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3/20/2003
Types of Employment
Types of Employment
Civilian Labor Force Employment (LAUS)
Civilian Labor Force employment represents the number of people with jobs by place of residence. This data series is more concerned with the count of people working. These figures are updated monthly and is available for statewide, Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA), Workforce Development Areas (WDA), and by county and city. Civilian Labor Force Employment is also referred to as Total Employment and is accompanied by the labor force, total unemployment and unemployment rate estimates.
Total Nonagricultural Wage and Salary Employment
(CES - Monthly Employment Estimates)
Total Nonagricultural Wage and Salary Employment is a monthly count of jobs, collected through the Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey, it represents current estimates of nonagricultural employment, hours, and earnings.
Monthly data are available for Texas and the 27 metropolitan statistical areas (MSA’s) for nonagricultural employment. Average weekly hours, average weekly earnings, and average hourly earnings data are available for some major divisions at the Statewide level. In the Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio metropolitan statistical areas, hours and earnings are available for only the manufacturing major division.
Nonagricultural wage and salary employment is used to measure the month-to-month change that occurs in the economy. The program is dependent on a monthly survey of employers. Employers are requested to report data for any employees who worked or received pay for any part of the pay period that included the 12th of the month.
In the nonagricultural wage and salary employment, the following are counted as employed persons:
- Persons who worked or received pay for any part of the entire pay period reported.
- Permanent and temporary employees
- Full-time and part-time employees
- Persons who received pay for the period reported directly from the company for holidays, sick leave, vacation days, and other paid leave.
It is also important to note that persons employed by more than one establishment during the pay period are to be reported by each establishment that employs them, whether the duplication is caused by turnover or multiple job holdings.
Some examples of persons who are not counted as employed are:
- Persons on strike or laid off for the entire pay period reported
- Proprietors and self-employed persons
- Unpaid family workers and unpaid volunteer workers
- Domestic workers in households and farm workers
- Persons receiving no pay at all or on leave without pay from the company for the entire pay period
Unemployment Insurance Covered Employment
(ES-202)
UI Covered Employment is a count of all UI covered employers in the state of Texas. This is referred to as the universe of all employers who pay unemployment insurance. This data is released once per quarter, can be broken out by industry, and is available by county, MSA, WDA, and statewide.
Perhaps the biggest downside to UI covered employment is the length of time from the reference period until it is publicly available. It is approximately five months after the end of the reference quarter before States produce their key covered employment figure for the National Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
Count of jobs by place of work:
UI covered employment (ES-202)
Nonagricultural wage and salary employment (CES - Monthly Employment Estimates)
Count of people by place of residence:
Total employment (LAUS)
Occupational Employment
Occupational Employment is compiled from the OES survey which covers all full-time and part-time wage and salary workers in nonfarm industries. This employment is a count of people working within specific occupations. The data is updated Semi-annually and is available by WDA, MSA, and statewide.
Projections Employment
The projection staff produces long-term industry and occupation employment projections for Texas and its 28 WDAs every two years as required by ETA’s One-Stop Grant. The projection period is for a ten-year period with the base year always being an even year. The projection process depends on two main ingredients: industry employment and occupation employment within each industry (generally referred to as staffing patterns). Staffing patterns are defined as the type of jobs found in firms.
Projected occupational employment can be analyzed from two perspectives: percent change and numerical change, because one can be large and the other small, depending on the size of employment in the base year. Annual job openings for the ten-year period are produced which include openings due to growth in the industry and openings due to replacement needs of existing job.
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