Module 1 ********* Brief Review of the Workforce Information Database Workforce Information Database...

Module 1*********

Brief Review of the Workforce

Information Database

Workforce Information Database TrainingRevised May 2007

Module 1Workforce Information Database Review

What is the Workforce Information Database?

a normalized, relational database structure

developed for the storage and maintenance of:

•employment statisticsemployment statistics

•labor market informationlabor market information

•economic dataeconomic data

•demographic informationdemographic information

•occupational informationoccupational information

Workforce Information Database Advantages

Provides a “common structurecommon structure”

Allows consistentconsistent data to be accessed quickly & efficiently

Results in cost-savingscost-savings to the entire workforce information system

Unlimited opportunitiesUnlimited opportunities for meaningful, customized, local information


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Web-basedApplicationsWeb-basedApplications

Client/serverApplicationsClient/serverApplications

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WID Architecture


Implementation Options

• Data warehouse for LMI research shops

• Storage container for information delivery systems

• A combination of both


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Implications of Alternative Implementations

• Flexibility (display, storage, analysis)

• Maintenance (ease, speed, cost)

• Operational Speed


• SQL Server (48%)

• Oracle (28%)

• Other Relational Databases (24%):

• MS Access• MS Visual FoxPro


What relational database software is being used to house the WID?



How can the information in the WID be accessed/ extracted/queried?

• Directly through the relational database software housing the WID

• ODBC using another relational database software

• Through Custom Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) (Client/Server Application)

• Internet



How is the Workforce Information Database

currently being used by

customers?



Who are they [customers]?

What do they want?

How do they want it?



LMI Applications currently employing the Workforce Information

Database Structure

• ACINet (America’s Career InfoNet)

• Vendor-Provided Systems

• State LMI customized applications



Relationship Between the WID and Applications

• The WID is a generic data container that can feed a variety of applications for different customers and purposes.

• The WID is NOT SYNONYMOUS with the applications that it feeds.



Relationship Between the WID and Applications

(cont.)

• Different applications produced by the same or different vendors can access the same WID.

• Applications may require “optional or additional” tables.



How is the WID initiated in the states through ALMIS?

A deliverable in the ETA Workforce Information Grant

When? Grant period is July 1 to June 30 (sort of)

What are the deliverables?Glad you asked...



Core Data Tables:

ETA One-Stop Grant Requirements(if using v. 2.2)

ces licauth**

empdb license**

income occprj*

indprj* oeswage*

industry populatn

iomatrix*

labforce

*DBA may opt to populate one or both **Required to be sent to NCSC



ETA One-Stop Grant RequirementsCore Look-Up Tables:addresty incsourcannslflg inddirareatype indsubbenmark indtypescescode leveltypcreditcd licnumtyempszflg locstatempszrng occdirgeocode occsubgeog occtypesgrowcode ownershipincomtyp period

(refer to handout)



ETA One-Stop Grant RequirementsCore Look-Up Tables,continued:periodidperiodtypopsourcprpbstatratetypestattypestfipstburltopicwebflag

(refer to handout)



ETA One-Stop Grant RequirementsCore Crosswalk Tables:

licxocc**matxnaicmatxsoc

Core Administrative Tables:

indcodes***occcodes***

**Required to be sent to NCSC

***Need to populate additional lookup tables.



Minimum Requirementsfor Population of the

WID Core Tables

• Statewide data

• Time series should have the most recent 2 years

• Both seasonally and not seasonally adjusted

• All time periods as available

• Occupational projections at BLS collapsed level

• Send license and licauth to NCSC for inclusion in ACINet

• CES must have MSA data



What is not specified in the ETA One-Stop Grant:

• Which columns in each core table are required to be populated?

• Which version of the WID must be populated?

• Deliverable deadlines?

• Is national data required?



Who identifies the core tables required by ETA?



ARC is responsible for the WID structure:

– Development– Update– Maintenance

Members include:15 States (shown in red) ETANCSC



ARC Responsibilities:

• Provision of technical support, training, technical support, training, educationeducation, and communicationcommunication

• ReviewReview of potential structure changes and releaserelease of structure updates

• Coordination and collaborationcollaboration with other groups working on related projects

• Identification of ETA core data elementscore data elements



Questions and suggestions for ARC may be submitted to:

http://www.workforceinfodb.org/9helpdesk.cfm

Or

(Go to – www.workforceinfodb.org,

Click on Helpdesk)


http://www.workforceinfodb.org/

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Employer Database

National CrosswalkService Center

Education & Support

WID XML Definitions



Questions?Comments?Musings?

Questions?Comments?Musings?


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