hope clark director, research & market development indiana department of workforce development...
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Hope ClarkDirector, Research & Market Development
Indiana Department of Workforce [email protected]
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?