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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 Group  BLS matching group set up in 2015  Members from across the BLS  QCEW universe frame as a linchpin  OES a close second 2 — U.S. B UREAU OF L ABOR S TATISTICS • bls.gov 2 — U.S. B UREAU OF L ABOR S TATISTICS • bls.gov

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 3 — U.S. B UREAU OF L ABOR S TATISTICS • bls.gov 3 — U.S. B UREAU OF L ABOR S TATISTICS • bls.gov

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 4 — U.S. B UREAU OF L ABOR S TATISTICS • bls.gov 4 — U.S. B UREAU OF L ABOR S TATISTICS • bls.gov

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? 5 — U.S. B UREAU OF L ABOR S TATISTICS • bls.gov 5 — U.S. B UREAU OF L ABOR S TATISTICS • bls.gov

Contact Information Michael W. Horrigan Associate Commissioner Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics 202-691-5735 horrigan.michael@bls.gov 6 — U.S. B UREAU OF L ABOR S TATISTICS • bls.gov