Local Employment Dynamics’
Analytic Tools

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LED Session Outline

• About LED

• Tools:

  • CED HotReports

  • Older Worker Profiles

  • QWI Online

  • Industry Focus

  • OnTheMap

• Wrap Up

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• Use existing data to link multiple sources

• Create new data and products

• Reduce cost and respondent burden

• Make data available while protecting confidentiality

New data and products

LEHD Led to LED

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Local Employment Dynamics

• A voluntary partnership between the states and the Census Bureau

• States supply quarterly worker and business wage records

• Census Bureau merges the state records with other data to produce new data and products about jobs, workers, industries and your local economy

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States in LED Partnership

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Or Click on
Data Tools
and find the
LED links under Interactive Internet Tools

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• Available for all counties/ county equivalents

• Contains ETA WIRED regions

• In future, will include LED data, state totals, and may allow user-created aggregations of counties

http://ced.census.gov/

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Older Worker
Profiles

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LED’s Primary Product:
Quarterly Workforce Indicators

• QWI indicators:

  • Employment

  • Earnings

  • Job creation

  • Job destruction

  • Turnover

• Analyzed by

  • Geography

  • Industry

  • Gender

  • Age

  • Time

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QWI Online – Flagship Product

Link through to state’s data

Shows most recent quarter of data

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Interactive QWI Online

2-, 3-, and 4-digit NAICS code

8 age categories

Entries updated instantaneously

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State, county, Workforce Investment Areas (WIA), metro areas

Select age (e.g., 14-18) and gender

Ranking and multiple indicator selection

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Click on industry to see workforce characteristics.

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Uses for OnTheMap

Economic Planning & Time Series

- Where is the labor supply located?

- Which industries are growing or declining over

time?

Transportation planning & analysis

- Between which areas do workers commute?

Emergency management

- Daytime population estimates

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Starting OnTheMap

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Type “irv” in Place Name Lookup; Highlight in City Lookup Results

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Displaying City of Irvine in OnTheMap

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OnTheMap Navigation

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What if I Goof Up?

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Background Map Layers

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Example: Zip Code (ZCTA) Layer

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Overlays and Travel Sheds

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Create/Change Overlay:
Create Travel Sheds

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Types of OnTheMap Reports

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Create Travel Shed
Select Labor Shed & Shed Report

Type Report Name Here

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Selection Tools: Choose Layer

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Selection Layer:
Select Cities/Towns

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Draw Line Within Irvine City Boundaries to Select the City

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Display Options: Points
Let the Hourglasses Spin

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Display Options: Thermals
Where Workers Live

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Labor Shed Report
Pop-up blockers OFF!

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Change Report with Re-use Selection

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Area Profile Report:
Characteristics of Irvine’s Workers

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Buffered Selection: Set Width of Corridor & Draw Line

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QWI Report
Only Available for Labor Shed

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Create & Continue Paired Areas

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Paired Area Analysis:
Circle and Freehand Selections

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Analyze Concentric Rings

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Set Radii of Concentric Rings

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Concentric Circle Report

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Change Shed with Re-use Selection

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F-Scale: F3 between Clever and Nixa Path Length: ~40 miles     

Width: 1/4 to 1/2 mile      Time: 10:08 – 11:00 P.M.

*Source: National Weather Service

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Where do people who live in the path of the tornado work?

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Where do workers employed at jobs located in the path of the tornado live?

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Three Learning Aids for Using
OnTheMap

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Take the OnTheMap Survey!

Help improve and enhance OnTheMap:

• • New and experienced users are welcome.

  • Your ideas and opinions are
    important to us.

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Coming Soon:
OnTheMap Version 3

•   Expanded geographic coverage – Up to six new state partners  

• Five consecutive years of data – Labor market information for 2002 through 2006

• A fresh new look – Improvements to navigation, ease-of-use, updated geographies, as well as improved selection tools, travel shed points and thermals, and a new feature permitting users to view animated maps showing travel shed changes over time.

•  Other enhancements and usability improvements – Expanded reporting and data output options, data accuracy improvements (origin and destination data refinements and complete cross-state commute shed coverage), enhanced and expanded on-screen documentation.

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Keep in Mind…

• LED not yet national in scope.

• LED does not yet include military, self-employed or federal workers.

• Data in OnTheMap refreshed annually. QWI Online and Industry Focus are refreshed quarterly. Not all states supply data at the same rate.

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Mark Your Calendar
and Join Us for
2008 LED State Partners Workshop

• March 6-7, 2008

• Census Bureau Headquarters at Suitland, Maryland

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