| Documentation: | Quarterly Workforce Indicators 2002 |
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Chapter Contents
The Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) provide local labor market statistics by industry, worker demographics, employer age and size. Unlike statistics tabulated from firm or person-level data, the QWI source data are unique job-level data that link workers to their employers. Because of this link, labor market data in the QWI is available by worker age, sex, educational attainment, and race/ethnicity. This allows for analysis by demographics of a particular local labor market or industry for instance, identifying industries with aging workforces. Links between workers and firms also allow the QWI to identify worker flows – hires, separations, and turnover – as well as net employment growth. As most hiring activity is the consequence of worker turnover rather than employment growth, a focus on employment growth alone may misrepresent employment opportunity in the local labor market. Wages by industry and demographics as well as by whether the worker was newly hired are also available. QWI wages for new hires can be compared to wages for continuing workers, and wage growth for similar workers across industries can be compared to identify important local labor market trends.
The QWI are aggregated from the job level to establishments, and then to a number of higher level categories for public release. These categories are interacted in various combinations on the public release files. Within the public release files, totals for each category are included along with detailed components.
Demographic categories
The demographic categories available on the QWI include age, sex, race, ethnicity, and education. The interactions selected for publication include:
Industry by Age Industry by Sex Industry by Race Industry by Ethnicity Industry by Education ** Education is reported only for workers who are age 25 and up.
Detail: Demographic categories
The demographic categories reported in the QWI follow:
Sex
Male Female Age
14-18 19-21 22-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65-99 Race
White Alone Black or African American Alone American Indian or Alaska Native Alone Asian Alone Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander Alone Two or More Race Groups Ethnicity
Not Hispanic or Latino Hispanic or Latino Education
Less than high school High school or equivalent, no college Some college or Associate degree Bachelor’s degree or advanced degree Educational attainment not available (workers aged 24 or younger)
