Testing Part Time Employment Reliability Across the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs and the Medicare Expenditure Panel Survey

Jared Wold

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

Abstract: This technical note cross checks measures of employment and part-time employment across three different data sources: the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs (ASE, 2014-2016, the establishment surveys conducted as part of the Medicare Expenditure Panel Survey – Insurance Component (MEPS-IC), and the administrative records derived measures in the Longitudinal Business Database (LBD). The MEPS-IC and certain years of the ASE field questions on the composition of business’ workforce, which is useful for research focused on part-time workers or constructing alternative measures of firm-size, such as the Full Time Equivalency measures used in some policies. I assess these part-time measures for consistency with other questions in the survey, compare the distributions of part-time employment between the surveys, and identify firms sampled by both surveys in the same year to directly compare responses to the part-time questions.

Keywords: ASE; MEPS-IC; LBD (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-02
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