Labor Market Information Acronyms

ACINET - America's Career InfoNet

A resource for making informed career decisions to support a demand-driven workforce investment system. If you are a student, jobseeker, workforce professional, or employer this site can help you assess your options, find education and training, find a job, or grow your business.

ALMIS - America's Labor Market Information System

A comprehensive system providing direct access to state-of-the-art labor market information services. It encompasses existing labor market information systems and much more.

BEA - Bureau of Economic Analysis

A division of the U.S. Department of Commerce that collects and disseminates data regarding different aspects of the economy.

BLS - Bureau of Labor Statistics

This agency (within the United States Department of Labor) is the primary data-gathering entity of the federal government in the field of labor economics. BLS employees collect, process, analyze and disseminate data relating to employment, unemployment, the labor force, productivity, prices, family expenditures, wages, industrial relations and occupational safety and health.

CC - Continued Claims

A request filed for waiting period credit or payment for one or more weeks of employment. Participants must respond to questions concerning their request for continued claims. These claims are usually filed by mail or telephone; the State will provide filing instructions. They are filed weekly or bi-weekly. Any earnings from work during the week(s) must be reported.

CES - Current Employment Statistics

Estimates of nonagricultural wage and salary employment and production workers hours and earnings by industry, produced as part of a nationwide program, in cooperation with BLS, for the state and each metropolitan statistical area (MSA) from a sample of employing establishments. This data is published in the monthly Labor Market Information Bulletin. (PDF)

CFOI - Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries

Includes information on events or exposure causing fatalities, worker characteristics, and fatalities by occupation and industry.

CPI - Consumer Price Index

Measures the average annual and monthly changes in prices via a fixed market basket of goods and services for the United States. It is also known as the Cost of Living index and is produced in two series, All Urban Consumers and Urban Wage and Clerical Workers.

CPS - Current Population Survey

a monthly household survey of approximately 56,000 selected households in the U.S. conducted for BLS by the Census Bureau. Respondents are interviewed to obtain information on the employment status of each household member, age 16 and over, during the reference week.

DUA - Disaster Unemployment Assistance

Provides financial assistance to individuals whose employment or self-employment has been lost or interrupted as a direct result of a major disaster declared by the President of the United States.

ETA - Employment and Training Administration

This agency is a division within the U.S. Department of Labor that seeks to build up the labor market through the training of the workforce and the placement of workers in jobs through employment services.

GDP - Gross Domestic Product

Represents the total value of all goods and services produced within the borders of the United States. This also includes any foreign company products that are produced in the United States.

GNP - Gross National Product

Represents the total value of all American national goods and services produced inside and outside the borders of the United States.

GSP - Gross State Product

The value added in production by the labor and property located in a state. GSP for a State is derived as the sum of the gross state product originating in all industries in a State. In concept, an industry's GSP, referred to as its "value added", is equivalent to its gross output (sales or receipts and other operating income, commodity taxes, and inventory change) minus its intermediate inputs (consumption of goods and services purchased from other U.S. industries or imported). Thus, GSP is often considered the state counterpart of the nation's gross domestic product (GDP), BEA's featured measure of U.S. output.

IC - Initial Claims

Any notice of unemployment to initiate a request either for a determination of entitlement to and eligibility for compensation, or for a subsequent period of unemployment within a benefit year or period of eligibility.

LAUS - Local Area Unemployment Statistics

Program that produces the civilian labor force estimates including the employed, unemployed and the unemployment rate for the state, MSAs, and the 64 parishes.

LLSIL - Lower Living Standard Income Level

WIOA Section 3(36)(B) defines the LLSIL as "that income level (adjusted for regional, metropolitan, urban, and rural differences and family size) determined annually by the U.S. Secretary of Labor based on the most recent lower living family budget issued by the U.S. Secretary."

LMA - Labor Market Area

An area consisting of a central city or cities and the surrounding territory within normal commuting distance. Persons in a labor market area can change jobs without having to change residences. The boundaries depend primarily on economic and geographic factors rather than on political jurisdictions.

LMI - Labor Market Information

Data on job seekers, employment, unemployment, changes in industrial structure, technological changes, conditions of employment, wage rates and other related statistics.

LOIS - Louisiana Occupational Information System

A comprehensive labor market information delivery system developed by LWC and Geographic Solutions, Inc., providing a single source of demographic, economic, and labor market information for the state, MSA's and parishes.

