Paul Overberg presents "Analyzing Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Data" during a Reynolds Center workshop, "Mining the Census for Local Business Stories."
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Lots of good training material: http://lehd.did.census.gov/led/library/training.html http://lehd.did.census.gov/led/library/workshops.html#2010
Location quotient analysis is a basic way to look at the strengths and weaknesses of local industries: http://pubs.cas.psu.edu/freepubs/pdfs/ua377.pdf http://mailer.fsu.edu/~tchapin/garnet-tchapin/urp5261/topics/econbase/lq.htm Shift-share analysis breaks down whether trends in local employment are rooted in national changes, the local economic mix and finally, the competitive power of local employers. http://pubs.cas.psu.edu/freepubs/pdfs/ua378.pdf
To protect privacy, Census Bureau creates a synthetic data set that mirrors actual workers’ data: Details: http://lehd.did.census.gov/led/datatools/onthemap.php?name=ConfidentialityProtection Massachusetts just joined the partnership in fall 2010. Its data should begin appearing in 2011.