LED in Action: Real Uses

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LED in ActionReal Uses

• Tornados
• Bridges
• Interstate Commuting
• Hurricanes

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Verona to Greene County, MO Tornado Path (shown
in red)
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F-Scale F3 between Nixa and Clever Path Length
40 miles      Width 1/4 to 1/2 mile      Time
Mar 12, 2006 1008 1100 P.M.
Source National Weather Service
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LED On the Map Where People Go to
WorkSpringfield, MO Tornado Track
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Where do people who live in the path of the
tornado work?
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LED On the Map Where Workers LiveSpringfield,
MO Tornado Track
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Where do workers employed at jobs located in the
path of the tornado live?
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Local Employment Dynamics How Did They Do
That?
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• Presented by
• Colleen D. Flannery
• Marketing Services for
• Local Employment Dynamics
• US Census Bureau
• June 2006

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LEHD Led to LED
Surveys
Administrative Records
Censuses
Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics
Program (LEHD)
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Soon to add Federal workers Self-employed
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42 LED Partner States
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Effective 5/22/06
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Local Employment DynamicsProvides Data from Just
9 Months Ago

• Local
• State, county, sub-county, workforce investment
  areas
• Employment
• Demographics (age and sex)
• Industry
• Earnings
• Dynamics
• Time, quarterly (as far back as 1990)
• Job gains, losses and flows
• Hires, turnover and separations

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Local Employment Dynamics Tools and Features
http//lehd.dsd.census.gov
On the Map
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On The MapLEDs online dynamic mapping tool

• Now 15 states
• Funded in part by ETA

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• Where do workers live?
• Where do people work?
• Origin-destination data structure

• Overlay additional features
• One-Stop Centers
• Community Colleges
• ZIP Codes
• Military installations

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Using On the Map
Type in a portion of a city or county name, i.e.,
Mob
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Get a list of states, counties and cities that
begin with Mob
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Using On the Map Travel Sheds
Select year, job type, live or work, and report
type. Layers can show location of OneStops or
Community Colleges. Draw a circle around the area
of interest.
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U.S. census block groups within the circle are
shown
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More Real UsesLED in Action

• Bridges
• Interstate Commuting
• Hurricanes

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Hannibal, MO Quincy, ILInterstate Commuting
Quincy

• Pinpoints local geographies
• Flow of workers across
• state borders
• Maps where employees live and where residents
  work
• Quincy, IL employers attract nearly 1,350 MO
  residents
• Hannibal, MO employers attract only 240 IL
  residents

Hannibal
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Where Workers Live Hurricane Wilma Potential
Landfall Zone

• About half of people who work in Charlotte and
  Lee Counties live in those counties
• Almost half live elsewhere

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October 19, 2005
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Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI)

• 29 indicators on
• Employment
• Earnings
• Job creation and destruction
• Turnover
• Analyzed by
• Geography, industry, gender, age, and time

All About Jobs and More
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Key Features of QWI Online

• 8 selected measures, updated quarterly
• Counties, Workforce Investment Areas and metro
  areas

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• 2-digit, 3-digit 4-digit NAICS industries
• Shows change over time

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Key Features of Industry Focus
Ranking and multiple indicator selection
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State, county, Workforce Investment Areas (WIA),
metro areas
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Industry Focus provides
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• easy, intuitive selection criteria and economic
  indicators for your geography, workforce
  industry.

Click on industry to see workforce characteristics
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Four e-Learning Modules Site Tour, Industry
Focus, QWI Online and On the Map
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Contact Us

• LED Program Manager
• Jeremy.S.Wu_at_census.gov
• LED Marketing Liaison
• Colleen.D.Flannery_at_census.gov
• Comments/Suggestions
• dsd.local.employment.dynamics_at_census.gov

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