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| Agriculture Employment |
| | Persons on agriculture payrolls who work
or receive pay for any period
during the survey week. This includes owners, operators, unpaid family
members who work at least 15 hours a week, and hired laborers
|
| America's Job Bank (AJB) |
| | A computerized network which links the
2,000 state Employment Service
offices and provides job seekers with a large pool of active job
opportunities.
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| America's Labor Market Information System (ALMIS) |
| | A system that
provides comprehensive economic and occupational data
for job seekers, employers, students, counselors, economic developers and
other users.
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| America's Talent Bank (ATB) |
| | A nationwide database of electronic
resumes that can be searched electronically by employers.
|
| Apprenticeship |
| | A structured approach for entering a skilled
occupation in most of the
major trade industries. Combines training on the job with related and
supplemental instruction at school.
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| Auxiliary establishment |
| | In the SIC coding system, a unit which is
primarily engaged in performing services for other units of the same
company rather than for other companies or the general public.
Examples of auxiliary establishments are central administrative
offices; research, development or testing labs; warehouses; and
power plants.
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| Average |
| | The numerical result obtained by dividing the sum of
two or more quantities by the number of quantities.
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| Benchmark |
| | A point of reference (either an estimate or a count)
from which measurements can be made or upon which adjustments to
estimates are based. See individual program glossaries for specific
program references to benchmarks.
|
| Bias |
| | The difference between the expected value of the estimate
from a probability sample and the true value of the population.
|
| Births |
| | Those units that are within scope of a survey as of the
reference date of the survey but were not in the sampling frame.
They include units that existed in the universe but were not on the
sampling frame as well as units that came into existence after the
creation of the sampling frame.
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| Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) |
| | Part of the U.S. Department of
Commerce. A Federal statistical agency responsible for estimation of
Gross Domestic Product. Data from the CES and ES-202 programs are
used in the GDP estimates.
|
| Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) |
| | Part of the U.S. Department of
Labor, this Federal agency functions as the principal data-gathering
agency of the Federal government in the field of labor economics.
The BLS collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates data
relating to employment, unemployment, the labor force, productivity,
prices, family expenditures, wages, industrial relations, and
occupational safety and health. Well-known data released by BLS
include: the Consumer Price Index, the Producer Price Index, the
unemployment rate, and nonagricultural employment levels.
|
| Bureau of the Census |
| | Part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. It
conducts censuses of population and housing every 1O years and of
agriculture, business, governments, manufactures, mineral
industries, and transportation at 5-year intervals. The Census
Bureau also conducts the monthly Current Population Survey (CPS) in
cooperation with BLS. Data from this survey are the source of
unemployment statistics.
|
| Business Cycle |
| | A periodically repeated sequence of fluctuations in
the aggregate economy of an area, or the nation as a whole, varying
in duration, but consisting of: a) upturn, including recovery and
prosperity b) cyclical peak c) downturn including recession and d)
cyclical trough.
|
| Business Establishment List (BEL) |
| | A master file of all employers
covered under UI. The BLS maintains a master BEL file, and each SESA
separately keeps it own State file. These files are used as sampling
frames and also are the main source of establishment names and
addresses for the various Federal/State cooperative surveys.
Information contained on these files includes monthly employment,
quarterly wages, an Employer Identification Number, an SIC code, an
establishment name and address, and a state, county, and ownership
code.
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| Census |
| | A complete count (as opposed to a sample) of a specified
population or some other measurable characteristic in a given area
(housing, industry, etc.).
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| Census tracts |
| | Census-designated units are small parts of MA's and
provide statistically comparable population and housing census
tabulations. Tracts are designed to be relatively similar in
population characteristics, economic status, and living conditions.
The average tract has about 4,000 inhabitants. Census tract
boundaries are recommended by local census tract committees and
approved by the Bureau of the Census.
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| Certainty unit |
| | A universe unit whose probability of selection is
one, therefore, it is sure to be included in the sample.
|
| Civilian Labor Force |
| | The summation of all civilian
non-institutionalized persons 16 years
of age and over who are classified as employed or unemployed and seeking
employment.
|
| Confidence interval |
| | A measure of the range of probable parameters
attributable to the sample design (estimate plus or minus the
standard error). The BLS standard is generally the 90 percent level
of confidence.
