How does data from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) program differ from the Current Employment Statistics (CES) program?
The QCEW program is a census of Unemployment Insurance (UI) data reported on nonagricultural industries, and additionally includes government workers and partial information on agricultural industries and employees in private households. CES employment figures are calculated from data received from the payroll records of a sample of nonagricultural employers, and are benchmarked each year in part using data from the QCEW program. Both programs use the pay period including the 12th of the month as the reference period for employment. QCEW wages include total compensation paid during the calendar quarter to workers receiving pay or who worked during the reference period; CES hours and earnings data are reported for production or non-supervisory workers in private industry who receive pay for work during any part of the pay period including the reference period. More information on the differences between the QCEW, CES and Business Employment Dynamics (BED) establishment-based employment
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