Total Error and Variability Measures for the Quarterly Workforce Indicators and LEHD Origin Destination Employment Statistics in OnTheMap

Kevin L. McKinney, Andrew Green (), Lars Vilhuber and John Abowd ()

Working Papers from U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies

Abstract: We report results from the first comprehensive total quality evaluation of five major indicators in the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) Program Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI): total flow-employment, beginning-of-quarter employment, full quarter employment, average monthly earnings of full-quarter employees, and total quarterly payroll. Beginning-of-quarter employment is also the main tabulation variable in the LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) workplace reports as displayed in On-TheMap (OTM), including OnTheMap for Emergency Management. We account for errors due to coverage; record-level non response; edit and imputation of item missing data; and statistical disclosure limitation. The analysis reveals that the five publication variables under study are estimated very accurately for tabulations involving at least 10 jobs. Tabulations involving three to nine jobs are a transition zone, where cells may be fit for use with caution. Tabulations involving one or two jobs, which are generally suppressed on fitness-for-use criteria in the QWI and synthesized in LODES, have substantial total variability but can still be used to estimate statistics for untabulated aggregates as long as the job count in the aggregate is more than 10.

Keywords: Multiple imputation; Total quality measures; Employment statistics; Earnings statistics; Total survey error; Input noise infusion SDL. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2020-09
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