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Use of Online Sources to Compare Supply of Graduates to Demand for Workers. MI-AIR November 7, 2013. Roger Mourad Institutional Research Dept Washtenaw Community College. I. Data Sources: some places you can go online II. Application of their use. I. Data Sources. I. Data Sources.
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Use of Online Sources to Compare Supply of Graduates to Demand for Workers MI-AIR November 7, 2013 Roger Mourad Institutional Research Dept Washtenaw Community College
I. Data Sources: some places you can go online II. Application of their use
I. Data Sources O’Net, American Job Center 2. Dept of Technology, Management, and Budget, State of Michigan 3. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Dept of Labor 4. US Census Bureau, Quarterly Workforce Indicators 5. Labor Insight, Burning Glass 6. Michigan Community College Network (supply)
1. O-Net American Job Center • http://www.onetonline.org/find/ • to identify SOC code(s) related to an occupation • to research a variety of qualitative data related to an occupation
2. DTMB Data Explorer • http://www.milmi.org/ • Economic Forecast Region (local level) • -Long term Occupational Projections
3. BLS Occupational Employment Statistics • http://www.bls.gov/ • semiannual mail and phone survey of employers conducted by state workforce agencies • covers all metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas nationally, all industries, of varying sizes
One Use of OES data: • represent change in employment over time in a given MSA region • although the survey is conducted every year, the values for a given year are a weighted average taking the two previous years into account • so best to use the data in 3 year increments • download raw data files
Raw data file portion, Washtenaw County, Total Employment 2012
Chart showing change in estimated #employed, 2006, 2009, 2012
Another use of OES data: • to identify the industry employing the largest number of individuals in a given occupation nationally • use the percent of industry employment to estimate percentage of new hires locally (Census QWI data) • (Network Admin example)
Industries employ network admin: Largest is Computer Systems Design and Related
4. US Census Bureau, Quarterly Workforce Indicators • http://ledextract.ces.census.gov/ • Data Extraction Tool • Estimated Number of New Hires (# of individuals who started a new job) and other employment indicators by metropolitan region (using actual UI record data) • New Hires = number of individuals who were reported to be employed in a quarter who were not employed by that same employer in any of the previous 4 quarters
5. Labor Insight Burning Glass • http://laborinsight.burning-glass.com/us/ • Job postings searchable by many dimensions • Occupation, education, location, time period, experience, among others
Sample Query results: Auto Body, Auto Mechanic, Washtenaw County
Distribution of experience requiremts in postings, Auto Body
6. Michigan Community College Network http://www.michigancc.net/ • number of awards by college and program
Link Programs to Occupations 1. Use federal crosswalk to match Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) codes to BLS Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) codes http://www.bls.gov/soc/soccrosswalks.htm 2. Matched CIP codes to WCC program codes (WCC crosswalk)
CIP to SOC crosswalk information and download http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cipcode/resources.aspx?y=55
Computer Network Admin and Support CIP codes 11.0901 and 11.1002 SOC codes 15-1142 and 15-1152
Example of CIP to SOC Matching CIP Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications Computer and Information Systems Security/Info Assurance SOC Network and Computer Systems Administrators Network Systems and Data Communications Analysts WCC Computer Networking Academy (C) Computer Networking Operating Systems (C) Computer Networking (A) Foundations of Computer Security (C) Network Security (C) Computer Systems Security (A)
Sample page from WCC report (created by WCC research dept using MS Access)
II. Application Demand Supply Analysis Example : Computer Network Admin
1. Demand 2. Supply 3. Analysis/Assessment