WORKFORCE SUMMIT 2005

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WORKFORCE SUMMIT 2005 OCTOBER 11, 2005 ORLANDO,
FL Towards A Market-responsive Education
Employment Training System Customized Labor
Market Information Products for Florida from
Project MEETS Jeff Gabriel
Pamela Schenker Project Manager
Economics Manager Jacob France Institute,
Agency for Workforce
Innovation,, University of Baltimore
Labor Market
Statistics Thomas Rusty Skinner David
Hamilton Executive Vice
President Contracts Administrator
CLM Workforce Connection
Pasco-Hernando Workforce Board

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MEETS Project Background

• Sponsored Office of Policy Development and
  Research (OPDR) and the Business Relations Group
  (BRG) of the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment
  and Training Administration (DOL/ETA)
• Uses data as a tool in the BRG mission of making
  the publicly funded side of the workforce
  development system more responsive to the needs
  of business
• Promotes the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) data
  program as bringing valuable new information to a
  demand driven approach to workforce development

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How MEETS Operates

• Managed by the Jacob France Institute
• Partners include 5 states and 10 pilot local
  workforce areas
• JFI designs and produces LED-based products- in
  consultation with state LMI shops- for use by
  local customers
• Refinements made based on state and local
  feedback, with the goal of being able to respond
  to customized local data requests

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What is LED?

• Local
• State, county, sub-county, workforce regions
• Employment
• Demographics (age and sex)
• Industry (NAICS/SIC codes)
• Earnings
• Dynamics
• Time, quarterly from as far back as 1990
• Job gains, losses and flows
• Hires, recalls, accessions and separations

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How does it Work?
Surveys
Administrative Records
Censuses
Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics
Program (LEHD)
Local Immigration Dynamics
Local Employment Dynamics
Local Transportation Dynamics
Maps
QWI Online
Reports
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What are the Quarterly Workforce Indicators
(QWI)?
Twenty-nine indicators (eight online)
Detailed demographics Detailed geography
Industries by SIC and NAICS Historic
Comparable
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• Key Features
• Analytic Tools
• ? QWI Online
• ? On The Map (beta)
• ? Industry Focus (July 30)
• ? Research
• Library
• Partners Only

Local Employment Dynamics (LED)
http//lehd.dsd.census.gov/led/ Florida ---
http//www.labordynamics.com
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QWI Online
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Local Employment DynamicsOn the Map
(beta)http//lehd.dsd.census.gov
On the Map Based on 2002 and 2003 worker Origin
and Destination data and the QWI Online, On the
Map is an easy-to-use tool and a unique resource
for mapping the travel patterns of workers and
identifying small-area workforce characteristics.
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Local Employment Dynamics On the Map shows
where workers who work (highlighted in green) live
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Local Employment Dynamics On the Map shows
where people who live in Hernando County, Florida
(highlighted in green) work
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LED PARTNERSHIP STATUS
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Source LEHD website (http//lehd.dsd.census.gov/l
ed/led/statepartners.html)
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Key LED MEETS Characteristics

• Actual demand side events- employer activity
  and worker flows
• Local information for county or workforce area
• Gender and age group breakouts for workers
• State and local partnerships
• Market-testing of customized products for local
  data users
• Customized industry cluster definitions

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Pasco-Hernando Data Need

• To better understand retention issues in
  healthcare
• MEETS assignment look at how many hires in
  healthcare go on to stable employment examine
  patterns in age groups, industry groups, and at
  state level

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Pasco-Hernando Healthcare Retention Methodology

• Run data for both new hires and stable new hires
  determine how many new hires are being retained
  at least three months, annually and quarterly
• Run data to determine patterns among age groups
• Drill down to determine patterns among major
  industry groups within the healthcare sector
• Run same data for state of Florida for comparison
  with local trends

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Source Local Employment Dynamics, 2005
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Pasco-Hernando Healthcare Retention Observations

• Locally, retention in healthcare increased in
  2003, based on both annual and quarterly data
• Improved retention driven in part by solid
  increases in two major industry groups
• In comparing age groups, retention seems to have
  increased the most in workers over 45
• Compared with Florida Pasco-Hernando seemed to
  catch up in 2003, with the biggest jump showing
  among the over 45 workers

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CLM - Economic Development Partnership

• Partnering to build a strong economic base
• Deterioration of higher skilled/pay jobs
• Losses in manufacturing
• Retirement population Growth
• Increases in service, retail (lower wage
  employment) sectors

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CLM - Economic Development Partnership (contd)

• Need baseline data to measure/document success
• Need more detailed, yet understandable data
• Develop technical training
• Define labor market issues
• Labor supply
• Labor shortage
• Promote opportunities to students
• Target limited workforce funds

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CLM Data Need

• Concerned about loss of high-wage employment and
  whether recent hiring is producing only lower
  wage employment
• MEETS assignment look at local hiring and
  employment patterns by sector and compare them
  with earnings information for those sectors see
  which sectors are strong in both earnings and
  hiring activity

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CLM Hiring/Earnings Methodology

• Run data for hiring activity of all sectors
• Employment growth, new hires, new hire growth
• Run data for earnings activity of all sectors
• Employee earnings, employee earnings growth, new
  hire earnings, new hire earnings growth
• Rank all sectors in each measure
• Add rankings together to determine a score in
  both hiring and earnings strength
• Plot sectors in a single graph to see how they
  stand versus each other when looking at both
  measures

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CLM Sector Hiring Rankings
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Source Local Employment Dynamics, 2005 (not
including rank and growth information)
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CLM Sector Earnings Rankings
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Source Local Employment Dynamics, 2005 (not
including rank and growth information)
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CLM Hiring/Rankings Observations

• Sectors in the strong category include
  healthcare, finance insurance, professional,
  scientific technical services, and construction
• Sectors in the top ten in one category, but just
  outside in the other category, include
  accommodation food services and wholesale trade

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MEETS Product Samples

• Industry Impact Profile
• CLM data highlighting selected industries
• Sample Impact Profile
• Indicates and industrys impact on the local
  economy
• The MEETS Brief
• Orientation to the key Brief data
• Provides an introduction to using LED for
  decsision-making

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Source Local Employment Dynamics, 2005
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MEETS Industry Impact Profile
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Preview of MEETS Brief Seriesand Mini-disc (for
access, go to http//www.ubalt.edu/jfi/meets/brief
.htm)

• Highlights of industry composition
• Comparison of hiring activity and net job
  growth/loss
• Breakdown of hiring by demographics (age
  gender)
• Sample of occupational prevalence and earnings

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For More Information

• Project MEETS Florida Agency
• Jeff Gabriel, Project Manager for Workforce
  Innovation/Labor
• Jacob France Institute, Market Statistics
• University of Baltimore Pamela Schenker,
  Economics Manager
• [phone], jgabriel_at_ubalt.edu 107 East
  Madison Street, MSC G-20
• www.ubalt.edu/jfi/meets [phone],
• Pamela.Schenker_at_awi.state.fl.us
• www.labordynamics.com
• CLM Workforce Connection Pasco-Hernando
  Workforce Board
• Thomas Rusty Skinner, David Hamilton,
  Contracts Administrator
• Executive Vice President P.O. Box 15790
• The Cascades- Suite 200 15588 Aviation Loop
  Drive
• 3003 SW College Road Brooksville, FL  34609
• Ocala, FL 34470 [phone] Ext.225
• [phone] Ext. 204 David_at_pasco-hernando.com
  
• Tskinner_at_clmworkforce.com www.pasco-hernando.com
  
• www.clmworkforce.com

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