US Quarterly QCEW Industry

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Description

This dataset contains unsuppressed quarterly industry data from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wage (QCEW). The area and industry hierarchies for all historical data have been transformed to match the definitions of the latest quarter of QCEW. It shows quarterly job counts and earnings data for industries by quarter from January 2001 to the latest month available from QCEW. Available areas are nation, states, and counties. Go to https://www.bls.gov/cew/overview.htm to read more about the QCEW dataset.

Use Cases

Questions answered by this dataset:

• How many people were employed in sound recording studios during Quarter 3, 2012 in Los Angeles county?
• How do residential property manager jobs change from the third to fourth quarter?
• How did new single-family housing construction jobs change by quarter in Michigan from 2007 through 2009?
• How many purchasing managers are employed in certain Michigan counties?

Metrics

• Jobs: The number of occupied positions. This is not quite the same as workers because one worker might fill more than one position.
• Earnings: Total earnings for the industry.
• Establishments: The number of physical business locations.

Filters

• Area (Nation, State, County)
• Industry (2 to 6-digit NAICS)
• Year
• Quarter

Core LMI Metadata