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WORKFORCE DATA QUALITY INITIATIVE
LONGITUDINAL DATA FOR PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
Vocational Rehabilitation Annual Summit
September 10, 2015
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[VIDEO PLACEHOLDER]
WHAT IS WDQI FOR?
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1.Develop longitudinal data systems
2.Match workforce & education data
3.Improve data quality4.Evaluate performance5.Make data available to
consumers
WDQI AWARDSOne round of funding Two rounds of funding
WHAT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE IS AVAILABLE?
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• Webinars and working groups
• Online Community of Practice
• Coaching
• Annual conference
OUR COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
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• Incorporating data from lots of partners
• Making tools for consumers, administrators, researchers, policymakers
• Calculating performance• Doing research• Affecting policy
WHAT ARE GRANTEES DOING?
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INCORPORATING DATA FROM PARTNERS
K-12
Higher Ed (public, private)
Adult Education,
CTEOther!
Vocational Rehabilitat
ion Services
Health & Human Services
UI Wages
Unemployment Benefits
TAA, Wagner- Peyser, WIOA
& MAKING SYSTEMS WORK!
(Kansas’s authentication process)
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MAKING DATA USE TOOLS AVAILABLE
• Minnesota’s Graduate Employment Outcomes
• Mississippi Works• Missouri’s Wage Explorer• NC TOWER • South Dakota’s
Postsecondary Graduate Employment & Wage Outcomes system
• Texas CREWS
MISSISSIPPI WORKS
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CALCULATING PERFORMANCE
• Idaho now submits WIA and Wagner-Peyser performance reports to DOL via its LDS
• Ohio’s Workforce Success Measures• Virginia’s Workforce System Report Card • New Jersey is
preparing for changes to performance brought by WIOA
• Wyoming calculates performance measures for ABE and community college TAACCCT grantees
OHIO WIA PERFORMANCEREPORT
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PROVIDING LEADERS WITH INFORMATION
• Arkansas’s Economic Security Reports, now required by Act 852
• Kentucky Center for Education & Workforce Statistics County Profiles
• Mississippi’s Life Tracks• Rhode Island Data Hub’s Data Stories
RHODE ISLAND’S DATA STORIES
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CHANGING THE POLICY CONVERSATION
• Illinois distinguishes between “Conventional
Narratives” and “Enhanced Narratives” • Indiana hones in on the occupation data
gap• Minnesota shows program alignment is
more important than attendance numbers • Virginia and Pennsylvania publicize key
policy questions
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MINNESOTA SHIFTS THE CONVERSATION
Focus less on sending more people to college to aligning programs to the skills that employers seek:
LET ME KNOW IF I CAN HELP YOU GET IN TOUCH WITH THE WDQI TEAM IN YOUR
STATE!
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Melissa Mack Workforce Data Quality
Initiative Technical Assistance
Social Policy Research Associates