Occupational and Demographic Data from the US Department of Labor and Bureau of Census:
How it’s collected, how it’s analyzed and what does it mean?
Original Broadcast Date: January 26
Applied for 2.0 CEUs: CRC, CVE, CWA, CCAA, CDMS, CCMC, CLCP, MSCC
Presenters:
Pamela Frugoli, Med
O*NET/Competency Assessment Team Lead
United States Department of Labor
Melissa Chiu
Chief of Industry & Occupation Statistic Branch
United States Bureau of Census
Overview:
Occupational and demographic data including wages, industry, education, occupational outlook and job numbers are regularly relied upon by rehabilitation specialists, vocational counselors, case managers and disability managers in providing planning, services and evaluating clients. SSVE and forensic specialists use this data to develop and support their opinions of the impact disability has on vocational capacity. All rehabilitation specialists need to understand where the data comes from, how the data is collected, how it is analyzed and what it means. This presentation will improve professional’s ability to explain the source and significance of occupational data the government collects from employers and individuals.
Objectives:
1. Participants will be able to define how the USDOL collects occupational data from employers, targets establishments, assigns occupations to establishments, collects and analyzes occupational data.
2. Participants will be able to identify the data the USDOL collects from employers and how it is used in the occupational database it maintains.
3. Participants will be able to identify the US Bureau of Census collects occupational and industry data using the American Community Survey from individuals.
4. Participants will be able to explain how the data the US Bureau of Census collects data from individuals is analyzed and reported.
About the Speakers:
Pamela Frugoli is a Manpower Analyst in the Office of Workforce Investment at the Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration. She serves as project lead for the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) project, with a specific focus on updating and refreshing the data, including oversight of O*NET data collection from a survey of job incumbents. She is also the project lead on development of industry competency models for each of the sectors in the President’s High Growth Job Training Initiative. She served for three years as a team leader on the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) program at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The OES program is a nationwide Federal-State survey that collects and analyzes data on occupational employment and wages. From 1985 to 1997, Frugoli was an Occupational Information Systems Specialist for the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee, specializing in classification systems, occupational and labor market analyses, and the design of information delivery systems for planning education and training programs. She serves as a workgroup member on the inter-agency committee to revise the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) for 2010 and was a member of the group that developed the 2000 version. Prior to her Federal service, she spent three years as an analyst for the Massachusetts Department of Manpower Development.
Frugoli holds a B.A. in Psychology from Brandeis University, and a Master’s in Education from Boston University, with additional coursework in economics and statistics.
Melissa Chiu is the Chief of the Industry and Occupation Statistics Branch at the U.S. Census Bureau. Her branch is responsible for collecting, processing, and analyzing occupation and industry data from the Bureau’s demographic surveys, particularly the American Community Survey. The branch also produces the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) special tabulation, which serves as the primary external benchmark for assessing the diversity of organization’s workforce. Chiu has been with the Bureau for 6 years, first working on immigration statistics, including designing a new survey, the 2008 Migration Supplement for the Current Population Survey. She also worked with commuting and workplace data, including the Census Transportation Planning Products special tabulations. She has conducted research in a variety of areas, including occupation and gender inequality; labor force, immigration, and gender; disability and transportation; and race, immigration, and geographic mobility. She holds bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and in Statistics from the University of Michigan, a master’s degree in Statistics from the University of Washington, and a master’s degree and Candidate of Philosophy (ABD) degree in Sociology from the University of California- Los Angeles.
