What Is Your LMIQ?

John Dorrer, Director Center for Workforce Research and

Information Maine Department of Labor

Some of the Questions

  What industries are growing?   What jobs are in demand?   Where can I earn better wages?   What skills do I need?   What are workforce challenges of our

community?   How to we develop economic growth

strategies and plans?   What is cluster?

“We are drowning in data and starved for information.” Frustrated User of Labor Market Information

Presentation Overview   A Research Framework for Labor Markets and

Workforce Analysis

  An Executive Summary of Traditional Data Sources and Delivery Systems

  Emergent and Innovative Workforce Data and Systems

  Driving Decisions, Plans and Strategies: A Data-Based Approach

Labor Market and Workforce Analysis Begin with a Model

Create a Picture Depict Relationships and Make

Connections

Regional Economies

Workforce Demographics

Technology

Regional Competitiveness

Foreign Competition

Workforce Dynamics

New Grads Maine’s Workforce

Foreign Immigrants

Domestic In-migrants

Disabled Populations

Dropouts

Emerging Workers Established Workers Senior Workers

Low Wage Workers

Senior Workers

  Sector and Cluster Strategies

  Business Retention and Expansion

  Innovation Economies

  Human Capital and Workforce Skills Development

  Derives from how consumers want to use it. (customizable)

  Reflects complex and dynamic economic relationships (relevant)

  Assumes accuracy, consistency and accessibility (reliable)

Regional Economies And

Labor Markets

Demographic Data

Economic Data

Occupational Data

Industry Data

Technology Data

Bureau of

Labor Statistics (U.S. DOL)

Bureau of

Economic Analysis (Commerce )

Census Bureau (Commerce)

National Center For

Education Statistics (Education)

Major Federal Statistical Agencies

Private Suppliers of Statistical Data (Limited)

Moody’s economy.com

Manpower

Where does the data come from?

Haver Analytics

Important Sources for Labor Market and Workforce Analysis

State LMI Shops

Private Consultant Groups

Local Workforce Boards

University Based Research Centers

Analysis

Core Workforce Statistics

From Federal-State Partnership consisting of

States and Bureau of Labor Statistics

The Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program produces monthly and annual employment, unemployment, and labor force data for Census regions and divisions, States, counties, metropolitan areas, and many cities, by place of residence.

Federal-State cooperative effort in which monthly estimates of total employment and unemployment are prepared for approximately 7,300 areas:

The Mass Layoff Statistics (MLS) program collects reports on mass layoff actions that result in workers being separated from their jobs. Monthly mass layoff numbers are from establishments which have at least 50 initial claims for unemployment insurance (UI) filed against them during a 5-week period. Extended mass layoff numbers (issued quarterly) are from a subset of such establishments—where private sector nonfarm employers indicate that 50 or more workers were separated from their jobs for at least 31 days.

Each month the Current Employment Statistics (CES) program surveys about 150,000 businesses and government agencies, representing approximately 390,000 individual worksites, in order to provide detailed industry data on employment, hours, and earnings of workers on nonfarm payrolls for all 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and over 300 metropolitan areas and divisions.

The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) program publishes a quarterly count of employment and wages reported by employers covering 98 percent of U.S. jobs, available at the

county, MSA, state and national levels by industry. Business Employment Dynamics is a set of statistics generated from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, or ES-202, program. These quarterly data series consist of gross job gains and gross job losses statistics from 1992 forward. These data help to provide a picture of the dynamic state of

the labor market.

Company Count

Average Annual Employment Total Annual Wages

Category 2000 2006 2000 2006 2000 2006

Boat Building 57 88 1,296 1,607 $41,250,826 $60,256,960

Boat Dealers 53 69 394 508 $10,052,112 $14,039,891

Composites 34 54 2,641 2,246 $86,137,181 $86,720,049

Marinas 79 104 705 868 $18,846,294 $28,875,880

Other 96 155 9,974 8,873 $384,651,013 $423,726,237

Total 319 470 15,010 14,102 $540,937,426 $613,619,017

Baseline Analysis Employment & Wages in the Marine Trades

Maine, 2000 and 2006

The Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) program produces employment and wage estimates for over 800 occupations. These are estimates of the number of people employed in certain occupations, and estimates of the wages paid to them. Self-employed persons are not included in the estimates. These estimates are available for the nation as a whole, for individual States, and for metropolitan areas; national occupational estimates for specific industries are also available.

STEM and Related Employment Shares By Industry, 2006

Average earnings in STEM occupations

Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Data The UI weekly claims data are used in current economic analysis of unemployment trends in the Nation, and in each State. Initial claims measure emerging unemployment and continued weeks claimed measure the number of persons claiming unemployment benefits.