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| Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area (CMSA) |
| | Adjoining
Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) having a combined
population of one million or more. When combined into a CMSA, each
component metropolitan area is referred to as a Primary Metropolitan
Statistical Area (PMSA).
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| Consumer Price Index (CPI) |
| | A Bureau of Labor Statistics program
which measures the average change in the prices of a fixed set of
goods and services purchased by households. It is the most commonly
recognized measure of inflation.
|
| Correlation |
| | The statistical technique that relates a pair of
variables in order to determine how close the relationship is
between the variables.
|
| County Business Patterns (CBP) |
| | An annual publication issued by the
Bureau of the Census. CBP provides establishment-based employment
totals of all employees covered under Social Security, by State and
county, and by industry. The data are for March of the reference
year, but are published 2-3 years after the reference period. Data
are obtained from various Census Bureau establishment surveys and
the administrative files of the IRS.
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| Covered Employment and Earnings (ES 202) |
| | Federal/state cooperative
program that collects and compiles
employment and wage data for workers covered by state and federal
unemployment insurance laws. Program has now be renamed to Quarterly
Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW)
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| Current Employment Statistics (CES) Survey |
| | A monthly survey of
non-farm business establishments used to collect wage and salary
employment, worker hours, and payroll, by industry and area. Through
the Federal/State cooperative effort, these data are used to compute
current monthly employment, hours, and earnings estimates, by
industry, for the nation, the 50 States and the District of
Columbia, and over 250 MA's.
|
| Current Population Survey (CPS) |
| | A monthly household survey of the
civilian noninstitutional population, and wages, by industry,
occupation, and demographic characteristics. Estimates are prepared
directly by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and are used by the
Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Growth (MDLEG) as an input
to derive civilian labor force, total employment and unemployment
estimates for the state. There are approximately 2,000 Michigan
households included in this survey. Microdata for this
survey are collected by the Bureau of the Census.
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· · D · ·
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| Deaths |
| | Units that were in a sampling frame but are not now within
the scope of the survey. They include units that have gone out of
business, have changed to an out-of-scope SIC, or were erroneously
included on the sampling frame.
|
| Department of Labor (DOL) |
| | Cabinet-level agency which enforces laws
protecting workers, promotes labor-management cooperation, sponsors
employment training and placement services, oversees the
unemployment insurance system, and produces statistics on the labor
force and living conditions.
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| Disaggregate |
| | Divide a statistic into its component parts.
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| DOT |
| | The Department of Labor's Dictionary of Occupational Titles.
|
| Durable goods |
| | Manufactured items generally considered to have a
normal life expectancy of three years of more. Includes 2-digit SIC
codes 24, 25, 32-39. Automobiles, furniture, household appliances,
and mobile homes are common examples.
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· · E · ·
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| Economic indicator |
| | A set of data that serves as a tool for
analyzing current economic conditions and future prospects. Usually
classified according to their timing in relationship to the ups and
downs of the business cycle, that is, whether they anticipate
(lead), coincide with, or lag behind general business conditions.
|
| Employer Identification Number (EIN) |
| | A 9-digit identification
number assigned to employers by the U.S Internal Revenue Service.
|
| Employment, Total |
| | An unduplicated estimate of area residents who earned
wages during the
week including the 12th of each month. This estimate includes agricultural
employees, self-employed and unpaid family workers, domestics and
strikers, as well as residents who were employed in wage and salary jobs.
|
| Employment and Earnings |
| | A monthly publication of the Bureau of
Labor Statistics containing current data for the CPS, CES, and LAUS
programs.
|
| Employment and Training Administration (ETA) |
| | A part of the U.S.
