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LMI CentralPosted On: 6/26/2018
A Census Local Employment Dynamics (LED) webinar will be held on June 27, 2018 from 1:30 - 2:30 pm EDT. The webinar, "Hurricane Preparedness with OnTheMap for Emergency Management," will highlight using Census data to assess the possible impact of a potential hurricane. The ACS is the premier dataset for state and local data The ACS is the premier dataset for state and local data
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LMI CentralPosted On: 6/25/2018
A news release summarizing the contingent and alternative employment arrangements data from this survey will be published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on June 7, 2018. The Census Bureau will post a public use microdata file from this survey at a later date.
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LMI CentralPosted On: 6/25/2018
The Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is seeking approval under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) for revisions to the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) data collection program. The ACS is the premier dataset for state and local data The ACS is the premier dataset for state and local data
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LMI CentralPosted On: 1/30/2018
The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) mandated the creation of the Workforce Information Advisory Council (WIAC), an advisory committee charged with providing focused and specialized leadership on the labor market information (LMI) system. The WIAC held its first meeting in July of 2016 in Washington, DC. Detailed agendas for its meetings, and notices of opportunity for members of the public to address the WIAC, are available on WIAC's Homepage.
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LMI CentralPosted On: 11/6/2017
The State Data Sharing (SDS) Initiative, implemented by the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness (CREC), launched and hosted their first All States Meeting in September of 2016. Periodically, in conjunction with NASWA and the CREC, the SDS holds webinars on the benefits, criteria and other considerations for sharing administrative data among states.
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LMI CentralPosted On: 8/25/2017
All surveys other than a complete census or complete administrative records involve various types of sampling errors, the most well-known of which is the “margin of error.” To properly understand and use evidence, it’s important to have a basic understanding of the margin of error in surveys.
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LMI CentralPosted On: 6/19/2017
The Federal Statistics Advisory Committee advises the Directors of the Economics and Statistics Administration's (ESAs) two statistical agencies, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and the Census Bureau, and the Commissioner of the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on statistical methodology and other technical matters related to the collection, tabulation, and analysis of federal economic statistics.
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LMI CentralPosted On: 6/19/2017
The Economics and Statistics Administration (ESA) within the Department of Commerce (DOC) hosts regular Commerce Data Advisory Council (CDAC) meetings to improve the communication and data sharing between businesses and the Department.
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LMI CentralPosted On: 6/6/2017
In these training materials, the U.S. Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and state labor market departments show you how to use workforce data to identify growing and demand occupations, determine which of them are jobs that you can target for certain services, and ascertain what preparatory education and training are needed to qualify for them.
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LMI CentralPosted On: 6/1/2017
The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) has issued its annual update to the Lower Living Standard Income Levels (LLSIL). A Federal Register Notice (FRN) was published for the 2017 LLSIL used in Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) programs.
