebook is to provide a limited overview of the components of the LEHD Snapshot files, as well as detailed codebooks for researcher use. The documentation can be found at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/lehd-snapshot-doc/latest/.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
October 27, 2022: The LED Webinar Series Continues on November 16
Join us on Wednesday, November 16, 2022, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Moises Yi as he presents, “Puerto Rico Employment Trends after Hurricane Maria: Evidence from the New Puerto Rico QWI.” In late September, the U.S. Census Bureau released the first Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for Puerto Rico, providing rich demographic profiles of the island’s employment. According to Yi’s findings, the youngest and oldest workers drove Puerto Rico’s employment recovery after Hurricane Maria devastated the island five years ago. This research looks at the recovery through 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic affected employment across the nation.
WebEx Participant Login:
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October 12, 2022: The LED Webinar Series Continues on October 19
Join us on Wednesday, October 19, 2022, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Gail Krumenauer as she presents, “Impacts of the Pandemic Recession and Re-Employment in Oregon.” The acute onset and depth of the pandemic recession was unlike anything seen previously in Oregon. What was a healthy economy lost 286,000 jobs in two months’ time. The impacts were not evenly distributed with in-person, service-based sectors experiencing significantly higher rates of job loss. Two years after the pandemic recession, Oregon’s labor market had seen a remarkable turnaround. A rapid jobs recovery brought unemployment near record lows again. Krumenauer covers how these large and relatively fast swings in Oregon’s economy have impacted different sectors and workers across different demographics who lost and found jobs.
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September 26, 2022: Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) Released for Puerto Rico
Today the U.S. Census Bureau released Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for Puerto Rico. This is the first data release for Puerto Rico as a member of the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership. The 2022Q3 vintage of Puerto Rico QWI can be accessed via raw data files at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/qwi/R2022Q3/pr/, in QWI Explorer and the LED Extraction Tool. QWI includes 32 workforce indicators covering employment, employment change and earnings by various worker demographics and employer characteristics.
An America Counts story using the Puerto Rico QWI data can be found at census.gov/library/stories/2022/09/job-recovery-after-hurricane-maria.html.
Please send questions and comments to CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
September 20, 2022: Job-to-Job Flows (J2J) Data Now Available in the LED Extraction Tool
Today the U.S. Census Bureau releases the 2.0 version of the LED Extraction Tool. This update adds access to the Job-to-Job Flows (J2J) dataset. To access the tool, please go to: ledextract.ces.census.gov. For help and documentation, please go to: lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/led_extraction_tool.html.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov. or CES.J2J.Feedback@census.gov.
September 19, 2022: The LED Webinar Series Continues on September 21
Join us on Wednesday, September 21, 2022, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Jessica Brown and Chris Herbst as they presents “Child Care over the Business Cycle.” Brown and Herbst estimate the impact of macroeconomic conditions on the child care market. They find that the industry is substantially more exposed to the business cycle than other low-wage industries and responds more strongly to negative shocks than positive ones. Indeed, child care employment requires more time to recover than the rest of the economy. Although the reduction in supply may pose difficulties for parents, evidence finds that center quality is countercyclical. When unemployment rates are higher, child care workers have on average higher levels of education and experience, turnover rates are lower, and consumer reviews on Yelp.com are higher.
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August 15, 2022: The LED Webinar Series Continues on August 17
Join us on Wednesday, August 17, 2022, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Martha Stinson as she presents “Who is Served by the Tip Credit? Effects of Minimum Wage Laws on Tipping, Employment, and Prices at Restaurants.” Stinson presents a study of the impact of two types of minimum wages, regular and tipped credit, on the outcomes of restaurants and their workers. Specifically, whether restaurants in states with increasing minimum wages change the number or type of workers they employ, raise their prices, or go out of business more often. The study also examines whether the workers at these restaurants earn more, in both tips and regular pay, work fewer hours, or stay at their jobs longer.
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July 14, 2022: The LED Webinar Series Continues on July 20
Join us on Wednesday, July 20, 2022, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Chip Walker as he presents, “Census Data Tools for Equity and Identifying Underserved Communities.” Walker will introduce the Census Bureau’s new data explorer tool, My Community Explorer (MCE). MCE is an interactive map-based tool that highlights demographic and socioeconomic data that measure inequality and can help inform data-based solutions. This tool is designed to help users identify underserved communities as directed by the President's Executive Order 13985 on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility in the Federal Workforce.
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June 30, 2022: PSEO Expanded to include Institutions in Six Additional States
Today the U.S. Census Bureau released data for institutions in six new states (nine data partners) — Oregon, Hawaii, Massachusetts, South Dakota, Montana and Georgia. PSEO now includes data on 660 institutions, which cover approximately 25% of all college graduates. PSEO is an experimental data product generated by linking graduate transcript records to LEHD data on graduates of participating post-secondary institutions in the United States. PSEO is an experimental data product generated by linking graduate transcript records to LEHD data on graduates of participating post-secondary institutions in the United States. PSEO Explorer has been updated to display data for these new institutions. PSEO is also available to query via the Census API, go to census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/pseo.html for more details.
CSV files and coverage details can be found here: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_experimental.html and methodology and data source details can be found here: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_documentation.html. The PSEO Explorer visualization tool can be found at: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_explorer.html. Modifications to the PSEO release have been documented in the published LEHD schema located at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/schema/V4.9.1/lehd_public_use_schema.html
Please send questions and comments to CES.PSEO.Feedback@census.gov.
June 7, 2022: The LED Webinar Series Continues on June 22
Join us on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Patrick Hewitt as he presents, “Providing Local Communities with the Data They Need.” Hewitt presents how a variety of sources, including U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates and the 5-Year American Community Survey, Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics, the Northern Ohio Data and Information Service, and the County Fiscal Office were used to publish the 2021 Data Book for Cuyahoga County. The book provides insight into the Cuyahoga County communities and was intended to be used by local governments, community organizations, and others interested in learning more about the community. It can also be used as a resource in preparing grant applications, understanding community changes, and identifying issues to address.
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May 9, 2022: The LED Webinar Series Continues on May 18
Join us on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Dr. Mark C. White as he presents "Using Census Data to Understand Youth Employment". As the economy recovers from COVID-19, employers throughout Missouri face difficulties in finding workers. Engaging younger workers — both high school students and recent high school graduates — represents one potential solution for addressing this labor shortage. Younger workers often fill many low-wage, part-time, or seasonal jobs. These employment opportunities expose young people to the world of work, allow them to explore potential careers and enable them to earn money. For recent high school graduates, early employment opportunities may represent first steps in establishing careers. This webinar will examine several key youth employment trends utilizing the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) and several other publicly available data sources.
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April 7, 2022: The LED Webinar Series Continues on April 20
Join us on Wednesday, April 20, 2022, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Kevin McKinney as he presents "U.S. Earnings Dynamics: Inequality, Mobility, and Volatility". Using data from the Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) infrastructure files, McKinney addresses changes over time and across sub-national populations in the distribution of real labor earnings. Four large Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) (Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco) for the period 1998 to 2017, with particular attention paid to the subperiods before, during, and after the Great Recession were considered. For the four large MSAs analyzed, there were clear national trends represented in each of the local areas, the most prominent of which is the increase in the share of earnings accruing to workers at the top of the earnings distribution in 2017 compared with 1998. However, the magnitude of these trends varies across MSAs, with New York and San Francisco showing relatively large increases and Los Angeles somewhere in the middle relative to Detroit whose total real earnings distribution is relatively stable over the period.
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March 24, 2022: Meeting Links for the 2022 LED Partnership Annual Workshop, April 5-7, 2022
Microsoft Teams meeting links have been established for the 2022 Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership Virtual Workshop. This year's theme is, "Making Sense of Data in a New Era." The workshop will be highlighting the work of our state Labor Market Information (LMI) partners, state and local data users, and U.S. Census Bureau researchers through plenary sessions.
Registration for the workshop remains open. Please visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2022-led-partnership-workshop-tickets-190401103827 to register. Information regarding the agenda and the workshop will be updated at lehd.ces.census.gov/learning/workshop/2022.html.
To join the workshop and/or training sessions, please use the following Microsoft Teams links:
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Tuesday, April 5, 2022
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Wednesday, April 6, 2022
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Training sessions on Thursday, April 7th (session times vary) - QWI , J2J , LODES/OnTheMap , PSEO , VEO
Direct any additional questions about the workshop to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
March 4, 2022: The LED Webinar Series Continues on March 16
Join us on Wednesday, March 16, 2021, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Corina Graif as she presents "Spatial Network Links to Maternal and Child’s Health: New Insight for Linking Census Data with Vital Record Statistics". In this presentation, Graif examines how commuting ties are associated with neighborhood maternal and child health problems by using the U.S. Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) dataset. Graif’s research investigates how neighborhoods affect many health risk behaviors and outcomes, such as poverty affects, mental health, or victimization. Infant health problems are a persistent concern across the US, disproportionally affecting socioeconomically vulnerable urban communities. This study investigates how neighborhood inequalities in infant health contribute to differential spatial mobility and connectedness to the citywide employment networks in Chicago over a period of 14 years. Graif analyzed these networks based on yearly data from the LODES dataset. The findings suggest that infant health problems present a fundamental barrier for people and communities in equally accessing the full range of jobs and opportunities across the city - further compounding existing inequalities and extending them further long into the future.
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March 3, 2022: 1.4 Version of the LED Extraction Tool Released
Today the U.S. Census Bureau releases the 1.4 version of the LED Extraction Tool. This update adds dynamic shopping cart functionality to the right-hand side of the tool. Additionally, data from multiple geography types can now be returned from a single query. To access the tool, please go to: ledextract.ces.census.gov. For help and documentation, please go to: lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/led_extraction_tool.html.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
January 26, 2022: The LED Webinar Series Continues on February 16
Join us on Wednesday, February 16, 2022, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Lee Tucker as he presents, "Initial Impact of COVID-19 on Travel, Tourism, Outdoor Recreation Varied Widely Across States and Demographic Groups." In this presentation, Tucker shows how the U.S. Census Bureau’s Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) was used to examine how workers employed in travel, tourism, and outdoor recreation across the country were affected by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data indicate that states with the largest COVID-19 outbreaks (northeastern and mid-Atlantic states) and those with the largest share of tourism jobs (Nevada and Hawaii) were disproportionately impacted at the start of the pandemic.
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January 10, 2022: Deadline Extended - Workshop Presentations for the 2022 LED Partnership Virtual Workshop
The LEHD program is welcoming proposals to present at the 2022 LED Partnership Virtual Workshop held on April 5-7, 2022. We will be highlighting the work of our state Labor Market Information (LMI) partners and other data users through plenary sessions.
This year's theme is "Making Sense of Data in a New Era," and we are interested in presentations from a wide variety of disciplines, including, but not limited to: workforce development, economic development, transportation planning, economic analysis, and emergency management. We are particularly interested in examples from our state partners and strongly encourage LMI shops to apply.
Additional information regarding the agenda and the workshop will be posted to lehd.ces.census.gov/learning/workshop/2022.html in the coming weeks. Please see this document (196 KB) for additional proposal guidelines and contact information.
The extended deadline to submit proposals is Friday, January 21, 2022. Direct any additional questions about the workshop to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
December 20, 2021: Registration Open for 2022 LED Partnership Annual Workshop, April 5-7, 2022
Please join us for our 2022 Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership Virtual Workshop. This year's theme is, "Making Sense of Data in a New Era." We will be highlighting the work of our state Labor Market Information (LMI) partners, state and local data users, and U.S. Census Bureau researchers through plenary sessions.
The LED Partnership is a collaboration between state data agencies and the U.S. Census Bureau to leverage existing data in the development of new sources of economic and demographic information for policy makers and data users. The workshop provides professional development and networking for Labor Market Information directors, data analysts and data providers at state and federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and other data users.
Space is limited, so early registration is encouraged. Please visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2022-led-partnership-workshop-tickets-190401103827 to register. Information regarding the agenda and the workshop will be updated at lehd.ces.census.gov/learning/workshop/2022.html.
Direct any additional questions about the workshop to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov..
December 7, 2021: 2021Q4 QWI Released, Earnings Data Available
The U.S. Census Bureau has completed the 2021Q4 release of QWI data for all states. All earnings indicators have been released with the exception
of Payroll. Please see
lehd.census.gov/doc/QWI_data_notices.pdf (434 KB) for release-specific data notices and more details on the suppression of the Payroll indicator. QWI data can be accessed via:
lehd.ces.census.gov/data/#qwi
lehd.ces.census.gov/data/qwi/
qwiexplorer.ces.census.gov
ledextract.ces.census.gov
For comments or questions, please contact CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
December 3, 2021: Call for Workshop Presentations for the 2022 LED Partnership Virtual Workshop
The LEHD program is welcoming proposals to present at the 2022 LED Partnership Virtual Workshop held on April 5-7, 2022. We will be highlighting the work of our state Labor Market Information (LMI) partners and other data users through plenary sessions.
This year's theme is "Making Sense of Data in a New Era," and we are interested in presentations from a wide variety of disciplines, including, but not limited to: workforce development, economic development, transportation planning, economic analysis, and emergency management. We are particularly interested in examples from our state partners and strongly encourage LMI shops to apply.
Additional information regarding the agenda and the workshop will be posted to lehd.ces.census.gov/learning/workshop/2022.html in the coming weeks. Please see this document (151 KB) for additional proposal guidelines and contact information.
The deadline to submit proposals is Friday, January 7, 2022. Direct any additional questions about the workshop to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
November 16, 2021: Save the Date - 2022 LED Partnership Virtual Workshop Scheduled for April 5-7
Please join us for our 2022 Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership Virtual Workshop. This year's theme is, "Making Sense of Data in a New Era." We will be highlighting the work of our state Labor Market Information (LMI) partners, state and local data users, and U.S. Census Bureau researchers through plenary sessions.
The LED Partnership is a collaboration between state data agencies and the U.S. Census Bureau to leverage existing data in the development of new sources of economic and demographic information for policy makers and data users. The workshop provides professional development and networking for Labor Market Information directors, data analysts and data providers at state and federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and other data users.
Further details and an agenda, when available, will be posted on our website. Information on previous workshops can also be found at lehd.ces.census.gov/learning/.
If you have any questions about the workshop, please email CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
November 4, 2021: The LED Webinar Series Continues on November 10
Join us on Wednesday, November 10, 2021, at 1:30 p.m. (ET), when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Leah Brooks as she presents "3 Graphs and 2 Maps About Jobs and Telework During the Coronavirus". How can you use neighborhood-level employment data to make educated guesses about the return from COVID hibernation? Brooks uses LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) data, combined with other Census products to look at neighborhood-level telework potential and its relationship with income and population density.
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November 2, 2021: 2019 LODES Data Released, OnTheMap Updated
The U.S. Census Bureau released an updated version of the LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) data product today. This version of LODES adds data for 2019 and backfills 2018 data for firm age and firm size characteristics. The OnTheMap application has been updated to include these new LODES tabulations and now contains 18 years of data (2002-2019). The underlying geography associated with the data remains the TIGER 2019 vintage.
Data for 2018 does not contain information on Alaska workers. Additionally, 2019 data does not contain information on Alaska, Arkansas, and Mississippi workers. These data may be added in the future. LODES data files can be accessed at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/#lodes and an updated technical document at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/lodes/LODES7/LODESTechDoc7.5.pdf
(199 KB).
OnTheMap can be accessed by clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links at lehd.ces.census.gov or directly at onthemap.ces.census.gov. For additional information about OnTheMap and LODES, go to lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/onthemap.html. OnTheMap is supported by the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau.
Comments should be sent to CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
October 28, 2021: PSEO Expanded to include Institutions in Six Additional States
Today the U.S. Census Bureau released data for institutions in Alabama, Arizona, Iowa, Maine, Missouri, Utah, and Virginia. PSEO now includes data on 534 institutions, which cover approximately 21% of all college graduates. PSEO is an experimental data product generated by linking graduate transcript records to LEHD data on graduates of participating post-secondary institutions in the United States. PSEO Explorer has been updated to display data for these new institutions. PSEO is also available to query via the Census API, go to census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/pseo.html for more details.
CSV files and coverage details can be found here: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_experimental.html and methodology and data source details can be found here: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_documentation.html. The PSEO Explorer visualization tool can be found at: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_explorer.html. Modifications to the PSEO release have been documented in the published LEHD schema located at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/schema/V4.8.2/lehd_public_use_schema.html.
Please send questions and comments to CES.PSEO.Feedback@census.gov.
September 30, 2021: The LED Webinar Series Continues on October 20
Join us on Wednesday, October 20, 2021, at 1:30 p.m. EDT, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Heath Hayward and Christopher Goetz as they introduce Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) Explorer. BDS Explorer is a new, web-based analysis tool that enables comprehensive access to the full depth and breadth of the BDS dataset. The application's intuitive dashboard allows for the construction of tables and charts to compare and rank measures of business dynamism such as employment, job creation and destruction, and firm births and deaths across a wide range of establishment and firm characteristics. Potential analyses include a longitudinal look at job creation by establishment age across counties, ranking establishment entry rates of young firms across NAICS industry groups, and comparing job destruction rates by firm sizes across a selection of Metropolitan Areas. See the BDS Explorer homepage for more information.
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September 9, 2021: The LED Webinar Series Continues on September 15
Join us on Wednesday, September 15, 2021, at 1:30 p.m. EDT, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Taylor Marr as he presents, “Job Opportunity Tool.” This presentation will dive into how Redfin used a combination of public and private data, including the LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES), to create the Redfin Opportunity Score. The Redfin Opportunity Score is a rating from 0 to 100 that measures the number of jobs within a 30-minute, car-free commute from a given address. An Opportunity Score of 100 represents a home with the most job access, and scores are weighted by population. Opportunity Score is currently available in more than 350 cities across the country.
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September 9, 2021: R2021Q3 QWIs Released as part of R2021Q4 Vintage
Due to reprocessing the R2021Q2 Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI), R2021Q3 will not be released but the R2021Q3 release data will be available as part of the R2021Q4 release.
Please send questions and comments to CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
August 10, 2021: QWI Data Tools and R2021Q2 Vintage Now Available
The U.S. Census Bureau has rereleased the R2021Q2 vintage of the Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI). Additionally, QWI Explorer and the LED Extraction Tool are now available. Note that all QWI Earnings measures have been suppressed as of the R2021Q2 vintage.
Please send questions and comments to CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
August 10, 2021: The LED Webinar Series Continues on September 1
Join us on Wednesday, September 1, 2021, at 1:30 p.m. EDT, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Jeff Rosenthal as he presents, “Recent Cross County Commuting Patterns.” This presentation will explore different analyses of cross-county commuting patterns in North Carolina. This research seeks to understand how commuting has changed across North Carolina. The presentation will focus on whether workers work and live in the same county, how that relationship changed over time, and the confluence of labor markets and commuting patterns.
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July 30, 2021: The LED Webinar Series Continues on August 18
Join us on Wednesday, August 18, 2021, at 1:30 p.m. EDT, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Curtis Askew as he presents, “Minding Our P's and Q's: Using LODES Data to Explore the Impact of the CARES Act Pandemic Relief Programs.” Early scholarship on the pandemic relief programs created by the CARES Act were limited by a lack of geographic specificity and by a tendency to narrowly define “impact”. Using 13 million address‐level geocoded transactions linked to the LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) data, this presentation illustrates how increased granularity not only provides a more nuanced interpretation of impact, but more actionable information for local decision‐makers.
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July 22, 2021: R2021Q2 QWI Data Removed
The U.S. Census Bureau encountered a processing issue with the R2021Q2 release of the Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) that impacted the final calculation and release of data. These data have been removed from the website and are being reprocessed for dissemination.
July 14, 2021: The LED Webinar Series Continues on July 21
Join us on Wednesday, July 21, 2021, at 1:30 p.m. EDT, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Chris Worley as he presents, “Spatial Shifts in Daytime Population Due to COVID - Impacts and Increasing Levels of Remote Work.” Geospatial distribution of workers has far reaching implications for commuting data, consumer spending behaviors at restaurants, retail, and services, and commercial real estate. The pandemic has forced employers to rethink the ability to work from distance and shift large segments of the workforce to remote work. This analysis pairs Bureau of Labor Statistics data by ability to work remotely by industry coupled with Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) commuting data. Early results indicate a shift in daytime population away from traditional job centers in the urban core and into suburban and rural areas as a result of increased remote work.
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June 8, 2021: The LED Webinar Series Continues on June 16
Join us on Wednesday, June 16, 2021, at 1:30 p.m. EDT, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Mark Kutzbach as he presents, “Storms and Jobs: The Effect of Hurricanes on Individuals’ Employment and Earnings over the Long Term.” Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast in 2005. This presentation examines effects on the earnings of affected workers over the short and long term using job-level data to compare the evolution of earnings for affected workers in four states with workers from matched control counties. Short-term earnings losses are attributed to job separations and long-term gains to wage growth in the affected areas. Wages rose due to reduced labor supply and increased labor demand in the affected labor markets. Damage to a worker’s residence or workplace accentuated short-term earnings losses. Effects varied by pre-storm industry, with larger gains for workers in sectors related to rebuilding.
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May 25, 2021: New QWI Weighting Methodology Implemented
A new QWI weighting methodology has been implemented, beginning with the R2021Q2 release. This methodology corrects a recently identified bias in job flow statistics and improves the longitudinal consistency of QWI measures. The revised calculation has been applied to the whole QWI time series. See QWI-Weight-Adjustment-R2021Q2
(929 KB)
for more details.
May 11, 2021: PSEO Expanded to include Institutions in Indiana
Today the U.S. Census Bureau releases data for institutions in Indiana as part of the Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) statistics. PSEO is an experimental data product generated by linking graduate transcript records to LEHD data on graduates of participating post-secondary institutions in the United States. PSEO Explorer has been updated to display data for these new institutions. PSEO is also available to query via the Census API, go to census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/pseo.html for more details.
CSV files and coverage details can be found here: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_experimental.html and methodology and data source details can be found here: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_documentation.html. The PSEO Explorer visualization tool can be found at: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_explorer.html.
Please send questions and comments to CES.PSEO.Feedback@census.gov.
May 4, 2021: The LED Webinar Series Continues on May 19
Join us on Wednesday, May 19, 2021, at 1:30 p.m. EST, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Robert Manduca as he presents, “The Spatial Structure of U.S. Metropolitan Employment: New Insights from LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) Data.” Urban researchers have long debated the extent to which metropolitan employment is monocentric, polycentric, or diffuse. In this presentation Deluca uses high-resolution data based on unemployment insurance wage records to show that employment in U.S. metropolitan areas is not centralized but is spatially concentrated. Unlike residents, who form a continuous surface covering most parts of each metropolitan area, jobs have a bimodal spatial distribution, with most blocks containing no jobs whatsoever and a small number having extremely high employment densities. Across the 100 largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas, about 75% of jobs are located on the 6.5% of built land in Census blocks with at least twice as many jobs as people. These relative proportions are extremely consistent across cities, even though they vary greatly in the physical density at which they are constructed.
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April 22, 2021: 2021 LED Partnership Virtual Workshop on Friday, April 30
Please join us for our 2021 Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership Virtual Workshop. This year's theme is, "New Horizons: Charting the Course with Data." We will be highlighting the work of our state Labor Market Information (LMI) partners and other data users through plenary sessions. Please see this document (143 KB) for the workshop agenda. Connection details have been posted on our event registration site .
The LED Partnership is a collaboration between state data agencies and the U.S. Census Bureau to leverage existing data in the development of new sources of economic and demographic information. The workshop provides insights into these data products and professional development and networking for Labor Market Information directors, data analysts and data providers at state and federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and other data users.
If you have any questions, please email CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
April 22, 2021: PSEO Expanded to include Institutions in Four Additional States
Today the U.S. Census Bureau releases data for institutions in Connecticut, Louisiana, Maine, and Ohio as part of the Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) statistics. PSEO is an experimental data product generated by linking graduate transcript records to LEHD data on graduates of participating post-secondary institutions in the United States. PSEO Explorer has been updated to display data for these new institutions. PSEO is also available to query via the Census API, go to census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/pseo.html for more details.
CSV files and coverage details can be found here: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_experimental.html and methodology and data source details can be found here: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_documentation.html. The PSEO Explorer visualization tool can be found at: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_explorer.html. Modifications to the PSEO release have been documented in the published LEHD schema located at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/schema/V4.8.0/lehd_public_use_schema.html.
Please send questions and comments to CES.PSEO.Feedback@census.gov.
March 24, 2021: The LED Webinar Series Continues on April 21
Join us on Wednesday, April 21, 2021, at 1:30 p.m. EST, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Andrew Hait as he presents, “Improving Access to Key Census Data: What's New on the COVID Data Hub and Census Business Builder (CBB).” The Census Bureau conducts more than 130 monthly, quarterly, annual, and periodic surveys each and every year, and continuing to improve access to the data from these programs is key! This webinar will provide an update on the latest changes to the COVID-19 Interactive Data Hub, a platform that presents key Census Bureau and other data related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The webinar will also cover what was new in version 3.3 of Census Business Builder and what is coming in the 3.4 release in May. CBB continues to be a trusted resource for entrepreneurs and economic development groups and includes selected data from the LED Quarterly Workforce Indicators.
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March 1, 2021: The LED Webinar Series Continues on March 17
Join us on Wednesday, March 17, 2021, at 1:30 p.m. EST, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes the Zillow Economic Research Team as they present, “Using Census and Zillow Data to Understand COVID-19’s Impact on the Housing Market.” This presentation will demonstrate how the Zillow Economic Research Team regularly pairs Census data with Zillow’s local housing market data in their research. 2020 presented a unique challenge in trying to understand quickly-developing and unprecedented housing market trends. This webinar will focus on Zillow’s use of Census data in their research surrounding COVID-19’s effects on local housing markets, particularly on how remote work might have shifted housing preferences.
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February 23, 2021: 2021 LED Virtual Workshop Agenda Posted and Call for Workshop Presentations Extended
The LEHD program has extended the call for proposals to present at the 2021 LED Partnership Virtual Workshop. Please submit proposals by Monday, March 1, 2021. Please see this document
(131 KB)
for additional proposal guidelines and contact information. Additionally, please see this document
(138 KB)
for the workshop agenda.
Additional workshop details will be posted to lehd.ces.census.gov/learning/workshop/2021.html in the coming weeks. Direct any additional questions about the workshop to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
February 17, 2021: OnTheMap for Emergency Management 4.5 Released
Today the Census Bureau released version 4.5 on OnTheMap for Emergency Management. OnTheMap for Emergency Management provides real-time access to a range of detailed U.S. Census Bureau data about the people living and working in areas being affected by hurricanes, floods, wildfires, winter storms, and federal disaster declaration areas.
Version 4.5 updates ACS data to use the 2015-2019 5-year estimates and the LODES data to 2018.
To access the tool, please go to: onthemap.ces.census.gov/em.html.
For help and documentation, please go to: lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/onthemap_em.html. Please send questions or comments to CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
February 4, 2021: QWI Weights Adjusted for 2020Q2
As a result of the large decrease in employment beginning in the second quarter of 2020, an alternative employment target and weighting approach for the QWI Beginning-of-Quarter data has been developed. Employment counts for the Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) and the Quarterly Census for Employment and Wages (QCEW), which provide a benchmark employment target used to develop weights for the QWI, are comparable in most quarters. However, the 2020Q2 employment drop manifested very differently in the two data products, leading to sharply divergent point-in-time employment counts. The adjusted weights leverage the historical relationship between the QWI and QCEW to smooth employment discontinuities caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. See the QWI Weighting Adjustment for 2020Q2
(384 KB)
memo for more details.
Please send questions or comments to CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
February 1, 2021: Call for Workshop Presentations for the 2021 LED Partnership Virtual Workshop
The LEHD program is welcoming proposals to present at the 2021 LED Partnership Virtual Workshop held on April 30, 2021. We will be highlighting the work of our state Labor Market Information (LMI) partners and other data users through plenary sessions.
This year's theme is, "New Horizons: Charting the Course with Data," and we are interested in presentations from a wide variety of disciplines, including, but not limited to: workforce development, economic development, transportation planning, economic analysis, and emergency management. We are particularly interested in examples from our state partners and strongly encourage LMI shops to apply.
Additional information regarding the agenda and the workshop will be posted to lehd.ces.census.gov/learning/workshop/2021.html in the coming weeks.
Please see this document
(131 KB)
for additional proposal guidelines and contact information.
The deadline to submit proposals is Friday, February 19, 2021. Direct any additional questions about the workshop to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
January 22, 2021: The LED Webinar Series Continues on December 2
Join us on Wednesday, February 17, 2021, at 1:30 p.m. EST, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes James Spletzer and Keith Bailey as they present, “A New Measure of Multiple Jobholding in the U.S. Economy.” This presentation looks at measures of multiple jobholding using the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics data. This new series shows that 7.8 percent of persons in the U.S. are multiple jobholders, and this percentage has been trending upward during the past twenty years. The data also show that earnings from secondary jobs are, on average, 27.8 percent of a multiple jobholder's total quarterly earnings. Multiple jobholding occurs at all levels of earnings, with both higher- and lower-earnings multiple jobholders earning more than 25 percent of their total earnings from multiple jobs. These new statistics tell us that multiple jobholding is more important in the U.S. economy than realized.
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January 13, 2021: Save the Date - 2021 LED Partnership Virtual Workshop Scheduled for April 30
Please join us for our 2021 Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership Virtual Workshop. This year’s theme is, “New Horizons: Charting the Course with Data.” We will be highlighting the work of our state Labor Market Information (LMI) partners and other data users through plenary sessions.
The LED Partnership is a collaboration between state data agencies and the U.S. Census Bureau to leverage existing data in the development of new sources of economic and demographic information. The workshop provides insights into these data products and professional development and networking for Labor Market Information directors, data analysts and data providers at state and federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and other data users.
Further details and an agenda will be posted on our website. Information on previous workshops can also be found at lehd.ces.census.gov/learning/.
If you have any questions about the workshop, please email CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
December 15, 2020: Veteran Employment Outcomes (VEO) Aggregate Totals Released (Experimental)
Today the U.S. Census Bureau releases aggregate tabulations for the experimental Veteran Employment Outcomes (VEO) statistics. These tabulations show totals by military occupation, rank, demographics (age, sex, race, ethnicity, education), industry and geography of employment.
Documentation and CSV files are available for download here: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/veo_experimental.html. VEO data can also be accessed via the VEO Explorer visualization tool.
Please send questions and comments to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
December 8, 2020: OnTheMap Version 6.8 and 2018 LODES Data Released
The U.S. Census Bureau released Version 6.8 of the OnTheMap application today. This version of OnTheMap includes the newest release of LODES (LODES Version 7.5), which adds data for 2018 and backfills data on federal workers in 2016 and 2017 and data on South Dakota workers in 2017. OnTheMap now contains 17 years of data (2002-2018). The underlying geography associated with the data has been updated to the TIGER 2019 vintage.