LSA - Labor Surplus Areas

Classified on the basis of civil jurisdictions rather than on a metropolitan area or labor market area basis. Civil jurisdictions are now defined as all cities with a population of at least 25,000 and all counties, and are classified as labor surplus areas when their unemployment rate was at least 20 percent above the average unemployment rate for all States (including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico) during the previous 2 calendar years.

LWDA - Local Workforce Development Area

A local workforce investment area designated under section 106 of WIOA to promote effective delivery of employment and job training services.

MSA - Metropolitan Statistical Area

An MSA is a geographic area comprised of a county/parish generally containing a central city (or twin cities) of 50,000 inhabitants or more, plus contiguous counties/parishes that are socially and economically integrated with the central city.

NAICS - North American Industry Classification System

Developed by cooperative agreement to replace the current Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system as the primary tool to classify establishment level data. NAICS will use a 6-digit structure and have 155 more industry codes than the current SIC system.

NSA - Not Seasonally Adjusted

Data reflect normal patterns for any time series. These data are unadjusted and reflect seasonal variation such as consistently higher or lower unemployment that occurs each year. A not seasonally adjusted figure for a month or quarter can only be compared with that same period from another year.

OES - Occupational Employment Statistics

A program that manages a survey of establishments conducted in cooperation with BLS to capture detailed occupational employment and wages.

O*NET - Occupational Information Network

A comprehensive data base of worker attributes and job characteristics developed for the U.S. Department of Labor. O*NET Online has detailed descriptions of the world of work for use by job seekers, workforce development and HR professionals, students, researchers, and more.

OSH - Occupational Safety and Health Statistics

Provide vital statistics on fatal accidents and illnesses and non-fatal injuries and illnesses.

OSHA (Data Log) - Occupational Safety & Health Administration (Data Log)

Compiles occupational injury and illness information from establishments in selected high-hazard industries. OSHA will use the data as a basis for targeting intervention programs (e.g., inspections, outreach, technical assistance, leveraging) and to measure the success of Agency efforts to help reduce the number of workplace injuries and illnesses.

PPI - Producer Price Index

Refers to a family of indexes that measure the average change over time in the selling prices received by domestic producers of goods and services. Unlike the CPI, the PPI measures price change from the perspective of the seller.

QCEW - Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages

Quarterly report detailed by parish for quarterly wages, average weekly wage, monthly employment, and number of employing units. Data comes from the employers quarterly tax files and is detailed by three digit NAICS for the state and two digit NAICS for each parish.

RLMA - Regional Labor Market Area

An economically integrated area within which individuals can reside and find employment within a reasonable distance or can readily change jobs without changing their place of residence. RLMAs consists of all 64 parishes of the state.

SA - Seasonally Adjusted

Data that are adjusted to remove any factors reflecting a repetitive pattern from year to year. For example, employment in retail sales is consistently high around the holiday season, and a seasonally adjusted data series would not reflect this pattern. A seasonally adjusted number can be compared with any other seasonally adjusted number in a particular series, while an unadjusted number can only be compared with another unadjusted number from that exact time in another year.

SIC - Standard Industrial Code

An industry 4-digit coding system developed in the 1930s when the economy consisted primarily of industrial manufacturing and agriculture. This system is currently being phased out and replaced by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).

SOC - Standard Occupational Classification

A universal occupational classification system that is designed to cover all occupations in which work is performed for pay or profit, reflecting the current occupational structure of the United States.

TEUC - Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation

Provides extra weeks of federally-funded unemployment benefits to unemployed workers throughout the country who have received all regular unemployment benefits available to them.

UCFE - Unemployment Compensation for Federal Employees

Provides benefits for eligible unemployed former civilian federal employees.

UCX - Unemployment Compensation for Ex Service Members

This program provides benefits for eligible ex-military personnel.

UI - Unemployment Insurance

A program providing benefits to insured and eligible persons who are out of work due to conditions beyond their control.

UIC - Unemployment Insurance Claims

This program helps cushion the impact of economic downturns and brings economic stability to communities, states, and the nation by providing temporary income support for laid off workers.

WIOA - Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act

The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014 amends and reauthorizes the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, which supports the nation's primary programs and investments in employment services, workforce development, adult education, and vocational rehabilitation activities. The bill also reauthorizes and enhances the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act, amends the Wagner-Peyser Act of 1933, and amends and reauthorizes certain provisions in the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.