QCEW Quarterly Employment and Wages
How many people worked in each Ohio county and industry, how many workplaces employed them and what they were paid, every quarter since 1990, from the near-complete count of jobs that employers report for unemployment insurance. Use it to see which industries a county's jobs and payroll depend on, where an industry such as warehousing or manufacturing is growing, and how a local economy moved through a plant opening or a recession, down to individual industries.
- Published by
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Source
- QCEW (BLS employment and wages)
- Original data
- www.bls.gov
- Terms of use
- Public domain
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The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) program publishes a quarterly count of employment and wages reported by employers covering more than 95 percent of U.S. jobs, available at the county, MSA, state and national levels by industry.
QCEW monthly employment data represent the number of covered workers who worked during, or received pay for, the pay period that included the 12th day of the month.
BLS withholds the publication of UI-covered employment and wage data for any industry level when necessary to protect the identity of employers. Totals at the industry level for the states and the nation include the undisclosed data suppressed within the detailed tables without revealing those data.
Fields
What each record holds, as the publisher describes it: 14 fields.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
area_fips | '39000' statewide, a county's FIPS code, or '39999' unknown county |
own_code | Ownership: 0 all, 1 federal, 2 state, 3 local government, 5 private, 8 all government |
industry_code | 10 all industries, a domain, supersector or NAICS code; joins us_naics_codes.code |
agglvl_code | BLS's aggregation level: area type and industry depth |
year | Calendar year |
qtr | Quarter, 1–4 |
disclosure_code | True where BLS withheld the figures (N, or a row it published with none) |
qtrly_estabs | Establishments in the quarter; kept on a suppressed row |
month1_emplvl | Jobs in the quarter's first month; null when suppressed |
month2_emplvl | Jobs in the second month |
month3_emplvl | Jobs in the third month |
total_qtrly_wages | Total pay in the quarter, dollars |
avg_wkly_wage | Average weekly wage, dollars |
lq_month3_emplvl | Location quotient of the third month's employment relative to the U.S. |