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Covered Employment Estimates These employment estimates are based primarily on the Washington State Employment Security Department's (ESD) ES-202 series. Through a unique data-sharing agreement with ESD, the Regional Council staff has worked with local planners to develop the employment database. From reporting requirements of the state's unemployment insurance laws, a data set consisting of individual business records from the four county region is sent from ESD to the Regional Council. The Regional Council then geocodes the records, and makes certain adjustments to arrive at an annual estimate of covered employment in the region. The employment estimates are based on the "ES202 Series" from ESD along with supplemental data from The Boeing Company, and the Washington State Superintendent of Schools Office. This database is capable of providing customized regional and local employment analyses to support the analytical requirements of the Growth Management Act (GMA) and other regional planning efforts. This series consists of employment for those firms, organizations and individuals whose employees are covered by the Washington Unemployment Insurance Act. Covered employment excludes self-employed workers, proprietors, CEOs, etc., and other non-insured workers. Typically, covered employment has represented 85-90% of total employment. The employment data represents the number of jobs during March of the given year. Note that this includes part-time and temporary employment, and if a worker holds more than one job, each job would appear in the database. Under confidentiality requirements, data must be suppressed if fewer than 3 firms are present, or a single firm accounts for more than 80 percent of the jobs, in whatever geographic or employment category the table is being summarized to. Besides the suppression of individual cells, the totals shown are subject to suppression, and if one cell is suppressed when summing data (for example, total of all manufacturing jobs in a city, or total for all jobs across categories in a specific zip code) than another cell must be manually suppressed in order to show the total. The exceptions are Government and Education jobs, which are never suppressed, and the Boeing Company, which allows PSRC to report jobs for specific locations unsuppressed. In the spreadsheets, an asterisk represents those cells that are suppressed. DOWNLOAD
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