What are Units of Analysis?
Units of Analysis are groups (clusters) of related occupations and structured training programs that approximate occupational labor markets. The grouping of occupations and their job openings and related training programs and their graduates (completers) allows demand data to be compared to institutional supply information from education and training programs. The relationship between training programs and occupations is not always a one-to-one relationship. A single training program can be related to more than one occupation; and, conversely, entrants into an occupation may come from several training programs. Units of analysis also have geographic characteristics. The appropriate unit of analysis may be national, because of high geographic mobility (e.g., for baccalaureate and above-related occupations), or state and local labor market areas for sub-baccalaureate occupations with low geographic rates of mobility. There are three different types of clusters in the national units of an