Department of Labor. This agency oversees the State UI programs and
job training and placement services provided by State Employment
Security Agencies.
|
| ES202 Program |
| | A Federal/State cooperative program which collects
and compiles employment and wage data for workers covered by State
unemployment insurance (UI) laws, and Federal civilian workers
covered by UCFE. State Employment Security Agencies collect and
compile quarterly UI contribution reports that are submitted by all
employers. These data are maintained in the State in micro and
macrodata forms, and are also shipped to BLS. Any data from this
program may be generically referred to as ES-202 data.
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| Establishment |
| | An economic unit that produces goods or services,
usually at a single physical location, and engages in one or
predominantly one activity.
|
| Estimate |
| | A numerical quantity calculated from sample data, or from
a model, and intended to provide information about a universe.
|
| Estimating cell |
| | The most basic or lowest level (or strata) for
which estimates are made. All higher level strata are aggregations
of estimating cells. For establishment surveys, the estimating cell
structure is generally stratified by SIC, area, and size of
establishment. For household surveys, the estimating cell structure
is generally stratified by demographic characteristic.
|
| Extrapolate |
| | To project values of a variable in an unobserved
interval from values within an already observed interval.
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· · F · ·
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| Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) |
| | Standards for
information processing issues by the National Bureau of Standards in
the U.S. Department of Commerce. Includes a numeric designation for
geographic areas such as States, counties, and MA's.
|
| Federal Reserve Board (Fed) |
| | An independent government agency
primarily responsible for keeping inflation under control. The Fed's
best weapon in the fight against inflation is control over certain
short-term interest rates. The Fed is a key user of Federal/State
program data.
|
| Federal/State Cooperative Programs |
| | A series of programs in which
the States and Federal government cooperate in accomplishing the
goals of the program. CES, ES-202, OES, and LAUS are Federal/State
cooperative programs.
|
| Firm |
| | A business entity, either corporate or otherwise. May consist
of one or several establishments.
|
| Fiscal Year (FY) |
| | A 12-month period established for budgetary and
accounting purposes. In the Federal Government, the fiscal year
begins October 1 and ends September 30.
|
| Foreign Direct Investment Program |
| | A Bureau of Labor Statistics
program initiated in 1991 to assess the impact of foreign direct
investment in the U.S. on both industrial and occupational
employment. The FDI program uses data from the ES-202 Quarterly
Unemployment Insurance files, the Occupational Employment Statistics
survey, and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
|
| FUTA : Federal Unemployment Tax Act |
| | This Act became Chapter 23,
Sections 3301-331 1, of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code, authorizing
the tax imposed on employers with respect to persons they employ for
the purpose of funding unemployment insurance benefits. The FUTA
made possible the federal/state system that established an
employment security program in each state.
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· · G · ·
|
| GDP : Gross Domestic Product |
| | The total of all goods and services
produced by the US economy. GDP is compiled quarterly by the US
Department of Commerce. CES employment and earnings data are used
for advance GDP estimates. ES-202 wage data are used for the final
GDP estimates.
|
| Goods producing industries |
| | In the SIC coding structure, those
industries that primarily produce goods. Mining, construction, and
manufacturing.
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· · H · ·
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| Household |
| | As defined by the Census Bureau, all persons who occupy
a housing unit. A housing unit is a room or group of rooms intended
for occupancy as separate living quarters and having either a
separate entrance or complete cooking facilities for the exclusive
use of the occupants.
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· · I · ·
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| Industry |
| | Describes the type of economic activity engaged in by a
group of firms as used in the compilation of economic statistics.
The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system provides
numerical classifications for industries.
|
| Industry Employment (by Place of Work) |
| | An estimate of the number of
Nonagriculture, Wage and Salary jobs produced by the Current
Employment Statistics program survey of employers. The monthly
estimates are based on the survey week that include the 12th day of
the month.
|
| Interpolate |
| | To estimate values of a variable between two known
values.
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· · J · ·
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| Job Opening |
| | A specific position of employment at an establishment.
Conditions include
that there is work available for that position, the job could start within
30 days, and the employer is actively recruiting for the position.
|
| Journey Level |
| | A fully qualified worker in a specific trade.
