hope clark director, research & market development indiana department of workforce development...

Hope ClarkDirector, Research & Market Development

Indiana Department of Workforce Developmenthclark@dwd.in.gov

09/23/08

Employer Demand: Data Resources for Higher Ed

Hoosiers by the Numbers

Hoosiers by the Numbers

Occupational Data

Strategic Skills Initiative

Employer Data

Industry Data

Labor Force Data

Goals of IWIS

Assess the educational attainment of Indiana’s workers

Monitor the education-to-work pipeline Monitor what happens to workers who lose their

jobs (e.g., layoffs & closings) More appropriate data to measure outcomes of

government programs in a broader context Inform public policy

Worker-centered Wage, unemployment, new hire and other workforce records

used to create “worker-event records” Then matched with data from other state records

Worker Event

Records

Higher Education Records

Adult Basic Education Records

Dimension Dimension

Multiple IDWD

Databases

Worker Event Record

Early Results

Early Results

Unexpected finding:In 38 out of 92 counties, those with a recent associate’s degree earned more than those with a recent bachelor’s degree.

Early Results

$44,000$40,000$38,000$32,000$28,000$24,000$20,000$16,000

Early Results

Early Results

Example of geographical and institutional specificity:

Work location of Ivy Tech and IU graduates who received their degrees between 2001 and 2006

Shading refers to IU grads; numbers for both appear in each county

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Early Results

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Public Tools will include GIS

Questions?