Utilizing Jobs Data to Enhance Labor Market Insights Focus Group

Join us for the Utilizing Jobs Data to Enhance Labor Market Insights Focus Group on Thursday, June 12, 2025 (2:00 – 3:00 p.m. ET). The National Labor Exchange (NLx) Research Hub and the Coleridge Initiative are hosting a focus group to gather states' ideas on utilizing jobs data to enhance labor market insights. Feedback gathered will be used to create improved information sharing and communications throughout the workforce and education system, as well as a better understanding of labor demand across markets. This event is part of the Multi-State Data Collaborative (MSDC)'s Learn-and-Share series. 

OVERVIEW

The Coleridge Initiative was recently awarded a grant through the Gates Foundation and is partnering with the NLx Research Hub on an initiative to increase the capacity of states to

• enhance LMI efforts and better communicate the changing needs of labor markets 
• build a stronger understanding of supply and demand by more effectively aligning skills and credential attainment from administrative data to job demand

The project team is in the process of delivering two Applied Data Analytics training programs designed primarily for state workforce, education, and economic development agency employees. Through this experience, the team has identified multiple ways to analyze and provide insights about labor demand. The purpose of the focus group is to better understand how these identified methods and visualizations align with states' needs in understanding labor demand and the nature of work.

About the NLx Research Hub

The NLx Research Hub provides workforce development professionals, academic researchers, and other organizations that rely on labor market information with high-quality, transparent, real-time and historical data that represents the diversity of jobs available in the United States labor market.

About the Multi-State Data Collaborative (MSDC)

The MSDC is a network for developing data projects and products that answer questions critical to state and local needs that will impact policy or practice. NASWA supports the MSDC and partners closely with the Coleridge Initiative, the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO), the American Public Human Services Association (APHSA) and others. To view recordings of past Learn-and-Share sessions, click here.