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· · L · ·
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| Labor dispute |
| | A controversy concerning terms or conditions of
employment, or concerning the association or representation of
persons in negotiating, fixing, maintaining, changing, or seeking to
arrange terms or conditions of employment, regardless of whether or
not the disputants stand in the proximate relation of employer and
employee.
|
| Labor Market Area (LMA) |
| | An economically integrated geographical
unit within which workers may readily change jobs without changing
their place of residence. All States are divided into exhaustive
LMA's, which usually consist of (except in New England) a county or
a group of contiguous counties.
|
| Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) |
| | A
Federal/State cooperative program which produces employment, labor
force, and unemployment estimates for States and local areas.
|
| Labor Market Information (LMI) |
| | - The body of data available
on the particular labor market, including employment and unemployment
statistics, occupational statistics, and average hours and earnings
data.
- LMI is also used to refer to the statistical research and
analysis offices of the State Employment Security Agencies. These
offices are also referred to as Research and Analysis (R&A) or
Research and Statistics (R&S) offices.
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· · M · ·
|
| Macrodata |
| | Single establishment or household (micro) data aggregated
to any level. Data at the estimating cell level and summary cell
levels are all macrodata. Compare to microdata.
|
| Mass Layoff Statistics Program |
| | A BLS Federal/State cooperative
program that collects and publishes data on mass layoffs.
|
| Mean Square Error (MSE) |
| | A measure of the total error that can
arise in an estimate. It is equal to the variance plus the bias
squared. Mean square error is a more comprehensive measure of
estimation error than is variance and, hence, is an important
statistical analytical tool.
|
| Metropolitan Area (MA) |
| | A geographic area comprising a county
containing a central city of 50,000 inhabitants or more, plus
contiguous counties that are socially and economically integrated
with the central city. There are 3 types of MA's: MSA'S, PMSA'S, and
CMSA'S. A Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is a relatively free standing
MA typically surrounded by nonmetropolitan counties.
If an area that qualifies as an MA has more than 1 million
inhabitants, Primary Metropolitan Statistical Areas (PMSAS) may be
defined within in. PMSAs consist of a large urbanized county or
cluster of counties that demonstrates very strong internal economic
and social links, but are also linked to other portions of the
larger area. This larger area is then called a Primary Metropolitan
Statistical Area (PMSA).
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| Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA's) |
| | Designated and defined by the U.S.
Department of Commerce so that
local economic and social statistics collected by many government and
private organizations may be presented on a common geographic basis. Areas
qualifying as metropolitan statistical areas have either a city with a
population of at least 50,000 or a Bureau of the Census urbanized area of
at least 50,000 and a total metropolitan statistical area population of at
least 100,000.
|
| Microdata |
| | Data reported from an individual establishment or
household. Data on a single BLS790 form or a single Ul contribution
report are microdata. Compare to macrodata.
|
| Months for Cyclical Dominance (MCD) |
| | An estimate of the time span
required to identify significant cyclical movements in a monthly
economic time series. The MCD indicates the shortest span of months
over which changes in the series are dominated by cyclical rather
than irregular or erratic movements.
|
| Moving average |
| | A series of calculations made by initially taking
the simple average, or arithmetic mean, of a consecutive number of
items, and then dropping the first item and adding the next item in
sequence and averaging, so that the number of items in the series
remains constant. This is a continuous process.
|
| Multi establishment |
| | A firm or reporting unit which consists of
more than one establishment.
Mean - A number typifying or representing a set of observations,
obtained by dividing the sum of the observations by the number of
observations. The mean can be weighted or unweighted.
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· · N · ·
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| Nonagricultural Wage and Salary Employment |
| | An estimate of all part- and
full-time wage and salary employees who
worked during, or received pay from the pay period that included the 12 th
day of the month. Estimates measure the number of jobs by industry and
reflects employment by place of work. These statistics are produced
by the Current Employment Statistics (CES) program.
|
| Nondurable goods |
| | Manufactured items generally considered to last
for three years or less. Includes 2-digit SIC codes 20-23 and 26-31.
Food, beverages, clothing, shoes, and gasoline are common examples.