Data for 2018 does not currently contain information on firm age and size. Additionally, 2017 and 2018 data are not available for jobs with employment locations in Alaska. Data on firm age and size and records for Alaska workers may be added to LODES and OnTheMap in the future. LODES data files can be accessed at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/#lodes and an updated technical document at
lehd.ces.census.gov/data/lodes/LODES7/LODESTechDoc7.5.pdf
(69 KB).
OnTheMap can be accessed by clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links at lehd.ces.census.gov or directly at onthemap.ces.census.gov. For additional information about OnTheMap and LODES, go to lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/onthemap.html. OnTheMap is supported by the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau.
Comments should be sent to CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
December 1, 2020: November LED Webinar Rescheduled for December 2
Join us on Wednesday, December 2, 2020, at 1:30 p.m. EST, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Matthew Staiger as he presents, “Job-to-Job Flows and the Consequences of Job Separations.” Moving to a new employer represents an important way in which workers advance their careers. However, previous research also shows that workers who separate from a distressed employer--an employer that experiences a rapid decline in employment--suffer large and persistent earnings losses. The authors provide a more comprehensive picture of the earnings consequences of changing employers. The key finding of the paper is that the earnings losses associated with changing employers are not related to the health of the firm (distressed versus non-distressed), but are strongly associated with the duration of the nonemployment spell following a job separation.
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November 18, 2020: November LED Webinar Cancelled
Today's LED webinar titled “Job-to-Job Flows and the Consequences of Job Separations” has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. A rescheduled date will be available soon.
October 28, 2020: The LED Webinar Series Continues on November 18
Join us on Wednesday, November 18, 2020, at 1:30 p.m. EDT, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Matthew Staiger as he presents, “Job-to-Job Flows and the Consequences of Job Separations.” Moving to a new employer represents an important way in which workers advance their careers. However, previous research also shows that workers who separate from a distressed employer--an employer that experiences a rapid decline in employment--suffer large and persistent earnings losses. The authors provide a more comprehensive picture of the earnings consequences of changing employers. The key finding of the paper is that the earnings losses associated with changing employers are not related to the health of the firm (distressed versus non-distressed), but are strongly associated with the duration of the nonemployment spell following a job separation.
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October 15, 2020: PSEO Expanded to include Institutions in New York, Pennsylvania and Texas
Today the U.S. Census Bureau releases data for institutions in New York, Pennsylvania and Texas as part of the Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) statistics. PSEO is an experimental data product generated by linking graduate transcript records to LEHD data on graduates of select post-secondary institutions in the United States. PSEO Explorer has been updated to display data for these new institutions. PSEO is also now available to query via the Census API, go to census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/pseo.html for more details.
PSEO tabulations have been updated to use 2020 graduate program codes (CIP), and new earnings aggregations at the 2-digit CIP level are now included. Additional modifications to the PSEO release have been documented in the published LEHD schema located at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/schema/V4.7.0/lehd_public_use_schema.html. Documentation and CSV files are available for download here: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_experimental.html. The PSEO visualization tool can be found at: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_explorer.html.
Please send questions and comments to CES.PSEO.Feedback@census.gov.
October 6, 2020: The LED Webinar Series Continues on October 21
Join us on Wednesday, October 21, 2020, at 1:30 p.m. EDT, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Dylan Schafer as he presents, “A Preliminary Investigation into the Metro Area Job-to-Job Flows and Earnings Data in the Manufacturing Sector.” This presentation will look at hires and separation rates in Detroit from job-to-job flows and flows from and to persistent non-employment from 2001 to 2017, earnings at the origin job and the destination job, track job flows into and out of the Detroit metropolitan area and industry sectors, and analyze workers in greater depth by age, education and gender to offer more insights.
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September 29, 2020: 1.01 Version of J2J Explorer Released
Today the U.S. Census Bureau releases the 1.01 version of the J2J Explorer application. J2J Explorer is a web-based analysis tool that enables comprehensive access to an innovative set of statistics on worker reallocation in the United States. The 1.01 update provides access to the most recent J2J data, new earnings indicators for comparisons, and various bug fixes. To access the tool, please go to: j2jexplorer.ces.census.gov. For help and documentation, please go to: lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/j2j_explorer.html.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.J2J.Feedback@census.gov.
September 8, 2020: The LED Webinar Series Continues on September 16
Join us on Wednesday, September 16, 2020, at 1:30 p.m. EDT, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Patrick Flaherty as he presents, “Connecticut's Manufacturing Workers Age Profile and Implications for Earnings.” Before the pandemic, Connecticut experienced a rise in manufacturing employment along with evidence that employment growth would be even stronger if employers could find the right workers to hire. Employers reported hundreds of unfilled openings. Nevertheless, the average wage in manufacturing from traditional statistics, such as the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) did not increase at the pace that would be expected given a labor shortage in this industry. The Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) data set helps to solve this puzzle. By examining employment, hires and separations by age and wage the composition of the manufacturing workforce is changing and that average wages are being held down because highly paid older workers are separating (presumably retiring) while newly hired younger workers are earning less than the older workers they are replacing.
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August 5, 2020: OnTheMap for Emergency Management 4.4.4 Released
Today the Census Bureau released version 4.4.4 on OnTheMap for Emergency Management. OnTheMap for Emergency Management provides real-time access to a range of detailed U.S. Census Bureau data about the people living and working in areas being affected by hurricanes, floods, wildfires, winter storms, and federal disaster declaration areas.
Version 4.4.4 updates the map display to show separately the COVID-19 Emergency and Disaster Declaration areas that have been declared in 50 states, DC, and 4 territories. Users can now identify and focus on COVID-19 events using the "Legend & Map Controls" functions on the right side of the map.
To access the tool, please go to: onthemap.ces.census.gov/em.html.
For help and documentation, please go to: lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/onthemap_em.html. For comments or questions, please contact CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
July 30, 2020: The LED Webinar Series Continues on August 19
Join us on Wednesday, August 19, 2020, at 1:30 p.m. EDT, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Cameron Macht as he presents, “Providing Perspective during COVID-19 Using Census Data.” The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented changes across all industries, but has also hit some sectors harder than others. In addition to new data coming out, data can provide useful perspective on who has been and will be more impacted by the economic changes. Minnesota’s Labor Market Information Institute has used the U.S. Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) data to supplement information provided in a set of regional industry profiles, racial disparities reports, and other context-setting pieces that are helping our economic and workforce development partners prepare for and respond to the recovery. This presentation will also illustrate how LEHD data was used to create a Tableau visualization that displays race and ethnicity data in a useful manner.
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July 21, 2020: Veteran Employment Outcomes (VEO) State-Level Files Released (Experimental)
Today the U.S. Census Bureau releases state-level files of the experimental Veteran Employment Outcomes (VEO) statistics. These tabulations show earnings and employment outcomes for U.S. Army veterans by state of employment and by DOD occupation crossed with state of employment.
Documentation and CSV files are available for download here: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/veo_experimental.html. VEO data can also be accessed via the VEO Explorer visualization tool.
Please send questions and comments to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
June 29, 2020: The LED Webinar Series Continues on July 22
Join us on Wednesday, July 22, 2020, at 1:30 p.m. EDT, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Pramod Sambidi as he presents, "Analyzing Job-to-Job Flows in the Houston Metropolitan Area Using LEHD J2J Data." The Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) Job-to-Job Flows data set provides new insights to the changing demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of a region’s population. By identifying the demographics of workers moving in and out of the Houston metropolitan area, as well as the origin-destination information on location and industry sector changes, regional planners can better predict migration scenarios and employment structures.
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June 23, 2020: 2020Q2 J2J Released
Today the U.S. Census Bureau completed the 2020Q2 release of J2J data. New earnings measures and seasonally adjusted tables have been added to the raw data files. Please see lehd.ces.census.gov/doc/J2J_data_notices.pdf
(333 KB) for release-specific data notices. J2J data can be accessed via:
lehd.ces.cens/data/#j2j
lehd.ces.census.gov/data/j2j
j2jexplorer.ces.census.gov
For comments or questions, please contact CES.J2J.Feedback@census.gov.
June 9, 2020: The LED Webinar Series Continues on June 17
Join us on Wednesday, June 17, 2020, at 1:30 p.m. EDT, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Andrew Hait and Earlene Dowell as they present, “COVID-19 Demographic and Economic Resources Using Census Data.” The Census Bureau has released an interactive data hub resource page on COVID-19. The resource page is designed to help federal agencies, businesses and communities make decisions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn how to navigate through this interactive data hub and view how resources are being utilized in real life examples.
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May 5, 2020: Veteran Employment Outcomes (VEO) Statistics Released (Experimental)
Today the U.S. Census Bureau releases experimental Veteran Employment Outcomes (VEO) statistics. These tabulations show earnings and employment outcomes for U.S. Army veterans who completed their initial term of active-duty service. VEO are generated by linking veteran records provided by the U.S. Army to national administrative data on jobs at the U.S. Census Bureau. Coverage includes Army veterans' labor market outcomes one, five, and 10 years after discharge, by military occupation, rank, demographics (age, sex, race, ethnicity, education), industry and geography of employment. Although VEO currently covers only Army veterans, these statistics could potentially be expanded to other service branches.
Documentation and CSV files are available for download here: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/veo_experimental.html. VEO data can also be accessed via the VEO Explorer visualization tool. This interactive tool allows for comparisons of veterans outcomes via an easy-to-use line and bar chart interface.
Please send questions and comments to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
April 21, 2020: The LED Webinar Series Continues on May 20
Join us on Wednesday, May 20, 2020, at 1:30 p.m. EST, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Erika McEntarfer as she presents, “Statistics of Army Veterans Transitioning into the Civilian Labor Market”. Veteran Employment Outcomes (VEO) are experimental statistics on transitions of Army veterans into the civilian labor market, due to be released by the U.S. Census Bureau in spring 2020. VEO data provide employment outcomes for recent cohorts of military veterans, by military occupation and other veteran characteristics. These data are generated by linking Army administrative data with a national database of jobs to obtain longitudinal employment and earnings for veterans exiting the Army between 2000 and 2015.
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March 24, 2020: The LED Webinar Series Continues on April 15
Join us on Wednesday, April 15, 2020, at 1:30 p.m. EST, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Colby Brown as he presents “Combining Census Data with OpenStreetMap Data to Develop Highway Access Measures”. While it is now straightforward to develop accessibility measures for pedestrians, bicycles, and even public transit modes of travel using free data, highway modes remain expensive to analyze because of the need for high-resolution congested link speed data. This presentation outlines a workflow for developing accessibility measures for auto modes such as, journey to work time and highway travel time, by combining Census data with OpenStreetMap, a free editable map.
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February 26, 2020: The LED Webinar Series Continues on March 18
Join us on Wednesday, March 18, 2020, at 1:30 p.m. EST, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Andrew Foote as he presents “Using National Jobs Data to Measure Graduate Impact”. Until recently, very little information was known about earnings and employment outcomes of college graduates, especially by field of study. In 2018, Census released a new experimental data product called Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO). Users of this data can see how much graduates earn over time, as well as where graduates are employed and in what industry. In this webinar, Andrew Foote discusses the creation of the product, the measurement concepts, and the plans for the future of PSEO moving forward.
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February 24, 2020: OnTheMap for Emergency Management 4.4.3 Released
Today the Census Bureau released version 4.4.3 on OnTheMap for Emergency Management. OnTheMap for Emergency Management provides real-time access to a range of detailed U.S. Census Bureau data about the people living and working in areas being affected by hurricanes, floods, wildfires, winter storms, and federal disaster declaration areas.
Version 4.4.3 updates ACS data to use the 2014-2018 5-year estimates and the LODES data to 2017.
To access the tool, please go to: onthemap.ces.census.gov/em.html.
For help and documentation, please go to: lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/onthemap_em.html. For comments or questions, please contact CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
February 12, 2020: New Secure Electronic File Transfer Process for Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partner File Submissions
The U.S. Census Bureau has implemented a new secure file transfer process, Managed File Transfer (MFT). MFT enhances file transfer security and upgrades our technology to the modern era in both look and feel. More information about MFT is available at https://www.tibco.com/products/tibco-managed-file-transfer.
MFT automatically encrypts all transfers, can handle much larger file sizes, and was designed to replace all previously used systems, such as the Send-A-File Utility, Accellion, and Kiteworks by Accellion. MFT includes many ease-of-use enhancements, such as:
- Large capacity for file transfers (5GB for a single file, 10 GB for a single transfer)
- The ability to submit multiple files within a single transfer
- The ability to reset your password yourself
- The ability to receive an email reminder of your username
- An email reminder when your password is about to expire
- An online form where you can Request Help with your transfer
- An embedded User’s Guide
Census will contact LED partners directly to establish MFT accounts and provide information on the MFT test period. For comments or questions, please contact CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics.@census.gov.
November 21, 2019: 1.0 Version of J2J Explorer Released
Today the U.S. Census Bureau releases the 1.0 version of the J2J Explorer application. J2J Explorer is a web-based analysis tool that enables comprehensive access to an innovative set of statistics on worker reallocation in the United States. The 1.0 update provides access to Metropolitan Area tabulations and Earnings indicators, as well as rankings and data normalization functionality. To access the tool, please go to: j2jexplorer.ces.census.gov. For help and documentation, please go to: lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/j2j_explorer.html.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.J2J.Feedback@census.gov.
November 15, 2019: The LED Webinar Series Continues on December 4
Join us on Wednesday, December 4, 2019, at 1:30 p.m. EST, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Heath Hayward as he presents “Recent Updates to Job-to-Job Flows Explorer: Job Hopping Across Cities”. This webinar will discuss the recent applications updates and work through a series of demonstrations using J2J Explorer to answer specific questions about worker earnings and job flows between cities.
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November 12, 2019: PSEO Explorer Data Visualization Tool Released
Today the U.S. Census Bureau released the Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) Explorer visualization tool. PSEO Explorer includes interactive modules for users to visualize earnings outcomes and employment flows for recent graduates of partner colleges and universities. PSEO is an experimental data product generated by linking graduate transcript records to LEHD data on graduates of select post-secondary institutions in the United States.
Documentation and CSV files are available for download here: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_experimental.html. PSEO Explorer can be found at: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_explorer.html.
Please send questions and comments to CES.PSEO.Feedback@census.gov.
October 11, 2019: The LED Webinar Series Continues on October 23
Join us on Wednesday, October 23, 2019, at 1:30 p.m. EDT, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Matthew Graham as he presents “Recent Updates to LODES and OnTheMap”. This webinar will discuss the recent data updates, associated application changes, and work through a series of demonstrations using OnTheMap and LODES to answer specific questions about where workers are employed, where they live, and the relationships between the two.
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September 18, 2019: The LED Webinar Series Continues on September 18
Join us on Wednesday, September 18, 2019, at 1:30 p.m. EDT, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Shirin Arslan as she presents “D.C.'s Startup Scene, Part II: Opportunity Costs”. This webinar describes how Ms. Arslan uses the Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) to examine the startup pay gaps in six NAICS industries across DC and the Metro region and comparing them against the gaps found for San Francisco, Boston, and Seattle. Understanding startup pay gaps is helpful in revealing partially the opportunity cost for workers who choose to work for a startup rather than an established firm, with larger gaps signaling higher levels of wages foregone when making such decisions.
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August 29, 2019: OnTheMap Version 6.7 and 2016/2017 LODES Data Released
The U.S. Census Bureau released Version 6.7 of the OnTheMap application today. This version of OnTheMap includes the newest release of LODES (LODES Version 7.4), which adds data for 2016 and 2017 and backfills data for Wyoming in 2014 and 2015. OnTheMap now contains 16 years of data (2002-2017). The underlying geography associated with the data has been updated to the TIGER 2018 vintage, which includes 116th Congressional Districts.
Data for 2016 and 2017 does not currently contain information on Federal workers. Additionally, 2017 data are not available for jobs with employment locations in Alaska and South Dakota. Data for these workers may be added to LODES and OnTheMap in the future. LODES data files can be accessed at
lehd.ces.census.gov/data/#lodes and an updated technical document at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/lodes/LODES7/LODESTechDoc7.4.pdf (146 KB).
OnTheMap can be accessed by clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links at lehd.ces.census.gov or directly at onthemap.ces.census.gov. For additional information about OnTheMap and LODES, go to lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/onthemap.html. OnTheMap is supported by the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau.
Comments should be sent to CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
August 20, 2019: The LED Webinar Series Continues on August 21
Join us on Wednesday, August 21, 2019, at 1:30 p.m. EDT, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Kristin Sandusky as she presents "What May Be Driving Growth in the "Gig Economy?""
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August 6, 2019: PSEO Expanded to include Employment Flow Statistics
Today the U.S. Census Bureau releases Employment Flows statistics as part of the Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) statistics. These tabulations show employment outcomes for graduates of select post-secondary institutions in the United States, and are generated by linking graduate transcript records to LEHD data. These additional PSEO tabulations provide the destination industry and geography of employment for graduates of an institution by degree level, degree field, and graduation cohort, for one, five, and 10 years after graduation. Additionally, the PSEO visualization tool has been updated to display the count of graduate degree holders in the Earnings Outcomes data (flows data will be added in the coming months).
The Graduate Earnings and Employment Flows file layouts have also changed in accordance with the published LEHD schema located at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/schema/V4.5.0-draft/lehd_public_use_schema.html. Documentation and CSV files are available for download here: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_beta.html. The PSEO visualization tool can be found at: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_beta_viz.html.
Please send questions and comments to CES.PSEO.Feedback@census.gov.
July 22, 2019: The LED Webinar Series Continues on July 23
Join us on Tuesday, July 23, 2019, at 1:30 p.m. EDT, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcome Kristin McCue as she presents "What Causes Labor Turnovers to Vary."
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July 5, 2019: Registration Open for 2019 LED Partnership Annual Workshop, September 4-5, 2019
Please join us for the 2019 Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership Annual Workshop. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the LED Partnership, a collaboration between state data agencies and the Census Bureau leveraging existing data to develop new economic statistics. The workshop brings together the LED data partners, Census Bureau staff, the research and policy communities, and data users from a broad spectrum of public and private organizations, to discuss the significant contributions of the program during the past 20 years and to look forward to the next 20 years.
This year’s workshop will feature sessions on Census Bureau statistics made possible by the LED partnership: the Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI), LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES/OnTheMap), and Job-to-Job Flows (J2J). Newly available statistics, such as the experimental Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO), data improvements, and new data applications will also be featured in plenary and breakout sessions. Hands-on training sessions will be made available during the workshop.
Space is limited, so early registration is encouraged. Please visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2019-local-employment-dynamics-led-partnership-annual-workshop-tickets-27729510713 to register. Further details and an agenda will be posted in the coming weeks at lehd.ces.census.gov/learning/workshop/2019.html.
Direct any additional questions about the workshop to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
July 5, 2019: OnTheMap for Emergency Management 4.4.2 Released
Today the Census Bureau released version 4.4.2 of OnTheMap for Emergency Management. OnTheMap for Emergency Management provides real-time access to a range of detailed U.S. Census Bureau data about the people living and working in areas being affected by hurricanes, floods, wildfires, winter storms, and federal disaster declaration areas.
Version 4.4.2 updates ACS data to use the 2013-2017 5-year estimates.
To access the tool, please go to: onthemap.ces.census.gov/em.html.
For help and documentation, please go to: lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/onthemap_em.html. For comments or questions, please contact OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
May 31, 2019: The LED Webinar Series Continues on June 26
Join us on Wednesday, June 26, 2019, at 1:30 p.m. EDT, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Andy Hait as he presents, “Accessing the Quarterly Workforce Indicators in Census Business Builder.” To address frequent requests from our data users for more timely and detailed workforce information, the basic data from the QWI at the state and county levels was added to both the Small Business and Regional Analyst Editions of CBB in version 2.4, released in July 2018.
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May 21, 2019: Call for Workshop Presentations for the 2019 LED Partnership Annual Workshop
The LEHD program is welcoming proposals to present at the 2019 LED Partnership Annual Workshop on September 4-5, 2019, in Suitland, MD. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the LED Partnership. The workshop provides professional development and networking opportunities for Labor Market Information (LMI) directors, data analysts and data providers at state and federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and other data users.
The focus of presentations at the workshop is useful applications of data made possible through the LED State/Federal partnership: the Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI), the LEHD Origin-Destination Employee Statistics (LODES), OnTheMap, OnTheMap for Emergency Management, Job-to-Job Flows (J2J), and the Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO). Topics could be from a wide variety of disciplines, including, but not limited to: workforce development, economic development, transportation planning, economic analysis, and emergency management. We are particularly interested in examples from our state partners and strongly encourage LMI professionals to apply.
More information regarding the agenda and the workshop to come. Please see this document (161 KB) for proposal guidelines. The deadline to submit proposals is Friday, June 14, 2019.
May 17, 2019: 2019Q1 J2J Released
Today the U.S. Census Bureau completed the 2019Q1 release of J2J data. Please see lehd.ces.census.gov/doc/J2J_data_notices.pdf (292 KB) for release-specific data notices. J2J data can be accessed via:
lehd.ces.census.gov/data/j2j_beta.html
lehd.ces.census.gov/data/j2j
j2jexplorer.ces.census.gov
For comments or questions, please contact CES.J2J.Feedback@census.gov.
April 24, 2019: PSEO Statistics and Data Visualization Updated
Today the U.S. Census Bureau updates the Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) statistics with the release of earnings tabulations for the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor and the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Additionally, the PSEO visualization tool has been updated to include these new institutions and to allow for filtering by degree level. PSEO tabulations show earnings and employment outcomes for graduates of post-secondary institutions in the United States, and are generated by linking graduate transcript records to LEHD data. The pilot release of earnings outcomes reports earnings by institution, degree field, degree level and graduation cohort for 1, 5 and 10 years after graduation.
Documentation and CSV files are available for download here: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_beta.html. The PSEO visualization tool can be found at: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_beta_viz.html.
Please send questions and comments to CES.PSEO.Feedback@census.gov.
April 12, 2019: The LED Webinar Series Continues on April 17
Join us on Wednesday, April 17, 2019, at 1:30 p.m. EDT, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Reza Sardari as he presents, "Job Growth and Spatial Mismatch between Jobs and Low-Income Residents." This presentation seeks to address job sprawl within the Dallas-Fort Worth region and discuss how low-income families are separated from suburban job opportunities, using the Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) data products.
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April 1, 2019: Missing Earnings Records Impute Implemented in R2019Q1 QWIs
With the R2019Q1 release of QWIs, the LEHD program has implemented an automated mechanism to identify single-quarter firm under-reporting issues and impute missing worker earnings micro-data records. Imputations will be applied to the historical data series as well as current data. On average, imputed records comprise less than 0.5% of all earnings records, and the impact on statewide employment measures will typically be small. However, users may observe changes in industry or substate geography tabulations compared to previous QWI releases, resulting in more consistent time series. In addition, users may observe significant differences in measures of employment dynamics, such as hires and separations. At the state level, the changes in employment dynamics measures will tend to be decreases, but differences can be more variable in smaller cells. The QWI measures most affected include:
- Hires Recalls (HirR)
- Firm Job Gains (FrmJbGn)
- Firm Job Losses (FrmJbLs)
- Firm Job Gains - Stable (FrmJbGnS)
- Firm Job Losses - Stable (FrmJbLsS)
We will continue to monitor the results of these changes and make refinements as needed. A technical paper with details on the imputation methodology and impact of these changes will be made available in the coming months.
Please send questions or comments to CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
March 12, 2019: The LED Webinar Series Continues on March 20
Join us on Wednesday, March 20, 2019, at 1:30 p.m. EDT, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes James Spletzer as he presents, “Older People Working Longer, Earning More.” By 2030, the U.S. Census Bureau projects that one in every five residents will be older than age 65. What do we know about older workers’ labor market participation and earnings today? Statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) tell us that the percentage of employed older people has increased during the past two decades, and these older workers are earning more now than in previous years.
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February 12, 2019: 2018Q3 J2J Released
Today the U.S. Census Bureau completed the 2018Q3 release of J2J data. Please see lehd.ces.census.gov/doc/J2J_data_notices.pdf (282 KB) for release-specific data notices. J2J data can be accessed via:
lehd.ces.census.gov/data/j2j_beta.html
lehd.ces.census.gov/data/j2j
j2jexplorer.ces.census.gov
For comments or questions, please contact CES.J2J.Feedback@census.gov.
February 7, 2019: J2J Direct Download Restructuring Complete
In an effort to harmonize its data distribution tools, the LEHD program has updated the structure of the J2J data files available through direct download. J2J data files are now accessible at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/j2j/[RELEASE]/[GEO]/[FILETYPE]/{files}, where [GEO] includes the "us" and "metro" files and [FILETYPE] refers to the "j2j", "j2jr", and "j2jod" filetypes. The most current data for each state can be found at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/j2j/latest_release/. Users are encouraged to update their bookmarks and scripts accordingly.
Please send questions and comments to CES.J2J.Feedback@census.gov.
February 7, 2019: The LED Webinar Series Continues on February 20
Join us on Wednesday, February 20, 2019, at 1:30 p.m. EST, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Zillow Senior Economist Aaron Terrazas as he presents, “Housing and the Tech Boom: Using LEHD and Zillow Data to Understand Housing Market Impacts.” The presentation will share how Zillow pairs LEHD data with Zillow’s local housing market data in their industry-leading housing market research. This webinar will focus on Zillow’s use of this data to understand the housing impacts of local tech booms – including Amazon HQ1’s impact on the Seattle housing market, Amazon HQ2’s potential housing impact on Washington D.C. and New York, and a recently published analysis of how Facebook’s 2012 Initial Public Offering (IPO) boosted home values in Silicon Valley.
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February 7, 2019: 2018Q4 QWI Released
The U.S. Census Bureau has completed the 2018Q4 release of QWI data for all states. Please see
https://lehd.census.gov/doc/QWI_data_notices.pdf (323 KB) for release-specific data notices. QWI data can be accessed via:
lehd.ces.census.gov/data/#qwi
lehd.ces.census.gov/qwi
qwiexplorer.ces.census.gov
ledextract.ces.census.gov
For comments or questions, please contact CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
October 31, 2018: The LED Webinar Series Continues on November 13
Join us on Tuesday, November 13, 2018, at 2:30 p.m. EST, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Thea Evans as she presents, “Visualizing Commuting Patterns Using LODES Data.” Learn how to create a map of commuting patterns to, from, and within your state using LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) Data. Participants will be shown the steps to transform origin and destination points into a shapefiles of commuting line pathways using open source QGIS software, and how to create and publish an interactive commuting map with a free Mapbox account. REGISTER HERE.
October 31, 2018: 2018Q3 QWI Released
The U.S. Census Bureau has completed the 2018Q3 release of QWI data for all states. Please see https://lehd.census.gov/doc/QWI_data_notices.pdf (318 KB) for release-specific data notices. QWI data can be accessed via:
lehd.ces.census.gov/data/#qwi lehd.ces.census.gov/data/qwi/ qwiexplorer.ces.census.gov ledextract.ces.census.gov
For comments or questions, please contact CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
October 11, 2018: Beta3 Version of J2J Explorer Released
Today the U.S. Census Bureau releases an update to the J2J Explorer application. J2J Explorer is a web-based analysis tool that enables comprehensive access to an innovative set of statistics on worker reallocation in the United States. The Beta3 update provides access to the most current Job-to-Job Flows data (2017 Q2 for most states) and includes several bug fixes. Note that Metropolitan Area tabulations and Earnings indicators will be made available in the upcoming 1.0 release. To access the tool, please go to: j2jexplorer.ces.census.gov. For help and documentation, please go to: lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/j2j_explorer.html.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.J2J.Feedback@census.gov.
October 9, 2018: PSEO Statistics Updated and Data Visualization Released
Today the U.S. Census Bureau updates the Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) statistics with the release of earnings tabulations for public institutions in the state of Colorado. Additionally, a PSEO visualization tool has been developed to allow for comparisons of employment outcomes by degree. PSEO tabulations show earnings and employment outcomes for graduates of post-secondary institutions in the United States, and are generated by linking graduate transcript records to LEHD data. The pilot release of earnings outcomes reports earnings by institution, degree field, degree level and graduation cohort for 1, 5 and 10 years after graduation.
Documentation and CSV files are available for download here: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_beta.html. The PSEO visualization tool can be found at: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_beta_viz.html.
Please send questions and comments to CES.PSEO.Feedback@census.gov.
October 2, 2018: The LED Webinar Series Continues on October 17
Join us on Wednesday, October 17, 2018, at 1:00 p.m. EST, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Andrew Foote as he presents, “New National Earnings Data for Graduates by Institution and Major.” The Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) project tabulates earnings by institution, degree level and degree field. PSEO does this by linking university transcript data to the Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics (LEHD) records. Data from PSEO offer an important assessment tool to plan postsecondary education and address a major gap in education statistics by providing a much clearer picture of what happens when a graduate gets a job out of state. REGISTER HERE.
October 2, 2018: QWI Direct Download Restructuring Complete
In an effort to harmonize its data distribution tools, the LEHD program has updated the structure of the QWI data files available through direct download. QWI data files are now accessible at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/qwi/[RELEASE]/[ST]/{files}, where [ST] includes the "us" files. The most current data for each state can be found at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/qwi/latest_release/. Users are encouraged to update their bookmarks and scripts accordingly.
Additionally, the LEHD Program now provides QWI labels for variables and values as part of the "LEHD Public Use Data Schema" available at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/schema/latest/lehd_public_use_schema.html. For more information on LEHD data products, see lehd.ces.census.gov/data/.
Please send questions and comments to CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
September 5, 2018: R2018Q3 QWI Delayed
The 2018Q3 release of QWI data has been delayed due to maintenance on the LEHD website to accommodate the planned restructuring of data files available through direct download. We anticipate the R2018Q3 QWI to be available for download in late September.
Please contact CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov with any questions or concerns.
August 28, 2018: 2018Q2 J2J Released
Today the U.S. Census Bureau completed the 2018Q2 release of J2J. Please see https://lehd.census.gov/doc/J2J_data_notices.pdf (235 KB) for release-specific data notices. J2J data can be accessed via:
lehd.ces.census.gov/data/j2j_beta.html
lehd.ces.census.gov/data/j2j
j2jexplorer.ces.census.gov
For comments or questions, please contact CES.J2J.Feedback@census.gov.
