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This section provides information on a range of educational topics, from educational attainment and school enrollment to school districts, costs and financing.
We measure the state of the nation's workforce, including employment and unemployment levels, weeks and hours worked, occupations, and commuting.
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Health statistics on insurance coverage, disability, fertility and other health issues are increasingly important in measuring the nation's overall well-being.
We measure the housing and construction industry, track homeownership rates, and produce statistics on the physical and financial characteristics of our homes.
Income is the gauge many use to determine the well-being of the U.S. population. Survey and census questions cover poverty, income, and wealth.
The U.S. Census Bureau is the official source for U.S. export and import statistics and regulations governing the reporting of exports from the U.S.
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The Geographic Support System Initiative will integrate improved address coverage, spatial feature updates, and enhanced quality assessment and measurement.
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Definitions of geographic terms, why geographic areas are defined, and how the Census Bureau defines geographic areas.
We conduct research on geographic topics such as how to define geographic areas and how geography changes over time.
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National and state population totals from the 2010 Census were released on December 21, 2010
The American Community Survey (ACS) is a mandatory, ongoing statistical survey that samples a small percentage of the population every year.
The AHS is sponsored by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The Economic Census is the U.S. government's official five-year measure of American business and the economy.
Collects data and measures change for many topics including: economic well-being, family dynamics, education, assets, health insurance, and childcare.
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Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics
Alert
Applications
- PSEO Explorer
- J2J Explorer (Beta)
- QWI Explorer
- OnTheMap
- OnTheMap for Emergency Management
- LED Extraction Tool
Useful Links
Contact Information
Research
The LEHD program maintains an active research program oriented on the use of longitudinally linked employer-employee data. This includes activities such as developing new prototypes for data products, research comparing administrative and survey data, and working to expand use of administrative data in the federal statistical system. LEHD economists share their research at academic conferences and publish in peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly outlets
Research using LEHD microdata is also carried out by qualified academic researchers under approved projects using a secure network of Federal Statistical Research Data Centers (FSRDCs). Please use the following link to view more information on accessing LEHD data through the FSRDCs.
Recent Working Papers
The following set of working papers highlight recent research of LEHD staff and FSRDC researchers using LEHD data. Older working papers can be found in the CES discussion paper series 
. Prior to 2008, a separate LEHD Technical Paper series
was maintained.
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Predicting the Effect of Adding a Citizenship Question to the 2020 CensusJ. David Brown; Misty L. Heggeness; Suzanne M. Dorinski; Lawrence Warren; Moises Yi (19-18
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Employee Costs of Corporate BankruptcyJohn R. Graham; Hyunseob Kim; Si Li; Jiaping Qiu (NBER Working Paper No. 25922 )
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Releasing Earnings Distributions using Differential Privacy: Disclosure Avoidance System For Post Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO)Andrew Foote; Ashwin Machanavajjhala; Kevin McKinney (19-13 )
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Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in the United States: New Evidence from Worker-Firm Linked DataAndré Kurmann; Erika McEntarfer (19-07 )
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Understanding the Quality of Alternative Citizenship Data Sources for the 2020 CensusJ. David Brown; Misty L. Heggeness; Suzanne M. Dorinski; Lawrence Warren; Moises Yi (18-38 )
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LEHD Infrastructure S2014 files in the FSRDCLars Vilhuber (18-27 )
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Does Federally-Funded Job Training Work? Nonexperimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and FirmsFredrik Andersson; Harry J. Holzer; Julia I. Lane; David Rosenblum; Jeffrey Smith (18-02 )
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Total Error and Variability Measures with Integrated Disclosure Limitation for Quarterly Workforce Indicators and LEHD Origin Destination Employment Statistics in On The MapKevin L. McKinney; Andrew S. Green; Lars Vilhuber; John M. Abowd (17-71 )
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Who Moves Up the Job Ladder?John Haltiwanger; Henry Hyatt; Erika McEntarfer (17-63 )
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Recalculating - How Uncertainty in Local Labor Market Definitions Affects Empirical FindingsAndrew Foote; Mark J. Kutzbach; Lars Vilhuber (17-49 )
Meet the Economists
- Andrew Foote, Ph.D., University of California, Davis
- Henry Hyatt, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
- Hubert Janicki, Ph.D., Arizona State University
- Erika McEntarfer, Ph.D., Virginia Tech
- Kevin McKinney, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
- Kristin Sandusky, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- James Spletzer, Ph.D., Northwestern University
- Lee Tucker, Ph.D., Boston University
- Larry Warren, Ph.D., University of Iowa
- Moises Yi, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
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