Nonresponse - Failure to obtain usable data for eligible units.
|
| Non sampling error |
| | Any error in the estimate other than the
sampling error. Non-sampling error can arise from the use of an
inaccurate sampling frame, improper sample allocation and selection
procedures, poorly designed survey questionnaires, inaccurate data
clarification/verification techniques, inaccurate reporting or
coding from survey respondents, errors in estimation methodology,
incorrect specifications, human error in execution and validation,
computer program errors, etc. It is important to note that
non-sampling errors also occur in censuses.
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| North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) |
| | The successor to
the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) System. The
United States, Mexico, and Canada use this system of classifying business
establishments. Due to differences in NAICS and SIC structures, industry
Covered Employment & Wage (ES-202) data for 2001 are not comparable to the
SIC-based data for earlier years. Current Employment Statistic (CES) data
have been reconstructed under NAICS back to 1990. NAICS focuses on how
products and services are created, as opposed to the SIC focus on what is
produced.
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· · O · ·
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| Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) |
| | A Federal/State cooperative
program that surveys employers and collects detailed
occupational and wage data. This program produces occupational
staffing pattern estimates with associated wages by industry.
|
| Office of Management and Budget (OMB) |
| | Located in the Executive
Office of the President, this agency prepares the President's budget
with the Council of Economic Advisors and the Treasury Department.
OMB also oversees all Federal data collection. Among other duties,
this federal agency is responsible for enforcing the Paperwork
Reduction Act and, in so doing, must approve all surveys and data
collection forms that represent a reporting burden on employers.
|
| Optimum Allocation |
| | An allocation procedure for stratified sampling
which, for a given target relative error, will generate the minimum
necessary sample size.
|
| Out of Business (OOB) |
| | Status assigned to a unit that was once
active but which has permanently ceased to conduct business or
perform services and industrial operations.
|
| Out of Scope (OOS) |
| | Status assigned to a unit that does not form
part of the target population as defined by the scope of a survey.
The reported industry (SIC or NAICS), ownership code, or employment
of a unit may cause it to fall outside the scope of a survey.
|
| Ownership Code |
| | A numerical code that specifies the several layers
of government and the private sector of the economy.
- 10 - Federal government
- 20 - State government
- 30 - Local government
- 40 - International or foreign government
- 50 - Private Sector
|
· · P · ·
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| Parent organization or company |
| | A company that owns or operates one
or more subsidiary companies or establishments.
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| Part Time Employment |
| | A person employed 34 or less hours per week.
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| Pay Period |
| | Frequency with which worker’s wages are calculated
and paid; usually weekly, biweekly, semimonthly, or monthly
|
| Payroll |
| | Total wages paid by a business to its employees for work
performed during the pay period (weekly, monthly, etc.)
|
| Per Capita Income |
| | A measure of income by unit of population
(per person). Total personal income for a given area divided by
population of the area.
|
| Personal Income |
| | Income received from all sources less contributions
to social insurance, retirement plans, and social security.
|
| Piece Work |
| | Work paid for at a fixed rate (piece-rate) per piece
of work done.
|
| Place of Residence |
| | Employment, unemployment, and labor force data
based on where workers live rather than where they work.
|
| Population |
| | The total number of inhabitants occupying an area.
|
| Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area (PMSA) |
| | If a metropolitan area
(MA) has more than 1 million inhabitants it may be
defined as a Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area (PMSA). PMSAs consist
of a large urbanized county or cluster of counties that demonstrates very
strong internal economic and social links, but are also linked to other
portions of the larger area. This larger area is then called a PMSA.
|
| Probability of Selection |
| | (Also referred to as sampling rate and
sampling ratio) The numerical value expressing the likelihood that a
particular unit will be selected in a sample. All units (within
scope) on the sampling frame should have a probability greater than
0, but less than or equal to 1 of being in the sample.
|
| Probability Sampling |
| | (Also referred to as "Random Sampling") A
sampling procedure which gives each of the possible samples a fixed
and determinate probability of selection or which gives each unit on
a sampling frame a fixed and known chance of being included in the
sample. Probability samples permit the calculation, from the sample
data, of measures of reliability for the estimates.
|
| Producers Price Index (PPI) |
| | A Bureau of Labor Statistics program
which measures the average change in producers' selling prices of a
fixed set of goods and services. The Producer Price Index is
sometimes thought of as the "Wholesale" or "Industrial" Price Index.
|
· · Q · ·
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| Quarterly Contribution Report (QCR) |
| | A mandatory report filed
quarterly by almost all U.S. employers to the SESA for Unemployment
Insurance (UI) purposes.
