How Does This Trend Affect Stakeholders In The Texas Labor Market?
One of the purposes of the SOICC’s emerging and evolving occupations study was to create an on-going method for identifying new high-growth occupations from industry-level employment and program follow-up data. The primary source of industry employment information comes from Unemployment Insurance data collected on every employer covered under the Texas Workers Compensation Act doing business in Texas. The current procedure for projecting occupational demand from the industry employment data involves collecting information through the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) survey. The OES survey is used to develop occupational staffing patterns from employment counts provided by an employer survey. This mail and telephone follow-up survey helps state planners develop an accurate profile of occupational employment by industry. The Texas OES program is designed to survey most, but not all of the Texas labor force.3 It uses a nationally recognized sampling process to collect information
