12 set up date
Set-up Date (IMT-SETUP-DATE)
The set-up date notes the date on which the account was first entered into the system. The field is found in positions 536 - 543 of the record, and is subdivided into a 4-digit year, a 2-digit month and a 2-digit day. As with the remaining dates to be described subsequently, the 4-digit year has been used to ensure Y2K compliance. All date fields will be forwarded to BLS in the EQUI deliverable.
Note: Date fields on the Micro File are established as packed fields using 5 bytes to contain the 8 digits of the date. The 4-digit year, 2-digit month, and 2-digit day-of-the-month sub-fields have been removed due to the packing of the dates. The only way to access these former sub-fields is within working storage in a “PIC 9” copy of the date field.
Generally, this field represents the date on which the account first appeared in the QCEW (i.e., the Micro) File. Some States, however, may choose to copy the entry date from the State Tax File, if such a date is provided there. If an account is already in existence on the Micro File, this field should be left as low-values. For a new account, the current date, or the setup date on the tax file may be supplied, or the field may be still left as low-values. The EXPO interface program can set a default, using the current date, for any accounts that are new to the system.
Note: It is possible that certain date fields on the State Tax File have not yet been converted to use 4-digit years. If so, a 2-digit year can be converted to a 4-digit year by inspecting the 2-digit value. If it is 35 or higher, it should be considered part of the 20th century (i.e., starting with ‘19’), while a 2-digit year lower than 35 should be deemed a 21st-century date (starting with ‘20’). If a date can be set to all zeroes, it should not have a century interpretation applied; instead it should be brought in as low-values. The dividing point of 1935 is used because it was the year that the Employment Security Act went into effect.
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