11 code 128 identical monthly employment check
Code 128 - Identical Monthly Employment Check
This edit looks for accounts that show the same high employment in all three months of the processed quarter and equal employment in the previous quarter’s months. However, these employment amounts do not necessarily have to be the same in both quarters (e.g., equal employment of 425 in each month of the current quarter and 389 in each month of the prior quarter would still trigger the exception). However, each of these monthly employment values must not be less than the cutoff employment level specified in the PK021 parameter in the Lookup File.
Even if an account has high equal employment in the processed quarter, it will not be flagged if either the previous quarter had unequal monthly employment amounts, or the equal employment of the prior quarter does not exceed the PK021 parameter. An account that fails the edit will have all three months of employment underscored for the processed quarter. Only reported employment data are eligible for this edit; estimates are ignored.
Note: Worksites are exempt from this edit. The reason is simply that a master account with high equal employment virtually guarantees that all of the worksites will also show equal monthly employment. By showing only the master and single accounts, the edit doesn’t become unnecessarily redundant.
Even though this is an employment-related edit exception, it is not tied to the macro edits during the integrated edit run (Job 242D). Macro edits are designed to seek out high volatility of data, rather than excessive consistency. Equal employment is not an edit conducted on macro data, so it has no place in the integration of edits. The targets of this edit are large employers that are “lazy,” not reporting the individual monthly employment, but rather repeating one figure for each month as a generalized employment status. The larger an employer is, the more likely it is that there will be some level of attrition present in the employment, which should vary the employment count from one month to the next.
The Code 128 edit is of limited value. Although it is possible to list the employers that are not providing complete employment data, most complacent reporters will not change their ways. They may be aware that no other exceptions will occur for data volatility, which would be more closely scrutinized than data being too serene. Many States take little note of this exception, since it doesn’t show anything to generate genuine concern for reporting, macro aggregates, or EQUI deliverable production. In fact, under the “A-B-C” prioritization, this edit is more lightly regarded than any other, except for Code 116. BLS classification: C.2.9. EXPO “G” code: D128.
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