11 code 097 large discontinued record check
Large Discontinued Record Check - Code 097
Code 097 is essentially the reverse of the code just described. Instead of looking for a new high-employment unit, this edit flags employers that have gone out of business with a high final employment. This combination most often carries a successor relationship, so that the large number of employees can be carried over to the new employer. Because of this, establishments with a successor account are exempt from this edit. A smaller scale version of this edit is Code 140, which is described later.
The coding for this edit (applied to successor-less high-final-employment establishments), is as follows:
Prior and Curr refer to the quarter before the edited quarter, and the edited quarter itself, respectively. The Final subscript denotes the last reported employment month of the now inactive employer, and PK060 is the AME limit for large new and discontinued establishments. As with Code 096, this edit does not apply to master accounts. To ensure that this is properly checked, the prior (i.e., active) quarter’s MEEI code is checked instead of the current (edited) quarter value, which can conceivably be changed to a ‘1’ when worksites are also inactivated.
An unusual aspect of this edit is that it requires the account to be currently inactive, the opposite of most other edits. Thus, this is one of the few edits that can override the active account pre-selection criterion. A lower-limit cutoff value (PK061) also exists for any of the non-successor-related accounts that terminate with substantial employment, though not quite up to the PK060 scale. This is explained in the Code 140 edit description, later in this appendix. A large enough terminated employer (almost certain) with this error is considered to possess a “gross” error. BLS classification: A.1.5 or B.1.6, dependent on account size. EXPO “G” code: A097 or B097.
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