Employers report the number of employees, total wages, and UI
taxable wages, and compute their UI tax liability for each UI
account. Used by the ES-202 program as input into the ES-202
database.
|
| Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages (QCEW) |
| | Federal/state cooperative
program that collects and compiles
employment and wage data for workers covered by state and federal
unemployment insurance laws. Program was previously called Covered
Employment and Earnings (ES-202)
|
· · R · ·
|
| Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) |
| | An independent agency in the
executive branch of the U.S. government which administers a
comprehensive social insurance system for the nation's railroad
workers and their families, providing protection against the loss of
income resulting from old age, disability, death, unemployment, and
temporary sickness.
|
| Reference date |
| | The reference date of a sample frame is the date
when the characteristics of the population existed on the frame. The
reference date of the survey, however, is the date for which the
respondents are requested to submit the data.
|
| Regression |
| | A statistical tool which utilizes the relation between
two or more variables so that one variable can be predicted or
estimated from the other(s).
|
| Relative error |
| | The difference between the estimate and the actual
population value expressed as a percentage of the latter.
|
| Relative standard error |
| | The ratio of the standard error of an
estimator to the estimator's expected value. An estimate of it is
the estimated standard error divided by the estimate. (Also
coefficient of variation, or CV).
|
| Reliability |
| | The degree of confidence that can be assigned to an
estimate.
|
· · S · ·
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| Sample |
| | A subset of a universe. Usually selected as representative
of the universe.
|
| Sample allocation |
| | The process of assigning a sample size or
sampling rate to each stratum in a stratified sampling plan.
|
| Sample frame |
| | A listing of all units in
the universe, from which a sample can be drawn.
|
| Sample refinement |
| | The process by which newly selected sample units
are investigated prior to solicitation. "Sample refinement" can
involve identification of establishments within a reporting unit,
correction of addresses, determination of industrial classification
to a finer level of detail, etc.
|
| Sample survey |
| | A survey in which only a sample or part of the
population is studied.
|
| Sample weight |
| | A numerical value, assigned to a sample unit for use
in estimation. It is equal to the sampling rate reciprocal.
|
| Sampling error |
| | The measure of sampling variability, that is, the
variations that might occur by chance because only a sample of the
population is surveyed. In other words, that part of the error of an
estimate which is due to the fact that the estimate is obtained from
a sample rather than from a census of the universe.
|
| Schedule |
| | A term sometimes used to refer to a survey questionnaire.
|
| Seasonal adjustment |
| | Adjustment of time-series data to eliminate
the effect of seasonal variations. Examples of such variations
include school terms, holidays, yearly weather patterns, etc.
|
| Series Break |
| | A large change in the level of a time series
resulting from: A major change in methodology; A major change in
industry definition; A major industry or area coding error; The
permanent loss of a major reporter; Area redefinition. If a series
has been broken, data prior to the break are not comparable to data
after the break.
|
| Service producing industries |
| | In the SIC coding structure, those
industries that primarily produce services. TPU, Trade, FIRE,
Services, and Government.
|
| Staffing Pattern |
| | Each business employs workers with different
types of skills to produce a
good or provide a service. A staffing pattern summarizes this array of
workers for an industry. The costs of labor and equipment in a local area
will largely determine the mix of workers that a business will employ to
remain competitive. Industry staffing patterns are often used to determine
the ability of a local area to support economic development by being able
to provide a skilled workforce.
|
| Standard deviation |
| | A measure of dispersion around the mean value
of a population. Frequently denoted by sigma, (s) is the square root
of the variance.
