Census Bureau News Products for June 30, 2022
 Census Bureau Releases 2019 Nonemployer Statistics
The U.S. Census Bureau today released the 2019 Nonemployer Statistics (NES). This annual series provides subnational economic data for businesses that have no paid employees or payroll, are subject to federal income tax and have receipts of $1,000 or more. ?
The data consist of the number of businesses and total receipts by industry for over 450 industries at detailed geographic levels, including national, state, county and metropolitan and combined statistical areas. The statistics are also published by Legal Form of Organization (LFO) and by receipts size class.
Six States Added to Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes
The U.S. Census Bureau today announced the release of six new states (nine data partners) ? Oregon, Hawaii, Massachusetts, South Dakota, Montana and Georgia ? in the Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) experimental data product. PSEO now includes data on 660 institutions, which cover more than 25% of all college graduates in the United States in 2015. Data users can access the data via the PSEO Explorer tool, raw files, and Census API.
PSEO tabulations show earnings and employment outcomes for graduates of U.S. post-secondary institutions and are generated by linking graduate transcript records to Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics wage data. This offers prospective students a comprehensive assessment tool to find out how much they could potentially earn by degree and institution.
New on America Counts: Knowing Your Job and Earnings Prospects by College and Degree
Will your post-college job prospects improve if you graduate from one school over another? Will you have to move to another state to find work? Should you change your major to earn more money?
Take Louisiana Tech University engineering graduates. They have relatively high earnings overall but those who studied chemical engineering make a lot more money ? nearly $30,000 more than biomedical engineering majors the first year after they graduate.
How do we know this? The U.S. Census Bureau devised a way to track college graduates? career paths as they enter the workforce, including earnings: the?Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes?tool.
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