League

January 2008, Volume 9, Number 1

Synergies

New Regional Scan and Program Demand Report
From EMSI, Inc.

League Supporting Partner, Economic Modeling Specialists, Inc., has just designed a new report for colleges that condenses and organizes essential regional economic data and forecasts for college program planning into a clean, reader-friendly format. The report includes the following information:

  1. Executive summary pages
    1. Overall
    2. Regional population
    3. Top regional industries
    4. Top regional occupations
    5. Occupational growth and college programs comparison
  2. Demographics
    1. Five-year projections
    2. Total population by age cohort
    3. Details on the aging workforce
    4. Details on population by race/ethnicity
  3. Educational attainment
    1. How the region compares to the state and nation in high school and college attainment
    2. Current and projected regional high school graduations by gender, race
    3. Industry data and analysis
    4. Current and projected jobs, as well as change, percent change, and earnings for all broad (two-digit NAICS) industry sectors
    5. Comparison to the state (or nation)
    6. Critical regional industries identified based on growth, employment, concentration (location quotient), and regional competitiveness (shift share)
    7. Critical occupations within high-growth industries
  4. Occupation data and analysis
    1. Top regional occupations by total jobs, growth, and total estimated annual openings (new + replacement jobs)
    2. Occupational wage and education level
  5. Occupation to programs comparison
    1. Summary table compares total estimated annual openings of 20 high-growth occupations to either (i) recent annual enrollment at the college in related programs, (ii) recent completers at the college and/or total regional completers in related programs
    2. Detail table shows all CIP (program) codes related to each high-growth occupation, with related enrollment or completers for each

To see a sample report, visit http://www.economicmodeling.com/reports or contact Rob Sentz (rob@economicmodeling.com).

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