Demographic Representativeness of the LEHD's Employer History File based on LEHD-ACS Comparisons

Charles Adam Pfander and Richard Mansfield

CES Technical Notes Series from Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau

Abstract: We develop a series of scripts in SAS and R that clean and standardize a rich set of demographic variables in the ACS for the period 2001-2014. We then compute the share of workers in each category of each variable among two populations: all workers in the ACS, and those in the ACS that also appear in the LEHD, using the provided ACS sampling weights. Finally, focusing on comparisons within the LEHD alone, we calculate the composition of the workforce across a set of firm-level characteristics and analyze which state-years are outside the norm for a particular state, with the aim of identifying the frequency, magnitude, and impact on representatives of underreporting in certain state-years.

Keywords: LEHD; ACS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-10
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