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National QWI
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Document Date:
30 January 2015
Codebook prepared by:
Cornell NSF-Census Research Network
Data prepared by:
Labor Dynamics Institute
Principal Investigator(s):
Cornell University. Labor Dynamics Institute.
Please cite this codebook as:
Comprehensive Extensible Data Documentation and Access Repository. Codebook for the
National QWI [Codebook file]. Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research and
Labor Dynamics Institute [distributor]. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2013
Please cite this dataset as:
John M. Abowd and Lars Vilhuber, "National Quarterly Workforce Indicators, r2254,"
Cornell University, Labor Dynamics Institute [distributor], Ithaca, NY, USA, [Computer
file], 2012
The Quarterly Workforce Indicators are local labor market data produced and released
every quarter by the United States Census Bureau. Unlike any other local labor market
series produced in the U.S. or
the rest of the world, the QWI measure employment flows for workers (accession and
separations), jobs (creations and
destructions) and earnings for demographic subgroups (age and sex), econ
The Quarterly Workforce Indicators are local labor market data produced and released
every quarter by the United States Census Bureau. Unlike any other local labor market
series produced in the U.S. or
the rest of the world, the QWI measure employment flows for workers (accession and
separations), jobs (creations and
destructions) and earnings for demographic subgroups (age and sex), economic industry
(NAICS industry groups),
and detailed geography (county, Core-Based Statistical Area, and Workforce Investment
Area, as well as experimental,
unreleased block-level estimates). The current QWI data cover 47 states and about
98% of the private workforce in each of those states.
John Abowd and Lars Vilhuber have used the existing public-use data (and only those
public-use data) to construct the
first national estimates. The national estimates are an important enhancement to existing
series because they include
demographic and industry detail for both worker and job flows compiled from data that
have been integrated at the
micro-level by the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program at the Census
Bureau. The research paper (see below)
compares the new estimates to national data published by the BLS from the Quarterly
Census of Employment and Wages and the
Business Employment Dynamics series.
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The National QWI are constructed using only public-use data. No confidential data
was used. The U.S. Census Bureau was
not involved in the data creation process other than through their provision of the
Quarterly Workforce Indicators.
Please use the following language in published work that make use of this dataset:
"The creation of the
National QWI by John M. Abowd and Lars Vilhuber was made possible through NSF Grants
#0922005 and #0922494.
Access to the National QWI was made possible through NSF Grant #0922005 and #1131848."
Please also cite Abowd and Vilhuber (2012)
and use the bibliographic citation for the dataset provided in this document.
The National Quarterly Workforce Indicators dataset is a research product, not an
official U.S. Census Bureau product.
For questions regarding this data collection, please contact:
ldi@cornell.edu
Imputation and aggregation
Sources
- Quarterly Workforce Indicators http://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/
- The home page of the National QWI can be found at http://www2.vrdc.cornell.edu/news/data/qwi-national-data/.
- John M. Abowd and Lars Vilhuber, "National estimates of gross employment and job flows
from the Quarterly Workforce Indicators with demographic and industry detail," Journal
of Econometrics, vol. 161, iss. 1, pp. 82-99, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2010.09.008.
- John M. Abowd and Lars Vilhuber, "National estimates of gross employment and job flows
from the Quarterly Workforce Indicators with demographic and industry detail (with
color graphs)," Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau, Working Papers 10-11,
2010. http://ideas.repec.org/p/cen/wpaper/10-11.html
