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Matching projects at the BLS Michael Horrigan Associate Commissioner Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics BLS Technical Advisory Committee Meeting November 18, 2016 1 U.S. B UREAU OF L ABOR S TATISTICS bls.gov BLS Matching

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Matching projects at the BLS

Michael Horrigan Associate Commissioner Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics BLS Technical Advisory Committee Meeting November 18, 2016

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BLS Matching Group

 BLS matching group set up in 2015  Members from across the BLS  QCEW universe frame as a linchpin  OES a close second

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Projects to date

 QCEW to IRS data on non-profit status  BEA Foreign Owned Company data to the QCEW and the OES  QCEW to OES  QCEW to OES to SOII  Customs Bureau trade data on exports to the QCEW and OES  Wage record pilot

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Future Considerations

 Modelling and matching

OES time series – impute to the universe Small domain modelling – LAUS

 Private sector data

Smart cities monitoring data Other measures of economic activity by geography Ratio allocation of survey based estimates using biased self selected alternative data to estimate proportions

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Questions

 What else should we be matching?  What is the potential future role of matching

and modelling to create new products, especially ones that provide local detail?

 How do we leverage the use of alternative

data to blend with official survey estimates?

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Contact Information

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