Table of industry employment data sources, from federal, state and local sources.
| Data Source | Level of Industry Detail | Most Recent Data | Notes on Data | Number of Establishments | Employment | Annual Payroll |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| County Business Patterns, U.S. Census Bureau | 5-digit NAICS | March 12, 2003 (1 1/2 year lag | CBP data exclude administrative and auxiliary establishments from "operating" establishment data at the four-digit SIC level and include these data at the industry division level only. Agricultural production workers, household workers, and government installations are excluded from the data. This report is an annual extension of the Census Bureau’s quinquennial economic census. |  | | |
| Economic Census, U.S. Census Bureau (produced every five years) | 5-digit NAICS by tax status | 2002 (Released every 5 years) | Census forms were mailed to more than 5 million companies in December 1997, with a due date of February 12, 1998. There are nearly 500 versions of the census form, each customized to particular industries. Some very small companies were not sent a census form. Establishments with no paid employees were excluded. Estimates for firms not surveyed are based on administrative record classifications or a brief inquiry requesting information necessary to assign a kind-of-business code | | | |
| Regional Accounts Data, Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) | 1-digit SIC | 2004 | Provides information about all employment (including self-employment) and personal income (including sources other than wage and salary employment). Local area data is released 17 months after the end of the year. Data is derived from BLS ES-202 data, with adjustments made by the BEA to account for employment and wages not covered or misreported under the ES-202 program. Sources for these adjustments include IRS tax data | N.A | | |
| Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) | 6-digit NAICS, 4-digit SIC | Preceding Quarter | Uses ES-202 data to produce a comprehensive tabulation of employment and wage information for workers covered by State unemployment insurance (UI) laws and Federal workers covered by the Unemployment Compensation for Federal Employees (UCFE) program. Publicly available files include data on the number of establishments, monthly employment, and quarterly wages, by industry, at the 4-digit Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) level, by county, by ownership sector. | | | |
| Official Monthly Estimates of EmploymentEDD Labor Market Information Division | 2- and 3-digit SIC | Preceding Month | Uses the relationship between the ratio of the county's monthly Current Employment Survey (CES) employment to the population and the ratio of the county's CPS employment to the population, as well as trend and seasonal components to adjust ES-202 data to produce official employment estimates. | N.A | | N.A |
| ES-202 Reference Tables, EDD Labor Market Information Division | 6-digit NAICS, 4-digit SIC | Preceding Quarter | Data for some smaller industries is suppressed to avoid disclosing confidential employer data. Data for each industry is broken out by type of ownership. Data is different than EDD’s official estimates of employment because it is not adjusted based on population or seasonal trends. | | | |