August 28, 2018: The LED Webinar Series Continues on September 19
Join us on Wednesday, September 19, 2018, at 1:30 p.m. EST, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Hubert Janicki and Joyce Hahn as they present, “Job Ladders and Growth in Earnings, Hours, and Wages.” In their research, they consider the impact of the recent slowdown in the job ladder on wage and earnings growth in the U.S. from 1996 to 2015. They were able to develop an accounting method that measures how workers moving onto and up the job ladder contribute to growth in average earnings, hours, and wages. Net hires from non-employment tend to lower these aggregates, while workers changing employers lead to increases. These contributions mostly offset each other, and so job stayers drive the high growth in average earnings and wages in the late 1990s and 2015. Evidence of an active hours job ladder was also found. REGISTER HERE.
July 12, 2018: The LED Webinar Series Continues on July 18
Join us on Wednesday, July 18, 2018, at 1:30pm EST, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes James Spletzer as he presents, "Earnings Trends in the United States." Employment and earnings are two of the most important indicators of economic conditions in the U.S. This paper examines earnings trends in the U.S. economy from the early 1990s to 2017, with an emphasis on variation by worker and firm characteristics. REGISTER HERE.
June 26, 2018: 2018Q2 QWI Released
Today the U.S. Census Bureau completed the 2018Q2 release of QWI data for all states. Please see https://lehd.census.gov/doc/QWI_data_notices.pdf (315 KB) for release-specific data notices. QWI data can be accessed via:
lehd.ces.census.gov/data/#qwi
lehd.ces.census.gov/pub
qwiexplorer.ces.census.gov
ledextract.ces.census.gov
For comments or questions, please contact CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
May 14, 2018: The LED Webinar Series Continues on May 16
Join us on Wednesday, May 16, 2018, at 1:30 p.m. EST, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcome Dr. Pramod Sambidi as he presents, “Interactive Web Mapping Applications for Transportation Planning using LODES Data.” Dr. Sambidi will be demonstrating two interactive applications developed by the Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC) to analyze the socio-economic characteristics of regional workforce and their commute patterns. REGISTER HERE.
May 14, 2018: Restructuring of J2J Direct Download, Change of URL
In an effort to harmonize its data distribution tools, the LEHD program will be updating the structure of the J2J data files available through direct download. Currently J2J files are accessed via HTTPS at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/j2j/[RELEASE]/[DATATYPE]/[GEO]/{files}, where [GEO] stands for state, "us", or "metro", [DATATYPE] stands for "j2j", "j2jr", or "j2jod", and [RELEASE] identifies the quarter of release, e.g. R2018Q1.
Starting with the R2018Q3 release (which has an expected release date of November of 2018), all J2J data files will be accessible at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/j2j/[RELEASE]/[GEO]/[DATATYPE]/{files}. Users are encouraged to update their bookmarks and scripts accordingly.
For more information on LEHD data products, see lehd.ces.census.gov/data/. Please send comments and feedback to CES.J2J.Feedback@census.gov.
April 2, 2018: The LED Webinar Series Continues on April 18
Join us on Wednesday, April 18, 2018, at 1:30 p.m. EST, when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Mr. Andrew Hait as he presents, “Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) in Census Business Builder.” QWI data was recently added to the Census Business Builder tool in both the Small Business and the Regional Analyst Editions. Mr. Hait demonstrates how Employment, Hires/Separations, Firm Job Creation/Destruction/Change, and Earnings measures at the national, state, and county levels can be found under the "Workforce" category in the Census Business Builder. REGISTER HERE.
March 26, 2018: Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) Statistics Released (Beta)
Today the U.S. Census Bureau releases experimental Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) statistics. These tabulations show earnings and employment outcomes for graduates of post-secondary institutions in the United States, and are generated by linking graduate transcript records to LEHD data. The pilot release of earnings outcomes reports earnings by institution, degree field, degree level and graduation cohort for 1, 5 and 10 years after graduation. The current release only includes the University of Texas System, but future releases will include more post-secondary institutions.
Documentation and CSV files are available for download here: lehd.ces.census.gov/data/pseo_beta.html.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
March 6, 2018: Restructuring of QWI Direct Download, Change of URL
In an effort to harmonize its data distribution tools, the LEHD program will be updating the structure of the QWI data files available through direct download. Currently QWI files are accessed via HTTPS at lehd.ces.census.gov/pub/[ST]/[RELEASE]/[DVD-*]/{files}, where [ST] stands for state and [RELEASE] identifies the quarter of release, e.g. R2018Q1. National QWI data files are available at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/qwi/us/[RELEASE]/{files}.
Starting with the R2018Q3 release (which has an expected release date of August of 2018), all QWI data files will be accessible at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/qwi/[RELEASE]/[ST]/{files}, where [ST] includes the "us" files. Users are encouraged to update their bookmarks and scripts accordingly.
Additionally, the LEHD Program has been providing a set of comma-delimited files containing the labels for variables and values as part of the data distribution directories. Since May of 2016, these and other information have been collected as part of the "LEHD Public Use Data Schema" at https://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/schema/latest/lehd_public_use_schema.html.
Starting with the R2018Q3 release, the label characteristics files will no longer be provided as part of the data download, and must be retrieved from https://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/schema/latest/lehd_public_use_schema.html. Users are encouraged to review the schema before the transition, and adjust their scripts accordingly.
For more information on LEHD data products, see https://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/. Please send comments and feedback to CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
March 1, 2018: The LED Webinar Series Continues on March 21
Join us on Wednesday, March 21, 2018, at 1:30 p.m. EST when the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership, in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER),
welcomes Dr. Leonidas Murembya as he presents, "The Demographic & Labor Market Profile of Pontiac City Combining LODES Data with other Census Data to Profile Local Communities." In this analysis, Dr. Murembya combines data from the U.S. Census Bureau, including population estimates, American Community Survey (ACS) data, and LEHD Destination-Origin Employment Statistics (LODES) to provide a demographic and labor market profile of the city of Pontiac in Michigan. REGISTER HERE.
February 5, 2018: Join us on Wednesday, February 21, 2018, at 1:30 p.m. EST, when Patrick Flaherty presents, Job-to-Job Flows and the Increase in Earnings Inequality
The U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Patrick Flaherty as he presents, "Job-to-Job Flows and the Increase in Earnings Inequality." Using Job-to-Job Flows data, Mr. Flaherty demonstrates how workers are changing states and industry sectors in Connecticut. This webinar will explore whether sector and geographic Job-to-Job changes can explain some of the increased earnings inequality. REGISTER HERE.
December 19, 2017: OnTheMap for Emergency Management 4.4.1 Released
Today the Census Bureau released version 4.4.1 on OnTheMap for Emergency Management. OnTheMap for Emergency Management provides real-time access to a range of detailed U.S. Census Bureau data about the people living and working in areas being affected by hurricanes, floods, wildfires, winter storms, and federal disaster declaration areas.
Version 4.4.1 provides updated LODES data for 2015.
To access the tool, please go to: onthemap.ces.census.gov/em.html.
For help and documentation, please go to: lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/onthemap_em.html#!what_is_onthemap_em. For comments or questions, please contact OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
September 25, 2017: OnTheMap Version 6.6 and 2015 LODES Data Released
The U.S. Census Bureau released Version 6.6 of the OnTheMap application today. Included is the release of LODES data for 2015. OnTheMap now contains 14 years of data (2002-2015). This release of OnTheMap also updates the base geography to TIGER 2016.
2015 LODES data contain employment statistics for 49 states and the District of Columbia (not included are WY, PR, and VI). Along with the release in OnTheMap, the 2015 LODES data have been made available for download as raw data files. These files can be accessed at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/#lodes and an updated technical document at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/lodes/LODES7/LODESTechDoc7.3.pdf
OnTheMap can be accessed by clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links at lehd.ces.census.gov or directly at onthemap.ces.census.gov. For additional information about OnTheMap and LODES, go to lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/onthemap.html.
OnTheMap is supported by the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the Census Bureau as well as the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor.
Comments should be sent to CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
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September 18, 2017: New Job-to-Job Flows (J2J) Data with Earnings and Metro Tabulations Released!
The U.S. Census Bureau has released new J2J data (R2017Q2) that contain multiple new features. Users can now look at new earnings measures to analyze how worker reallocation affects compensation. This release also includes data at the metro area level, with counts and rates available by NAICS sector and worker demographics. Counts of flows between metro areas as well as between metro areas and a state or the nation are also available by origin NAICS sector, destination NAICS sector, and worker demographics.
At the state and national level, more detailed tabulations crossing NAICS sector with worker demographics and firm characteristics have been released for counts and rates. Origin-destination counts are also provided by origin NAICS sector, destination NAICS sector, and worker demographics and origin and destination firm characteristics. For more information, please visit: https://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/j2j_beta.html.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.J2J.Feedback@census.gov.
June 29, 2017: Beta2 Version of J2J Explorer Released
Today the U.S. Census Bureau releases an update to the J2J Explorer application. J2J Explorer is a web-based analysis tool that enables comprehensive access to an innovative set of statistics on worker reallocation in the United States. The Beta2 update provides access to the most current Job-to-Job Flows data (2016 Q1 for most states) and includes several bug fixes. To access the tool, please go to: j2jexplorer.ces.census.gov. For help and documentation, please go to: lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/j2j_explorer.html.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.J2J.Feedback@census.gov
June 22, 2017: REGISTER TODAY FOR THE 2017 LOCAL EMPLOYMENT DYNAMICS PARTNERSHIP ANNUAL WORKSHOP - SEE YOU IN SEPTEMBER
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For the 2017 Local Employment Dynamics Partnership Annual Workshop September 11-12, 2017 Join us for our 2017 Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership Annual Workshop. This year’s workshop is September 11-12 at the US Census Bureau at 4600 Silver Hill Road in Suitland, Md. The LED Partnership is a collaborative partnership between state data agencies and the Census Bureau to leverage existing data in the development of new sources of economic and demographic information for policy makers and data users. The workshop provides professional development and networking for Labor Market Information directors, data analysts and data providers at state and federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and other data users.
We will be highlighting the work of our state Labor Market Information (LMI) partners and other state and local data users through plenary and breakout sessions. By popular demand, we will also be offering hands-on training opportunities throughout the workshop.
The workshop will include presentations, working sessions, and panel discussions on:
- Earnings in the US Economy
- Making the most of Published LED Data
- Training on using the new Job-to-Job Explorer application and QWI Application Interface (API)
- LED in Action
- Recent Development in LED
- Ask an LED Staffer
Further details and an agenda will be posted on our website. Information on previous workshops can also be found at http://lehd.ces.census.gov/learning/.
If you have any questions about the workshop, please call (301) 763-8303, or email CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
June 8, 2017: 2017 LOCAL EMPLOYMENT DYNAMICS PARTNERSHIP ANNUAL WORKSHOP
“LED ANNUAL WORKSHOP” September 11-12, 2017 US Census Bureau CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS We invite you to submit a proposal to present at the LED Partnership Annual Workshop. The LED Partnership is a collaborative partnership between state data agencies and the Census Bureau to leverage existing data in the development of new sources of economic and demographic information for policy makers and data users. The workshop provides professional development and networking for Labor Market Information directors, data analysts and data providers at state and federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and other data users. The focus of presentations at the workshop is useful and new applications of new data made possible through the LED State/Federal partnership, The Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) and LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES). Presentations selected for the workshop will be featured on plenary panels or in targeted breakout sessions during this popular learning event. Topics could be from a wide variety of disciplines, including, but not limited to: workforce development, economic development, transportation planning, and emergency management. We are particularly interested in examples from our state partners and strongly encourage LMI shops to apply. Submission Deadline: Friday, June 30, 2017 ONLINE SUBMISSION: All presentations must be submitted via email to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov. Please provide the following information:
- Your name and contact information
- Brief bio
- Proposed title
- Brief abstract of the presentation (3 sentences/50-60 words)
- 200-300 word description of the presentation
- Any special audio/visual needs (Conference management will supply PC, digital projector, and high-speed internet)
- Methodology
May 11, 2017: OnTheMap for Emergency Management 4.4 Released
Today the Census Bureau released version 4.4 on OnTheMap for Emergency Management. OnTheMap for Emergency Management provides real-time access to a range of detailed U.S. Census Bureau data about the people living and working in areas being affected by hurricanes, floods, wildfires, winter storms, and federal disaster declaration areas.
Version 4.4 provides updated ACS 5-year estimates (2011-2015)
To access the tool, please go to: onthemap.ces.census.gov/em.html. For help and documentation, please go to: lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/onthemap_em.html#!what_is_onthemap_em. For comments or questions, please contact OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov
April 11, 2017: OnTheMap Version 6.5.1 Released
The U.S. Census Bureau released Version 6.5.1 of the OnTheMap application today. This version corrects three known bugs with the application code. First, a minor fix was implemented for character encoding issues in the geography labels. Second, the checkbox to toggle CBSA polygon shading was re-enabled to fix an issue with map rendering. Finally, the .otm file upload feature was fixed to allow users to reuse saved analysis settings. No LODES data were released or changed with this patch.
OnTheMap can be accessed by clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links at lehd.ces.census.gov or directly at onthemap.ces.census.gov. For additional information about OnTheMap and LODES, go to lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/onthemap.html.
OnTheMap is supported by the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the Census Bureau as well as the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor.
Comments should be sent to CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
January 25, 2017: THE FIRST 2017 LED WEBINAR
Join us on Wednesday, February 15, 2017, at 1:30 p.m. EST, when Dr. Jim Spletzer presents, “Earnings Inequality Statistics from the LEHD.” Much of what we know about increasing earnings inequality comes from publicly available statistics from the Current Population Survey (CPS) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). These statistics show that inequality has been increasing since the late 1970s or early 1980s.
Presenters: Dr. Jim Spletzer, LED/LEHD, Census Bureau
Pricing: Free
Register: Here
January 25, 2017: 2016Q3 J2J Release Updated
Due to an error in processing, the national data in the 2016Q3 J2J release were missing the most recent quarter, 2015Q3. This release was originally posted on December 8, 2016. Revised data containing the missing quarter in the national files were posted on January 25, 2017 to the following locations:
lehd.ces.census.gov/data/j2j/R2016Q3/j2j/us
lehd.ces.census.gov/data/j2j/R2016Q3/j2jr/us
lehd.ces.census.gov/data/j2j/R2016Q3/j2jod/us
Additionally, these updated files may be accessed at lehd.ces.census.gov/data/j2j_beta.html
Users may note counts and rates in earlier quarters may be slightly changed due to the updated estimation.
Please send questions or comments to CES.J2J.Feedback@census.gov
January 5, 2017: Beta Version of J2J Explorer Released
Today the U.S. Census Bureau releases the Beta version of Job-to-Job Flows Explorer (Beta). J2J Explorer is a new web-based analysis tool that enables comprehensive access to an innovative set of statistics on worker reallocation in the United States. J2J Explorer unlocks these statistics through an interactive analysis and visualization interface that allows for the construction of tables, maps and charts to compare, aggregate and analyze flows by worker and firm characteristics. To access the tool, please go to: https://j2jexplorer.ces.census.gov. For help and documentation, please go to: http://lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/j2j_explorer.html.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.J2J.Feedback@census.gov
January 4, 2017: California R2016Q4 QWI Re-released
R2016Q4 of California QWI has been re-released following the withdrawal of the first release in early December 2016 (see https://lehd.ces.census.gov/announcements.html#120516_1 for more information). Issues identified in the December 5 notice have been corrected.
The revised release became available from the LEHD download points on January 3, 2017 and in QWI Explorer, the LED Extraction Tool, and the Census API on January 4, 2017. The vintage of the revised release is qwipu_ca_20170103_1119. This can be found in the "version" text files at the download points and in the metadata provided by the applications.
Please send questions or comments to CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov
January 4, 2017: LEHD Websites Change from HTTP to HTTPS
Beginning on December 30, 2016, the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) Program is enforcing an automatic redirect on our websites and web applications from HTTP to HTTPS to conform with best practices to ensure trust in our data and web tools. HTTPS ensures a secure communications channel and optimizes browser performance.
You should expect to see the following in these common web browsers:
- Internet Explorer (look for gray lock symbol):
- Firefox (look for green lock symbol):
- Chrome (look for green lock symbol):
https://lehd.ces.census.gov
https://ledextract.ces.census.gov
https://qwiexplorer.ces.census.gov
https://onthemap.ces.census.gov
https://onthemap.ces.census.gov/em.html
For more information about the differences between HTTP and HTTPS, visit the following link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS, and for information about the Federal policy of this change, visit to https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/06/08/https-everywhere-government.
Please send questions or comments to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov
December 5, 2016: California R2016Q4 QWI Withdrawn
On November 18, a new release (R2016Q4) of California QWI was made available at our download points http://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/#qwi and http://lehd.ces.census.gov/pub/ as well as in the Census API. Subsequently, a quality problem was identified for sub-county location information of establishments representing approximately 3% of employment in Quarter 1 of 2016. The problem primarily affects Workforce Investment Board (WIB) Area totals. As a result, this release of data is being withdrawn. R2016Q4 for California was removed from the download points on December 1 and from the API on December 2. The previous release (R2016Q3), which does not have this problem, remains available at all data access points. Affected data for California were not made available in QWI Explorer and the LED Extraction Tool because of a delay in loading the data into the application database. A revised R2016Q4 release for California is being prepared and will be released as soon as possible. Please send questions or comments to CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov
September 16, 2016: LED SEPTEMBER WEBINAR - Job Displacement and the Duration of Joblessness: The Role of Spatial Mismatch
September 21, 2016
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM EDT
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The U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Dr. Mark Kutzbach as he presents, “Job Displacement and the Duration of Joblessness: The Role of Spatial Mismatch.” Dr. Kutzbach will explain a new approach to the measurement of the effects of spatial mismatch that takes advantage of matched employer-employee administrative data integrated with a person-specific job accessibility measure and how the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) infrastructure files and public use data play a key role in this presentation research.
Presenter:
Dr. Mark Kutzbach, Senior Economist, LEHD in the Census Bureau’s Center for Economic Studies
Pricing:
FREE
September 14, 2016: Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) now available in Census API!
This week the U.S. Census Bureau released the Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) in the Census Bureau's API. Developers and advanced users can now access all 32 measures for streamlined use in web or mobile applications. The API (application programming interface) lets developers create custom apps to reach new users and makes key demographic, socio-economic and housing statistics more accessible than ever before.
For more information, please visit: http://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/qwi.html. To access the API's QWI Endpoint, please visit: http://api.census.gov/data/timeseries/qwi.html. For comments or questions, please contact: CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
August 25, 2016: LEHD Public-Use Data Schema Release Candidates Available for Review
The LEHD program has prepared a new Release Candidate in anticipation of an official update to V4.1 data schema on September 22, 2016. State partners and application developers should inspect the Release Candidate 2 at http://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/schema/V4.1-rc2/lehd_public_use_schema.html and provide comments to LEHD before September 15, 2016, as the changes may affect how applications and state partners read in LEHD data.
For more information on the schema in general, see the schema versioning documentation or the LEHD Data Schema at http://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/schema/.
Please send feedback to CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
July 14, 2016: New Version of QWI Explorer Released with National QWI
Today the U.S. Census Bureau releases the 1.3 version of QWI Explorer as well as the R2016Q1 vintage of the beta National QWI. This new application version enables comparisons for state totals and yearly averages. All Ownership and NAICS 3-digit industry tabulations will be available in future releases. For more information, see the National QWI Data Page at http://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/qwi_national_beta.html.
Examples of new analyses in this application update include a comparison of state-level earnings in the Health Care sector by worker sex and a time-series analysis of job creation in Manufacturing for a selection of states.
To access QWI Explorer, please go to: http://qwiexplorer.ces.census.gov. For help and documentation, please go to: http://lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/qwi_explorer.html. For comments or questions, please contact: CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
June 15, 2016: OnTheMap for Emergency Management 4.3 Release (New ACS and LODES data)
Today the Census Bureau released version 4.3 on OnTheMap for Emergency Management. OnTheMap for Emergency Management provides real-time access to a range of detailed U.S. Census Bureau data about the people living and working in areas being affected by hurricanes, floods, wildfires, winter storms, and federal disaster declaration areas. Version 4.3 improvements include:
- Updated the ACS data to the 2010-2014 5-year estimates.
- Updated LODES data to 2014.
To access the tool, please go to: http://onthemap.ces.census.gov/em.html. For help and documentation, please go to: http://lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/onthemap_em.html#!what_is_onthemap_em. For comments or questions, please contact CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census
June 8, 2016: LEHD Public Use Data Schema Updates
The LEHD program has released a new data schema and documentation outlining the program's schema versioning process. The new process provides machine-readable features as well as user-accessible documentation for the Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) and Job-to-Job Flows (J2J) datasets.
For more information, see the schema versioning documentation (137 KB) or the LEHD Data Schema at http://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/schema/.
Please send feedback to CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
April 14, 2016: NEW LED Webinar Series: “If You Build It Will They Come? Examining Urban Economic Growth and Development from Sports Stadiums and Arenas”
Join us Wednesday, April 20, 2016, from 1:30 – 2:30 EST, when Dr. David Mitchell presents, “If You Build It Will They Come? Examining Urban Economic Growth and Development from Sports Stadiums and Arenas.” In his presentation, Dr. Mitchell uses LODES data to demonstrate how constructing big stadiums creates jobs within a city. This webinar is sponsored by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER).
Presenter: Dr. David Mitchell, Director of the Bureau of Economic Research and the Center for Economic Education, Missouri State University
Pricing:
FREE
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March 22, 2016: National QWI (Beta) Update: Release of Race/Ethnicity Tabulations
An updated release of the National Quarterly Workforce Indicators (NQWI) is now
available. Users can now access Race and Ethnicity worker characteristics in the beta
national tabulations for 1993 Q1- 2014 Q3. More detailed statistics will be available
in future releases, including tabulations for all ownership job types and NAICS 3-digit
industries.
For more information, see the National QWI Data Page at
http://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/qwi_national_beta.html or access the data via the
LED Extraction Tool.
Please send feedback on this Beta release to CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
March 3, 2016: OnTheMap Version 6.5 and 2014 LODES Data Released
The U.S. Census Bureau released Version 6.5 of the OnTheMap application today. Included is the release of LODES data for 2014. Additionally, we are releasing data for Massachusetts for the first time (covering 2011-2014). OnTheMap now contains 13 years of data (2002-2014). This release of OnTheMap also updates the base geography to TIGER 2015 and adds the New England City and Town Areas (NECTAs) as a supported geography layer.
2014 LODES data contain employment statistics for 49 states and the District of Columbia (not included are WY, PR, and VI). Data for Kansas in 2012 and 2013 has also been filled in. Along with the release in OnTheMap, the 2014 LODES data have been made available for download as raw data files. These files can be accessed at http://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/#lodes and an updated technical document at http://www.census.gov/data/lodes/LODES7/LODESTechDoc7.2.pdf (61 KB)
OnTheMap can be accessed by clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links at http://lehd.ces.census.gov or directly at http://onthemap.ces.census.gov. For additional information about OnTheMap and LODES, go to http://lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/onthemap.html.
OnTheMap is supported by the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the Census Bureau as well as the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor.
Comments should be sent to CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
December 22, 2015: National QWI (Beta) Update: Corrected "Turnover" Indicator and Release of Firm Age/Size Tabulations
An updated release of the National Quarterly Workforce Indicators (NQWI) corrects a bug found in the "Turnover" Indicator. Users can also now access beta tabulations for Firm Age and Firm Size characteristics. More detailed statistics will be available in future releases, including race and ethnicity tabulations, all ownership tabulations, and tabulations at the NAICS 3-digit industry level.
For more information, see the National QWI Data Page at http://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/qwi_national_beta.html or access the data via the LED Extraction Tool.
Please send feedback on this Beta release to CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
December 1, 2015: Updated Release of the National QWIs (Beta)
An updated release of the National Quarterly Workforce Indicators (NQWI) is now available. Users can access beta national tabulations from 1993 Q1- 2014 Q2 via the LED Extraction Tool or the National QWI Data page. More detailed statistics will be available in future releases, including firm-age and firm-size tabulations, race and ethnicity tabulations, and tabulations at the NAICS3 level.
For more information, see the National QWI Data Page at http://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/qwi_national_beta.html.
Please send feedback on this Beta release to CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
November 25, 2015: CALL FOR WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS HAVE BEEN EXTENDED TO DECMEBER 30, 2015
We invite you to submit a presentation to present at the 17th LED Partnership Annual Workshop. The workshop provides professional development and networking for Labor Market Information directors, data analysts and data providers at state and federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and other data users.
Our theme for this year is “National Perspective, Local Data” and we are particularly interested in presentations that explore how LED data encourages a wide variety of partners to work together in new ways by using the Quarterly Workforce Indicator, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) and Job-to-Job (J2J) Flows. Topics could be from a wide variety of disciplines, including, but not limited to: workforce development, economic development, transportation planning, and emergency management. We are particularly interested in examples from our state partners and strongly encourage LMI shops to apply.
More information regarding the agenda and the workshop hotel will be posted as available to our event site https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2016-led-partnership-annual-workshop-registration-18977966609.
Please see the link below for proposal and poster guidelines.
http://lehd.ces.census.gov/doc/workshop/2016/posters/call_for_proposals_2016.pdf (343 KB)
http://lehd.ces.census.gov/doc/workshop/2016/posters/call_for_posters_2016.pdf (390 KB)
November 24, 2015: REGISTER TODAY for the 2016 Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership Annual Workshop: National Perspective, Local Data
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2016 Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership Annual Workshop to be held March 7-8, 2016. The first day of the event (March 7) will feature plenary sessions and be held at the US Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Ave NW, Washington, DC. The second day (March 8) of the event will be held at the US Census Bureau, 4600 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD. This day will feature breakout sessions and provide training opportunities.
Further details and an agenda will be posted as available on our conference registration site:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2016-led-partnership-annual-workshop-registration-18977966609.
Please visit the site to register for the workshop. Space is limited, so we recommend registering as soon as possible.
If you have any questions about the workshop, please call (301) 763-8303, or email ces.local.employment.dynamics@census.gov.
About the Partnership and Workshop:
The LED Partnership is a collaborative partnership between state data agencies and the Census Bureau to leverage existing data in the development of new sources of economic and demographic information for policy makers and data users. The workshop provides professional development and networking for Labor Market Information directors, data analysts and data providers at state and federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, businesses, universities and other data users.
November 6, 2015: OnTheMap Version 6.4.2 Released
The U.S. Census Bureau released Version 6.4.2 of the OnTheMap application today. This version corrected a bug with a corrupted ZIP Code (ZCTA) map layer. The bug that prevented the selection of ZIP Codes (ZCTAs) in a multi-state area around northwest Missouri has been fixed. OnTheMap is supported by the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the Census Bureau as well as the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor. OnTheMap can be accessed by clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links at http://lehd.ces.census.gov or directly at http://onthemap.ces.census.gov. For additional information about OnTheMap and LODES, go to http://lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/onthemap.html. Comments should be sent to CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
October 8, 2015: Using LEHD Data to Analyze Economic Development Districts
Join us on Wednesday, October 21, 2015, at 1:30 p.m. EST, when James Palma presents “Using LEHD Data to Analyze Economic Development Districts.” The U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) welcomes Mr. Palma as he shares how most economic development agencies use special districts to focus their efforts and to target incentives. He will also present how LEHD data can be combined with other data sources (such as NETS) to better understand the dynamics of both the working residents and non-resident workers of these districts, and to help track the effect of incentives over time.
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About our presenter:
James Palma is a Senior Manager in the Research and Information Unit at the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development. He has been active in the areas of demographic and economic policy research for over 15 years. Prior to joining DBED, Mr. Palma was a planner for the Maryland Department of Planning, where he worked to support Census 2010 and PlanMaryland.
Prior to this, Mr. Palma worked for a private planning and engineering firm in Florida and was a researcher for a public policy institute at the University of Massachusetts. Mr. Palma has presented at various conferences on topics such as the use of Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics data in Smart Growth measurement and predicting future land use needs for industrial development, as well as researching and authoring numerous articles and studies.
Mr. Palma received a B.A. in Political Science and an M.R.P. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
September 29, 2015: Release of Massachusetts Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI)
The U.S. Census Bureau is pleased to announce the release of the Massachusetts Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI). QWI data for all 50 states (plus the District of Columbia) are now available through the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership. This new release can be accessed via QWI Explorer (http://qwiexplorer.ces.census.gov), the LED Extraction Tool (http://ledextract.ces.census.gov), the Data tab (http://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/#qwi), or the HTTP data download (http://lehd.ces.census.gov/pub/ma/).
We are working to add Massachusetts into the LODES dataset and OnTheMap application, but there is currently no timeline for release. Please send feedback to CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
September 21, 2015: 1.2 Version of QWI Explorer Released
Today the U.S. Census Bureau releases the 1.2 version of QWI Explorer. This new version enables indicator comparisons (available in the Group dropdown) and data normalization/share of total calculations on the fly.
To access the tool, please go to: http://qwiexplorer.ces.census.gov. For help and documentation, please go to: http://lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/qwi_explorer.html. For comments or questions, please contact: CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
September 21, 2015: 1.2 Version of the LED Extraction Tool Released
Today the U.S. Census Bureau releases the 1.2 version the LED Extraction Tool. This new version makes the beta release of National QWI available for query. Additionally, cross-state totals can now be returned from a single query.
To access the tool, please go to: http://ledextract.ces.census.gov. For help and documentation, please go to: http://lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/led_extraction_tool.html. For comments or questions, please contact: CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
September 2, 2015: LED Webinar Series: Dynamic Mapping of Job and Labor Access for the New York Metropolitan Region
Join us on Wednesday, September 16, 2015, at 1:30 p.m. EST, when Ms. Mandu Sen presents “Dynamic Mapping of Job and Labor Access for the New York Metropolitan Region.” The U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) welcomes Ms. Sen as she shares the use of LODES and other data to create interactive maps that can compare job and labor market access for different locations, modes, industries and education levels in the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut Metropolitan Area. The presentation will demonstrate the use of this tool for both policy scenarios and public engagement, as well as their intended use in Regional Plan Association’s forthcoming strategic plan.
Presenters:
Mandu Sen, Senior Planner, Regional Plan Association
Earlene K.P. Dowell, Consultant, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau
Pricing:
Everyone: Free
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September 1, 2015: Job-to-Job Flows Origin-Destination Data Released
New Job-to-Job (J2J) Flows statistics released today by Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics provide insights into the origin and destination job characteristics of workers changing jobs. This new release augments the June 2015 J2J release that provides a comprehensive look at the reallocation of workers across different sectors of the U.S. economy at the state and national level. While providing new insights on job churning across the economy, the data provides information on transitions between jobs as well as transitions from jobs to non-employment or from non-employment to jobs. Rates and counts of transitions are tabulated by industry, state, firm age and size, and demographic characteristics such as age, sex, race, ethnicity and education. Available here: http://lehd.ces.census.gov /data/j2j_beta.html.