|
| Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Manual |
| | The manual
published by OMB which is the key to the Standard Industrial
Classification (SIC) system. This manual goes into great detail in
explaining how to assign and/or interpret SIC codes.
|
| Standard Industrial Classification System (SIC) |
| | A hierarchical
classification system that defines all establishments to a specific
industry based on their primary output or product.
|
| Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) |
| | A numerical coding system
that classifies occupational data for the
purpose of collecting, calculating, or disseminating data. All workers are
classified into one of over 820 occupations according to heir occupational
definition. To facilitate classification, occupations are combined to form
23 major groups, 96 minor groups, and 449 broad occupations. Each broad
occupation includes detailed occupation(s) requiring similar skills,
education, or experience.
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| State Employment and Security Agency (SESA) |
| | A generic name for the State
agency usually responsible for three activities:
- The Unemployment Insurance (UI) Program - UI tax collection,
administration, and determination and payment of unemployment
benefits.
- The Employment or Job Service Program - an exchange for
workers seeking work and employers seeking workers.
- Research and Analysis - collection, analysis, and publication
of labor market information.
|
| Strata |
| | The parts into which a sample frame is partitioned
according to predetermined criteria for the purpose of sampling and
estimation. In Federal/State programs, these strata are usually
based on SIC, geographic area, and size. The process of partitioning
the sample frame is called "stratification".
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| Survey |
| | A study of all or a portion of the whole, conducted for the
purpose of making generalized statements about the whole.
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| Strike |
| | A work stoppage by employees acting together in an attempt
to bring pressure on management to give in to their demands
concerning wages, working conditions, union recognition, or some
other issue.
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| Time series |
| | A variable in which the values are successive
observations over time.
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| Total Employment |
| | An unduplicated estimate of area residents who earned
wages during the
week including the 12th of each month. This estimate includes agricultural
employees, self-employed and unpaid family workers, domestics and
strikers, as well as residents who were employed in wage and salary jobs.
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| Trend |
| | The long-term or overall movement of a series over time. Any
economic time series is assumed to be made up of trend, irregular,
cyclical, and seasonal movements.
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| Unemployed |
| | An unduplicated estimate of area residents who did not
earn any wages during the survey week including the 12th of the
month, and who were able, available, and actively seeking work
during the thirty-day period preceding the survey week.
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| Unemployment Compensation for Federal Employees (UCFE) |
| | Federal
program that provides temporary financial assistance to eligible
federal workers who become unemployed. (Federal employees are not
covered under state-administered Unemployment Insurance programs.)
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| Unemployment Insurance (UI) |
| | Social welfare program first instituted
in the Great Depression to provide temporary financial assistance to
eligible unemployed workers. Unemployment insurance programs are
administered by State Employment Security Agencies under state law,
subject to federal minimum standards.
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| Unemployment Rate |
| | The total number of unemployed in a given labor
market area divided by the civilian labor force in the labor market
area.
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| UI account number |
| | The State Unemployment Insurance account into
which an establishment pays UI contributions. These contributions
(taxes) fund Unemployment Insurance benefits for eligible workers.
UI account numbers are assigned to firms that may have one or more
establishments.
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| Universe |
| | The entire population to be measured.
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| Variance |
| | A mathematical measure of the dispersion of the values of
a variable around its mean. The variance may arise from a sampling
of the population under study, or may just measure the variability
of population values around its mean. The variance is denoted as
sigma squared, s2.
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| Workforce Investment Act (WIA) |
| | This 1998 Act provides the framework
for a unique national system. The
most important aspect of the Act is its focus on meeting the needs of
businesses for skilled workers and the training, education, and employment
needs of individuals. Key components of the Act will enable customers to
easily access information and services they need through the One-Stop
system; empower adults to obtain the training they find most appropriate
through Individual Training Accounts, and ensure that all State and local
programs meet customer expectations.
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| Working Age Population |
| | All individuals 16 years or older in the United
States. The lower limit of
16 years reflects the age at which most students can leave school
voluntarily in most states. There is no upper age limit.
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