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Glossary

Average Annual Wage (AAW) - the average wage per job based on the ES-202 database.

Clients - Persons who participated in the DVR program.

Cohort - Common groups of individuals that for purposes of analysis share the same reference year. For example the 1994 DVR clients, the 1994 control group and the 1994 population group together make up the 1994 cohort.

Control Group - A subset of the population matched to DVR Clients on sex, age and prior earnings.

Earnings Gained in Employment (Core Indicator 3) - The average difference between the prior-to-training wages and two quarters of subsequent-to-training wages for all DVR clients. The average difference between the prior-to-reference year wages and two quarters of subsequent-to-reference year wages for the population and control groups. These calculations are based on those who enter employment and those who are already employed the quarter prior to the reference year.

Entered Employment Rate (Core Indicator 1) - Those with no wages the quarter prior to the reference year that have wages the quarter following the reference year.

ES-202 - (Covered Employment and Wages) data is produced from covered employment and wage reports of employers subject to Unemployment Insurance (UI) coverage. Currently about 88 percent of all employees are covered by UI.

Maturation - Changes that are due to the passage of time rather than factors being analyzed, for example death or retirement.

Population - All persons who had contact with an available administrative database in a reference year.

Reference Year (Reference Period) - The period corresponding to the calendar year for the control group and the population group and the period of training for DVR clients.

Retention Rate (Core Indicator 2) - The percent of those who enter employment and who are employed in the quarter prior to the reference year that have wages in the third full quarter following the reference year.

Wage Records - Wage records form the administrative database used to calculate UI benefits. By law, each employer who has covered employees must submit reports to the state showing each employee’s wage by quarter.


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