Feedback on this beta release may be provided at CES.J2J.Feedback@census.gov.
State-level J2J files for all New England states continue to withheld in this release, as Massachusetts data is not yet available. Similarly, state-level data for Kansas and Missouri are not available in this release.
August 12, 2015: OnTheMap Version 6.4.1 and 2013 LODES Data Released
The U.S. Census Bureau released Version 6.4.1 of the OnTheMap application today. Included is the release of LODES data for 2013. OnTheMap now contains 12 years of data (2002-2013).
2013 LODES data contain employment statistics for 48 states and the District of Columbia (not included are KS and MA). Along with the release in OnTheMap, the 2013 LODES data have been made available for download as raw data files. These files can be accessed at http://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/#lodes and an updated technical document at http://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/lodes/LODES7/LODESTechDoc7.1.pdf. .
Additionally, a new version of OnTheMap for Emergency Management has been released that updates the LODES data to 2013. OnTheMap for Emergency Management can be accessed at http://onthemap.ces.census.gov/em/.
OnTheMap is supported by the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the Census Bureau as well as the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor.
OnTheMap can be accessed by clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links at http://lehd.ces.census.gov or directly at http://onthemap.ces.census.gov. For additional information about OnTheMap and LODES, go to http://lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/onthemap.html.
Comments should be sent to CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
July 7, 2015: OnTheMap Version 6.4 and 2012 LODES Data Released
The U.S. Census Bureau released Version 6.4 of the OnTheMap application today. Included is the release of LODES data for 2012. OnTheMap now contains 11 years of data (2002-2012). Additionally, this release of OnTheMap updates the base geography to TIGER 2014.
2012 LODES data contain employment statistics for 48 states and the District of Columbia (not included are KS, MA, PR, and VI). Along with the release in OnTheMap, the 2012 LODES data have been made available for download as raw data files. These files can be accessed at http://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/#lodes and an updated technical document at http://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/lodes/LODES7/LODESTechDoc7.1.pdf ..
OnTheMap is supported by the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the Census Bureau as well as the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor.
OnTheMap can be accessed by clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links at http://lehd.ces.census.gov or directly at http://onthemap.ces.census.gov. For additional information about OnTheMap and LODES, go to http://lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/onthemap.html.
Comments should be sent to CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
June 30, 2015: Quarterly Workforce Indicators to be Reported in NAICS 2012 Industry Codes
The Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) will transition from the 2007 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) to the 2012 NAICS beginning with the third quarter of 2015 data release (R2015Q3). As with all QWI releases, the 2012 NAICS coding system will be applied to the complete history of the data. In conjunction with the transition to the 2012 NAICS, the industry coding algorithm has been restructured to improve data quality and manageability. For further information, see attached document NAICS 2012 Data Notice. Questions are welcome at CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov
June 15, 2015: Beta Release of National QWIs
A Beta release of National Quarterly Workforce Indicators (NQWI) is now available. This first national, rather than state-level, release of the QWI provides a consistent reference point for users of the QWI. Also provided are rates and new variability measures that preview future enhancements to the state-level QWI. More detailed statistics will be available in future releases, including firm-age and firm-size tabulations, race and ethnicity tabulations, and tabulations at the NAICS3 level.
For more information, see the National QWI Data Page at http://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/qwi_national_beta.html.
Please send feedback on this Beta release to CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.June 11, 2015: State-Level Job-to-Job Flows Released
New Job-to-Job (J2J) Flows statistics released today by Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics provide a comprehensive look at the reallocation of workers across different sectors of the U.S. economy at the state and national level. While providing new insights on job churning across the economy, the data provides information on transitions between jobs as well as transitions from jobs to non-employment or from non-employment to jobs. Rates and counts of transitions are tabulated by industry, state, firm age and size, and demographic characteristics such as age, sex, race, ethnicity and education. Available here: http://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/j2j_beta.html
Feedback on this beta release may be provided at CES.J2J.Feedback@census.gov. More detailed statistics will be available in future releases, including origin and destination job characteristics of workers changing jobs.
State-level J2J files for all New England states are withheld in this release, as Massachusetts data is not yet available. Similarly, state-level data for Kansas and Missouri are not available in this release.May 20, 2015: 1.1 Version of QWI Explorer Released
Today the U.S. Census Bureau releases the 1.1 version of QWI Explorer. This new version makes improvements to the mapping interface, updates WIA geographies for Illinois and Nebraska, and improves the ability to share analyses. To access the tool, please go to: http://qwiexplorer.ces.census.gov. For help and documentation, please go to: http://lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/qwi_explorer.html. For comments or questions, please contact CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
April 16, 2015: OnTheMap for Emergency Management 4.2 Released (New ACS Estimates)
Today the Census Bureau released version 4.2 on OnTheMap for Emergency Management. OnTheMap for Emergency Management provides real-time access to a range of detailed U.S. Census Bureau data about the people living and working in areas being affected by hurricanes, floods, wildfires, winter storms, and federal disaster declaration areas.
Version 4.2 improvements include:
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Updated the ACS data to the 2009-2013 5-year estimates.
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Filtered search features that makes finding specific historical events easier.
- Added feature that allows users to see all events that were active on a specific date.
To access the tool, please go to: http://onthemap.ces.census.gov/em.html. For help and documentation, please go to: http://lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/onthemap_em.html#!what_is_onthemap_em. For comments or questions, please contact CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
April 1, 2015: Submission Deadline Extended for Presentations and Posters for the 16th Annual Local Employment Dynamics Partnership Workshop
The deadline for submission has been extended to Friday, April 3, 2015. We invite you to submit a presentation or poster to present and/or display at the 16th Annual LED Partnership Workshop on June 23-24, 2015 in Washington, DC. The workshop provides professional development and networking for Labor Market Information directors, data analysts and data providers at state and federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and other data users.
Our theme for this year is “Discerning the Dynamic Workforce” and we are particularly interested in presentations and posters that explore how LED data encourages a wide variety of partners to work together in new ways by using the Quarterly Workforce Indicator, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES), and Job-to-Job (J2J) Flows. Topics could be from a wide variety of disciplines, including, but not limited to: workforce development, economic development, transportation planning, and emergency management. We are particularly interested in examples from our state partners and strongly encourage LMI shops to apply.
More information regarding the agenda and the workshop will be posted as available to our event site http://www.eventbrite.com/e/16th-annual-local-employment-dynamics-partnership-workshop-tickets-15560383526 . Please register if you haven't already done so.
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Submission Deadline: Friday, April 3, 2015
About the Partnership and Workshop:
The LED Partnership is a collaborative partnership between state data agencies and the Census Bureau to leverage existing data in the development of new sources of economic and demographic information for policy makers and data users. The workshop provides professional development and networking for Labor Market Information directors, data analysts and data providers at state and federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, businesses, universities and other data users.
March 4, 2015: Call for Workshop Presentations and Posters
We invite you to submit a presentation or poster to present and/or display at the 16th Annual LED Partnership Workshop. The workshop provides professional development and networking for Labor Market Information directors, data analysts and data providers at state and federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and other data users.
Our theme for this year is “Discerning the Dynamic Workforce” and we are particularly interested in presentations and posters that explore how LED data encourages a wide variety of partners to work together in new ways by using the Quarterly Workforce Indicator, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) and Job-to-Job (J2J) Flows. Topics could be from a wide variety of disciplines, including, but not limited to: workforce development, economic development, transportation planning, and emergency management. We are particularly interested in examples from our state partners and strongly encourage LMI shops to apply.
More information regarding the agenda and the workshop hotel will be posted as available to our event site http://www.eventbrite.com/e/16th-annual-local-employment-dynamics-partnership-workshop. Please see the links below for proposal guidelines.
Call for Proposals Call for Posters
Submission Deadline: Friday, March 20, 2015
February 27, 2015: Registration Now Open
2015 Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Workshop: Discerning the Dynamic Workforce
June 23-24, 2015
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2015 Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership Workshop to be held June 23-24, 2015. The first day of the event (June 23) will feature plenary sessions and be held at the US Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Ave NW, Washington, DC. The second day of the event will be held at the US Census Bureau, 4600 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD. This day will feature breakout sessions and provide training opportunities.
Further details and an agenda will be posted as available on our conference registration site: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/16th-annual-local-employment-dynamics. Please visit the site to register for the workshop. Space is limited, so we recommend registering as soon as possible.
If you have any questions about the workshop, please call Kimberly Jones at (301) 763-8689, or email Kimberly.M.Jones@census.gov.
About the Partnership and Workshop:
The LED Partnership is a collaborative partnership between state data agencies and the Census Bureau to leverage existing data in the development of new sources of economic and demographic information for policy makers and data users. The workshop provides professional development and networking for Labor Market Information directors, data analysts and data providers at state and federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, businesses, universities and other data users.
February 19, 2015: OnTheMap for Emergency Management - Known Bug Fixed
The bug in OnTheMap for Emergency Management which was identified on January 21, 2015 and which affected two tables constructed from ACS 5-year estimates has been corrected. Correct values are now being displayed in the affected tables and null values are no longer showing for historical events. See the Resolved Bugs page for more information.
Please send questions and comments toCES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
February 13, 2015: 1.0 Version of QWI Explorer Released
Today the U.S. Census Bureau releases the 1.0 version of QWI Explorer. This update makes Thematic Mapping functionality available for users to visualize and compare workforce information for sub-state geographies. Additionally, users can now share data tables and visualizations via sharable URLs or through social media. To access the tool, please go to: http://qwiexplorer.ces.census.gov. For help and documentation, please go to: http://lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/qwi_explorer.html.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
February 3, 2015: Production of LODES Data on Hold
The production of 2012 and 2013 LODES data, which are featured in the OnTheMap application, is on hold, pending the approval of a key data sharing agreement with one of our partners. When this agreement has been approved, standard production of data years 2012 and 2013 will resume and these data will be released in OnTheMap at the earliest possible date.
Questions and comments should be directed to CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
January 22, 2015: OnTheMap for Emergency Management - Known Bug Identified
On January 21, 2015 a bug was identified in OnTheMap for Emergency Management that affects two tables constructed from ACS 5-year estimates. A total of 4 disability status variables contain inaccurate information relative to the title displayed and will be corrected in the application as soon as possible. A temporary solution to remove the counts returned for historical data and replace them with empty or null will be implemented. See the Known Bugs page for more information.
Please send questions and comments to CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
December 3, 2014: OnTheMap Version 6.3 Released
The U.S. Census Bureau released Version 6.3 of the OnTheMap application today. This release constitutes improvements to the map cartography and road network in OnTheMap. In general, the map has been made more readable and better able to highlight the attributes of the LODES data.
OnTheMap is supported by the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the Census Bureau as well as the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor.
OnTheMap Version 6 can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at http://www.census.gov and clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links, or directly at http://onthemap.ces.census.gov. For additional information about OnTheMap and LODES, go to http://lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/onthemap.html.
Comments should be sent to CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
November 18, 2014: Beta Release of Job-to-Job Flows
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 from and separations to nonemployment. Future releases will be published at more detailed levels of aggregations, and will tabulate the origin and destination job characteristics of workers changing jobs.
Beta Job-to-Job Flows data files and documentation are available for download here: http://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/j2j_beta.html
To browse the J2J data files in their directory structure or to access them with FTP program (must be able to access HTTP), go to: http://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/j2j/
A web-based data visualization tool will be released in 2015.
October 1, 2014: Retirement of QWI Online and Industry Focus
With the release of QWI Explorer, the QWI Online and Industry Focus applications have been officially retired. Please use QWI Explorer and the LED Extraction Tool for access to the Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) dataset. Please send questions and comments to CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
September 17, 2014: Presentations from 2014 LEHD Conference
Presentations from the 2014 LEHD Conference has been posted to the LEHD web site at http://lehd.ces.census.gov/learning/workshop/2014.html. Thank you.
September 8, 2014: Excel, PDF, and Image Exports available in the Beta release of QWI Explorer!
Today the U.S. Census Bureau releases an update to the Beta version of QWI Explorer. This update makes significant improvements to the data and report exports available for QWI charts and tables. Users can now download their analyses to an Excel spreadsheet, a PNG/SVG chart image, and a PDF report. To access the tool, please go to: http://qwiexplorer.ces.census.gov. For help and documentation, please go to: http://lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/qwi_explorer.html.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
August 21, 2014: Data Release Updates
The production of LODES data for 2012 has been postponed due to the unavailability of key state-sourced input data. When these data do become available, production and public release of LODES data will resume. This will delay the release of updates to LEHD's OnTheMap data product. Comments and questions about this issue should be sent to CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov
July 22, 2014: Line Chart visualizations in the Beta release of QWI Explorer!
Today the U.S. Census Bureau releases an update to the Beta version of QWI Explorer. This update makes Line Chart visualizations available for longitudinal analyses of the detailed interactions between workers and firms. To access the tool, please go to: http://qwiexplorer.ces.census.gov. For help and documentation, please go to: http://lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/qwi_explorer.html. For comments or questions, please contact CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
June 20, 2014: OnTheMap for Emergency Mangement 4 Released
Today the U.S. Census Bureau releases version 4 of OnTheMap for Emergency Management. OnTheMap for Emergency Management provides real-time access to a range of detailed U.S. Census Bureau data about the people living and working in areas being affected by hurricanes, floods, wildfires, winter storms, and federal disaster declaration areas.
Version 4 improvements include:- Addition of selected American Community Survey (ACS) data providing much greater detail on affected populations including demographic, economic, and housing characteristics that may influence response and recovery decisions.
- New community level reporting providing the ability to generate reports for individual communities of interest to support local area response and recovery.
- New tools for local, regional, and comparative analyses enabling a way to quickly assess the relative impact of disasters and weather events across different communities and political jurisdictions.
- Improved dashboard interface with new interactive reports, charts, and maps which are more informative and easier to use.
- Improved event search tool making it easier to find and analyze the impacts of historical disasters and weather events.
- New linkable maps and reports for easier sharing of data and analyses and useful information on the effects of disasters and weather events.
June 17, 2014: Registration Open: 2014 LED Partnership Workshop
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2014 Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership Workshop. This year’s workshop is from September 9-10, 2014. September 9 will feature plenary sessions held at the US Department of Commerce at 1401 Constitution Ave NW in Washington, DC. September 10 will feature breakout sessions and training opportunities held at the US Census Bureau, located at 4600 Silver Hill Road in Suitland, MD. The LED Partnership is a collaborative partnership between state data agencies and the Census Bureau to leverage existing data in the development of new sources of economic and demographic information for policy makers and data users. The workshop provides professional development and networking for Labor Market Information directors, data analysts and data providers at state and federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and other data users.
The theme for this year’s workshop is Open for Business – LED and Economic Development. We will be highlighting the work of our state LMI partners and other state and local data users through plenary and breakout sessions. Further details and an agenda are available on our conference registration site: http://2014ledworkshop.eventbrite.com/. Please visit the site to register for the workshop. Space is limited, so we recommend registering as soon as possible.
If you have any questions about the workshop, please call Melodee Mabbitt at (734) 769-2900, or email mmabbitt@skilledwork.org
June 11, 2014: Servers Down for Maintenance - June 12, 2014 from 6:30 AM until 8:30 AM DST
On Thursday, June 12, 2014, from 6:30 AM until 8:30 AM DST, the LEHD/LED website will undergo scheduled maintenance. During this time the LEHD Website, OnTheMap, OnTheMap for Emergency Management, LED Extraction Tool, QWI Explorer, QWI Online, and Industry Focus will be unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience. Questions and feedback can be sent to: CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov
June 9, 2014: Retirement of QWI Online and Industry Focus
With the release of the new QWI Explorer application, quarterly data updates to the QWI Online and Industry Focus applications will cease following the 2014 Q2 release of the QWI. These two tools will be officially retired and removed from the LEHD website on September 30, 2014. Please begin using QWI Explorer and the LED Extraction Tool for access to the Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) dataset. Please send questions and comments regarding this transition to CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
May 1, 2014: LEHD Website Maintenance - May 3, 2014 7:00AM EDT
On Saturday, May 3, 2014, from 7AM until 11AM EDT, the LEHD/LED website will undergo scheduled maintenance. During this time the LEHD Website, OnTheMap, OnTheMap for Emergency Management, LED Extraction Tool, QWI Explorer, QWI Online, and Industry Focus will be unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience. Questions and feedback can be sent to: CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov
April 14, 2014: Beta Version of QWI Explorer Released
Today the U.S. Census Bureau releases the Beta version of QWI Explorer. QWI Explorer is an innovative new tool that provides comprehensive access to the full depth and breadth of the Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) dataset in an easy-to-use dashboard interface. The application's intuitive interface allows for the construction of pivot tables and charts to analyze labor-force indicators such as employment, job creation and destruction, hires, and wages across a wide range of geographies and firm and worker characteristics. To access the tool, please go to: http://qwiexplorer.ces.census.gov. For help and documentation, please go to: http://lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/qwi_explorer.html.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
April 8, 2014: Save the Date and Call for Proposals for the 2014 LED Partnership Workshop
We are now soliciting submissions of sessions, presentations and posters for the workshop. The submission deadline is Friday, May 16, 2014. Topics may be from a wide variety of disciplines, including, but not limited to: workforce development, economic development, transportation planning, and emergency management. We are particularly interested in examples from our state partners and strongly encourage LMI shops to apply.
If you are interested in taking training in conjunction with the workshop, please let us know what kind of training you would be interested in (OnTheMap, QWI, specific topics within those, etc.) and also what level of training you need (introductory, intermediate, advanced). Email your training requests to
tcoxen@skilledwork.org so that we can consider them in developing the workshop agenda.
More information regarding the agenda and the workshop hotel will be posted as available to our event site. Registration for the workshop will open in early June. Please see the links below for proposal guidelines.
Call for Presentations (281 KB)
Call for Posters (204 KB)
Call for Sessions (280 KB)
February 25, 2014: QWI and Shift-Share Analysis: Tapping a Powerful Resource
Join us for a Webinar on March 19
Register Now
Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/235693722
Join us on Wednesday, March 19, 2014, at 1:30 p.m. EST, when Nelse Grundvig presents “QWI and Shift-Share Analysis: Tapping a Powerful Resource”. The U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) welcomes Mr. Grundvig as he shares the potential advantages and caveats when using shift-share analysis with the QWIs. When coupled together there is ability to create a powerful tool set which helps quantify the changes as reported in the QWI’s and assist users when evaluating policy changes, shifts in the economy and highlight different aspects of the workforce.
Title:
QWI and Shift-Share Analysis: Tapping a Powerful Resource
Date:
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Time:
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM EDT
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.
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February 21, 2014: LED February Webinar "QWI Explorer Tool" Rescheduled to April
The February 2014 LED Monthly Webinar has been rescheduled to Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at 1:30 p.m. Join us when Heath Hayward introduces “QWI Explorer Tool”. The Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) program is planning to release a Beta version of the new QWI Explorer tool this spring. QWI Explorer is a new, web-based analysis tool that enables comprehensive access to the full depth and breadth of the Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) dataset. Through bar charts and interactive tables (line charts and thematic maps are in development), users can compare, rank and aggregate QWIs across time, geography, and/or firm and worker characteristics on the fly.
Presenter: Heath Hayward is a geographer in the Center for Economic Studies with the U.S. Census Bureau. He has worked on the OnTheMap project in the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program since 2006, and has recently taken charge of the QWI dissemination project. Prior to working at the Census Bureau, Heath completed his M.S. in Geographic Information Science at the University of Denver and his B.A. in Economics from DePauw University in Indiana.
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January 30, 2014: LED Extraction Tool Outage Resolved
From Monday, January 27, 2014 to Thursday, January 30, 2014, the LED Extraction Tool was unavailable due to an unexpected technical issue. We are working to ensure a similar event does not occur in the future. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
December 3, 2013: OnTheMap Version 6.2 Released
The U.S. Census Bureau released Version 6.2 of the OnTheMap application today. This release includes redesigned Composite PDF reports with improved graphics and layout; changes to the OnTheMap base map and color schemes for improved readability; as well as the setting of bar charts as the default chart type for Area Profile, Destination, and Paired Area analyses. Additionally, minor bug fixes were implemented.
Version 3.2.3 of OnTheMap for Emergency Management was also released today. This maintenance release corrects a number of minor bugs.
OnTheMap is supported by the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the Census Bureau as well as the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor.
OnTheMap Version 6 can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at http://www.census.gov and clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links, or directly at http://onthemap.ces.census.gov.
OnTheMap for Emergency Management can be accessed directly at http://onthemap.ces.census.gov/em.html.
Comments should be sent to CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
July 30, 2013: Version 1.2 of the LED Extraction Tool released
On July 30, 2013, the LED Extraction Tool Version 1.2 was released. This update makes available the R2013Q2 vintage of the Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWIs), which features a new set of 32 indicators that include additions and modifications to worker separations, hires, and turnover. For more information on these new indicators, please see http://lehd.ces.census.gov/doc/Memo_changes_to_QWI.pdf. Additionally, this update includes minor functionality and interface improvements.
The LED Extraction Tool can be accessed at http://ledextract.ces.census.gov/ and help/documentation about the LED Extraction Tool can be found at http://lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/led_extraction_tool.html.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
June 10, 2013: OnTheMap for Emergency Management 3.2.2 Released
On June 6, 2013, OnTheMap for Emergency Management 3.2.2 was released. This update includes application changes to release the following enhancements: (1) updated workforce data (LODES 2011), (2) updated Census geography (TIGER 2012), (3) more detailed weather event map displays and reporting, (4) direct linking to FEMA.gov for Disaster Declaration Areas and (5) several under-the-hood code improvements. More details about these changes can be found in the Major Enhancements section of the OnTheMap for Emergency Management Help and Documentation.
OnTheMap for Emergency Management can be accessed at http://onthemap.ces.census.gov/em.html.
Please send specific questions or concerns to CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
June 10, 2013: New LODES data released as downloadable files.
On June 7, 2013, Version 7 of the LODES data - including data for 2011 and new variables for Firm Age and Firm Size - were released in downloadable files. This data were previously released in OnTheMap Version 6.1.2 on May 15. The downloadable files can be accessed at http://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/#lodes. An updated technical document describing the file layouts and data content is available at http://lehd.ces.census.gov/onthemap/LODES7/LODESTechDoc7.0.pdf.
A new addition to this release is the LODES Geography Crosswalk, which will allow users to tabulate the census block-enumerated data to higher level geographies such as Place and Congressional District using the same area definitions as in OnTheMap.
With the release of Version 7.0, LODES Version 6.1 has been withdrawn. For data years 2002-2010, no job counts changed between the versions - only the file structure was affected.
Please send specific questions or concerns to CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
May 24, 2013: Version 1.1 of the LED Extraction Tool (Beta) released
On May 24, 2013, the LED Extraction Tool (Beta) Version 1.1 was released. This update includes new functionality and improvements to the user interface, including options to (1) add categorical variable labels to the output dataset and (2) have email notifications sent to users when large queries are complete and ready for download.
The LED Extraction Tool can be accessed at http://ledextract.ces.census.gov/ and help/documentation about the LED Extraction Tool can be found at http://lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/led_extraction_tool.html.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
May 15, 2013: New LODES data in OnTheMap. 2011 and Firm Age/Size released.
On May 15, 2013, OnTheMap Version 6.1.2 was released. This update includes application changes to release data for 2011 and for two new variables: Firm Age and Firm Size. These data are included in the new LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) Version 7 release.
The 2011 data year has the same coverage and variables set as 2010, including employment from 50 states/territories, Federal Employment, and data for worker race, ethnicity, educational attainment, and sex. Additionally the 2011 data year carries the new Firm Age and Firm Size variables. These variables are only available for All Private Jobs. Further information about Firm Age and Firm Size can be found at http://lehd.ces.census.gov/research/. Additional information about the LODES datasets can be found at http://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/#lodes.
OnTheMap can be accessed at http://onthemap.ces.census.gov/ and help/documentation about OnTheMap can be found at http://lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/onthemap.html.
Please send specific questions or concerns to CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
May 2, 2013: Upcoming changes to QWI Public Use files (QWIPU)
In coordination with the forthcoming LED Extraction Tool, the structure of the comma-separated values (csv) files distributed on DVD to state partners and posted to the Cornell Virtual Research Data Center is undergoing substantial revisions. The planned changes include new file naming conventions, a revised data schema, and changes to the set of indicators. These changes will affect files produced and distributed beginning in the second quarter of 2013, and are expected to be posted to the VRDC by July 2013.
Please see these accompanying documents for more details on the changes.
- QWIPU Restructuring (108 KB)
- Changes to QWI Measures (104 KB)
For comments or questions, please contact CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
April 10, 2013: Registration is now open for the 2013 Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership Workshop
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2013 Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership Workshop. This year’s workshop will be held from June 12-13 at the US Census Bureau, located at 4600 Silver Hill Road in Suitland, MD. The LED Partnership is a collaborative partnership between state data agencies and the Census Bureau to leverage existing data in the development of new sources of economic and demographic information for policy makers and data users. The workshop provides professional development and networking for Labor Market Information directors, data analysts and data providers at state and federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and other data users.
The theme for this year’s workshop is Working Together. We will be highlighting the work of our state LMI partners and other state and local data users through plenary and breakout sessions. By popular demand, we will also be offering hands-on training opportunities throughout the workshop. Please note that space is limited in training sessions, and that sessions are held concurrently with other workshop sessions. Please review the agenda before signing up for training. Further details and an agenda are available on our conference registration site: http://2013ledworkshop.eventbrite.com/. Please visit the site to register for the workshop. Space is limited, so we recommend registering as soon as possible.
If you have any questions about the workshop, please call Tammy Coxen at (734) 769-2900, or email tcoxen@skilledwork.org.
March 28, 2013: Get the LED Out! Beta Version of LED Extraction Tool Released
Today the U.S. Census Bureau releases Version 1.0 of the LED Extraction Tool. This Beta release makes all 30 Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) available in a simple query-building interface. This innovative tool provides comma-separated value (CSV) files for the exact indicators and characteristics requested by users. To begin extracting data, please go to: http://ledextract.ces.census.gov. For help and documentation, please go to: http://lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/help/led_extraction_tool.html.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
March 22, 2013: Beta Release of LED Extraction Tool Coming Soon!
On March 28, the U.S. Census Bureau will release Version 1.0 of the LED Extraction Tool. This Beta release makes all 30 Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) available in an simple query-building interface. This innovative tool provides comma-separated value (CSV) files for the exact indicators and characteristics requested by users.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.QWI.Feedback@census.gov.
March 7, 2013: Local Employment Dynamics 2013 Monthly Webinar Series - Introducing the LED Extraction Tool
Introducing the LED Extraction Tool
March 21, 2013
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
Heath Hayward
The Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) program is planning to release a Beta version of the new LED Extraction tool this spring. This tool features access to the complete set of raw data tables from the Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) data product, specifically benefitting advanced LED (Local Employment Dynamics) data users by providing access to all 30 QWIs, the ability to query specific rows and geographic/industry clusters, and an improved QWI data schema for simpler data linkages.
Heath Hayward is a geographer in the Center for Economic Studies with the U.S. Census Bureau. He has worked on the OnTheMap project in the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program since 2006, and has recently taken charge of the QWI dissemination project. Prior to working at the Census Bureau, Heath completed his M.S. in Geographic Information Science at the University of Denver and his B.A. in Economics from DePauw University in Indiana.
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January 29, 2013: Call for Presentations and Posters
The 2013 Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership 14th Annual Workshop will be held in Washington, DC, at the US Census Bureau headquarters on June 12-13, 2013. A Call for Proposals are hereby issued to seek presentations and posters about practical applications using LED data. Our theme for this year is "Working Together" and thus we are particularly interested in presentations that explore how LED data ecourages a wide variety of partners to work together in new ways. Submission deadline is Friday, February 22, 2013 for both presentations and posters. Proposals should be sent by email to kimberly.m.jones@census.gov. Selected presenters will be featured on plenary panels or in targeted break out sessions during prime time of the 2013 workshop. A poster session will allow authors and workshop participants the opportunity to discuss LED applications. The Census Bureau will provide paid travel and two nights lodging for the select ed presenters to attend the workshop; poster authors must provide their own travel/lodging. Questions and comments should be sent to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov. Please click on the following PDFs for more details.
- Call for Proposals (PDF, 116 KB)
- Call for Posters (PDF, 112 KB)
January 14, 2013: Website Maintenance - January 15, 2013 10:00 AM ET
On Tuesday, January 15, 2013, from 10 AM until 12 PM ET, the LEHD/LED web site will undergo scheduled maintenance. During this time LEHD I nternet, QWI Online, Industry Focus, and Job Gains/Losses will be unavailable. OnTheMap, OnTheMap Mobile, and OnTheMap for Emergency Management will remain available. We apologize for any inconvenience.
January 3, 2013: Website Maintenance - January 3, 2013, 11:00 AM EST
On Thursday, January 3, 2013, from 11 AM until 3 PM EST, the LEHD/LED web site will undergo scheduled maintenance. During this time LEHD Internet, QWI Online, Industry Focus, and Job Gains/Losses will be unavailable. OnTheMap, OnTheMap Mobile, and OnTheMap for Emergency Management will remain available. We apologize for any inconvenience.
December 26, 2012: Website Maintenance - December 27, 2012, 8:00 AM EST
On Thursday, December 27, 2012, from 8 AM until 12 PM EST, the LEHD/LED web site will undergo scheduled maintenance. During this window all LEHD web sites and web applications will be unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience.
December 12, 2012: New QWI Data Used in Census Brief
A new Census brief draws on newly available data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Quarterly Workforce Indicators, which includes new information on firm age and size from the Business Dynamics Statistics microdata.
While the importance of young businesses to job creation and productivity growth is increasingly well understood, relatively little is known about the characteristics of the jobs generated by startups. This Census report uses newly created data from the Quarterly Workforce Indicators to shed light on characteristics of jobs at young businesses - focusing on hiring, turnover and wages at young firms.
Despite elevated turnover rates, the percentage of hires that contribute to job creation is higher at young firms relative to established businesses. Further, only young firms show evidence of recovery in job creation and worker churning in the recent post-recession period. The report also documents a wage premium paid to workers at more established firms, not surprising in light of the well known premium paid to workers at larger firms. However, the authors also note an increase in the firm age premium paid to workers in the last decade, a decline partly but not completely explained by changes in the industry composition of young firms since the late 1990s.
The Quarterly Workforce Indicators are generated from federal and state administrative data on employers and employees combined with core Census Bureau censuses and surveys to produce a rich, quarterly dataset that tracks employment, hires, separations, job creation and destruction, and wages for stable employees and new hires. More information on how to access the new QWI tabulations with firm age and size information from the BDS is available at http://lehd.ces.census.gov/doc/FirmAgeAndSizeOnePager.pdf. More information on the Quarterly Workforce Indicators can be found at http://lehd.ces.census.gov/, and more information on Business Dynamics Statistics can be found at http://www.census.gov/ces/dataproducts/bds/data.html.
