This page includes articles that we believe are of common interest to those using the ARC website and the Workforce Information Database. If you have suggestions for articles, please feel free to let us know.
NLX Research Hub
A resource that has become available in recent years is the NLX Research Hub, which makes full-text job descriptions available to state agencies at no cost. Interpreting the contents of the data can be challenging and an effort to build a community of practice to build up the resources knowledge and tools to interpret that data is underway. Some initial work is included here.
Data Extraction
As federal agencies have made their data more accessible, more and more states are obtaining their data directly from those agencies. To facilitate that, ARC is sharing more of the methods used to extract and format data for the WID structure.
Goodbye FactFinder, Hello data.census.gov
The Census Bureau is retiring FactFinder and replacing it with a new web search function. This article outlines some of the impacts this may have on LMI office workflows.
OES and SOC – It’s Complicated
In 2020 the OES data release will have changes to the occupational codes. This article explains why and describes some approaches to fixing the problems that creates in a database, with links to the needed occupational lookup table content.
