Study of Data Methodology to Improve Validation of the U.S. Employment Service ESARS (Employment Security Automated Reporting System) System

摘要

The report suggests several steps which program managers may wish to consider in order to meet Federal and State needs more adequately. Prominent among these is more use of sampling for validation, development of estimates of statewide national placement reporting errors, and putting statewide outside verification surveys on an annual basis, using procedures outlined in the Employment Security Automated Reporting System (ESARS) Handbook with additional follow-up to reconcile questionable cases. The contractor is skeptical about reliance on use of a cross match of Employment Service (ES) referrals and Unemployment Insurance (UI) wage records, since the UI records do not indicate the ES role in the hiring transaction and 13 States do not have such record systems.