Indiana Workforce Information System: Enhancing Labor Data for Policy and Education Decisions
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Learn how IWIS collects, analyzes, and provides crucial workforce data for Indiana's research and market development. Explore educational attainment assessment, worker tracking, impact analysis, and public policy support.
Indiana Workforce Information System: Enhancing Labor Data for Policy and Education Decisions
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Employer Demand: Data Resources for Higher Ed Hope Clark Director, Research & Market Development Indiana Department of Workforce Development hclark@dwd.in.gov 09/23/08
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 Event Record Multiple IDWD Databases Dimension Dimension Worker Event Records Adult Basic Education Records Higher Education Records Worker-centered Wage, unemployment, new hire and other workforce records used to create “worker-event records” Then matched with data from other state records
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 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 18