CURRENT MULTI-STATE DATA COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS AND PRODUCTS
In development as of January 2025.
- K-12 Data Model
Topics Area(s) Project Pathways Link Description K-12 Data Model Democratizing our Data Challenge Democratizing our Data Challenge Project Description This project created a data model for state K-12 data submissions to the Administrative Data Research Facility (the MSDC's data platform)
- Multi-State Post-Secondary Report
Topics Area(s) Project Pathways Link Description Post-secondary, Workforce Democratizing our Data Challenge Multi-State Post-Secondary Report The Multi-State Postsecondary Dashboard provides states with a better understanding of the employment outcomes of individuals who completed a credential within their state’s higher education programs, by linking higher education records with both in-state and out-of-state employment records.
- Unemployment to Reemployment Portal
Topics Area(s) Project Pathways Link Description Workforce Applied Data Analytics class project; Democratizing our Data Challenge Midwest Collaborative/Illinois Overview
Illinois and Indiana Demonstration video
Wisconsin: Democratizing our Data ChallengeInitially developed during the COVID-19 Pandemic to address the employment crisis, Unemployment to Reemployment Portals and Dashboards provide insights using state data and help policy makers and program leaders effectively respond to local and social economic challenges.
- Enrollment to Employment
Topics Area(s) Project Pathways Link Description Human Services, Post-Secondary, Workforce U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration Grant Evaluating Enrollment to Employment Pathways: Integrated Service Delivery in Workforce Development, Education, and Social Benefits Programs The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration funded NASWA to support two Applied Data Analytics training classes that focused on the cross-section of WIOA, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs and services linked to employment and wage outcomes. The Coleridge Initiative delivered the classes in partnership with the state of Arkansas, which yielded several class projects as well as an interactive dashboard developed by the State of Arkansas that flags program referrals and tracks future outcomes at the individual level.
- Industries of Ideas: A prototype system for measuring the effects of NSF investments on firms and jobs
Topics Area(s) Project Pathways Link Description Workforce Midwest Collaborative RFI Pilot Project, National Science Foundation Industries of Ideas Project Website Industries of Ideas: A prototype system for measuring the effects of TIP investments on firms and jobs is developing a new, data-driven way to measure the economic impact of federal investments in research and technology. This project is developing methods for following the movement of ideas from investments in research into the marketplace.
- Multi-State Teacher Workforce Report
Topics Area(s) Project Pathways Link Description K-12, Workforce Democratizing our Data Challenge Democratizing our Data Challenge Project Description The Rhode Island Longitudinal Data System, New Jersey and the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, and the New York Department of Labor are collaborating to develop a multi-state teacher workforce report.
- Indiana Credential Outcome Transparency
Topics Area(s) Project Pathways Link Description Post-Secondary, Workforce Democratizing our Data Challenge Democratizing our Data Challenge Project Description This project is creating a technical blueprint for mapping the Credential Engine schema to wage, employment, and training provider data, and a prototype “Return on Credential Investment” app that enables youth, unemployed, displaced, and transitioning workers to better understand high demand career pathways.
- Expanding the Multi-State Post-Secondary Report Dashboard: Workforce Credentials and Students without Degrees
Topics Area(s) Project Pathways Link Description Post-Secondary, Workforce Democratizing our Data Challenge Democratizing our Data Challenge Project Description This project will build the capacity of the Multi-State Postsecondary Report Dashboard by incorporating data on workforce credentials and students without degrees. Specifically, the Ohio Education Research Center will develop an updated dashboard to include data on career and technical education, registered apprenticeships, and individuals who exited higher education without a full degree.
- Equity in Unemployment Insurance Benefit Access and Experience
Topics Area(s) Project Pathways Link Description Workforce Midwest Collaborative RFI Pilot Project This project expands upon the UI Equity grant projects by developing new measures to investigate and visualize average duration and exhaustion by equity groups, as well as time-to-certification and time-to-payment measures. The exhaustion, average duration, and time-lapse measures will be incorporated into new equity reports available in the Unemployment to Reemployment portal.
- UI Equity Federal Grant - Multi-State Data Collaborative
Topics Area(s) Project Pathways Link Description Workforce U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration Five MSDC states wrote common language into their UI Equity grant applications, allowing them to collaboratively develop measures and visualizations of relevant dimensions of equity in access and implementation of the Unemployment Insurance program.
- Education and Training as a Gateway to Reemployment of the Unemployed: Through the Lens of Equity
Topics Area(s) Project Pathways Link Description Workforce Democratizing our Data Challenge Democratizing our Data Challenge Project Description This project will develop measures and tableau visualizations on unemployment spell behavior by education categories of local unemployment insurance (UI) claimants to understand how the progression of certification weeks impacts the reemployment probability by education level.
- Prosperity for Ohio: Mapping Credentials to Success
Topics Area(s) Project Pathways Link Description Post-Secondary, Workforce Democratizing our Data Challenge Project Website Prosperity for Ohio seeks to create new institution- and system-level dashboards with post-college student outcomes that can be adopted across Ohio’s community colleges to help them attract and advise students and identify and redesign programs to bolster social and economic mobility.
- Increasing College Completion in High-Value Career and Technical Fields by Unpacking the Relationships between Workforce Participation and Enrollment in Community College Re/Upskilling Course Sequences
Topics Area(s) Project Pathways Link Description Post-Secondary, Workforce Democratizing our Data Challenge
Midwest Collaborative RFI Pilot Project
This project proposes to utilize MSDC member data and quantitative methods to: unpack how skills students’ navigation of the workforce intersects with their use and navigation of postsecondary education; investigate how information about prior education, field of study, and industry can illuminate students’ choices and enrollment behaviors; and explore patterns and differences by region (with particular attention to differences in urbanicity/rurality) and by college. The results of the study will directly inform efforts to increase completion of postsecondary credentials, especially postsecondary certificates, in high-value career and technical education fields by illuminating the relationships between workforce participation, industry changes, and the enrollment of re/upskilling sequences that, at present, often do not result in college completion for skills builder students.
- Early Childhood Workforce Analysis and Modeling
Topics Area(s) Project Pathways Link Description Human Services, Workforce Midwest Collaborative RFI Pilot Project Using linked labor force data, in conjunction with early childhood program data, and roster data including employment details for childcare workers, this project will enable research across states on a set of significant early childhood workforce questions, such as: What is the current gap in supply for the demand of childcare workers? What is the supply of ECE providers in participating states? What are the employment patterns of childcare providers? Where are the present-day and coming disparities in access to childcare?
- Education Design Lab: Methodology for Documenting Micro-Pathway Participants
Topics Area(s) Project Pathways Link Description Post-Secondary, Workforce Democratizing our Data Challenge Democratizing our Data Challenge Project Description This project will establish a methodology for documenting employment outcomes for micro-pathway (non-credit, short-term, or alternative credentialing programs) participants.
