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Data Notes |
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Data Source: |
Supply estimates for non-health occupations combine data from SBCTC DLOA database, WTECB compilation of licensed Private Career Schools records, and L&I data on Apprenticeship programs. Health supply data from national IPEDS database of credentials granted by public and private higher education institutions. Demand data combines Employment Security/BLS forecasted 5-year averages of net openings. |
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Measure Definition: |
High demand programs are programs in which the number of students prepared for employment per year (from in-state institutions) is substantially less than the number of projected in-state job openings per year in that field. |
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Target Rationale: |
The target is for the supply to meet employer demand in order to support economic growth and employment. |
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Link to Agency Strategic Plan: |
Goal 3: Meet the workforce needs of industry by preparing students, current workers, and dislocated workers with the skills employers need to enable the citizens and businesses of Washington state to prosper in a globally competitive marketplace. |
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Relevance: |
Identifies where future growth of workforce training enrollments and capacity is needed. |
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* Health occupations include only those in the mid-level with projected shortages. | |
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- Once the labor market recovers from the recession, employer demand is expected to once again substantially exceed the current supply of students in certain programs of study.
- Supply is the number of new trainees with one to less than four years of training from community and technical colleges, apprenticeship programs, and private career schools. Demand is the number of job openings that require that level of training.
- The largest need will be in health care occupations; installation, maintenance, and repair; manufacturing and production; accounting and bookkeeping; protective services; science and technology.
- Overall, the current (2010) supply of new trainees at the mid-level is sufficient to fill about 80 percent of expected job openings at that training level in 2014-2019.
- There has been an improvement in the ratio of the supply to demand in some mid-level occupations over the last ten years. The largest relative increases in supply have been in IT, and health care. The mid-level supply and demand gap in IT has been eliminated. The gap in health care has been greatly reduced. Registered nurses supply from AA programs increased from 958 in 2003 to 1,695 in 2010.
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