Characteristics of the Insured Unemployed The Characteristics of the Insured Unemployed provide information on the demographic composition of unemployment insurance claimants. The data are based on a sample or on the universe of those who file a continued claim in the week containing the 19th of the month, which reflects unemployment during the week containing the 12th. This corresponds with the Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Population Survey.

http://ows.doleta.gov/unemploy/chariu.asp

BLS News Service Subscription Page You can have selected Bureau of Labor Statistics news releases delivered via email, or choose to be notified of new publications and specific data summaries. Simply enter your email address and name, check the news releases you want to receive, and click on "subscribe." There is no charge for the email subscription

service.

http://www.bls.gov/bls/list.htm

Enhanced Workforce Data: Beyond Just Numbers

Partnership of States and Employment and Training

Administration

O*NET OnLine The O*NET program is the nation's primary source of occupational information. Central to the project is the O*NET database, containing information on hundreds of standardized and occupation-specific descriptors.

The database is continually updated by surveying a broad range of workers from each occupation. Information from this freely available database forms the heart of O*NET OnLine, the interactive application for exploring and searching occupations. The database also provides the basis for our Career Exploration Tools, a set of valuable assessment instruments for workers and students looking to find or change careers.

http://online.onetcenter.org/help/onet/

New and Emerging Occupations   This report describes a process for identifying, evaluating, and

incorporating New and Emerging (N&E) occupations which will be added to the O*NET-SOC classification system.

  The effort to identify N&E occupations is driven by the evolving nature of workforce requirements stemming from changes in technology, society, law, and business practices in the private sector.

  Incorporating N&E occupations into the O*NET system makes O*NET information more beneficial and responsive to the needs of its many users in both the public and

O*NET Green Results (cont.)

About the Long-Term Projections Numbers

• Sources of Projected Employment Data National projections are developed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor. State projections are developed in the labor market information sections of each State Employment Security Agency.

Projection Period The projection period is 2006-2016 for all States.

Percent Employment Change, 2006-2016

Numeric Employment Change, 2006-2016

Average Annual Openings, 2006-2016

How Often are the Projections Updated?

http://www.projectionscentral.com/

• Competency Models

Everyone uses competencies everyday. They are simply the knowledge, skills and abilities needed to successfully perform at work, in school and in everyday life. A competency model is useful to organize the competencies needed to perform in a particular work setting such as a job, an occupation, or an industry.

http://www.careervoyages.gov/indemandoccupationsbystate-main.cfm

InDemand—Connecting today's students with the careers of tomorrow. Each issue will explore careers in a different industry. It will provide students as well as guidance counselors, parents and teachers with interesting and relevant information about career opportunities, education and the skills needed for various jobs. It offers resources to explore careers and tips about how to help students build successful futures.

Advanced Manufacturing

Construction

Energy

New and Emerging Labor Market and Workforce Analytics

AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY

The American Community Survey (ACS) is a new nationwide survey designed to provide communities a fresh look at how they are changing. It is a critical element in the Census Bureau's reengineered decennial census program. The ACS collects information such as age, race, income, commute time to work, home value, veteran status, and other important data. As with the 2010 decennial census, information about individuals will remain confidential.

http://factfinder.census.gov/jsp/saff/SAFFInfo.jsp?_pageId=sp1_acs&_subm

Expanding Local Coverage One-Year Estimates

Beginning with the 2005 ACS, and continuing every year thereafter, one-year estimates are available for geographic areas with a population of 65,000 or

more. This includes the nation, all states and the District of Columbia, all congressional districts, approximately 800 counties, and 500 metropolitan

and micropolitan statistical areas, among others. Multiyear Estimates

In 2008, the ACS will release its first multiyear estimates based on ACS data collected from 2005 through 2007. These three-year estimates will be

available for geographic areas with a population of 20,000 or more, including the nation, all states and the District of Columbia, all congressional districts,

approximately 1,800 counties, and 900 metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas, among others.

For areas with a population less than 20,000, five-year estimates will be available. The first five-year estimates, based on ACS data collected from

2005 through 2009, will be released in 2010.

What is LED? Local Employment Dynamics (LED) is a voluntary

partnership between state labor market information agencies and the U.S. Census Bureau to develop

new information about local labor market conditions at low cost, with no added respondent burden, and with the same confidentiality protections afforded

census and survey data. http://lehd.did.census.gov/led/led/led.html

On The Map   It’s an online mapping tool and data reporting

application   It provides information about where people work and

live   Data is available by county, statewide, city, freehand

selection and concentric ring analysis   Data is comparable across states and is available for

most states and territories   The third generation of On The Map is currently in

beta testing and allows for analysis of workforce commuting patterns

Decision Data

  Private Subscription   Online   Customizable Data

TORQ Transferable Occupational Requirements Quotient

  Private Supplier   Elaborate Relational Databases

(ONET,OES, Projections, INDEED.COM)   Emphasis on Skills Transferability

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Wanted Analytics

  Private Supplier   Real Time Job Postings Data   Trend Analysis

Driving Decision, Plans and Strategies: A Data-based Approach

Linking Strategy and Data