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Main County
A county that acts as an employment center within a Core Based Statistical Area that has a core with a population of at least 2.5 million. A main county serves as the basis for defining a Metropolitan Division.

Manufacturing
This industry group includes (1) durable goods such as lumber and wood, furniture and fixtures, primary metal, fabricated metal, machinery, electric and electronic equipment, transportation equipment, motor vehicles and equipment, stone, clay, and glass, and instruments and (2) non durable goods such as food, textile mills, apparel, paper, chemicals, petroleum, rubber and plastics.

Market Basket
The market basket is a package of goods and services that consumers purchase for day-to-day living. The weight of each item is based on the amount of expenditure reported by a sample of households.

Mass Layoff Statistics Program
A Federal-State cooperative program that uses a standardized, automated approach to identify, describe, and track the impact of major job cutbacks. The MLS Program was developed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics  in response to Section 462(e) of the Job Training Partnership Act  (JTPA ), PL 97-300. Language found in Section 309 of the Workforce Investment Act  (WIA ), PL 105-220, replaces the reference to JTPA.

Mean
The mean is another term for average. In a given distribution, the mean is calculated by adding the value of the observations, then dividing that sum by the number of observations in that distribution.

Median
The median is the midpoint of a given distribution, the point at which half of the observations in the distribution fall below it and half of the observations fall above it.

Medical Benefits (Government Transfer Payments)
Medical benefits include:

Medicare benefits: these benefits are federal government payments made through intermediaries to beneficiaries for the care provided to individuals under the medicare program.

Public assistance medical care: these medical benefits are received by low-income individuals. These payments consist mainly of the payments made through intermediaries to the vendors for care provided to individuals under the federally assisted, state-administered medicaid program and state children's health insurance program (SCHIP) and under the general assistance medical programs of state and local governments.

Military medical insurance benefits: these benefits are vendor payments made under the TriCare Management Program, formerly called the Civilian Health and Medical Plan of the Uniformed Services program, for the medical care of dependents of active duty military personnel and of retired military personnel and their dependents at nonmilitary medical facilities.

Medicare Benefits
These benefits are federal government payments made through intermediaries to beneficiaries for the care provided to individuals under the provisions of the medicare program.

MEEI
See Multi-establishment  Employer Indicator Code.

Merge Event
The combination of two or more layoff events that, after employer contact, are determined to be a single layoff event for the establishment.

Metropolitan Division
A county or group of counties within a Core Based Statistical Area that contains a core with a population of at least 2.5 million. A Metropolitan Division consists of one ore more main/secondary counties that represent an employment center or centers, plus adjacent counties associated with the main county or counties through commuting ties (See MAIN COUNTY, SECONDARY COUNTY, and CORE BASED STATISTICAL AREA).

In Indiana, there is one Metropolitan Division, the Gary Metropolitan Division, which contains Jasper, Lake, Newton, and Porter Counties.

Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)
A Core Based Statistical Area associated with at least one urbanized area that has a population of at least 50,000. The Metropolitan Statistical Area comprises the central county or counties containing the core, plus adjacent outlying counties having a high degree of social and economic integration with the central county as measured through commuting (See CENTRAL COUNTY and CORE BASED STATISTICAL AREA).

In Indiana, there are 14 Metropolitan Statistical Areas.

  1. 1. Anderson MSA - includes Madison County.
  2. 2. Bloomington MSA - includes Greene, Monroe, and Owen Counties.
  3. 3. Cincinnati MSA - includes Dearborn, Franklin, and Ohio Counties in Indiana, Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton, and Pendleton Counties in Kentucky, and Clermont, Hamilton, and Warren Counties in Ohio.
  4. 4. Columbus MSA - includes Bartholomew County.
  5. 5. Elkhart-Goshen MSA - includes Elkhart County.
  6. 6. Evansville MSA - includes Gibson, Posey, Vanderburgh, and Warrick Counties in Indiana, and Henderson and Webster Counties in Kentucky.
  7. 7. Fort Wayne MSA - includes Allen, Wells, and Whitley Counties.
  8. 8. Indianapolis MSA - includes Boone, Brown, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Johnson, Marion, Morgan, Putnam, and Shelby Counties.
  9. 9. Kokomo MSA - includes Howard and Tipton Counties.
  10. 10. Lafayette MSA - includes Benton, Carroll, and Tippecanoe Counties.
  11. 11. Louisville KY-IN MSA - includes Clark, Floyd, Harrison, and Washington Counties in Indiana, and Bullitt, Henry, Jefferson, Meade, Nelson, Oldham, Shelby, Spencer, and Trimble Counties in Kentucky.
  12. 12. Michigan City-LaPorte MSA - includes LaPorte County.
  13. 13. Muncie MSA - includes Delaware County.
  14. 14. South Bend-Mishawaka MSA - includes St. Joseph County in Indiana and Cass County in Michigan.
  15. 15. Terre Haute MSA - includes Clay, Sullivan, Vermillion, and Vigo Counties.

