# Presentation: 455412

## The LED ProgramNew Data for Local Decision-making

- Julia Lane
- Senior Research Fellow
- And the LEHD Staff

## Overview

- What the LED program is
- Current Status
- Sample Analysis
- Research Projects
- Next steps

## What the LED Program Is

## What is LED?

- Collaborative program with state Labor Market Information Agencies
- Local – County, Sub County, WIA
- Employment and Earnings – demographics (age and sex)
- Dynamics – New measures of labor market dynamics
- Job Gain and Loss
- Hires, Recalls, Separations
- Earnings
- Uses: 	Local Labor Market Information
- 		Strategic Planning

## LED Fills Key Data Gaps

- Universal 98% of employment in partner states
- Longitudinal in businesses and workers
- Worker Information Date of birth, place of birth, sex, earnings
- Firm Information Four digit industry, turnover, growth, sales
- Current Sent quarterly (six months after transaction date) – start date 1990(+)
- Comparable Same definitions across states
- Detailed Geography: place of residence and place of work to latitude/longitude

## The Local Employment Dynamics Program

***Link Record***Person-ID Employer-IDData

***Business Register*** Employer-IDCensus Entity-IDData

***Economic Censuses and Surveys***Census Entity-ID Data

***Demographic Surveys***

- Household RecordHousehold-IDData

- Person Record Household-IDPerson-IDData

## Confidentiality Protections

- Anonymized data
- Approved Projects only
- Statistical Purposes only
- Title 13 ($250,000 fine/5 years in jail if confidentiality breached)
- Disclosure review
- Firewall within firewall within firewall protection

## Current Status

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## Data Dissemination

- CD Roms sent to LMI shops (also ftp option)
- Wheels
- Website access
- _[http://lehd.dsd.census.gov](http://lehd.dsd.census.gov/)_

## Sample Analysis:Identifying Trends

## Identifying PA Demographic Trends Female Employment in Health Services

**Identifying PA Demographic Trends ****Female Employment in Health Services**

- Annual Average Female Employment in Construction, Colorado: Source: US Census Bureau and CO Dept of Labor and Employment

## Identifying PA Demographic Trends Using New Hire Earnings:New Hire Earnings As Proportion Of All Female Health Service Workers

- Average Annual Monthly Earnings of Women Who Are New Hires as a Percentage of Earnings of All Women in the Construction Industry in Colorado: Source: US Census Bureau and CO Dept of Labor and Employment

## Identifying Trends

## Identifying Trends

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## Research

- Low Wage Work
- Immigration
- Aging
- Sloan Project – Productivity
- Successor/Predecessor Firm Information

## Next Steps

- Products
- Mapping
- Welfare Recipient Indicators
- Transportation
- Program
- Expansion
- Training

## Slide 19

**Notes:**
We also envision it may be helpful to see the data over time.  This allows you to visualize any trends that may be happening with the data.  In this example we are seeing 6 years worth of data for employee density, or how many employees are in the census tract per square mile.  If you look at the timeline across the bottom you can see the year and quarter the data is for.  Just looking at the map you can see how the number of jobs has increased over the years, first increasing along the highway and then spreading outward from the highway.  
However this may not suit all of your trend analysis needs.  What if you want to compare the first data scene with the fifth?  This may help.

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