Requirements
Technical Specifications
- Computer with minimum 1 GB RAM, high performance graphics card, and monitor with at least 1280 x1024 resolution
- Internet connection with download speed of at least 500 kilobytes per second; high-speed broadband connection preferred
- Firefox version 2.0, Internet Explorer version 7.0, or Safari version 3, or higher versions:
- Set browser to accept session cookies
- Enable JavaScript and style sheets
- Turn off browser’s pop-up blocker
Data Requirements
Data Source
- Unemployment Insurance (UI) Wage Record- Information on employees and jobs (relationship between employee and firm), including private-sector employment as well as state and local government
- The Office of Personnel Management (OPM)- Information on employees and jobs for most federal employees
- The Quarterly Census for Employment and Wages (QCEW)- Information on firm structure and establishment location
- U.S. Census Bureau’s public-use TIGER/Line geography data- Shapefiles for the base map and most geography displayed in OnTheMap
- Age, earnings, and industry profiles compiled by the Census Bureau from a state’s records and supplemented with other Census Bureau source data
- Employer locations assigned by states; workers’ residence locations assigned by the U.S. Census Bureau