Questions and feedback to: CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov
October 3, 2012: New QWI for Federal Workers
We are pleased to announce the release of new Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for Federal Workers, containing detailed sub-state indicators on the federal workforce by age, gender, race, and ethnicity. The QWI, tabulated from state unemployment insurance wage data, have previously excluded non-UI covered employment, particularly the federal workforce. The LEHD program has recently integrated data from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM)'s personnel data files to add federal jobs to the QWI universe.
Currently QWI data for federal workers are available for sixteen LED partner states. More state data will become available on a rolling basis as they are produced and pass review. During an initial release period, we are releasing these data to data providers and to the Virtual Research Data Center (available to the public) for feedback and comments. The QWI federal data will become available via online applications such as QWI Online and Industry Focus in a subsequent release. More information about these new QWIs (including a list of available states) and on how to access them is provided in this release notice.
Questions and feedback to: CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov
September 14, 2012: QWI Firm Age and Size Data Released
LEHD is pleased to announce the release of new Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) containing employment, wage, and job creation/destruction information by firm size and age. These new data will allow users to consider topics such as the role of startups in generating new jobs, and the fluctuations in employment of small and large firms at the local and state level. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time firm age information has been released at the sub-state geographic le vel in a statistical product.
During an initial comment period, we are releasing these data only to data providers and to the Virtual Research Data Center (available to the public) for feedback and comments. These data will become available via online applications such as QWI Online and Industry Focus in a subsequent release. More information about these new QWIs and on how to access the data is provided in this release notice.
Questions and feedback to: CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov
August 31, 2012: New URL reminder
Just a reminder that The Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) program's new URL, lehd.ces.census.gov is active.
Users will automatically be redirected to the new link until September 3, 2012 (Labor Day). Therefore, we would like to encourage our users to bookmark this page.
August 9, 2012: New URL for the LEHD website
The Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) program has launched its new URL:
http://lehd.ces.census.gov.
The LEHD program is part of the Center for Economic Studies, which is in the Research and Methodology Directorate.
"We wanted to make sure that the LEHD website is easily accessible to both our state
partners and the general public," said Robert Sienkiewicz, Assistant Center Chief for LEHD.
"Our relationships are important and introducing our new URL is one way we stay connected," he added.
The new Web address is also easily accessible from the U.S. Census Bureau homepage.
Click on the Business tab at the top of the page, then click Local Employment Dynamics under Popular Resources.
Users will automatically be redirected to the new link until September 3, 2012 (Labor Day).
Therefore, we would like to encourage our users to bookmark http://lehd.ces.census.gov.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
August 6, 2012: OnTheMap Version 6.1.1 Maintenance Release
The U.S. Census Bureau released Version 6.1.1 of the OnTheMap application today.
This maintenance release corrects a number of previously known bugs/issues, including a bug when
searching for state names and a couple bugs with exporting results from the Destination analysis.
Additionally, the delivery of the Collection of Images has changed to
accommodate problems some users were having with their local internet firewalls.
Bug fixes for this version can be found in the
Resolved Bugs section of the OnTheMap help pages.
OnTheMap is supported by the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the
Census Bureau as well as the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor.
OnTheMap Version 6 can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at
http://www.census.gov and clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links,
or directly at http://onthemap.ces.census.gov.
Comments should be sent to CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
June 16, 2012: OnTheMap Mobile and OnTheMap Version 6.1 Released
The U.S. Census Bureau released Version 6.1 of OnTheMap application today.
A major new feature of this release is OnTheMap Mobile, a mobile-optimized version
of OnTheMap that can be accessed though mobile (IOS and Android) web browsers.
OnTheMap Mobile can be accessed directly at
http://onthemap.ces.census.gov/m/.
and more information about it—including system requirements—can be found at
OnTheMap Mobile.
Also part of this release are a number of application improvements and bug fixes to the standard OnTheMap application.
These include the following:
- Additional chart and summary report interactivity. Users can now click on the Area Profile's Characteristic type or the Paired Area's Labor Market Segment type in the Summary Report in order to view full size charts without selecting a single characteristic/labor market segment.
- The Distance/Direction chart can now be toggled between the default Radar Chart and a new Stacked Bar Chart.
- The point/thermal overlays and their legends now automatically re-bin when a Characteristic or Labor Market Segment filter is applied.
- The Test-Only Tool has added 508-complient Help text.
Bug fixes for this version can be found in the Resolved Bugs section of the OnTheMap help pages.
OnTheMap is supported by the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the Census Bureau as well as the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor.
OnTheMap Version 6 can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at
For comments or questions, please contact CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
June 15, 2012: OnTheMap for Emergency Management Version 3 Released
With the hurricane season upon us, and major wildfires currently affecting a number of communities, the U.S. Census Bureau is releasing OnTheMap for Emergency Management Version 3 today. OnTheMap for Emergency Management Version 2 has been concurrently withdrawn.
Version 3 is a significant upgrade and offers a number of new capabilities and data additions to assist emergency preparedness, response, and recovery activities.
Important changes and improvements include:
- Expanded Report Content – the addition of Decennial 2010 Demographic & Housing Characteristics; 2010 Jobs & Worker Sex Data
- New Emergency Event Data – the addition of FEMA Disaster Declaration Areas & NWS Snowfall Probability Forecasts
- More Complete Hurricane Archives – Capture & Archiving of all Daily NHC Storm Updates
- New Analyses & Visualizations – New Reports with Charting & Thematic Map Overlays Showing Population & Worker Distributions
- New Interoperability – New Tool for Exporting Event Areas to use in OnTheMap or Other GIS Applications
- Updated Interface and Help Documentation – Improved User Interface Speed and Navigability; Improved Event Searching; Newly Updated Help Documentation
OnTheMap for Emergency Management is supported by the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the Census Bureau as well as the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor.
OnTheMap for Emergency Management Version 3 can be accessed directly by going to the following link: http://onthemap.ces.census.gov/em.html.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
May 31, 2012: LODES/OnTheMap Data for DC and Federal Employment (2010) Released
The U.S. Census Bureau released an update to the LODES/OnTheMap data today.
This update contains the first release of data in OnTheMap for the District of Columbia for 2010.
The update also adds a brand new data source with the
inclusion of Federal Employment for 2010 in OnTheMap.
Data on Federal jobs are sourced from public records made available from the Office of Personnel Management.
These new data can be accessed in OnTheMap.
Further information on the Federal employment data can be found
here [PDF; File Size: 125KB].
Also part of this data release are the LEHD Origin-Destination Statistics (LODES) raw files.
The 2010 data files have been updated to include data for DC and Federal Employment.
View a detailed description of the data file structure [PDF; File Size: 48KB].
Access the LODES data.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
May 24, 2012: Website Maintenance – May 25, 2012, 6:00 PM EDT
On Friday, May 25, 2012, from 6 PM until 8 PM EDT, the LEHD/LED web site will undergo scheduled maintenance. During this time the LEHD/LED web site and associated applications QWI Online, Industry Focus, and Job Gains/Losses will not be available. Access to the OnTheMap and OnTheMap for Emergency Management can be accessed directly by the following URLs respectively: http://onthemap.ces.census.gov andhttp://onthemap.ces.census.gov/em.html. We apologize for any inconvenience.
April 27, 2012: OnTheMap Version 6 Downloadable Data Released
The U.S. Census Bureau released the LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics today.
These files contain all the job data currently available in the OnTheMap Version 6 and supersede data released for Version 5 of OnTheMap.
Version 6 data is reported using 2010 census blocks. Version 5 data is still available for reference purposes.
Data files are state-based and organized into three types:
Origin-Destination (OD), Residence Area Characteristics (RAC), and Workplace Area Characteristics (WAC),
all at census block geographic detail.
Data is available for most states for the years 2002-2010.
View a detailed description of the data file structure. [PDF; File Size: 44KB]
Access the data files
or via the
LEHD website.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
March 23, 2012: 2010 LODES/OnTheMap Data Released; Earlier Years Revised
The U.S. Census Bureau released 2010 LODES data in the OnTheMap application today.
The 2010 release contains origin-destination data for covered employment in 49 states.
Available worker and firm characteristics include age, sex, race, ethnicity, educational attainment, earnings, and industry.
More information about the LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) data can be found at
here [PDF; File Size: 132KB].
Information about the OnTheMap application can be accessed here.
The OnTheMap application itself can be accessed at http://onthemap.ces.census.gov/.
This release of 2010 data does not include data for workers employed in the District of Columbia or data for Federal civilian workers.
Release of data for these groups of workers is planned for May.
Additionally there are several data notices that have resulted in revisions of data for 2007, 2008, and 2009.
The following is a summary of these notices with a full description located at
here.
1. Industry sector data quality for 2009: Data for 2009 are being revised to improve the data quality of the NAICS Industry Sector characteristics.
The revised data are being prepared in the same manner used for data releases prior to LODES Version 5/OntheMap Version 5.
Users should also expect to see some change to the Educational Attainment
characteristics due to the change in method for handling the confidentiality protection.
2. Incomplete employment data for DC in 2007 and 2008: The January 26 release of OnTheMap
Version 6 contained incomplete employment data for the District of Columbia in 2007 and 2008.
These data have been removed from the OnTheMap application until they can be completed with the addition of Federal civilian workers in those years.
OnTheMap is supported by the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the
Census Bureau as well as the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor.
OnTheMap Version 6 can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at the
Census Bureau home page
and clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links, or directly at OnTheMap.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
March 2, 2012: OnTheMap Version 6.0.1 Released
The U.S. Census Bureau released OnTheMap Version 6.0.1 today.
This maintenance release corrects a number of previously known bugs/issues, including problems with the
rendering of the Distance/Direction Chart, specific problems with the Search in both OnTheMap and the Text-Only
Tool, and incorrect counts appearing for All Other Location in multiple years in the Destination Analysis.
A full list of corrected bugs can be found in the Resolved Bugs
section of the OnTheMap help pages.
OnTheMap is supported by the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the
Census Bureau as well as the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor.
OnTheMap Version 6 can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at the
Census Bureau home page
and cliking OnTheMap under Quick Links, or directly at OnTheMap.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
February 21, 2012: OnTheMap/LODES Data Notice
In response to data quality inquiries about NAICS sector data in the LODES datasets and in
OnTheMap, we have reviewed the issue and will be re-releasing NAICS Industry Sector data for 2009.
These data will be prepared in the same manner used for data releases prior to LODES Version 5/OnTheMap Version 5.
As a result of this change, there will be a general improvement in data quality for the NAICS Industry Sector characteristic.
An update for 2009 data is scheduled to occur around March 15 in the OnTheMap application
http://onthemap.ces.census.gov/
and will be followed by an update to the raw LODES data files.
The change in format also affects data for 2010, and these data will be released at the same time as the update for 2009 data.
Please send specific questions or concerns to CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov
February 13, 2012: Registration is now open for the 2012 Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership Workshop
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2012 Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership Workshop.
This year's workshop will be held from March 7-8 at the Sheraton Crystal City Hotel, located at 1800 Jefferson Davis Highway in Arlington, Virginia.
The LED Partnership is a collaborative partnership between state data agencies and the Census Bureau to leverage
existing data in the development of new sources of economic and demographic information for policy makers and data users.
The workshop provides professional development and networking for Labor Market Information directors, data analysts
and data providers at state and federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and other data users.
Further details and a preliminary agenda are available on our conference registration site:
http://2012ledworkshop.eventbrite.com/ .
A more detailed agenda will be posted as additional information becomes available.
Please visit the site to register for the workshop.
Space is limited, so we recommend registering as soon as possible.
January 26, 2012: OnTheMap Version 6 Released
The U.S. Census Bureau released OnTheMap Version 6 today. OnTheMap Version 5 has been concurrently withdrawn.
Version 6 adds a number of exciting features to allow users to dig deeper into the data.
A number of the most important changes and improvements are listed below:
- OnTheMap has a new URL: http://OnTheMap.ces.census.gov/.
- Users should see a significant improvement in application speed.
- New charting and mapping capabilities have been added.
- OnTheMap now reports tabulations using 2010 geography. Detailed information about the new 2010 geography can be found in "A Note About Updating OnTheMap Geography" [PDF; File Size 98KB].
- Data for New Hampshire from 2002-2009 has been added to the database.
- The Sex variable is now available as a characteristic (in Area Profile and Area Comparison) for 2009.
A note about 2010: Data for 2010 has not been released yet, but is awaiting some final approvals and should be available in a couple of weeks.
New OnTheMap documentation and help is available at OnTheMap Help and Documentation.
Highlights include:
- "An Overview on the LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES)" [PDF; File Size: 132KB]
- OnTheMap one-pager [PDF; File Size 75KB].
- "How To Use The OnTheMap Selection Tools" [PDF; File Size: 584KB].
OnTheMap is supported by the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the Census Bureau as well as the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor.
OnTheMap Version 6 can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" on the http://www.census.gov and clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links, or directly at http://lehdmap.did.census.gov.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
January 10, 2012: New Hampshire QWI Data on LED Website
Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of New Hampshire have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and Industry Focus. New Hampshire becomes the 49th state to post its QWI data on the LED website.
December 27, 2011: "Where Are the Workers? Data Sharing Expands Federal Geospatial Analytic Offering"
Read the latest article from Robert Pitts and Matthew Graham, "Where Are the Workers? Data Sharing Expands Federal Geospatial Analytic Offering," in the latest GeoWorld. Click on the following link http://read.dmtmag.com/issue/48297/17.
December 16, 2011: Website Maintenance – December 19, 5:00 AM EST
On Monday, December 19, 2011 from 5:00 AM to 6:00 AM EST, the LEHD/LED web site will undergo scheduled maintenance. During this time OnTheMap, OnTheMap for Emergency Management, QWI Online, Industry Focus, Job Gains/Losses, and all LEHD web systems will be unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience.
December 2, 2011: Database Maintenance – December 4, 2011 6:00 AM EST
At 6:00AM Sunday, December 4, 2011 the LEHD/LED database servers will undergo an 1-hour scheduled maintenance. During that time OnTheMap and OnTheMap for Emergency Management will NOT be able to display any data. All other LEHD/LED web systems will be fully operational. We apologize for any inconvenience.
November 7, 2011: Server Maintenance – November 9, 2011 6:00 – 7:00 PM EST
Starting on Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 6:00 PM EST the LEHD/LED web servers will undergo scheduled one-hour maintenance. The maintenance window is scheduled to be completed by 7:30 PM EST. During this time OnTheMap, OnTheMap for Emergency Management, QWI Online, Industry Focus, Job Gains/Losses, and all LEHD web systems may be unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience.
October 19, 2011: Website Maintenance – October 21, 2011 6:00 PM
On Friday, October 21, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 11:55 PM EDT, the LEHD/LED web site will undergo scheduled maintenance until no later than Monday, October 24, 2011 at 6:00 AM EDT. During this time OnTheMap, OnTheMap for Emergency Management, QWI Online, Industry Focus, Job Gains/Losses, and all LEHD web systems will be unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience.
September 16, 2011: Race, Ethnicity and Education (REE) Data Release
Starting with the R2011Q2 release of QWI, new demographic classification variables in addition to the ones familiar to users
from existing QWI tabulations (i.e., Age/gender, county/WIB/CBSA, NAICS industry Sectors, subsectors, and industry groups).
These new variables are Race, Ethnicity, and Educational Attainment.
These new tabulations are available through the QWI Online and Industry Focus web
applications as well as through the down load facility at Cornell University's VirtualRDC.
The categories for the new variables are described below.
The Race and Ethnicity variables conform to OMB standards for publication of data on race and ethnicity.
Further information about OMB standards can be found at
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/fedreg_1997standards/.
Race
- American Indian or Alaska Native Alone
- Asian Alone
- Black or African American Alone
- Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander Alone
- White Alone
- Two or More Race Groups
Ethnicity
- Hispanic or Latino
- Not Hispanic or Latino
- Less than high school
- High school or equivalent, no college
- Some college or Associate degree
- Bachelor's degree or advanced degree
Note: Because educational attainment is dynamic for younger populations, the universe for QWI tabulations using educational attainment only provides for workers age 30 or older.
Further information about the construction of these new variables will become available on the LEHD website.
Questions or comments should be sent to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
September 14, 2011: New OnTheMap e-Learning Module Available
The OnTheMap e-learning tool has been updated for the current version.
This tutorial demonstrates how to use OnTheMap to answer complex questions on the commuting patterns and demographic characteristics of a workforce.
The current version contains eight years of employment and segmented age, earnings and industry data for local and regional areas in 48 partner states.
OnTheMap can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" on the
Census Bureau home page
and clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links, or directly on the
LEHD website.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
September 13, 2011: LED Webinar "Kansas City, MO Earnings Tax -- Who Pays?"
The U.S. Census Bureau and Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership Steering Committee
are pleased to invite you to attend the next webinar in our monthly webinar series.
In this webinar, "Kansas City, MO Earnings Tax. Who Pays?" participants will learn about how LED data was used by local civic leadership
as the cornerstone of a campaign strategy to educate voters on the share of tax paid by non-residents and resulted in a vote to retain the tax.
Our presenter will be Jerry Lonergan from The Civic Council of Greater Kansas City, who
will be following up on the presentation on this same topic that he gave at the 2011 LED Workshop in March.
This webinar is recommended for users at all experience levels.
Read more and register at http://earningstax.eventbrite.com
We hope you can make it!
Cheers,
U.S. Census Bureau and the LED Partnership Steering Committe
September 7, 2011: OnTheMap Version 5.2.4 Released
The U.S. Census Bureau released Version 5.2.4 of OnTheMap today.
This maintenance release corrects a previously unknown bug with the mileage calculations in the Simple/Ring Buffer tool.
A full list of corrected bugs can be found in the Resolved Bugs section of the OnTheMap help pages.
OnTheMap is supported by the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the
Census Bureau as well as by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor.
OnTheMap Version 5 can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at
http://www.census.gov
and clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links, or directly on the
LEHD website.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
August 25, 2011: Increasing Access to Federal Data Webinar
Webinar Announcement
Title:Increasing Access to Federal Data: Ways to Navigate and Understand Available DataDate & Time: 08/31/2011 at 02:30 PM Eastern Time
Duration: 1 hour(s) and 30 minutes
Leader: International Economic Development Council
To Register
: International Economic Development CouncilAugust 3, 2011: OnTheMap for Emergency Management Version 2.0.1 Released
The Census Bureau released Version 2.0.1 of OnTheMap for Emergency Management today.
This maintenance release provides better consistency in the daily display of floods.
Flood areas now display for 24 hours after being updated.
Note also that this release updates OnTheMap to Version 5.2.3.
OnTheMap is supported by the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the
Census Bureau as well as by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor.
OnTheMap for Emergency Management Version 2.0.1 can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at
http://www.census.gov and clicking OnTheMap for Emergency Management under Quick Links,
or directly at http://onthemap.ces.census.gov/em.html.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov
June 3, 2011: OnTheMap for Emergency Management Version 2.0 Released
The Census Bureau released OnTheMap for Emergency Management Version 2.0 today, the beginning
of the 2011 hurricane season. Version 2.0 adds floods and wildfires to hurricanes which was released last year.
OnTheMap for Emergency Management is a public data tool that provides unique detail on
the workforce, for U.S. areas affected by hurricanes, floods, and wildfires, in real time.
The web-based tool provides an intuitive interface for viewing the location and extent of current and forecasted emergency
events on a map, and allows users to easily retrieve detailed reports containing labor market characteristics for these areas.
The reports provide the number and location of jobs, industry type, worker age and earnings.
Worker race, ethnicity, and educational attainment levels are under a beta release at this time.
To provide users with the latest information available, OnTheMap for Emergency Management automatically incorporates real time data updates
from the National Weather Service, Departments of Interior and Agriculture, and other agencies for hurricanes, floods, and wildfires.
Version 2.0 includes the following new features and enhancements:
- Real Time Updates for Hurricanes, Floods, and Wildfires
- Expanded Hurricane Detail (Forecast Area, Current Wind Radii, Wind History)
- Expanded Reports with New Beta Data on Demographic Characteristics (Race, Ethnicity, Educational Attainment)
- Improved User Interface with New Map, Navigation, and Search Tools
- Map Animation & Timeline for Viewing Daily Event Histories
Version 2.0 also includes updated help documentation including a getting started guide, system requirements, and frequently asked questions. Data for the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire are not available at this time.
OnTheMap for Emergency Management is supported by the state Labor Market Information agencies under the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership with the Census Bureau.
OnTheMap for Emergency Management Version 2.0 can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at http://www.census.gov and clicking OnTheMap for Emergency Management under Quick Links, or directly at http://onthemap.ces.census.gov/em.html.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov
May 17, 2011: LED Monthly Webinar Series Starts May 18
The U.S. Census Bureau and Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Steering Committee are pleased to invite you to attend the next webinar in
our monthly webinar series—Data Cubing with the Quarterly Workforce Indicators, on Wednesday, May 18 from 1:30–2:30 PM.
Presenter James Salomon was awarded the LED Partnership Award for Innovation for this product at the 2011 LED Partnership Workshop.
In this webinar, James will demonstrate the Washington State LED Data Cube.
This tool allows for easy manipulation of LED data.
James will introduce the tool, provide a live demonstration, and explain why a tool
like this is useful, what can be done with it, and its advantages and limitations.
Technical notes on creating a data cube will be available following the webinar.
Read more and register at http://datacubing.eventbrite.com/
Can't make this webinar? Webinars will now be held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month from 1:30–2:30 PM.
Save the date, and look for a list of future topics soon!
May 16, 2011: OnTheMap Version 5.2.1 Released
The U.S. Census Bureau released Version 5.2.1 of OnTheMap today.
This maintenance release adds a Feedback tool, which allows users to send comments/questions/bugs directly to the OnTheMap team.
The Feedback tool can be accessed via the "Feedback" button just above the map in the OnTheMap application.
This release also corrects a number of bugs.
A full list of corrected bugs can be found in the
Resolved Bugs section of the OnTheMap help pages.
OnTheMap is supported by the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the
Census Bureau as well as by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor.
OnTheMap Version 5 can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at
http://www.census.gov and clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links,
or directly at http://lehdmap.did.census.gov.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
April 22, 2011: OnTheMap Version 5.2 Coming
On May 5, the U.S. Census Bureau will release Version 5.2 of OnTheMap.
This updates OnTheMap application code to correct a number of bugs/issues as well as adding some minor functionality.
A list of key changes will be provided with the release of Version 5.2.
OnTheMap is also supported by the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with
the Census Bureau as well as the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor.
OnTheMap Version 5 can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at
http://www.census.gov, then clicking
OnTheMap under Quick Links, or directly on the LEHD website.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov.
April 21, 2011: OnTheMap Maintenance – April 29, 2011
On Friday, April 29, 2011 starting at 7:00AM EDT, the LEHD web systems will undergo scheduled maintenance.
During this time LED OnTheMap, LED OnTheMap Emergency Management, QWI Online,
Industry Focus, and Job Gains/Losses, will be unavailable.
The LEHD web site will be unavailable as well.
The maintenance is expected to last no more than 6 hours. We apologize for any inconvenience.
March 17, 2011: Server Maintenance – March 19, 2011 12:01AM – 08:00 EDT
On Saturday, March 19, 2011 from 12:01AM to 08:00AM EDT, the LEHD/LED web servers will undergo scheduled maintenance. During this time OnTheMap, QWI Online, Industry Focus, Job Gains/Losses, and all LEHD web systems will be unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience.
March 16, 2011: OnTheMap Version 5 Downloadable Data Released
The U.S. Census Bureau released the LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics today.
These files contain all the job data currently available in the OnTheMap Version 5 and supersede data released for Version 4 of OnTheMap.
Data files are state-based and organized into three types: Origin-Destination (OD), Residence Area Characteristics (RAC), and
Workplace Area Characteristics (WAC), all at census block geographic detail. Data is available for most states for the years 2002-2009.
A detailed description of the data file structure can be found
here. [PDF; File Size: 42KB]
The data files can be accessed at the LEHD website.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov
March 11, 2011: ESA Deputy Under Secretary Potok Keynotes at LED Workshop
U.S. Commerce Department Deputy Under Secretary for Economic Affairs Nancy Potok addressed over 200 participants
at the Census Bureau's twelfth annual Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership workshop on March 9.
For more details please visit
http://www.esa.doc.gov/esa-deputy-under-secretary-potok-delivers-keynote-address-census-bureau%E2%80%99s-led-partnership-workshop.
A photo of Deputy Under Secretary Potok as the workshop also appears in rotation at
http://www.esa.doc.gov.
March 7, 2011: OnTheMap Version 5.1.1 Released
The U.S. Census Bureau released Version 5.1.1 of OnTheMap today.
This maintenance release corrects a number of bugs.
A full list of corrected bugs can be found in the Resolved Bugs section of the OnTheMap help pages.
OnTheMap is supported by the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the
Census Bureau as well as by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor.
OnTheMap Version 5 can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at
http://www.census.gov and clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links,
or directly at http://lehdmap.did.census.gov.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
February 15, 2011: OnTheMap Version 5.1 and 2009 Data Released
The Census Bureau released Version 5.1 of the OnTheMap application today. This update includes several new features as well as a number of bug fixes.
Along with Version 5.1, data for 2009 are being released.
This year of data adds several new variables with more demographic information about workers: Race, Ethnicity, and Educational Attainment.
These new variables are only available for the Area Profile and Area Comparison analyses in the 2009 data.
Further information about these new variables can be found in the
Note about Race, Ethnicity, and Educational Attainment [PDF; File Size: 75KB].
Included with Version 5.1 is the ability to load and save analyses via a small settings file that can be stored on users' computers or shared with others.
Also available in the new OnTheMap is the Text-Only Tool, which provides a comparable
experience to the standard OnTheMap but in a much lighter weight user interface.
This is useful for experienced users who want to access analysis reports as quickly as
possible as well as for those users not able to take full advantage of the mapping interface.
A full list of corrected bugs can be found in the Resolved Bugs section of the OnTheMap help pages.
OnTheMap is supported by the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the
Census Bureau as well as the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor.
OnTheMap Version 5 can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at
http://www.census.gov and clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links,
or directly at http://lehdmap.did.census.gov.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
February 2, 2011: OnTheMap Version 5.1 Coming
On February 15, the U.S. Census Bureau will release Version 5.1 of OnTheMap.
This release adds data for 2009 (including new variables for Race, Ethnicity, and Educational
Attainment), a Text-Only Tool, and the ability to Save and Load settings (.otm) files.
Version 5.1 also updates OnTheMap application code to correct a number of bugs/issues.
A list of key changes will be provided with the release of Version 5.1.
OnTheMap is also supported by the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with
the Census Bureau as well as the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor.
OnTheMap Version 5 can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at
http://www.census.gov
and clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links, or directly on the LEHD website.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
January 13, 2011: Google Public Data Explorer Released
The U.S. Census Bureau debut the LED Google Public Data Explorer today.
LED Google Public Data Explorer is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce's 2010
Open Government Plan to improve better understanding and use of Census Bureau data.
This is another joint effort between the U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics
(LED) state partners in exploring use of innovative data visualization methods for the LED data.
LED Google Public Data Explorer uses line charts, bar charts, and motion charts to visually present publicly available data for 7 pilot states:
Arizona, California, Iowa, Maine, Ohio, Virginia, and Washington.
Links to individuals will become active when Google has completed posting for the state.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov
January 11, 2011: OnTheMap Version 5.0.1 Released
The U.S. Census Bureau released Version 5.0.1 of OnTheMap today. This maintenance release corrects a number of bugs.
A full list of corrected bugs can be found in the
Resolved Bugs section of the OnTheMap help pages.
OnTheMap is supported by the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the
Census Bureau as well as by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor.
OnTheMap Version 5 can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at
http://www.census.gov and clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links,
or directly at http://lehdmap.did.census.gov.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
December 13, 2010: OnTheMap Version 5 Released
The U.S. Census Bureau released OnTheMap Version 5 today. OnTheMap Version 4 has been concurrently withdrawn.
Version 5 includes a number of important new features and enhancements including: the addition of data for Connecticut, new analysis types
(including Area Comparison, Destination, Distance/Direction, and Inflow/Outflow), a redesigned user interface with a dashboard layout, and more.
Version 5 also includes updated documentation on
what's new [PDF; File Size: 96KB], sample analyses, system requirements, FAQs, and other information.
OnTheMap is supported by the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the
Census Bureau as well as the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor.
OnTheMap Version 5 can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at
http://www.census.gov and clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links,
or directly at http://lehdmap.did.census.gov.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
December 13, 2010: New Hampshire Joins LED to Complete National Partnership
New Hampshire has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership as the last eligible partner to complete a
historic national partnership including all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with
multiple other data sources to produce new and improved labor market information about the dynamics of the local
economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data.
New Hampshire Agreement [PDF; File Size: 3MB]
November 4, 2010: Call for Proposals for 2011 LED Partnership Workshop
The 2011 Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership Annual Workshop will be held in the Washington, D.C. area on March 9-10, 2011. A Call for Proposals is hereby issued to seek presentations and posters about practical applications using LED data in the workshop. Detailed information is located at the What's New section on the LEHD website. Submission deadline for presentations is Thursday, December 2, 2010; poster proposals are due Thursday, December 16, 2010. Proposals should be sent by email to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov. Selected presenters will be featured in targeted break out sessions during prime time of the 2011 workshop. A poster session will allow authors and workshop participants the opportunity to discuss LED applications. The Census Bureau will provide paid travel and two nights lodging for the selected presenters to attend the workshop; poster authors must provide their own travel/lodging. Questions and comments should be sent to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
October 27, 2010: Massachusetts joins LED Partnership
Massachusetts has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership as one of 52 partners including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce new and improved labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data.
September 3, 2010: LED Debuts Many Eyes Data Visualization
The Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership today debuts the
IBM Many Eyes
data visualization service.
This new service is part of the LED Data Visualization Project
to enhance public use of the Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) data.
The LED Data Visualization Project uses freely available data visualization tools
to communicate QWI data clearly and effectively through animation and graphics.
The LED Many Eyes service is listed on the
LED website under Quick Links.
Comments and suggestions should be sent to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
Note: The current release of Many Eyes is stable in Internet Explorer only.
August 16, 2010: OnTheMap Wins DOC Gold Medal
The Secretary of Commerce has selected the OnTheMap team to receive a group Gold Medal Award for Scientific/Engineering Achievement.
This award is the highest form of honorary recognition the Department of Commerce (DOC) bestows on distinguished contributions.
