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Workforce Info
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Workforce Information Database Update Calendar

The NCSC provides a wide variety of tables populated for use in the Workforce Information Database, including a number of data tables containing county, metropolitan area, state and national data. Because these tables contain economic data, they are updated regularly. This page contains the anticipated update schedule for the major data files distributed by the NCSC. Click on the link for each series in the table below for more information about the data. Questions should be directed to the NCSC.

Series	Geography	Time Period	Last Update	Next Update

QCEW	U.S.	2006	Jul. 2007	Jul. 2008
CES	U.S.	Current	Monthly	Monthly
CPS	U.S.	Current	Monthly	Monthly
CPI	U.S.	Current	Monthly	Monthly
OES Wage Estimates	U.S.	05/2006	June 2007	May 2008
Census Income	U.S., States, Counties	1984-2006 1989, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1997-2005	Apr. 2008	Jan. 2009
Census Population	U.S., States, Counties	1900-2007 1970-2007	Mar. 2008	Jan. 2009
HUD Income	U.S. States Counties, Metro Areas	1989, 1996-2006 1999, 2006	Mar. 2006	Mar. 2007
BEA Income	U.S. States MSAs, Counties, micropolitan areas, metro divisions	1929-2007 1969-2005	Jan. 2008	Mar. 2008
Employment Projections	U.S.	2006- 2016	Dec. 2007	Dec. 2009
OMB Geography Updates	Metropolitan, Micropolitan, Metropolitan Division		Jan. 2008	Dec. 2008

Series Specific Information:

QCEW

Description: Employment by Industry covered by Unemployment Insurance

Workforce Information Database Table: INDUSTRY

Source: ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/cew/2006/National/
NCSC File Location: ftp://ftp.xwalkcenter.org/wfinfodb/national/
Notes: Public file -- Contains no confidential information

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CES

Description: Employment by industry from the Current Employment Statistics program

Workforce Information Database Table: CES

Source: http://stats.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cesbtab1.htm
NCSC File Location: ftp://ftp.xwalkcenter.org/wfinfodb/national/
Notes: Data are segregated into files based on level of industrial detail and time period. Monthly updates are also provided. Go here for more information.

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CPS

Description: Labor force, employment, unemployment and unemployment rate estimates from the Current Population Survey

Workforce Information Database Table: LABFORCE

Source: http://stats.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cpsatab1.htm/
NCSC File Location: ftp://ftp.xwalkcenter.org/wfinfodb/national/
Notes: Data range from 1948 through the most recent month, seasonally adjusted and unadjusted. Data will be updated monthly at approximately the same time as the CES data, usually within the first week to ten days.

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CPI

Description: Consumer Price Indices, All Urban Workers (CPI-U) and Urban Wage Earners & Clerical Workers (CPI-W)

Workforce Information Database Table: CPI

Sources: http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/dsrv?cu and http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/dsrv?cw
NCSC File Location: ftp://ftp.xwalkcenter.org/wfinfodb/national/
Notes: Data are formatted for ALMIS Database versions 2.0 and 2.1-2.3. The table was not included in version 1.1 of the database. Seasonally adjusted (1947-present) and unadjusted (1913-present) are included in one table.

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OES Estimates

Description: Annual employment and wage estimates from the OES program

Workforce Information Database Table: WAGE (Versions 2.0, 2.1-2.2), OESWAGE (Version 2.1-2.2)

Source: http://www.bls.gov/oes/oes_dl.htm
NCSC File Location: ftp://ftp.xwalkcenter.org/wfinfodb/national
Notes: Updated annually. Files contain estimates by occupation for totals and by four- and five-digit NAICS industries. See README.TXT file in the directory for file names and more information.

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Census Income

Description: Annual Median Household Income estimates by the Census Bureau

Workforce Information Database Table: CENINCOM (Ver. 1.1), INCOME (Ver. 2.0-2.3)

Source: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/histinc/h08.html and http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/saipe/tables.html
NCSC File Info: http://www.xwalkcenter.org/wfinfodb/stfiles.html
Notes: Updated annually

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Census Population

Description: Annual Population estimates by the Census Bureau

Workforce Information Database Table: POPULATN

Source: http://www.census.gov/popest/states/ and http://www.census.gov/popest/counties/
NCSC File Info: http://www.xwalkcenter.org/wfinfodb/stfiles.html
Notes: Updated annually

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HUD Income

Description: Estimates of median family income from the Department of Housing and Urban Development

Workforce Information Database Table: HUDINCOM (ver 1.1 and earlier), INCOME (Ver. 2.0 and later)

Source: http://www.huduser.org/datasets/il.html
NCSC File Info: ftp://ftp.xwalkcenter.org/wfinfodb/national/ (Directory README.TXT file)
Notes: Rankings are calculated by the NCSC

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BEA Income

Description: Estimates of total and percapita personal income from the Bureau of Economic Analysis

Workforce Information Database Table: BEAINCOM (ver 1.1 and earlier), INCOME (Ver. 2.0 and later)

Source: http://www.bea.gov/national/nipaweb/TableView.asp?SelectedTable=58&FirstYear=2005&LastYear=2007&Freq=Qtr (National)
http://www.bea.gov/bea/regional/reis/ca1_3.cfm States, MSAs, Counties
NCSC File Info: http://www.xwalkcenter.org/wfinfodb/stfiles.html
Notes: Rankings are calculated by the NCSC and relate to like geography (counties within a state, MSAs in the country)

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Employment Projections

Description: National employment projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Workforce Information Database Table: Various

Source: ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ep/ind-occ.matrix (file name is pbmt.zip--see also readme.txt)
NCSC File Location: ftp://ftp.xwalkcenter.org/wfinfodb/national/ (file name is matrix04.zip--see also matrix04.doc)
Notes: Formatted for use with Version 2.3-2.4 of the ALMIS Database. Changes in the occupational classification make the data incompatible with earlier versions of the database.

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Office of Management and Budget Area Definitions

Description: Annual revisions to names and composition of Metropolitan Statistical Areas, Micropolitan Statistical Areas and Metropolitan Divisions.

Workforce Information Database Table: GEOG, SUBGEOG

Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/bulletins/ (Separate bulletin for each revision -- 03-04, 04-03, 05-02, 06-01, 07-01)
NCSC File Location: ftp://ftp.xwalkcenter.org/wfinfodb/national/ (file names are GEOG03.ZIP, GEOG04,ZIP, GEOG05.ZIP and GEOG06.ZIP)
Notes: See Word document in each ZIP file for AREATYPE additions used in that revision.

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