While everything produced by the Texas Workforce Commission’s Labor Market Information Department has been impacted by the shift to NAICS, the effect to the end user of LMI products will vary.
Job Vacancy or Benefits Surveys: Employers in the local job vacancy or benefits surveys will be classified under NAICS. Theses surveys will report results by industry using the new system.
ES-202/Covered Employment and Wages: First and Second quarter 2002 have been published using NAICS, and are currently available from the LMI Department. Five quarters worth of data were collected using both NAICS and SIC (first quarter 2001 to first quarter 2002). Fourth quarter 2001 is the last quarter Covered Employment and Wages were published using the SIC. A NAICS series back to 1990 has been reconstructed and is available.
Current Employment Statistics/Non-Agricultural Wage and Salary Employment: January 2003 data for the monthly survey of businesses were collected according to NAICS. January numbers will be available in March 2003. Current Employment Statistics data dating back to 1990 are being reconstructed based on the new NAICS system and are scheduled to be released with revised data in March 2003.
Occupational Employment Outlook/Occupational Projections: Covering the years 2002-2012 will be published using NAICS in 2004. The current 2000-2010 projections are SIC based.
Occupational Employment statistics (OES)/Wage Survey: While employers in the OES sample will be sorted and drawn according to NAICS in 2003, the survey will continue to publish wages by occupation according to the Standard Occupational Classification system. The OES survey has been using the SOC occupations since 1999.
The sample for the current survey was drawn based on the SIC. Wage information that became available in January 2003 was also still based on the SIC.
The survey sample for November 2002 was drawn based on NAICS. Wage data collected for November 2002 will be available around August 2003. Combined results of both November 2002 and May 2003 surveys will be available February 2004.
Occupations by industry for Texas are available upon request, and will reflect NAICS industry classifications beginning with the August 2003 release.
Local Area Unemployment Statistics/Unemployment Rates were not directly impacted by the shift to NAICS.
The shift to NAICS means a break in historical time series. SIC and NAICS industry groupings are not directly comparable since the code changes for NAICS have split some SIC groups.
For additional information contact the Labor Market Information Department of the Texas Workforce Commission.
101 East 15th Street, Suite 103A, Austin, TX, 78778.
Telephone 1-866-938-4444
E-mail: lmi@twc.state.tx.us
Fax 1-512-491-4904
Website: www.tracer2.com
We would like to thank the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment for allowing us to use portions of their NAICS information release.