The Secretary will present the awards in a ceremony to be held on October 19 at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC.
Since OnTheMap was first released in 2006, its data approach was reported in the 2008 Economic Report of the President, and the
application was featured as a major statistical innovation of the United States by the United Nations Statistical Commission in 2009.
The latest recognition from the Department of Commerce is a great honor and provides more impetus for the team to continue to innovate.
The OnTheMap team shares this honor with the state partners for the opportunities created by the Local Employment Dynamics partnership,
and pledges to more successes in the joint effort to create more timely and quality information for the local work force and economy.
Members of the OnTheMap team are Colleen Flannery, Matthew Graham, Patrick "Heath" Hayward, Walter Kydd, Jeremy Wu, and Chaoling Zheng.
Numerous individuals contributed to OnTheMap, which can be accessed under Quick Links on the LEHD website.
Comments and suggestions should be sent to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
August 5, 2010: Data Visualization Plan Posted
Data visualization tools have emerged as important new ways to present statistical information to make it more understandable for data users.
In 2006 the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership pioneered a data visualization effort with the first release of its web-based OnTheMap tool.
Today, unlocking public access to government data is considered a critical component of the President's Open Government Initiative.
Improving LED Data Visualization is one of 12 projects undertaken by the U.S. Census
Bureau to increase government transparency by publishing high-value information.
This project is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce's 2010 Open Government Plan.
The Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership is calling for Beta Testers to assist in the testing and evaluation of OnTheMap Version 5.
The Beta testing period will start at the beginning of September and will close at the end of October.
LED posted its data visualization plan today on its website under Quick Links.
Comments and suggestions should be sent to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
August 3, 2010: Call for OnTheMap Beta Testers
The Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership is calling for Beta Testers to assist in the testing and evaluation of OnTheMap Version 5.
The Beta testing period will start at the beginning of September and will close at the end of October.
Volunteers will be asked to test the Beta version of the application frequently and report back to the OnTheMap Development Team
at the Census Bureau on bugs, problems, successes, and suggestions for all parts of the application and graphical user interface.
The Beta release of OnTheMap Version 5 will make available some new functionality.
No guarantees are made as to the accuracy of the data in the Beta release or to the availability of the Beta application.
During the Beta testing period Version 4 remains the official version of OnTheMap until the release of Version 5.0, expected in mid-December.
Anyone (both new and experienced with OnTheMap) who would like to take part in the Beta testing should
contact Victoria Johnson at victoria.c.johnson@census.gov.
Testers will receive further instructions closer to the beginning of the testing period.
July 12, 2010: OnTheMap for Emergency Management: Hurricanes Released
The Census Bureau launched OnTheMap for Emergency Management: Hurricanes today
(News Release 10-106).
The web-based tool, located here,
provides real-time workforce information when a hurricane strikes land in the United States.
The new tool is a product of the Local Employment Dynamics
partnership between the Census Bureau and the state workforce agencies.
Comments and suggestions about LED and the new tool should be sent to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
June 4, 2010: Connecticut QWI Data on LED Website
Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of Connecticut have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website.
They are available through the QWI Online and Industry Focus and will be available through Job Gains/Losses.
Connecticut becomes the 48th state to post its QWI data on the LED website.
Questions or comments should be sent to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
May 27, 2010: OnTheMap Version 4.1 Released
The Census Bureau released Version 4.1 of OnTheMap today.
This release adds the Railroad layer to OnTheMap (available through the Base Map tab) and updates
the Roads layers (Interstates, Major Highways, and Local Roads) using TIGER 2008 shapefiles.
Version 4.1 also updates OnTheMap application code to correct a number of bugs/issues.
A list of key changes is as follows:
Detailed list of changes for Version 4.1
- Railroad layer added to the geography base.
- Roads layers (Interstates, Major Highways, and Local Roads) updated using TIGER 2008 shapefiles.
- Precision error in Workplace Area Profile data corrected.
- Incorrect Age Category labels have been fixed. Previously the middle age group has been reported as "Age 31 to 54". It is now correctly reported as "Age 30 to 54". The lower age group also has been adjusted accordingly.
- "Identify" information bubbles now appear in Print Map outputs.
- Application updated to reflect 111th Congressional Districts—which have the same boundaries as the 110th Congressional Districts.
- Shapefile import is more consistent and reliable
- Blank names that appeared for rollups of the TAZ layer have been fixed. These jobs are now correctly included in the "All Other Locations" entry of the shed report.
- Bug corrected for switching between Paired Area and Single Area analyses.
- Change to code allowing Paired Area Analysis to complete even if zero jobs are returned in some years.
- Other changes to the code to make the application more reliable and faster at processing large queries.
See the Resolved Bugs section of the OnTheMap Help Pages for more information on specific issues. OnTheMap is also supported by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor and the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the Census Bureau. OnTheMap Version 4 can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at http://www.census.gov and clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links, or directly on the LEHD website. Comments should be sent to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
May 13, 2010: OnTheMap Version 4.1 Coming
On May 27, the U.S. Census Bureau will release Version 4.1 of OnTheMap.
This release adds the Railroad layer to OnTheMap (available through the Base Map tab) and
updates the Roads layers (Interstates, Major Highways, and Local Roads) to TIGER 2008 shapefiles.
Version 4.1 also updates OnTheMap application code to correct a number of bugs/issues.
A list of key changes will be provided with the release of Version 4.1.
OnTheMap is also supported by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department
of Labor and the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the Census Bureau.
OnTheMap Version 4 can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at http://www.census.gov
and clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links, or directly on the LEHD website.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
April 21, 2010: New OnTheMap e-Learning Module Available
The OnTheMap e-learning tool has been updated for the current version.
In 24 minutes, this tutorial demonstrates how to do basic analyses using OnTheMap with seven years of
employment and segmented age, earnings and industry data for local and regional areas in 47 partner states.
OnTheMap allows users to define custom areas for detailed analyses; illustrate flows of workers across state
borders; produce and export reports and maps; view time-series animation over the seven available years of data;
and perform Area Profile and Shed Analyses for work and home areas in both local and regional geographies.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
March 22, 2010: 2010 LED Partnership Workshop Successfully Concluded
The 2010 Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership Workshop was held from March 10-12 in Arlington, VA.
More than 170 persons registered and representatives from about 40 states attended the open event.
Census Bureau Deputy Director Thomas Mesenbourg, Jr. and LED Steering Committee State Co-Chair Greg Weeks of Washington state opened
with welcoming remarks in the morning of March 11. Ed Montgomery, White House Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers
provided keynote address in the morning plenary session, with discussion by Randall W. Eberts, President, W.E. Upjohn Institute.
Mark Doms, Chief Economist, U.S. Department of Commerce, delivered keynote address in the afternoon session.
Eric Moore of the state of Oregon and Dr. Tim Smith of the state of Missouri were honored posthumously by the LED Partnership Award for Innovation.
Invited speakers, state partners, and data users shared their experience, results, and plans on using LED data
for Education, Emergency Management, Workforce Planning, Transportation Planning, and Economic Indicators.
LED staff members described recent and upcoming enhancements and operations.
Invited posters were also on display to showcase use of LED data and results.
LED state partners held business meetings, discussed promotion of LED, and conducted a strategic planning session.
The 2011 LED Partnership Workshop has been scheduled for March 9-11, 2011. Please mark your calendar.
All received presentations and posters for the 2010 workshop are posted here.
For more information about LED, please visit the LEHD website.
Questions and comments should be directed to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
February 26, 2010: OnTheMap Data Available for HTTP Download
The Census Bureau has made the raw OnTheMap data files available for HTTP download today at this location: http://lehd.ces.census.gov/onthemap/. Previously the OnTheMap data files could be accessed through the OnTheMap Application or downloaded via FTP from the Cornell VirtualRDC. See the Download the OnTheMap Data section of OnTheMap's Help Pages for more information. For comments or questions, please contact CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
February 2, 2010: OnTheMap Version 4.0.2 Released
The Census Bureau released Version 4.0.2 of OnTheMap today. This maintenance release corrects several bugs, including fixing a problem with large Paired Area Analyses. See Resolved Bugs for more information. OnTheMap is also supported by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor and the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the Census Bureau. OnTheMap Version 4 can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at http://www.census.gov and clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links, or directly on the LEHD website. For comments or questions, please contact CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
January 8, 2010: Invitation to 2010 LED Partnership Workshop
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the 2010 Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership Workshop.
This year's workshop will be held from March 10-12 at the Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel, located at 801 North Glebe Road in Arlington, VA.
The hotel is just 2 blocks from the Ballston Metro stop.
Complete details and a tentative summary agenda are available on our conference registration site:
http://led2010workshop.eventbrite.com.
A more detailed agenda will be posted as additional information becomes available.
You must use the form located at the above website to register for the workshop no later than January 29, 2010.
There is no registration fee, but capacity is limited.
A tentative agenda is also posted on the LEHD website.
You asked, and we listened! This year we're implementing several changes based on your feedback about last year's workshop.
We heard that you wanted to get more hands-on, practical information that you can use when working with LED data.
So we have added early-bird sessions for people wanting to learn more about using LED for education planning and disaster recovery,
as well as breakout sessions highlighting LED uses in transportation planning, economic indicators, and community planning.
And we will kick off the main day of the workshop with a panel on Measuring the Economic Recovery using LED and other data sources.
This year's workshop will include several presentations submitted by data users in response to our call for presentations.
Posters will also be exhibited.
We are accepting poster submissions until January 19 if you wish to highlight your innovative use of LED data.
Printed posters must be received by the Census Bureau by February 26.
Poster proposals can be submitted by emailing CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
If you have any questions about the workshop, please call Tammy Coxen at (734) 769-2900
or email tcoxen@skilledwork.org.
December 17, 2009: OnTheMap Version 4.0.1 Released
The Census Bureau released Version 4.0.1 of OnTheMap today.
This maintenance release corrects two bugs: One with the "Link to Me" tool and another
with the "PDF (Map and Report)" option and the "Print Map" button in Internet Explorer.
See Resolved Bugs for more information.
OnTheMap is also supported by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of
Labor and the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the Census Bureau.
OnTheMap Version 4 can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at http://www.census.gov
and clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links, or directly on the LEHD website.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
December 14, 2009: OnTheMap Version 4 Released
The U.S. Census Bureau released OnTheMap Version 4 today.
OnTheMap Version 3 has been concurrently withdrawn.
Version 4 includes a number of
important new features and enhancements [PDF; File Size: 112KB]
including the addition of Ohio, two more years of data (2007 and 2008),
improved user interface, import/export of shapefiles and KML/KMZ, and more.
Version 4 also includes updated documentation
on how to get started, sample analyses, system requirements, FAQs, and other information.
OnTheMap is also supported by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of
Labor and the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the Census Bureau.
OnTheMap Version 4 can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at
http://www.census.gov
and clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links, or directly on the LEHD website.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
December 10, 2009: Deadline Extended for Call for Presentations
Because of complications with the on-line form for submission of proposals for posters or presentations for the LED Partnership Workshop, the deadline for submissions has been extended to December 23. Please e-mail the information required in the form to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov or fax a copy of the completed form to 301-763-6831, attention LED Workshop.
October 28, 2009: Call for Proposals for 2010 LED Workshop
The 2010 Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership Annual Workshop will be held in the Washington, D.C. area on March 10-12, 2010. A Call for Proposals has been issued to seek presentations and posters about practical applications using LED data in the workshop. An application form [PDF; File Size: 62KB] with detailed information located in the What's New section on LEHD website. Submission deadline for presentations and posters is December 2, 2009. Selected presenters will be featured in targeted break out sessions during prime time of the 2010 workshop. The Census Bureau will provide paid travel and two nights lodging for the selected presenters to attend the workshop. Questions and comments should be sent to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
October 19, 2009: Mark Your Calendar for the 2010 LED Annual Workshop
The next Local Employment Dynamics (LED) annual workshop will be held on March 10-12, 2010 in the Washington area. Additional information about the workshop will become available in the coming weeks. Contact CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov if you have immediate questions.
September 30, 2009: Job Gains and Losses
Private sector net job gains/losses and net job growth rates derived from the Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) are now available on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They measure the year-over-year change from 2007Q4 to 2008Q4 for 46 LED partner states, and cover detailed tabulations by gender, age, and industry sectors according to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). These tables and descriptions of the computation methodology, as well as a presentation to the Association of Public Data Users, can be viewed and downloaded. Visit the section under What's New on the LEHD website for more details.
July 28, 2009: OnTheMap Version 3.4 Released
The Census Bureau released Version 3.4 of OnTheMap today. This maintenance release updates Workforce Investment Areas (WIAs) for Alabama. Version 3.4 also corrects several geography bugs. See OnTheMap's Resolved Bugs page for more information.
May 28, 2009: OnTheMap Version 3.3.1 Released
The Census Bureau released Version 3.3.1 of OnTheMap today. This maintenance release corrects a bug that caused users to receive an error when performing a Shed Analysis with only one rollup layer selected.
May 8, 2009: OnTheMap™ Version 3.3 Released
The Census Bureau released Version 3.3 of OnTheMap today. This maintenance release covers several patches for the application's user interface.
The first patch corrects the dynamic text in Step 4 of the Analysis Tab for Paired Shed Analyses.
The second patch corrects a labeling bug in the Shed Reports that caused some areas
with duplicate names to be combined in the Shed Report for several Rollup Layers.
This patch completely corrected the issue for Traffic Analysis Zones (TAZ) and State Legislative Districts (Upper and Lower), while
significantly reduced the problem for County Subdivisions and Unified/Elementary School Districts. OnTheMap Version 3.4, expected to
be released in July, will complete the corrections for Cities/Towns, County Subdivisions, and Unified/Elementary School Districts.
May 8, 2009: Server Maintenance – May 10, 8AM–Noon EDT
On Sunday, May 10, from 8AM to noon EDT, maintenance will be performed on the LEHD/LED web servers. During this window OnTheMap, QWI Online, Industry Focus, and web-based applications will not be available. We apologize for any inconvenience.
April 29, 2009: Ohio QWI Data on LED Website
Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of Ohio have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and Industry Focus. Ohio becomes the 47th state to post its QWI data on the LED website.
April 3, 2009: New OnTheMap e-Learning Module Available
The OnTheMap e-learning tool has been updated for the current version.
In 22 minutes, it demonstrates how to do basic analyses using OnTheMap with five years of employment
and segmented age, earnings and industry data for local and regional areas in 46 partner states.
OnTheMap allows users to define custom areas for detailed analyses; illustrate flows of workers across state
borders; produce and export reports and maps; view time-series animation over the five available years of data;
and perform Area Profile and Shed Analyses for work and home areas in both local and regional geographies.
For comments or questions, please contact CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
March 3, 2009: Server Maintenance—March 10, 6–8 PM EST—for OnTheMap, QWI Online, and Industry Focus
On Tuesday, March 10, from 6 PM to 8 PM EST, maintenance will be performed on some of the Census Bureau's web servers. During this 2-hour window OnTheMap, QWI Online, and Industry Focus will be unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience.
February 26, 2009: OnTheMap Version 3.2 Data Available on VirtualRDC
The complete set of OnTheMap Version 3.2 data is now available from the Cornell VirtualRDC for download by registered users.
To register for access to the OnTheMap data, please request a login by sending an email to
virtualrdc@cornell.edu.
These files are the same files currently used for the OnTheMap tool.
The compressed file size for the entire collection is about 19GB.
For more information about the Local Employment Dynamics Partnerships and related tools, please visit the
LEHD website.
February 10, 2009: Nevada Profile of Older Workers Released
The Census Bureau, under the federal-state Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership, has been releasing a series of reports on workers 55 and older for individual states. Nevada is the thirtieth and last state to be released in the series today. The Nevada report can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/prod/2009pubs/ledow04nv.pdf [PDF; File Size: 384KB]. The report and additional tables may also be found in the Profiles section. For additional information about the LED partnership, please visit the Partners section.
February 6, 2009: Connecticut Joins LED
Connecticut has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership as one of 51 partners including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce new and improved labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data.
January 29, 2009: Alabama Profile of Older Workers Released
The Census Bureau, under the federal-state Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership, has launched a series of reports on workers 55 and older for more than 30 states. Alabama is the twenty-ninth state to be released in the series today, to be followed by Nevada. The Alabama report can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/prod/2009pubs/ledow04al.pdf [PDF; File Size: 1.00MB]. The report and additional tables may also be found in the Profiles section. For additional information about the LED partnership, please visit the Partners section.
January 26, 2009: California Profile of Older Workers Released
The Census Bureau, under the federal-state Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership, has launched a series of reports on workers 55 and older for more than 30 states. California is the twenty-eighth state to be released in the series today, to be followed by Alabama and Nevada. The California report can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/prod/2009pubs/ledow04ca.pdf [PDF; File Size: 1.09MB]. The report and additional tables may also be found in the Profiles section. For additional information about the LED partnership, please visit the LEHD website.
December 29, 2008: OnTheMap to be Featured in United Nations Seminar
The United Nations (UN) will host a seminar on "Innovations in Official Statistics" in New York City, New York, on Friday, February 20, 2009. The seminar is part of a series dedicated to topics of great relevance for the global statistical community before the UN Statistical Commission session. Additional information about the seminar is located at http://unstats.un.org/unsd/statcom/statcom_09/seminars/innovation/innovations_seminar.htm.
OnTheMap has been selected and will be featured as one of four contributed papers on U.S. statistical innovations. The 9-page paper, titled "OnTheMap – An Innovative Mapping and Reporting Tool" is located at http://unstats.un.org/unsd/statcom/statcom_09/seminars/innovation/Innovation%20Seminar/USA-OntheMap.pdf [PDF; File Size: 788KB].
Mr. Thomas Mesenbourg, Deputy Director of the U.S. Census Bureau, will serve as a panelist in Session III of the Seminar, "Innovation in Data Dissemination."
Please send your comments and questions to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
December 29, 2008: U.S. Senate Committee Recognizes LED Product
In response to a call by the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, the Census Bureau submitted the Older Worker Profile series produced under the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership as an exemplary collaborative research effort within the federal government that seeks to advance the well-being of older Amercians.
The submission has been accepted and will be included in the Recognition of Excellence in Aging Research Committee report. A list of the 2008 Aging Awards is located at http://aging.senate.gov/award/award_main.cfm.
To date, the latest Older Worker Profile has been released for 27 LED state partners. The reports and associated tables are located on the Profiles page.
Please send your comments and questions to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
December 23, 2008: Kansas Profile of Older Workers Released
The Census Bureau, under the federal-state Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership, has launched a series of reports on workers 55 and older for more than 30 states. Kansas is the twenty-seventh state to be released in the series today, to be followed by California. The Kansas report can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/ledow04ks.pdf [PDF; File Size: 547KB]. The report and additional tables may also be found here. For additional information about the LED partnership, please visit the LEHD main page.
December 17, 2008: West Virginia Profile of Older Workers Released
The Census Bureau, under the federal-state Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership, has launched a series of reports on workers 55 and older for more than 30 states. West Virginia is the twenty-sixth state to be released in the series today, to be followed by Kansas and California. The West Virginia report can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/ledow04wv.pdf [PDF; File Size: 1.14MB]. The report and additional tables may also be found on the Profiles page. For additional information about the LED partnership, please visit the LEHD main page.
December 16, 2008: Release of OnTheMap Version 3.2.1
The U.S. Census Bureau released OnTheMap Version 3.2.1 today.
Version 3.2.1 introduces OnTheMap Direct, a simplified interface to generate map overlays and tabular reports with just one click of the mouse! Users can rapidly access employment data for their area of interest without performing the more advanced multi-step process found in the full version of OnTheMap. Options for selecting county, workplace or residential area, labor market segment, and analysis type are provided. OnTheMap Direct is an experimental application currently offering county-level employment data for Iowa for the year 2006. Version 3.2.1 also includes updated Help documents.
OnTheMap is also supported by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor and the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the Census Bureau.
OnTheMap Version 3 can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at http://www.census.gov and then OnTheMap under Quick Links, or directly at LEHD main page. For comments and questions, please contact CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov. OnTheMap Direct is under Quick Links below OnTheMap Version 3.
December 15, 2008: Release of OnTheMap Version 3.2
The U.S. Census Bureau released OnTheMap Version 3.2 today.
Version 3.2 provides several application enhancements including: the addition of New York State to the database for the first time, additional rollups for Shed Analyses, and several bug fixes.
OnTheMap is also supported by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor and the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the Census Bureau.
OnTheMap Version 3 can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at http://www.census.gov and clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links, or directly on the LEHD main page. For comments and questions, please contact CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
December 10, 2008: Idaho Profile of Older Workers Released
The Census Bureau, under the federal-state Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership, has launched a series of reports on workers 55 and older for more than 30 states. Idaho is the twenty-fifth state to be released in the series today, to be followed by West Virginia and Kansas. The Idaho report can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/ledow04id.pdf [PDF; File Size: 927KB]. The report and additional tables may also be found on the Profiles page. For additional information about the LED partnership, please visit the LEHD main page.
November 26, 2008: Washington State Wins WID Innovation Award for LED Dashboard
Congratulations to the Washington State Employment Security Department for winning the Workforce Information Database (WID) Innovation Award for creating the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Dashboard. The award was presented by the Analyst Resource Center (ARC) during the ARC seminar on Transforming Information for the Future on October 29, 2008. The LED Dashboard may be accessed at http://216.210.156.138:8080/corda/dashboards/LED/main.dashxml.
November 25, 2008: North Dakota Profile of Older Workers Released
The Census Bureau, under the federal-state Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership, has launched a series of reports on workers 55 and older for more than 30 states. North Dakota is the twenty-fourth state to be released in the series today, to be followed by Idaho and West Virginia. The North Dakota report can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/ledow04nd.pdf [PDF; File Size: 704KB]. The report and additional tables may also be found on the Profiles page. For additional information about the LED partnership, please visit the LEHD main page.
November 24, 2008: New York QWI Data on LED Website
Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of New York have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and Industry Focus. New York becomes the 46th state to post its QWI data on the LED website.
November 20, 2008: Missouri Profile of Older Workers Released
The Census Bureau, under the federal-state Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership, has launched a series of reports on workers 55 and older for more than 30 states. Missouri is the twenty-third state to be released in the series today, to be followed by North Dakota and Idaho. The Missouri report can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/ledow04mo.pdf [PDF; File Size: 849KB]. The report and additional tables may also be found on the Profiles page. For additional information about the LED partnership, please visit the LEHD main page.
November 10, 2008: Virginia Profile of Older Workers Released
The Census Bureau, under the federal-state Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership, has launched a series of reports on workers 55 and older for more than 30 states. Virginia is the twenty-second state to be released in the series today, to be followed by Missouri and North Dakota. The Virginia report can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/ledow04va.pdf [PDF; File Size: 2.37MB]. The report and additional tables may also be found on the Profiles page. For additional information about the LED partnership, please visit the LEHD main page.
November 7, 2008: Release of OnTheMap Version 3.1.2
The U.S. Census Bureau released OnTheMap Version 3.1.2 today.
Version 3.1.2 provides several interface and application enhancements including: Improved selection area outline graphics for advanced selections (using Intersect and Subtract tools), and textual changes to the interface.
OnTheMap is also supported by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor and the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the Census Bureau.
OnTheMap Version 3 can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at http://www.census.gov and then OnTheMap under Quick Links, or directly on the LEHD main page. For comments and questions, please contact CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
November 6, 2008: Minnesota Profile of Older Workers Released
The Census Bureau, under the federal-state Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership, has launched a series of reports on workers 55 and older for more than 30 states. Minnesota is the twenty-first state to be released in the series today, to be followed by Virginia and Missouri. The Minnesota report can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/ledow04mn.pdf [PDF; File Size: 730KB]. The report and additional tables may also be found on the Profiles page. For additional information about the LED partnership, please visit the LEHD main page.
October 30, 2008: Pennsylvania Profile of Older Workers Released
The Census Bureau, under the federal-state Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership, has launched a series of reports on workers 55 and older for more than 30 states. Pennsylvania is the twentieth state to be released in the series today, to be followed by Minnesota and Virginia. The Pennsylvania report can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/ledow04pa.pdf [PDF; File Size: 1.03MB]. The report and additional tables may also be found on the Profiles page. For additional information about the LED partnership, please visit the LEHD main page.
October 27, 2008: Call for Proposals for 2009 LED Workshop
The 2009 Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership Annual Workshop will be held at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. on March 5–6, 2009.
A Call for Proposals has been issued to seek presentations and posters about practical applications using LED data in the workshop.
An application form [PDF; File Size: 88KB] is located in the What's New section of the LEHD website. Submission deadline for presentation is December 2, 2008, and deadline for poster is January 9, 2009.
Selected presenters will participate in a 90-minute panel discussion during the 2009 workshop. The Census Bureau will provide paid travel and two nights lodging for the selected presenters to attend the workshop.
Questions and For comments and questions, please contact CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
October 24, 2008: Release of OnTheMap Version 3.1.1
The U.S. Census Bureau released OnTheMap Version 3.1.1 today.
Version 3.1.1 provides several interface and application enhancements, new reference and selectable and layers for analysis, and minor bug fixes.
Tool Tip icons have been added to the interface for quick access to definitions of key terms. New layers include: School Districts (Unified/Elementary and Secondary), State Legislative Districts (Upper and Lower), Traffic Analysis Zones (TAZ), Tribal Subdivisions, and Alaska Native Regional Corp. (ANRC). The Interstates, Major Highways, and Local Roads layers have also been upgraded.
OnTheMap is also supported by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor and the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the Census Bureau.
OnTheMap Version 3 can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at http://www.census.gov and clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links, or directly on the LEHD main page. For comments and questions, please contact CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
October 15, 2008: Washington Profile of Older Workers Released
The Census Bureau, under the federal-state Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership, has launched a series of reports on workers 55 and older for more than 30 states. Washington is the nineteenth state to be released in the series today, to be followed by Pennsylvania and Minnesota. The Washington report can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/ledow04wa.pdf [PDF; File Size: 1.03MB]. The report and additional tables may also be found on the Profiles page. For additional information about the LED partnership, please visit the LEHD main page.
October 14, 2008: Tennessee Profile of Older Workers Released
The Census Bureau, under the federal-state Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership, has launched a series of reports on workers 55 and older for more than 30 states. Tennessee is the eighteenth state to be released in the series today, to be followed by Washington and Pennsylvania. The Tennessee report can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/ledow04tn.pdf [PDF; File Size: 1.13MB]. The report and additional tables may also be found on the Profiles page. For additional information about the LED partnership, please visit the LEHD main page.
September 29, 2008: New Mexico Profile of Older Workers Released
The Census Bureau, under the federal-state Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership, has launched a series of reports on workers 55 and older for more than 30 states. New Mexico is the seventeen state to be released in the series today, to be followed by Tennessee and Washington. The New Mexico report can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/ledow04nm.pdf [PDF; File Size: 488KB]. The report and additional tables may also be found on the Profiles page. For additional information about the LED partnership, please visit the LEHD main page.
September 23, 2008: Oregon Profile of Older Workers Released
The Census Bureau, under the federal-state Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership, has launched a series of reports on workers 55 and older for more than 30 states. Oregon is the sixteenth state to be released in the series today, to be followed by New Mexico and Tennessee. The Oregon report can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/ledow04or.pdf [PDF; File Size: 760KB]. The report and additional tables may also be found on the Profiles page. For additional information about the LED partnership, please visit the LEHD main page.
September 15, 2008: Puerto Rico Joins LED
Puerto Rico has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership as the 50th partner. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce new and improved labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data.
September 11, 2008: Release of OnTheMap Version 3.1
The U.S. Census Bureau released OnTheMap Version 3.1 today.
Version 3.1 activates the Primary Job and Private Primary Job types, enhances the dynamic text throughout in the Analysis, Results, and Reports tabs, and corrects a bug in the reporting of Quarterly Workforce Indicator (QWI) statistics.
OnTheMap is also supported by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor and the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the Census Bureau.
OnTheMap Version 3 can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at http://www.census.gov and clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links, or directly on the LEHD main page. For comments and questions, please contact CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
September 8, 2008: Montana Profile of Older Workers Released
The Census Bureau, under the federal-state Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership, has launched a series of reports on workers 55 and older for more than 30 states. Montana is the fifteenth state to be released in the series today, to be followed by Oregon and New Mexico. The Montana report can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/ledow04mt.pdf [PDF; File Size: 1.03MB]. The report and additional tables may also be found on the Profiles page. For additional information about the LED partnership, please visit the LEHD main page.
September 4, 2008: OnTheMap Version 3 Released
The U.S. Census Bureau released OnTheMap Version 3 today. OnTheMap Version 2 will be withdrawn at 5 p.m., Eastern Time, Friday, September 5, 2008.
Version 3 includes a number of important new features and enhancements [PDF; File Size: 52KB] including: three new states, two more years of data, improved user interface, animation of map overlays over time, and more.
In addition, Version 3 supports Labor Market Segment data and analysis, meaning that map overlays and reports may now be filtered by categories of age, earnings, or industry groups.
Version 3 also includes updated documentation on how to get started, sample analyses, system requirements, notes and disclaimers, and other information.
Version 3 currently supports All Jobs and All Private Jobs. Additional support for Primary Jobs and Private Primary Jobs will be released in Version 3.1 on or before September 15, 2008.
OnTheMap is also supported by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor and the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the Census Bureau.
OnTheMap Version 3 can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at http://www.census.gov and clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links, or directly at LEHD main page. Comments should be sent to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
August 27, 2008: South Carolina Profile of Older Workers Released
The Census Bureau, under the federal-state Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership, has launched a series of reports on workers 55 and older for more than 30 states. South Carolina is the fourteenth state to be released in the series today, to be followed by Montana and Oregon. The South Carolina report can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/ledow04sc.pdf [PDF; File Size: 696KB]. The report and additional tables may also be found on the Profiles page. For additional information about the LED partnership, please visit the LEHD main page.
August 18, 2008: OnTheMap Version 3 Coming Soon
We are loading updated data for final implementation of OnTheMap version 3. The formal release date will be soon after Labor Day, September 1, 2008, after all planned tests have been successfully completed.
Effective immediately, OnTheMap Version 3 Beta has been removed to accommodate the pending release.
August 14, 2008: Oklahoma Profile of Older Workers Released
The Census Bureau, under the federal-state Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership, has launched a series of reports on workers 55 and older for more than 30 states. Oklahoma is the thirteenth state to be released in the series today, to be followed by South Carolina. The Oklahoma report can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/ledow04ok.pdf [PDF; File Size: 696KB]. The report and additional tables may also be found on the Profiles page. For additional information about the LED partnership, please visit the LEHD main page.