Micropolitan Statistical Area
A Core Based Statistical Area associated with at least one urban cluster that has a population of at least 10,000, but less than 50,000. The Micropolitan Statistical Aea comprises the central county or counties containing the core, plus adjacent outlying counties having a high degree of social and economic integration with the central county as measured through commuting. (See CENTRAL COUNTY and CORE BASED STATISTICAL AREA).

In Indiana, there are 25 Micropolitan Statistical Areas.

  1. 1. Angola - includes Steuben County.
  2. 2. Auburn - includes DeKalb County.
  3. 3. Bedford - includes Lawrence County.
  4. 4. Connersville - includes Fayette County.
  5. 5. Crawfordsville - includes Montgomery County.
  6. 6. Decatur - includes Adams County.
  7. 7. Frankfurt - includes Clinton County.
  8. 8. Greensburg - includes Decatur County.
  9. 9. Huntington - includes Huntington County.
  10. 10. Jasper - includes Dubois and Pike Counties.
  11. 11. Kendallville - includes Noble County.
  12. 12. Logansport - includes Cass County.
  13. 13. Madison - includes Jefferson County.
  14. 14. Marion - includes Grant County.
  15. 15. New Castle - includes Henry County.
  16. 16. North Vernon - includes Jennings County.
  17. 17. Peru - includes Miami County.
  18. 18. Plymouth - includes Marshall County.
  19. 19. Richmond - includes Wayne County.
  20. 20. Scottsburg - includes Scott County.
  21. 21. Seymour - includes Jackson County.
  22. 22. Vincennes - includes Knox County.
  23. 23. Wabash - includes Wabash County.
  24. 24. Warsaw - includes Kosciusko County.
  25. 25, Washington - includes Daviess County.

Military Medical Insurance Benefits
Military medical insurance benefits consist of payments made under the TriCare Management Program, formerly called the Civilian Health and Medical Plan of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) program, for the medical care of dependents of active duty military personnel and of retired military personnel and their dependents at nonmilitary medical facilities.

MLS
See Mass Layoff Statistics program

Monetary Determination
A written notice issued to inform an individual whether or not he/she meets the employment and wage requirements necessary to establish entitlement to compensation under a specific unemployment insurance program and, if entitled, the weekly and maximum benefit amounts the individual may receive.

Movement of Work
The relocation of work from one worksite to another either within the company or by contract with another company.   The term "moving work" means that the company experiencing the layoff has reassigned work activities that were performed at a worksite by the company’s employees (1) to another worksite within the company; (2) to another company under formal arrangements at the same worksite; or (3) to another company under formal arrangements at another worksite.  The type of work activities subject to movement can include accounting, customer service, cleaning, warehousing, etc.

Multi-Establishment
A UI account which consists of more than one establishment.

Multi-Establishment Employer Indicator Code
A numeric code on the EQUI file that indicates whether the UI account includes one or multiple establishments. If the account includes more than one establishment, the MEET code indicates how the establishments are reported. This information is especially useful in MLS when determining plant closures.

Multiple Worksite Report
The Multiple Worksite Report (MWR) form is sent to employers by the ES-202 program. It asks multi-location employers to provide employment and wage data for each establishment (by industry and geographic area) that is covered under one Unemployment Insurance (UI) account in a State. Each of these locations is assigned a Reporting Unit Number (RUN). In the MLS Program, the units are not broken out by Reporting Unit Number; rather, the master record for the UI account is used. (See MEEI codes.)

MWR
See Multiple Worksite Report