Sorry,
I am not very confident in our local employment data, but would like to follow
your work as it may prove useful in the future.
Thanks,
David
Wessel, FMPO Manager
928-226-4841
From:
ctpp-news-bounces@chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces@chrispy.net] On
Behalf Of Krishnan Viswanathan
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 9:51 AM
To: TMIP; ctpp-news@chrispy.net
Subject: [CTPP] Employment Data at your Agency
Hello All
Apologies for cross-posting. Cambridge Systematics, Inc. (CS) is working on a
NCHRP task to improve employment data for transportation planning. The purpose of the task is to
understand and describe both the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages
(QCEW) [or ES-202] and the Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics
(LEHD) data in a manner that enhances their utility and accessibility to
transportation planning agencies. More details about the project can be found
here: http://144.171.11.40/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=2823
So where do you come in? I am interested in talking to MPOs and DOTs who are
very confident about the quality of their employment data and have enhanced
their employment data (assuming that the QCEW data is their main source)
through either primary data collection/verification or via other secondary
sources such as Dun & Bradstreet or InfoUSA (to name a few) or a
combination of the two. If you are willing to share your employment data, CS
will compare your employment data to the QCEW data by NAICS industry categories
and will document the findings. BLS is also interested in making the QCEW data useful
to more groups so if you agree, the results of our analysis will be shared with
BLS so that any lessons learnt from MPOs and DOTs can be used to improve the
quality of the QCEW data. Hopefully we can have a positive feedback cycle that
benefits all parties and gets us better data.
Please get in touch with me offline (contact details below) so as to avoid
cluttering this mailing list. If there is interest i will share the findings
with this list (after getting all the appropriate permissions to share).
Thanks in Advance.
Sincerely,
Krishnan
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Krishnan Viswanathan
Cambridge Systematics, Inc.
1566 Village Square Boulevard, Suite 2
Tallahassee, FL 32309
tel 850 219 6388 fax 850 219 6389
e-mail kviswanathan@camsys.com