July 14, 2008: Kentucky Profile of Older Workers Released
The Census Bureau, under the federal-state Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership, has launched a series of reports on workers 55 and older for more than 30 states. Kentucky is the twelfth state to be released in the series today, to be followed by Oklahoma and South Carolina. The Kentucky report can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/ledow04ky.pdf [PDF; File Size: 1.58MB]. The report and additional tables may also be found on the Profiles page. For additional information about the LED partnership, please visit the LEHD main page.
July 3, 2008: California QWI Goes Quarterly
Since the beginning of the production of Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) by the Census Bureau in 2004, QWI for the state of California has been produced on an annual basis, instead of the intended quarterly basis, due to computing and storage limitations.
The latest California QWI for 2007Q2 have been posted in QWI Online, Industry Focus, and other LED data tools available from the LED website.
Effective immediately, California QWI will be produced and posted according to the same quarterly schedule as all other state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnersip. The Census Bureau recently corrected the anamolous situation by installing adequate computing and storage resources to accommodate more than 1,300 additional hours (wall clock time) of data processing.
July 3, 2008: New Email Addresses for LEHD/LED
The Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) program moved to the Center for Economic Studies (CES) in the Economic Directorate on March 31, 2008.
Effectively immediately, the following email addresses should be used for the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership and the LEHD Production Team:
CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov CES.LEHD.Production.List@census.gov
For the latest contact information, please check the Contact page.
June 30, 2008: Iowa Floods
On June 15, 2008, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) designated 24 counties in Iowa to be flood disaster areas where residents can apply for federal assistance. The Census Bureau provides a publicly available online tool called "OnTheMap" to provide a finer picture of the impacted areas.
The Census Bureau produced two products that show the impact of the flooding in relation to where people live and work, using the online tool or publicly downloadable OnTheMap data. They are available at http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/emergencies/index.html. The OnTheMap tool and information about downloadable data are available on the LEHD main page.
The data source is based on Local Employment Dynamics (LED), which is a federal-state partnership between the Census Bureau and the state Labor Market Information offices. OnTheMap has also been supported by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor.
June 19, 2008: Maryland Profile of Older Workers Released
The Census Bureau, under the federal-state Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership, has launched a series of reports on workers 55 and older for more than 30 states. Maryland is the eleventh state to be released in the series today, to be followed by Oklahoma and South Carolina. The Maryland report can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/ledow04md.pdf [PDF; File Size: 1.03MB]. The report and additional tables may also be found on the Profiles page. For additional information about the LED partnership, please visit the LEHD main page.
June 6, 2008: Nebraska QWI Data on LED Website
Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of Nebraska have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and Industry Focus. Nebraska becomes the 45th state to post its QWI data on the LED website.
June 6, 2008: South Dakota QWI Data on LED Website
Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of South Dakota have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and Industry Focus. South Dakota becomes the 44th state to post its QWI data on the LED website.
June 5, 2008: Case Studies: OnTheMap – Who's Working Where?
The DataTools/Case Studies section of the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) web site features real uses of the LED data. The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Prince George's Planning Department, developed a poster showing how OnTheMap application and data applied to local economies and tranportation patterns pertaining to the county, which was presented at the recent American Planning Association's Conference in Las Vegas, NV. "Who's Working Where" [PDF; File Size: 1.50MB] shows how the Census Bureau's LED can be used to identify characteristics of the workforce (individuals working in an area) and labor force (individuals living in an area) to address issues like job training, commuting, and other topics related to planning.
May 30, 2008: OnTheMap Version 3 (Beta) Released
The U.S. Census Bureau released OnTheMap Version 3 (Beta) today for public test and evaluation of new features and enhancements including: a redesigned and more intuitive user interface, improved navigation, expanded selection tools, enhanced point/thermal overlays, and longitudinal data animation. The underlying data for the Beta version are for experimental use only and NOT part of the test and evaluation.
Updated documentation, along with other information on the web-based application, system requirements, notes and disclaimers, and sample use, may be found here. They are also open for your suggestions.
OnTheMap is supported by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor and the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau.
OnTheMap Version 3 is accessible by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at http://www.census.gov and clicking OnTheMap Version 3 (Beta) under Quick Links, or directly on the LEHD main page.
The Beta test period is scheduled to end on July 21, 2008. Please send your comments and suggestions to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
May 28, 2008: U.S. Virgin Island Joins LED
U.S. Virgin Island has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership as one of 49 partners including the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce new and improved labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data.
May 27, 2008: New Jersey Profile of Older Workers Released
The Census Bureau, under the federal-state Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership, has launched a series of reports on workers 55 and older for more than 30 states. New Jersey is the tenth state to be released in the series today, to be followed by Maryland. The New Jersey report can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/ledow04nj.pdf [PDF; File Size: 800KB]. The report and additional tables may also be found on the Profiles page. For additional information about the LED partnership, please visit the LEHD main page.
April 2, 2008: Wisconsin Profile of Older Workers Released
The Census Bureau, under the federal-state Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership, has launched a series of reports on workers 55 and older for more than 30 states. Wisconsin is the ninth state to be released in the series today, to be followed by New Jersey. The Wisconsin report can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/ledow04wi.pdf [PDF; File Size: 768KB]. The report and additional tables may also be found on the Profiles page. For additional information about the LED partnership, please visit the LEHD main page.
April 1, 2008: Colorado Profile of Older Workers Released
The Census Bureau, under the federal-state Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership, has launched a series of reports on workers 55 and older for more than 30 states. Colorado is the eigth state to be released in the series today, to be followed by Wisconsin. The Colorado report can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/ledow04co.pdf [PDF; File Size: 780KB]. The report and additional tables may also be found on the Profiles page. For additional information about the LED partnership, please visit the LEHD main page.
March 24, 2008: Recorded Webinars on LED and OnTheMap Available Online
The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) at the U.S. Department of Labor recently hosted two webinars on about the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership. One, "Power Data Tools from LED", recorded in January 2008, provides demonstrations of Industry Focus, QWI Online, OnTheMap and the Community Economic Development HotReport. The second, recorded in February 2008, shows advanced features of the OnTheMap tool. The recorded webinars are online and available for public access, users will have to first establish an account at http://www.workforce3one.org/register.cfm by providing an email address and creating a password. Additional information about the recorded webinars is available on the Webinars page.
March 11, 2008: Nebraska Joins LED
Nebraska has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership as one of 48 partners including the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce new and improved labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data.
February 15, 2008: Ohio Joins LED
Ohio has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership today as one of 47 partners including the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce new and improved labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data.
February 12, 2008: Delaware Profiles of Older Workers Released
The Census Bureau, under the federal-state Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership, has launched a series of reports on workers 55 and older for more than 30 states. Delaware is the seventh state to be released in the series today, to be followed by Colorado. The Delaware report can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/ledow04de.pdf [PDF; File Size: 464KB]. The report and additional tables may also be found on the Profiles page. For additional information about the LED partnership, please visit the LEHD main page.
January 30, 2008: Take the OnTheMap Survey
Help improve and enhance OnTheMap. Please take several minutes to fill out this survey. All users—new and experienced—are welcome! Survey is now closed.
December 26, 2007: Arizona QWI Data on LED Website
Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of Arizona have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics website. They are available through the QWI Online and Industry Focus. Arizona becomes the 43rd state to post its QWI data on the LED website.
December 19, 2007: LEHD Website Scheduled for Downtime on January 26, 2008
The LEHD website is scheduled for maintenance downtime on Saturday, January 26, 2008, beginning at 8:00 am and ending 8:00 pm, Eastern Standard Time.
December 18, 2007: OnTheMap Version 2.3.1 Released
The Census Bureau released OnTheMap Version 2.3.1 today. The new release is for final maintenance that corrects a number of known bugs and enhances documentation about OnTheMap. An updated user guide, along with other information on the web-based application, system requirements, notes and disclaimers, and sample use, may now be found here.
OnTheMap is supported by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor and the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the Census Bureau.
OnTheMap Version 2 is accessible by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at http://www.census.gov and then OnTheMap under Quick Links, or directly on the LEHD main page.
November 27, 2007: Hawaii Profiles of Older Workers Released
The Census Bureau, under the federal-state Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership, has launched a series of reports on workers 55 and older for more than 30 states. Hawaii is the sixth state to be released in the series today, to be followed by Delaware and Colorado. The Hawaii report can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/prod/2007pubs/ledow07hi.pdf [PDF; File Size: 1.80MB]. The report and additional tables may also be found on the Profiles page. For additional information about the LED partnership, please visit the LEHD main page.
November 13, 2007: Arkansas Profiles of Older Workers Released
The Census Bureau, under the federal-state Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership, has launched a series of reports on workers 55 and older for more than 30 states. Arkansas is the fifth state to be released in the series today, to be followed by Hawaii and Delaware. The Arkansas report can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/prod/2007pubs/ledow07ar.pdf [PDF; File Size: 1.80MB]. The report and additional tables may also be found on the Profiles page. For additional information about the LED partnership, please visit the LEHD main page.
October 23, 2007: South Dakota Joins LED
South Dakota has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership today as one of 46 partners including the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce new and improved labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data.
October 17, 2007: Indiana Profiles of Older Workers Released
The Census Bureau, under the federal-state Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership, has launched a series of reports on workers 55 and older for more than 30 states. Indiana is the fourth state to be released in the series today, to be followed by Arkansas and Hawaii. The Indiana report can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/prod/2007pubs/ledow07in.pdf [PDF; File Size: 1.52MB]. The report and additional tables may also be found on the Profiles page. For additional information about the LED partnership, please visit the LEHD main page.
October 12, 2007: OnTheMap Version 1 Withdrawn
With the successful full release of OnTheMap Version 2, an online mapping and reporting application, on September 30, OnTheMap Version 1 was withdrawn by the Census Bureau today.
OnTheMap Version 1 was launched with data for 14 states on February 6, 2006. It grew to 17 states by December 2006.
OnTheMap Version 2 was completed with data for 42 states, covering about 83 percent of the nation's worker population.
OnTheMap is supported by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor and the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the Census Bureau.
OnTheMap Version 2 is accessible by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at http://www.census.gov and clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links, or directly on the LEHD main page.
September 30, 2007: OnTheMap Version 2.3 Released
The Census Bureau released OnTheMap Version 2.3 today. The new release adds nine (9) states to the web-based mapping and reporting application, bringing the total to 42 and completing the phased release of OnTheMap Version 2 that started on April 15, 2007.
OnTheMap Version 2.3 adds California and 8 new states that appear in OnTheMap for the first time: Alaska, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Utah, and Wyoming.
The 42 states in OnTheMap Version 2 cover three years of data (2002–2004) and about 83 percent of the nation's population, introducing for the first time cross-state worker flows and new geographic layers such as Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (WIRED) regions and the 110th Congressional Districts.
The freehand option allows OnTheMap users to select geographical areas beyond traditional bounds and produce information on travel patterns; workforce distributions by age, earnings, and industry; and employment dynamics at the local level.
OnTheMap is supported by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor and the state partners under the Local Employment Dynamics partnership with the Census Bureau.
OnTheMap Version 2 will be accessible by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at http://www.census.gov and clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links, or directly from the LEHD main page.
September 20, 2007: Vermont Profiles of Older Workers Released
The Census Bureau, under the federal-state Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership, has launched a series of reports on workers 55 and older for more than 30 states. Vermont is the third state to be released in the series today, to be followed by Indiana, Arkansas and Hawaii. The Vermont report can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/prod/2007pubs/ledow07vt.pdf [PDF; File Size: 760KB]. The report and additional tables may also be found on the Profiles page. For additional information about the LED partnership, please visit the LEHD main page.
September 12, 2007: Michigan QWI Data on LED Website
Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of Michigan have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics website. They are available through the QWI Online and Industry Focus. Michigan becomes the 42nd state to post its QWI data on the LED website.
August 28, 2007: OnTheMap Version 2.2.1 Released
The Census Bureau released OnTheMap Version 2.2.1 today. This is a maintenance release that corrects several known bugs. In particular, it resolves a performance issue with the Freehand Selection tool and adds the corrected geographical layers such as the 110th congressional districts, WIRED regions, and Community Colleges to the application.
All known and unresolved bugs in OnTheMap Version 2 have been reported.
OnTheMap Version 2.2.1 is accessible by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at http://www.census.gov and then OnTheMap under Quick Links, or directly on the LEHD main page. Phased release of OnTheMap Version 2 will continue till the end of September.
The release of OnTheMap Version 2.3 is scheduled for September 30 to add 9 states: Alaska, California, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Utah, and Wyoming.
Please send your comments and questions about OnTheMap Version 2 by email to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov. You can also join an active OnTheMap listserv by sending an email with "yes to OTM2" in the subject line of the email message. Additional information about OnTheMap Version 2 is located here.
July 31, 2007: OnTheMap Version 2.2 Released
The Census Bureau released OnTheMap Version 2.2 today. The new release adds 17 states to the web-based mapping and reporting application, bringing the total up to 33.
The 17 new states that appear in OnTheMap for the first time are Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
The reports generated by the Freehand Selection tool appear to be relatively slow in performance; it is reported as a known bug at this time. Performance of all other functions and options operate within expectations. Users are encouraged to use options other than Freehand for reporting until a fix is applied in the next few weeks. Upgrade of web servers is being planned to accommodate increased processing and to improve system reliability in the coming weeks. For documentation on all known and unresolved bugs in OnTheMap Version 2.2, please visit the Bugs page.
OnTheMap Version 2.2 will be accessable by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at http://www.census.gov. and then OnTheMap under Quick Links, or directly on the LEHD main page.
The release of OnTheMap Version 2.3 is scheduled for September 30 to add 8 states: Alaska, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Utah, and Wyoming. The release date for California remains to be determined.
Please send your comments and questions about OnTheMap Version 2 by email to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov. You can also join an active OnTheMap listserv by sending an email with "yes to OTM2" in the subject line of the email message. Additional information about OnTheMap Version 2 is located here
July 20, 2007: Wyoming QWI Data on LED Website
Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of Wyoming have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and Industry Focus. Wyoming becomes the 41st state to post its QWI data on the LED website.
July 17, 2007: Community Economic Development HotReport Released at Workforce Innovations Conference
The official unveiling of the Community Economic Development (CED) HotReport http://ced.census.gov took place on July 17, in Kansas City, MO. The groundbreaking product is the work of the Census Bureau's Data Integration Division. HotReports utilize TheDataWeb, DataFerrett and ReportWriter technology to retrieve and analyze data from myriad data sets in- and outside of the Census Bureau and display it visually on interactive web pages.
The Employment and Training Administration (ETA), the Economic Development Administration (EDA), the Office of Economic Adjustment (OEA) and the U.S. Census Bureau collaboratively designed the CED HotReport with local and regional experts to help communities and businesses plan for economic expansions and contractions using the best available information.
The CED HotReport provides community and business leaders speedy access to information tailored to economic development decision-making. It is a free, easy to use portal to instantly obtain detailed information for local and regional areas on a wide variety of topics from a multitude of sources. Data from Local Employment Dynamics will be incorporated in the first revision to the new product.
For a complete list of measures and sources, see CED Measures [PDF; File Size: 72KB].
System requirements:
- A computer with at least 256MB RAM, a high performance graphics card, and a monitor with at least 1024x768 resolution;
- Internet Explorer version 6.0 or higher for printing capability;
- Download access speed of at least 500Kb/s;
- Pop-up blockers OFF.
Comments and problems should be sent to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
July 3, 2007: Forty two (42) States in OnTheMap Version 2
There will be 42 states in the final release of OnTheMap Version 2. A total of 16 states are already available on the LEHD main page.
Seventeen (17) more states will be introduced for the first time in OnTheMap Version 2.2, scheduled to be released at the end of July. Another 8 states—Alaska, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Utah, and Wyoming—will be released in OnTheMap Version 2.3 by the end of September. The release of California in OnTheMap Version 2 will be determined at a later time.
Please send your comments and questions about OnTheMap Version 2 by email to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov. You can also join an active OnTheMap listserv by sending an email with "yes to OTM2" in the subject line of the email message. Additional information about OnTheMap Version 2 is located here.
June 25, 2007: Change in URL and Email Addresses
Under the recent reorganization, LEHD was moved from the Demographic Surveys Division to the Data Integration Division under the Demographic Directorate.
Effective on Monday, June 25, our website will have a new URL. Please bookmark accordingly. Visitors using the old URL will be redirected to the new site by clicking a "bypass" button or after a 5-second message. The old URL will remain an alias until around August 1.
The change should be transparent to visitors using the http://www.census.gov and the selection of Local Employment Dynamics as the entry point.
Group email addresses will also be changed to:
did.longitudinal.employer.household.dynamics@census.gov
did.lehd.production.staff@census.gov
June 21, 2007: OnTheMap Data Available for Download
Multi-year OnTheMap data are now available for public download from http://vrdc.ciser.cornell.edu/onthemap/doc/index.html . Access to the data files can be obtained by registering with virtualrdc@cornell.edu. Login procedures will be provided after registration.
There are four types of data sets associated with OnTheMap data: origin-destination (OD) matrix, residence area characteristics (RAC), workplace area characteristics, and workforce indicators. Comprehensive documentation about the data files is available on the website. Three (3) implicates (independent draws from the synthesizing algorithm) of each OD and RAC file are available for the following states:
OnTheMap Version 2 (Years: 2002–2004)
Alabama, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
OnTheMap Version 1 (Years: 2002–2003)
Florida, Texas, and Washington
Users should be aware that these files can be quite large. Version 1 data will be withdrawn and replaced by Version 2 data as the latter become available without further notice. Maintenance releases will also be issued periodically in the future.
Users are encouraged to share their research findings and analytical insights for future versions of OnTheMap and synthetic data development in general at this listserv: lehd-onthemap@lists.census.gov. General questions about the LEHD program and LED partnership should be sent to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov, or visit the LEHD main page for more information.
June 18, 2007: Census Bureau Launches Older Worker Profiles for 31 states
The U.S. Census Bureau, in the Local Employment Dynamcis (LED) partnership with 31 states, has launched a series of reports on older workers that presents a detailed picture for people 55 and older in the work force, beginning with the release of "The Geographic Distribution and Characteristics of Older Workers In Iowa: 2004" today (news release).
"The retirement of baby boomers will have a huge impact on the work force," said Census Bureau Director Louis Kincannon. "Businesses and planners need a better understanding of labor force trends, the loss of experienced workers and the payout of retirement benefits."
Reports will be issued on a flow basis for the other 30 partner states:
- Second wave: Maine, Vermont, Arkansas, Hawaii and Indiana.
- Third wave: Maryland, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Colorado, Delaware, Kentucky and South Carolina.
- Fourth wave: Alabama, Idaho, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia.
- Fifth wave: California.
The report and additional tables may be found on the Profiles page. For additional information about the LED partnership, please visit the LEHD main page.
June 7, 2007: LED User Group Website Launches on June 14
An independent LED User Group website located at http://www.skilledwork.org/ledusers.html will be launched on June 14, 2007. John Carpenter, the lead designer of the online mapping and application tool OnTheMap, will give a live demonstration of the latest version and chat with interested participants from 2:00 to 3:30 pm, Eastern Time. The session is open to all interested parties. There is no charge to join. It is an excellent opportunity to find out more about the popular tool and its new features first hand. In order to participate, go to http://www.skilledwork.org/led_presentations.html and follow the detailed instructions. The LED User Group website is not affiliated with the Census Bureau.
June 6, 2007: LEHD Website Scheduled for Downtime on June 9
The LEHD website is scheduled for maintenance downtime on Saturday, June 9, 2007, beginning at 7:00 am and ending 11:00 am, Eastern Time.
June 3, 2007: Rhode Island QWI Data on LED Website
Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of Rhode Island have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and Industry Focus. Rhode Island becomes the 39th state to post its QWI data on the LED website.
June 2, 2007: Alaska QWI Data on LED Website
Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of Alaska have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and Industry Focus. Alaska becomes the 40th state to post its QWI data on the LED website.
June 1, 2007: OnTheMap Version 2.1 Released
The Census Bureau released OnTheMap Version 2.1 today. The new release adds 13 states to the web-based mapping and reporting application. They are Colorado, Florida, Idaho. Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Washington.
Data for California is currently undergoing review. A release date for California will be provided pending this review.
In addition to the original 3 states of Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina, there are now 16 states available in the newest version of OnTheMap. Reports are available for up to 3 years of data covering 2002–2004; cross-state patterns are available for all 16 states. Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (WIRED) Generation 1 and Generation 2 regions, 109th Congressional districts, Core-Based Statistical Areas, tribal lands, and census tracts are among the newly added geographies. The previously reported bug in Version 2.0.2 has been fixed.
OnTheMap Version 2.1 can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at http://www.census.gov and clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links, or directly at LEHD main page. Phased released of OnTheMap Version 2 will continue till the end of September.
The release of OnTheMap Version 2.2 is scheduled for July 31 to add 17 states: Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Please send your comments and questions about OnTheMap Version 2 by email to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov. You can also join an active OnTheMap listserv by sending an email with "yes to OTM2" in the subject line of the email message. Additional information about OnTheMap Version 2 is located here.
May 31, 2007: Case Studies: Using LED and HotReports for Job Retention
The DataTools/Case Studies section of the LED web site features real uses of the LED data. The latest example of how LED data and DataFerrett's Community Development (CED) HotReports are being applied to local economies pertains to Concordia, Missouri. One of the larger employers in this small rural town announced the relocation of its manufacturing operation to another state. The Missouri Department of Economic Development's (DED) Missouri Economic Research and Information Center (MERIC) prepared a 10-page brochure [PDF; File Size: 928KB] developed from LED's OnTheMap and DataFerrett's CED HotReport to assist the state representative in a meeting on retaining the plant in Concordia, between corporate executives, the City of Concordia, Lafayette County, the UAW, Missouri Workforce Development and Missouri Department of Economic Development (DED).
May 15, 2007: OnTheMap Version 2.0.2 Released
The Census Bureau released OnTheMap Version 2.0.2 today. The new release turns on the Paired Area and Concentric Ring Analyses. Improvements to the organization and display of the Layer List have also been made.
There is currently a bug in the 2.0.2 release that affects several selection tools when performing a Labor Shed Analysis within the state of North Carolina. Specifically, selection areas are lost (they disappear after they are made) when performing a Labor Shed for year 2004 when using the Freehand, Buffered, Circle, and Concentric Circle selection tools. The other active states (Alabama and Georgia) and years 2002 and 2003 are not affected. It is anticipated that this problem will be corrected with the release of 2.1(May 31).
OnTheMap Version 2 presently covers 3 states: Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina. It can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at http://www.census.gov and then OnTheMap under Quick Links, or directly on the LEHD main page. Phased released of OnTheMap Version 2 will continue till the end of September.
The release of OnTheMap Version 2.1 is scheduled for May 31 to add 13 states: Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Washington. Data for California is currently undergoing review. A specific release date will be provided pending this review.
Please send your comments and questions about OnTheMap Version 2 by email to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov. You can also join an active OnTheMap listserv by sending an email with "yes" in the subject line of the email message. Additional information about OnTheMap Version 2 is located here.
May 11, 2007: Louisiana QWI Data on LED Website
Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of Louisiana have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and Industry Focus. Louisiana becomes the 38th state to post its QWI data on the LED website.
April 30, 2007: OnTheMap Version 2.0.1 Released
The Census Bureau released OnTheMap Version 2.0.1 today. The new release turns on the reporting capabilities for all three years 2002–2004. The buffered area and circle selection tools have also been activated, along with new geographical selectable layers such as the Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (WIRED) regions, congressional districts, core-based statistical areas, and zip code areas.
OnTheMap Version 2 presently covers 3 states: Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina. It can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at http://www.census.gov and clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links, or directly on the LEHD main page. Phased released of OnTheMap Version 2 will continue till the end of September.
Please send your comments and questions about OnTheMap Version 2 by email to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov. You can also join an active OnTheMap listserv by sending an email with "yes" in the subject line of the email message. Additional information about OnTheMap Version 2 is located here.
The release of OnTheMap Version 2.0.2 is scheduled for May 15 to turn on paired area and concentric circle analyses.
April 15, 2007: OnTheMap Version 2.0 Released
The Census Bureau released OnTheMap Version 2.0 today. The phased release will continue till the end of September. OnTheMap Version 2.0 includes the U.S. map for all states and 2002–2004 data for 3 states—Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina. It can be accessed by selecting "Local Employment Dynamics" at http://www.census.gov and clicking OnTheMap under Quick Links, or directly on the LEHD main page.
Please send your comments and questions about OnTheMap Version 2 by email to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov. You can also join an active OnTheMap listserv by sending an email with "yes" in the subject line of the email message. Additional information about OnTheMap Version 2 is located here.
The release of OnTheMap Version 2.0.1 is scheduled for April 30 to turn on additional reporting and selection features.
April 12, 2007: New York Joins LED
New York has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership today, as one of 45 partners including the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce new and improved labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data.
April 9, 2007: OnTheMap Version 2 Begins Roll Out on April 15
The phased release of OnTheMap Version 2 (OTM2) is scheduled to begin on April 15. Additional descriptions of the phased release, as well as the content and release notes for OTM2, are now available.
April 4, 2007: Drop-In Article for Your Publications and Newsletters
A ready-to-print (drop-in) introductory article on LED tools is available for use in your newsletters and listservs. The Census Bureau-approved article can be modified to change the contact person to someone on your local staff or to provide specific data for your area.
March 28, 2007: Release Schedule for OnTheMap Version 2
The Census Bureau announced today that the phased release schedule [PDF; File Size: 96KB] of OnTheMap Version 2 (OTM2) will begin on April 15. The major functionalities will be turned on incrementally with 3 states—Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina—during the months of April and May. More states will be added beginning the end of May to bring the total to as many as 44 by the end of September 2007. Please visit the LEHD main page or Local Employment Dynamics under http://www.census.gov for more information.
Release Schedule for OTM2:
- 04/15/2007 Version 2.0 includes U.S. map for 50 states with data available for 3 states.
- 04/30/2007 Version 2.0.1 turns on reporting and additional selection capabilities.
- 05/15/2007 Version 2.0.2 turns on paired area and concentric circle analyses.
- 05/31/2007 Version 2.1 adds 14 states.
- 07/31/2007 Version 2.2 adds 17 states.
- 09/30/2007 Version 2.3 adds up to 10 states and completes the release of OTM2.
January 30, 2007: QWI DVD Set Available for Purchase
A complete set of 2005 Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for 37 partner states under the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership is now available on multiple DVDs from the Census Bureau. Price is $400 for the complete set. Please allow 3–5 days for shipment.
January 16, 2007: Alaska Joins LED
Alaska has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program this month, as one of 44 partners including the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce new and improved labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data.
December 4, 2006: Georgia OnTheMap
The Census Bureau released version 1.1.2 of OnTheMap on December 5, 2006. OnTheMap is a web-based, interactive mapping application that shows where people work and where workers live on maps with companion reports on their age, earnings, and industry distributions, city/county of residence or employment, and quarterly workforce indicators for workers. It is also supported by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor based on integrated data from the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership.
This release will conclude the completion of OnTheMap Version 1. Original plan for OnTheMap Version 1.2 will be transitioned to OnTheMap Version 2, development of which has started. Major features of the new version will include expansion to as many as 44 states, addition of 2004 data, and implementation of cross-state patterns. OnTheMap Version 2 is scheduled for phased releases between March and September 2007.
OnTheMap is located on the LEHD main page. It is a high definition, intensive data processing application that requires adequate memory (256GB or more RAM), high graphical resolution (1280x1024 or higher), and rapid access speed (download speed of 500 Kb/s or faster) for optimal performance. The application is accessible by commonly used browsers including Firefox version 1.0 or higher, Internet Explorer version 6.0 or higher, or Netscape version 7.1 or higher, with Popup Blocker turned off.
Please send your comments and questions about OnTheMap via email to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov and visit the LED website.
November 6, 2006: Mississippi QWI Data on LED Website
Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of Mississippi have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and Industry Focus. Mississippi becomes the 37th state to post its QWI data on the LED website.
October 20, 2006: Utah QWI Data on LED Website
Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of Utah have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and Industry Focus. Utah becomes the 36th state to post its QWI data on the LED website.
October 19, 2006: OnTheMap Data Available from Cornell University
Oregon and Texas data for OnTheMap are now available through the Census Bureau's partnership with the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER) at Cornell University. OnTheMap went live on the Internet in February, and it has grown to 16 states with Georgia to be added in November. OnTheMap is the first synthetic data product released by the Census Bureau. Ten (10) distinct copies of the synthetic data, known as implicates, are produced; one of them is used for the current implementation of OnTheMap. The CISER site provides an Internet-accessible computing environment dedicated to the exploration and development of synthetic data. Data for other states will be added over time. See attached update for more details or visit the LEHD main page.
Data Available from Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research [PDF; File Size: 116KB]
October 12, 2006: Georgia QWI Data on LED Website
Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of Georgia have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and Industry Focus. Georgia becomes the 35th state to post its QWI data on the LED website.
October 11, 2006: OnTheMap Version 2
Under the agreement with the Employment and Training Admininstration, the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership will be developing OnTheMap Version 2 in the coming year. Major features of the new version will include expansion to as many as 44 states, addition of 2004 data, and implementation of cross-state patterns. Tentative release schedules are provided in the attached update about the web-based, interactive mapping and reporting application. A separate Questions and Answers sheet is also provided to anticipate some of the potential questions about the development of OnTheMap Version 2. Please send your questions or comments to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov or visit the LED website.
OnTheMap Version 2 Major Features [PDF; File Size: 80KB]
OnTheMap Q&A for Version 2 [PDF; File Size: 104KB]
October 3, 2006: New York Enacts Legislation to Join LED
New York state legislature has passed a bill (Assembly A11619 and Senate S08072) to allow the sharing of state data with the Census Bureau and the state joining the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership. The bill was signed by the New York Governor on September 13. Additional information about the bill may be found at http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A11619.
September 11, 2006: ETA and Census Bureau Reached Agreement
The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and the Census Bureau have reached agreement to pursue the expansion of the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership to a national program. There are currently 43 state partners in LED. In addition to other tasks, ETA will support the Census Bureau's development of OnTheMap Version 2, an online mapping application to show where people live and work with companion reports. OnTheMap Version 2 will cover 2002–2004 data for up to 44 states, including cross-state commuting patterns. For more information, visit the LED website or send your comments to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
August 18, 2006: Conversion to NAICS-based QWI Production
The Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership plans to begin applying back-codes of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) to the production of Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) beginning with the 2006 fourth quarter production. This would extend the QWI time series to as far back as 1990, wherever historical data are available. Parallel production of QWI for the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes will continue for two additional quarters; it will then cease to be updated. NAICS replaced SIC as the official standard in 2001. Additional details about the conversion may be found on the Local Employment Dynamics main page.
