Chapter 6 Appendix: EMSI

6.1 Key datasets from EMSI

6.1.1 Core Labor Market Information (LMI)

  1. Employment by race and gender, across region
  2. Unemployment by industry groups or occupation groups, across region
  3. Skill transferability: O*NET occupations that share similar knowledge, skills, and abilities to a selected occupation
  4. Talent Supply by Compensation: Wage distribution in a given region

6.1.2 Staffing Patterns

Staffing patterns show the occupational makeup of an industry at county level. EMSI takes national OES staffing pattern and models it at county level.

6.1.3 Gross Regional Product

EMSI provides historical GRP data down to the ZIP level for all 6-digit industries. Note that EMSI is not using BEA’s Gross County Product, for reasons they detailed here.

6.1.4 Job Postings and Job Profiles

EMSI provides a unique skill supply and demand dataset using scrapped job postings, and job profiles.(Job profiles include public Linkedin profiles, resumes through partnership with CRM databases, resume databases and applicant tracking systems) EMSI then extracts and classifies skills from job postings and resume. Each skill is classified as a hard skill, soft skill, or certification. Certifications are recognizable qualification standards assigned by industry or education bodies (e.g. “Cosmetology License” or “Certified Cytotechnologist”).

You can find more information about their skill methodlogy. These data powers the following products:

  1. Daily job postings by occupation or by industry, across region
  2. Regional talent profiles
  • Skills by occupation and industry of the local labor market, across region
  1. Company talent profiles
  • employment by location for a specific company
  • job types and skills at a specific company

6.1.5 Education

  1. Educational attainment by race and gender, across regions
  2. Academic programs completions, openings and earnings across regions

6.1.6 Migration

Yearly population movement between US counties based on data from IRS.

6.2 FAQ

6.2.1 What’s the data source/methodology behind XXX data?

EMSI maintains a well-documented knowledge base. If this still doesn’t answer your questions, please email Sifan who can put you in touch with researchers at EMSI

6.2.2 What’s the frequency and recency of XXX data?

You can check the data vintage from EMSI’s data release notes

6.2.3 How to save a list of regions, or industries that I want to reuse later?

You can create a customized group of regions, occupations, or industries, and save the group to your account.

6.2.4 How to download data for all metros?

  1. Data Download tool For core LMI data (employment and wage), you can use the Data Download tool to customize data export by industry or occupation.
  2. Community Indicators Map Located under “Region” tab, containing social, demographic, housing and economic data straight from ACS 5-year.

Wickham, Hadley. 2014. “Tidy Data.” Journal of Statistical Software, Articles 59 (10): 1–23. https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v059.i10.