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A whirlwind tour of EDS

Almis Database Seminar

August 15-17, 2005

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What is OES?

Federal-state cooperative program Semi-annual mail survey Produces employment and wage estimates

for over 700 occupations Produces estimates by geographic area and

for over 450 industry classifications

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Who uses the data?

Employers Workers Workforce boards Economic developers Legislators

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The sample

• Full and part-time wage and salary workers in non-farm industries

• Includes probability and certainty units

• Stratified, weighted sample based on FIPS, MSA, industry, and size

• Up to 200,000 establishments per panel

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The survey

• Industry-specific forms

• Collects raw employment by occupation and class of wage

• Collected by state workforce agencies and nationally

• Survey Processing And Management system

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The calculation

• Up to six panels combine to produce a single set of estimates

• Uses imputation for non-response• Employment cost index updates old data• Weighted employment is benchmarked against the

202• Employment, P10/25/50/75/90, mean, entry

experienced wage, generally annual and hourly

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Files provided to states

• Finished estimates for the following geographies and industries– National, Statewide, MSA, and BOS– Cross-industry, division, NAICS-3, NAICS-4,

and partial NAICS-5

• "Establishment" and "detail" microdata files • Imputation donor lists• ALMIS files

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• Produces estimates for areas other than MSA/BOS• Custom occupation and industry rollups• Ad-hoc requests• Tools for data review and post-estimation

screening• Can update finished estimates using ECI factors• Exports for Almis, MM, and a Q&D web presence

What is EDS?

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• Currently two versions, 3.3 and 4.1– 3.3 based on Visual Foxpro desktop database– 4.1 uses MySQL

Load data Define areas and estimates Calculate results Review and suppress questionable cells Export the results

System basics

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Selecting data to load Applicable pub files Applicable microdata Imputation donors

Pub files and microdata can be loaded in any order Donors must be loaded after establishment data

Loading data

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EDS 4.1 signon panel

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The EDS pub import

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Main panel – Import tab

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Main panel – Estimates tab

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Area properties – Details

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Area properties – Map

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Estimate properties – classes

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Estimate properties - options

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Estimate properties – results

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Estimate properties – history

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Cell properties – results

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Cell properties – schedules

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• A questionable schedule that seems to negatively affect results

• Effect is based on contribution of all questionable schedules as a percentage of final result– Small contribution, little effect

– Larger contributions “kill” the result

• Work like waivers, applied to both current and future cells involving the schedule

What is a poison schedule?

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Cell properties – related occs

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• Based on O*Net nearest neighbor matrix• Six possible (adjustable) salary relations

– Pays much less– Pays somewhat less– Pays about the same– Pays somewhat more– Pays much more– N/A

• Related cell must be publishable to be compared

What is a related occupation?

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Cell properties – area and year comparison

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Cell properties – history

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Underlying microdata

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Cell properties – related occs

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Employment and wages may be set independently Publish settings

Always publish Never publish Publish based on screening

Locked cells are ineligible for rescreening Advanced options allow screening to be applied to

ranges of cells

Suppressions

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Almis export

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