The LEHD uses the great circle distance between worker's residence and the physical location of establishment. 

More details below (Source:The LEHD Infrastructure Files and the Creation of the Quarterly Workforce Indicators http://lehd.ces.census.gov/doc/technical_paper/tp-2006-01.pdf)

In order to impute establishment-level characteristics to job histories of multi-unit employers, non-ignorable missing data model with multiple imputation was developed. The model imputes establishment-of-employment using two key characteristics available in the LEHD Infrastructure Files: 1) distance between place-of-work and place-of-residence and 2) the distribution of employment across establishments of multi-unit employers, The distance to work model is estimated using data from Minnesota, where both the State Employer Identification Number (SEIN) and thee firm’s reporting unit or establishment (called SEINUNIT in the LEHD system)  identifiers appear on a UI wage record.

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On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 3:32 PM Cervenka, Kenneth (FTA) <Kenneth.Cervenka@dot.gov> wrote:

Hello,

Both Kevin Tierney and Alex Karner are quite right about there not being a “distance” table in the ACS/CTPP files.

 

But now this brings up an interesting secondary question:  exactly how is this being calculated in the LEHD product?  Unless everyone who commutes to work drives their own car in a mostly uncongested and non-tolled environment, this is actually a lot more complicated to “get right” than one might think, even if a road network-based find-the-minimum-path approach is used.  I presume there is documentation about how the distance-based calculations are being done (surely it is something more than a straight-line between two centroids, multiplied by a national factor to represent circuity for auto travelers, but that would be my guess), but a quick search of LEHD and LODE documents did not reveal the answer.

Ken Cervenka

FTA Office of Planning

 

From: ctpp-news-bounces@chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces@chrispy.net] On Behalf Of Kevin Tierney
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2016 2:27 PM
To: ctpp-news@chrispy.net
Subject: Re: [CTPP] Distance travveled to work

 

No.  Some users noted a desire for it in the recent CTPP Assessment, but others indicated they get that information from their travel models.

 

From: ctpp-news-bounces@chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces@chrispy.net] On Behalf Of Alex Karner
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2016 2:21 PM
To: ctpp-news@chrispy.net
Subject: Re: [CTPP] Distance travveled to work

 

ACS has commute time but not distance. With CTPP you can use OD flows to calculate distance using network approaches or assuming straight lines. No way to get distance directly as far as I know.

 

-Alex

 

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Alex Karner, PhD

Assistant Professor

School of City & Regional Planning
Georgia Institute of Technology
alexkarner.com

 

 

From: Mara Kaminowitz <mkaminowitz@baltometro.org>
To: "ctpp-news@chrispy.net" <ctpp-news@chrispy.net>
Sent: Friday, December 2, 2016 2:07 PM
Subject: [CTPP] Distance travveled to work

 

Hello,

 

Is there a table in ACS or CTPP that gives the distance traveled to work?  I know it's in LEHD but I'd like to pin down another source.

 

Mara

 

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