August 1, 2006: North Dakota QWI Data on LED Website
Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of North Dakota have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and Industry Focus. North Dakota becomes the 34th state to post its QWI data on the LED website.
July 28, 2006: OnTheMap Version 1.1.1 Released
The Census Bureau released the latest version of OnTheMap on July 28, 2006. OnTheMap is a web-based, interactive mapping application that shows where people work and where workers live on maps with companion reports on their age, earnings, and industry distributions, city/county of residence or employment, and quarterly workforce indicators for workers.
Sixteen states are partners in OnTheMap, with the state of Iowa as the latest addition.
Version 1.1.1 features: addition of Iowa data; a number of fixes including resolution of known bugs associated with large overlay queries; certain multi-part counties that were not selectable; the overlay key disappearing during resizing; and being unable to select the same circle or buffer center point twice in a row. Additions include a hand/pointer to show tools in the selector panels and a "clear" button which permits the user to stop the loading process. A list of known bugs can be found here.
OnTheMap is located at http://onthemap.ces.census.gov/. It is a high definition, intensive data processing application that requires adequate memory (256GB or more RAM), high graphical resolution (1280x1024 or higher), and rapid access speed (download speed of 500 Kb/p or faster) for optimal performance. The application is accessible by commonly used browsers including Firefox version 1.0 or higher, Internet Explorer version 6.0 or higher, or Netscape version 7.1 or higher, with Popup Blocker turned off.
Send your comments and questions about OnTheMap via email to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
June 30, 2006: Louisiana Joins LED
Louisiana has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program this month, as one of 43 partners including the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce new and improved labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data.
June 23, 2006: Michigan Joins LED
Michigan has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program this month, as one of 42 partners including the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce new and improved labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data.
June 22, 2006: Tennessee QWI Data on LED Website
Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of Tennessee have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and Industry Focus. Tennessee becomes the 33rd state to post its QWI data on the LED website.
June 13, 2006: Mississippi Joins LED
Mississippi has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program this month, as one of 41 partners including the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce new and improved labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data.
June 5, 2006: Updated QWI definitions are now available
A list of detailed definitions for the variables on QWI Online can be found in Appendix A in Abowd, Stephens and Vilhuber (2006) technical documentation paper [PDF; File Size: 760KB]. To simply view the definitions, Appendix A is available here [PDF; File Size: 272KB]. For a more general and less detailed list of definitions, a less comprehensive list of definitions provided by Cynthia Tauber and Erika McEntarfer is also available [PDF; File Size: 76KB]
May 31, 2006: OnTheMap Version 1.1 Released
The Census Bureau announced the release of the latest version of OnTheMap on May 31, 2006. OnTheMap is a web-based, interactive mapping application that shows where people work and where workers live on maps with companion reports on their age, earnings, and industry distributions, city/county of residence or employment, and quarterly workforce indicators for workers.
Fifteen states are partners in OnTheMap and three more states are in the process of joining.
Version 1.1 features: clickable U.S. state map that takes you directly to the state; expanded report output options, offering PDF, XLS, formatted text or tab delimited text; standardized decimal placement in percentages; enhanced OnTheMap tool bars; additional and updated Help documentation and screens; and enhanced map overlay display including showing only the outline for the selected area.
OnTheMap is located on the LEHD main page. It is a high definition, intensive data processing application that requires adequate memory (256GB or more RAM), high graphical resolution (1280x1024 or higher), and rapid access speed (download speed of 500 Kb/p or faster) for optimal performance. The application is accessible by commonly used browsers including Firefox version 5.0 or higher, Internet Explorer version 6.0 or higher, or Netscape version 7.1 or higher, with Popup Blocker turned off.
Send your comments and questions about OnTheMap via an email to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
May 8, 2006: ETA Hosts Webinar on LED
The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) at the U.S. Department of Labor hosted a webinar on how Local Employment Dynamics (LED) can be used to respond to real life situations such as tornadoes and multi-state economic and transportation development efforts. The 90-minute webinar features new and powerful web-based LED tools, including OnTheMap, QWI Online, Industry Focus, and e-Learning modules, that employ integrated data to meet the demands of local workforce and economic development. The recorded webinar is available for registered access at http://www.workforce3one.org under Workforce Investment System.
April 6, 2006: Final e-Learning Module Now Available: OnTheMap
The last of four e-learning modules, called OnTheMap Tour, is now available in QuickLinks and also in DataTools. This e-learning module features voice and animation to illustrate the features of LED's newest analytic tool, OnTheMap. OnTheMap is a geographic map-based analytic tool. This powerful tool can show where workers live, where they work, the extent of their travel, and generally how they might get to work, illustrated using a scenario relevant to LMIs and WIBs. You must download Flash to view the module with voice and animation. Unlike previous e-learning modules, you must advance each screen of the OnTheMap Tour e-learning module using the right arrow. You may want to expand the view to include the navigation box on the left and then select the Text tab to follow along with the narration.
March 29, 2006: OnTheMap Version 1.0.1 Released
The Census Bureau announced the release of the latest version of OnTheMap on March 29, 2006. OnTheMap is a web-based, interactive mapping application that shows where people work and where workers live on maps with companion reports on their age, earnings, and industry distributions.
The addition of Oklahoma to the pilot states participating in OnTheMap brings that number to 15.
Version 1.0.1 features several labeling and title changes to reports and to the mapping display. For example, the shed reports showing origin and destination cities and counties now also includes the states in which each city or county is located. This is an important enhancement for Illinois and Missouri where worker travel between these two states can now be tracked using this version of OnTheMap.
OnTheMap is located on the LEHD main page. It is a high definition, intensive data processing application that requires adequate memory (256GB or more RAM), high graphical resolution (1280x1024 or higher), and rapid access speed (download speed of 500 Kb/p or faster) for optimal performance. The application is accessible by commonly used browsers including Firefox version 5.0 or higher, Internet Explorer version 6.0 or higher, or Netscape version 7.1 or higher, with Popup Blocker turned off.
Send your comments and questions about OnTheMap via an email to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
March 22, 2006: Third e-Learning Module Now Available: QWI Online
The third of four e-learning modules, called QWI Online Tour, is now available in QuickLinks and also in DataTools. This e-learning module features voice and animation to illustrate the features of LED's flag ship analytic tool, the QWI Online, which provides quarterly information, at the local level, for eight workforce indicators. Use of QWI Online is illustrated using a scenario relevant to LMIs and WIBs. Users must download Flash to view the module with voice and animation.
March 14, 2006: Second e-Learning Module Now Available: Industry Focus
The second of four e-learning modules, called Industry Focus Tour, is now available in QuickLinks and also in DataTools. This e-learning module features voice and animation to illustrate the features of Industry Focus, the easy-to-use analytic tool that provides top industries and workforce characteristics at the local level, using a scenario relevant to LMIs and WIBs. Users must download Flash to view the module with voice and animation.
March 9, 2006: Nevada QWI Data on LED Website
Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of Nevada have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and Industry Focus. Nevada becomes the 32nd state to post its QWI data on the LED website.
February 23, 2006: Hawaii QWI Data on LED Website
Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of Hawaii have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and Industry Focus. Hawaii becomes the 31st state to post its QWI data on the LED website.
February 13, 2006: First e-Learning Module Now Available
The first of four e-learning modules, called Site Tour, is now available in QuickLinks and also in DataTools. This e-learning module was rolled out at the LED Annual State Partners Conference in Washington, DC on 20 January. The modules feature voice and animation to illustrate the features of the website and of the three analytic tools, OnTheMap, Industry Focus and QWI Online, using scenarios relevant to LMIs and WIBs. Users must download Flash to view the module with voice and animation.
February 8, 2006: Annual LED State Workshop Successfully Concluded
The 2006 annual Local Employment Dynamics (LED) state workshop was successfully concluded on January 20 after two days of active exchange of ideas among the state labor market information agencies and the Census Bureau, as well as state workforce boards, federal agencies, stateholder organizations, and interested parties. Accomplishments of 2005 were reviewed; challenges and goals for 2006 were presented. "OnTheMap" and "DataFerrett for LED" were demonstrated. Presentations form the annual workshop are available now on the LED website. Select Library, then Workshops to view the 2006 annual state workshop agenda and presentations.
February 3, 2006: OnTheMap Released
The Census Bureau announced the inaugural release of OnTheMap on February 3, 2006. OnTheMap is a web-based, interactive mapping application that shows where people work and where workers live on maps with companion reports on their age, earnings, and industry distributions.
The user can select a geographic area freehand or by defined layer to answer questions of worker travel patterns. It also provides timely data for labor market, economic development, transportation, emergency management, and other potential applications. The analytical tools include Concentric Ring Analysis and Paired area analysis.
The Employment and Training Administration of the Department of Labor provided initial funding for this project. There are 14 pilot states in the initial release of OnTheMap: Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Texas, and Washington. Oklahoma and Maine are expected to be added in about a month.
Based on 2002–2003 data, the travel patterns are displayed at the block level, and the profile reports are produced at the block group level. Confidentiality is strictly protected even at these detail geographic levels by the use of state-of-the-art disclosure avoidance methods. This is the first product released by the Census Bureau that is based on partial synthetic data.
OnTheMap is located on the LEHD main page. It is a high definition, intensive data processing application that requires adequate memory (256GB or more RAM), high graphical resolution (1280x1024 or higher), and rapid access speed (download speed of 500 Kb/p or faster) for optimal performance. The application is accessible by commonly used browsers including Firefox version 5.0 or higher, Internet Explorer version 6.0 or higher, or Netscape version 7.1 or higher, with Popup Blocker turned off.
Send your comments and questions about OnTheMap via an email to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
January 26, 2006: Arizona Joins LED
Arizona has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program this month, as one of 40 partners including the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce new and improved labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data.
January 9, 2006: Brookings Institute Workshop on Increasing the Applicability of LED
On November 16, 2005 the Urban Markets Initiative (UMI) of the Brookings Institution hosted a workshop "Increasing the Applicability of Local Employment Dynamics," attended by over 40 users representing federal agencies, national users, and state and local users. Andrew Reamer from UMI served as the host; Jeremy Wu from the Census Bureau represented the LED program; John Dorrer from the State of Maine represented the partners from State Labor Market Information (LMI) offices. The meeting was facilitated by Gary Yakimov, Corporation for a Skilled Workforce, and Cynthia Taeuber, Jacob France Institute, University of Baltimore. UMI agreed to serve as host in light of its mission of increasing the availability and accessibility of federally provided data on small areas.
The purpose of the workshop was to improve the understanding and usability of the LED program.
- Brookings Workshop Summary on Increasing the Applicability of LED [PDF; File Size: 343KB]
December 22, 2005: Detailed Definitions, Formulas and Examples for Quarterly Workforce Indicators
Now available to all users, detailed definitions are provided in .pdf format for measures of Worker Employment (3 measures), Worker Employment Change (7 measures), Worker Earnings (5 measures) and Firm Employment Change (6 measures) as used in the Quarterly Workforce Indicators.
- Worker Employment [PDF; File Size:55KB]
- Worker Employment Change [PDF; File Size: 745KB]
- Worker Earnings [PDF; File Size: 408KB]
- Firm Employment Change [PDF; File Size: 878KB]
December 5, 2005: Rhode Island Joins LED
Rhode Island has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program this month, as one of 39 partners including the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce new and improved labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data.
November 1, 2005: "OnTheMap Beta" Available at LED Website
The beta version of "OnTheMap" has been moved to the Quick Links section of the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website at /. The new location will offer faster processing and greater capacity to the users. The original Excensus site will remain a development and test server, as well as a fail-over site. The same ID and password are used for access to the LED site. If you are new to the OnTheMap application and wish to serve as a beta tester in this pilot project, please contact LED at CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov. Comments and suggestions should also be directed to this email address.
The thermal feature has not been activated at this time, but will be shortly. Barring unforeseen major problems and issues for the remainder of this pilot project:
- Delivery of the last version of mapping interface and functionalities, including paired-area analysis and concentric rings, is expected from Excensus to the Census Bureau in about 7–10 days. Loading on the LED website is anticipated within about 48 hours of delivery.
- Delivery of session history, print and save capabilities, and text only version is expected from Excensus to the Census Bureau in about another 7–10 days. Loading on the LED website is anticipated within about 48 hours of delivery.
- Final bug fixes and refinements based on comments and suggestions are expected in the following weeks to complete beta testing of the project.
This pilot project is partially funded by the Employment and Training Administration. LED states interested in joining the mapping pilot should contact the program manager at Jeremy.S.Wu@census.gov.
October 24, 2005: Wyoming Joins LED
Wyoming has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program this month, as one of 38 partners including the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data.
October 13, 2005: Arkansas QWI Data on LED Website
Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of Arkansas have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and will be available on Industry Focus shortly. Arkansas becomes the 30th state to post its QWI data on the LED website.
August 25, 2005: "Industry Focus" Unveiled
Today, the new analytic tool called "Industry Focus" was added to the LED web site. "Industry Focus" combines the best of two soon-to-be-retired tools (Top Industries and Local Workforce) with many new features. In addition to generating a list of the top 3-digit NAICS industries or 2-digit NAICS sectors for your area and workers, you can focus on a particular sector or industry to see where it ranks among other industries and then drill in on it to look at characteristics of those who work in that industry. You can select one or more of eight labor market indicators to provide context to industry/workforce characteristics, as well as being able to select a single measure on which to rank.
August 15, 2005: South Carolina QWI Data on LED Website
Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of South Carolina have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and Industry Focus. South Carolina becomes the 29th state to post its QWI data on the LED website.
August 15, 2005: North Carolina QWI Data on LED Website
Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of North Carolina have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and will be made available in the soon-to-be-released Industry Focus shortly. North Carolina becomes the 28th state to post its QWI data on the LED website.
August 4, 2005: Preparing for "Industry Focus"; Retiring Analytic Tools "Local Workforce" and "Top Industries"
Within the next two weeks, a new analytic tool called "Industry Focus" will be added to the LED web site. Two tools, "Local Workforce" and "Top Industries", will be retired at that time. "Industry Focus" combines the best of the soon-to-be-retired tools with many new features. "Industry Focus" has been available for beta testing for several months and finishing touches and enhancements are being made now. State partners will receive separate notification and directions for skinning the new "Industry Focus" tool to their state web sites.
July 5, 2005: Changing from MSAs to CBSAs
The Office of Management and Budget announced new definitions of metropolitan areas effective June 6, 2003. The new definitions change the standard from Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) as defined in 1999 to Core-Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs). Briefly, a CBSA can be a Metropolitan Area (a core of at least 50,000 in population) or a Micropolitan Area (an area of between 10,000 and 50,000 in population). Metropolitan and Micropolitan Areas comprise one or more entire counties. As of June 6, 2003, there were 935 Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas in the United States. Additional information about the change from MSAs to CBSAs can be found on the Census Bureau website.
The Census Bureau plans to implement the new definitions in the production of the Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) beginning with the next quarterly production cycle (October 1- December 31, 2005). QWI and related products released at the end of this production cycle will be based on the new CBSA definitions. At that time, QWI based on the old definitions of MSAs will no longer be produced. If you have questions about this change, please send your inquiries to CES.Local.Employment.Dynamics@census.gov.
June 29, 2005: Update on LED OnTheMap
The Local Employment Dynamics (LED) recently released a new beta version of the pilot-mapping tool called OnTheMap. For the first time in the project, all 12 pilot states (California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington) are now included in the application. The states of Alabama and Texas joined the project recently and data will be rolled out shortly.
This pilot project is supported by the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) at the U.S. Department of Labor.
The application has two major functions, in accord with the ETA agreement: (a) illustrating the origin-destination data infrastructure for workers within a state (in this beta version of OnTheMap, cross-state patterns in two neighboring states—Illinois and Missouri—are also shown), and (b) mapping where workers live and where workers work within a state and cross-state, in the case of Illinois and Missouri.
The final beta version is scheduled for release on August 15, and the pilot project will conclude in September. OnTheMap will include companion reports based on 2002–2003 data. The online application will be implemented on the LED website.
May 16, 2005: Hawaii Joins LED
Hawaii has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program this month, as one of 37 partners including the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data.
March 28, 2005: New State Representatives on LED Steering Committee
Alexandra Hall, co-chair of the Local Employment Dynamics(LED) Steering Committee, announced today that the following state representatives will serve as new members of the Committee:
John Dorrer, LMI Director, Maine
Steve Hine, Research Director, Minnesota
Henry Jackson, LMI Director, Illiniois
Karen Leahy, Acting Division Chief, Pennsylvania
Wande Reweta, Senior Economist, Colorado
State representatives who continue to serve on the Committee are:
Rebecca Rust, LMI Director, Florida
Cynthia Swain, Principal Research Analyst, Idaho
Greg Weeks, Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Washington
The Census Bureau representatives of the Committee are:
Jeremy Wu, Program Manager, LEHD,Census Bureau, Co-chair
Jennifer Marks, Communications and Marketing Manager, LEHD
A recent amendment to the LED Steering Committee by-laws expanded the number of state representatives from six to eight in an attempt to represent Labor Market Information offices from each Bureau of Labor Statistics region.
March 8, 2005: Alabama QWI Data on LED Website
Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of Alabama have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and other applications. Alabama becomes the 27th state to post its QWI data on the LED website. Alabama has ported or "skinned" the QWI application with data for the state of Alabama directly to their website.
February 18, 2005: Vermont QWI Data on LED Website
Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of Vermont have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and other applications. Vermont becomes the 26th state to post its QWI data on the LED website.
February 16, 2005: South Carolina Joins LED
South Carolina has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program this month, becoming the 36th LED state partner in addition to the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data.
February 1, 2005: Indiana QWI Data on LED Website
Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of Indiana have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and other applications. Indiana becomes the 24th state to post its QWI data on the LED website. Additional efforts are being made to port or "skin" the applications directly to the Indiana website.
January 28, 2005: Annual LED State Workshop Successfully Concluded
The 2005 annual Local Employment Dynamics (LED) state workshop was successfully concluded on January 28 after two days of active exchange of ideas among the state labor market information agencies and the Census Bureau, as well as state workforce boards, federal agencies, stakeholder organizations, and interested parties. Accomplishments of 2004 were reviewed; challenges and goals for 2005 were presented. Presentations in the annual workshop will be collected and posted in the LED website next week.
January 28, 2005: Delaware QWI Data on LED Website
Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) for the state of Delaware have been posted on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website. They are available through the QWI Online and other applications. Delaware becomes the 23rd state to post its QWI data on the LED website. Additional efforts are being made to port or "skin" the applications directly to the Delaware website.
January 14, 2005: LED is Site of The Month by EconData.net
The Local Employment Dynamics (LED) website has been recognized as Site of the Month by EconData.net (under What's New in http://www.EconData.net ). After many years of research and development, LED is cited as a major breakthrough in socioeconomic data, and its full potential is yet to come. The four LED signature applications were hailed as impressive and revolutionary, and the website "does things like no one else on the web." We share this honor with all of you and will strive to make continuous improvement in the LED partnership.
January 4, 2005: Georgia Joins LED
Georgia has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program this month, making it one of 36 LED state partner in addition to the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data.
January 1, 2005: Invitation to Annual Workshop
We are pleased to invite you to participate in an annual Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Workshop, hosted by the U.S. Census Bureau on Friday, January 28, 2005, at The Madison Hotel, 15th and M Streets, NW, Washington, DC.
Local decision makers increasingly need up-to-date information for policy planning and to help identify strategic trends. The Local Employment Dynamics partnership is the cornerstone of an innovative program designed to develop new information about local labor markets. The LED partnership helps fill critical data gaps for state and local authorities.
This partnership between state labor market information agencies and the Census Bureau provides Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI)—new measures such as employment, hiring, jobs gains and losses, turnover, and earnings that are for the first time available by geographic area, industry, age, and gender over time, in addition to a pilot mapping application showing the origin-destination patterns of workers in 12 states.
At this workshop, you will see how this new information is being used to improve workforce, economic development, and transportation decisions by federal, state, and local agencies.
The workshop is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. and end at 2:30 p.m. The registration form and directions to the hotel are attached.
Registration
Please complete and fax the attached registration form by Wednesday, January 12, 2005. Our fax number is (301) 457-3682. If you have any questions, please contact Anna Holaus or Carol McDaniel at (301) 763-2308.
Ground Transportation
If you are traveling by privately-owned vehicle, valet parking at the hotel is $12 per day. The hotel is conveniently located approximately three blocks from either the McPherson Square Metro (Blue and Orange Lines) or the Farragut North Metro (Red Line).
December 23, 2004: Utah Joins LED
Utah has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program this month, becoming the 36th LED state partner in addition to the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data.
December 15, 2004: Vermont Joins LED
Vermont has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program this month, becoming the 35th LED state partner in addition to the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data.
December 6, 2004: Redesigned Web Site Launched
The Census Bureau launched a redesigned web site this week to provide users with an easy-to-navigate site for the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics program (LEHD).
The redesigned web site adds a number of new applications and features, introduces consistency in navigation and look and feel, builds a structure for adding content and integration with the Local Employment Dynamics program's state partners' web sites, and seeks to improve responsiveness to the users.
For example, two new applications—Local Workforce and Top Industries—have been added to provide the latest information on the composition of the local workforce and the "hot" industries in terms of hiring and earnings. The popular QWI Online continues to provide 8 quarterly workforce indicators by geography, industry, and demographics. The new site also offers a glimpse of the pilot project, OnTheMap, where the origin and destination patterns of workers between home and workplace are mapped. Featured sections such as "Quick Links", "What's New?", "Q&A", "Did You Know?", and "Partners Only" are included in the new web package, along with a chance to provide "Feedback" and perform a Google "Search" within the web site.
The web site will be continuously upgraded in the next 6–9 months. The next major milestone is the introduction of the mapping application between June and September 2005. Visit the LEHD main page for more information about the LEHD/LED program.
November 29, 2004: LED Offers Training on QWI
The Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program and the LMI Training Institute will jointly offer a training session for analysts on Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI). This class is designed for analysts who have basic knowledge of LMI programs and principles. The class will take place on January 24–26, 2005 at the Census Bureau Headquarters in Suitland, Maryland. The class size is limited to 15. Nomination deadline is December 10, 2004.
Registration questions should be directed to LMI Training Institute at 800-644-4226 or lmiti@sces.org. Questions on content should be directed to George Putnam, Illinois Department of Employment Security at 312-793-9826 or gputnam@ides.state.il.us.
November 12, 2004: Nevada joins LED
Nevada has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program this month, becoming the 34th LED state partner in addition to the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to Produce labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data.
November 8, 2004: LED Annual Workshop
The next Local Employment Dynamics (LED) annual workshop will be held in the Madison Hotel on January 27–28, 2005 in Washington, D.C. The first day of the workshop is a business meeting of the state labor market information agencies. The second day will be open to interested parties covering ongoing developmental and planned new activities for the coming year.
Additional information about the annual workshop will become available in the coming weeks. Contact Jannifer Marks at Jennifer.P.Marks@census.gov if you have immediate questions.
October 5, 2004: Maryland's Work Force Remains on the Job, As It Ages
Between 1990 and 2002, a higher proportion of working Marylanders were age 45 or over and the proportion of workers who were 65 years old and over increased slightly to 3.1 percent, the U.S. Census Bureau said today. The analysis of Maryland’s older workers is based on the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) program.
The report, A Profile of Older Workers in Maryland [PDF; File Size: 161KB], highlights the age composition of the state’s work force, job gains and losses for older workers by industry, industries in which older workers are concentrated and their job stability and earnings.
"With these new data we can see trends develop each quarter within a state or substate area, in what industries the changes occur and the characteristics of workers involved in the changes," Census Bureau Director Louis Kincannon said. "These indicators give new insight into Maryland's economy and how fluid employment is in its communities."
Some highlights from the Maryland report:
- In 2002, industries in which more than 1-in-5 workers were 55 or older included apparel from fabrics, paper and allied products, local or suburban transit, transportation equipment and membership organizations.
- Industries where workers 65 or older were most likely to be employed were in health services and business services. Other important sources of work for the oldest workers were eating and drinking places and engineering, accounting and research services.
- Legal services was an industry with a low turnover rate for workers 55 or older, while hotels and other lodging places had a high turnover rate.
Among industries in 2002 that employed more than 500 people 65 or older, the highest-paying
was legal services, whose workers received average earnings of $4,281 per month.
The LED consists of individual partnerships between 31 states, the District of Columbia and the Census Bureau.
Reports on a variety of topics, prepared jointly with the partner states, will be released over the upcoming months.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ National Institute on Aging, a
component of the National Institutes of Health, funded the reports on older workers.
In addition, quarterly work force indicators on such subjects as job creation and new hires are currently available for Maryland and several other partner states for selected years, age groups and geographic areas, as well as for men and women, on the LEHD main page.
Because the statistics come from a variety of sources, including state administrative records, they are not directly comparable with statistics from household surveys such as the decennial census long form, the American Community Survey and the Current Population Survey. Industries are organized by the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system. The LED program will soon move from the SIC system to the North American Industry Classification System. As in all data-estimation processes, the results are subject to error arising from data processing or incomplete records. The Census Bureau uses a variety of procedures to minimize such errors.
October 1, 2004: NSF Funds Confidentiality Research
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made awards supporting nearly 120 new Information Technology Research (ITR) projects dedicated to addressing the information technology priorities facing the country. Among these ITR projects is an award to the Cornell University on maintaining the confidentiality guaranteed to Census participants. The press release includes the following description:
Data from the U.S. Census Bureau provide a unique window onto society, but social scientists have limited access to the data due to strict confidentiality requirements. To provide greater access for cutting-edge social science analysis, a $2.9 million project led by Cornell University is tackling the issues required to maintain the confidentiality guaranteed to Census participants, as well as to create synthetic versions of these data sets which are analytically valid but protect the identity of census respondents.
Visit http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/newsroom/pr.cfm?ni=15100000000113 for more of the press release.
September 20, 2004: Advisory to LED State Partners on Submission of ES202/QCEW Data Files
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) sent a communication to our state Labor Market Information (LMI) agency partners on July 8, 2004 regarding the BLS interpretation of the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act (CIPSEA). One part of this communication informed the LMI agencies that data collected under the Current Employment Statistics (CES) program should not be included as improvements in the ES202/QCEW files sent to the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) program. Since that date, we have been actively pursuing a written agreement with BLS that would permit the continuation of current practice in order to avoid disruption to the production of the Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) before October 1, 2004. As of today, we have not reached such an agreement with BLS.
Consequently, we advise the LED state partners to send in their preliminary 2004Q1 and final 2003Q4 ES202/QCEW files according to the 1060-column Enhanced Quarterly Unemployment Insurance (EQUI) file layout, free of CES data, for the QWI production cycle beginning on October 1, 2004.
The effect of this production change on the QWIs is still being investigated, and we expect the effect to vary by state:
- QWIs for those states that have not been using CES data to enhance their ES202/QCEW files are not expected to be affected.
- QWIs from those states that have historically used these enhancements are likely to be affected at some selected local levels and differ from local QWIs that have historically been produced.
- New states that are joining the LED partnership have been advised by BLS not to send in their historical ES202/QCEW data prior to 1998. Their users will be unable to access historical QWIs, and there is likely to be less precision in the local estimates than would otherwise be the case.
We recognize that this adjustment will mean some loss of statistical efficiency. We are committed to continue to pursue an agreement with BLS. At the same time, we plan to consult and work closely with each state partner to carefully assess and understand the impact of this change.
For further information, please contact Jeremy Wu, Program Manager, at Jeremy.S.Wu@census.gov. Visit the LED main page for more information about the LED program.
September 20, 2004: Vermont and Tennessee Join LED
Vermont and Tennessee have joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program this month, becoming the 32nd and 33rd LED state partners in addition to the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data.
August 22, 2004: Alabama Joins LED
Alabama has joined the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program this month, becoming the 31st LED state partner in addition to the District of Columbia. LED is a voluntary federal-state partnership that integrates data on employees and data on employers with multiple other data sources to produce labor market information about the dynamics of the local economy and society, while strictly protecting the confidentiality of individuals and firms that provide the data.
August 16, 2004: Participating States for Mapping Pilot
The Local Employment Dynamics program announced today that the following states will be participating in the LED Origin/Destination Mapping Project:
California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Virginia
A listserv has been set up for the project participants. In addition, the following tentative schedule has been established:
September–November: Monthly conference calls.
November: LED and ETA will host a meeting in Washington DC.
December: Initial test versions of the applications introduced.
January 2005: Presentation in LED annual workshop.
March: National Association of Workforce Boards presentation.
March-September: Refinements and training.
For additional information, contact Julia Lane at julia.ingrid.lane@census.gov or Jeremy Wu at jeremy.s.wu@census.gov
August 4, 2004: Upcoming Training Sessions About Local Employment Dynamics (LED)
Sep 1–3 Introductory Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) Training – Focus is on QWI measures. Trainers – George Putnam and Eric Moore. Contact George at GPutnam@ides.state.il.us for more information.
Sep 27–29 Industry/Area Report Training – Focus is on template reports for use by Workforce Investment Board staff and employers. Trainers – Eric Moore and George Putnam. Contact Eric at Eric.M.Moore@state.or.us for more information.
August 2, 2004: NSF Makes Major Award to Cornell University for Confidentiality Protection Research
The National Science Foundation has notified Professor John Abowd of the Cornell University and Senior Research Fellow for the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program on the award of almost $3 million to fund confidentiality protection research for the next three years.
This award will greatly enhance the partnership between the Census Bureau and the university-based researchers who contribute to the Census Bureau Research Data Centers and the protection of confidential data that the LED Program processes and produces.
July 30, 2004: Last Day to Apply for Participation in Mapping Pilot
Today is the last day for partner states in the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program to apply for participation in a pilot program to develop mapping applications to portray labor market information.
Funded by the Employment and Training Administration of the Department of Labor, the LED Program will select 10 states to participate in the pilot project, which will provide origin-destination worker flows for two years 2002–2003 and cover such workplace and worker characteristics as industry, earnings, age, job gain and loss, hires and separations, and geographic location. An online mapping system is part of the objective of this important initiative. Announcement of the selection of the 10 participating states is scheduled for August 16, 2004.
July 22, 2004: And The Winner Is ... Julia Lane
Dr. Julia Lane, senior research fellow of the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program, is the winner of the 2004 Vladimir Chavrid Memorial Award, the most prestigious award given by the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA).
The award recognizes Dr. Lane's excellence and contributions to the operation and understanding in the field of Labor Market Information (LMI) and Employment Security operations research. The award was established in the early 1970s to memorialize Mr. Vladimir Charvid, a former employment security officials, who was an early pioneer in the LMI area. The award ceremony was held today at the NASWA LMI National Annual Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota.