This report updates the labor market information available for planning vocational education programs at the local and regional levels in Pennsylvania. To help identify occupational shortages, the report provides supply and demand statistics and projected 1975 employment by occupation for the 15 major labor market areas in the state. Additional…

Written to assist local administrators in utilizing available data to plan local vocational education programs, this publication is organized around a series of planning tasks and manpower data. As one of the important sources of planning data, manpower information is explored for its usefulness in setting goals, determining labor market needs,…

To develop a procedure for using occupational supply and demand data in state-level vocational education planning, data from an area skill survey, community colleges, technical institutes, and secondary school class records filed in state offices were sorted by occupation and analyzed for completeness, validity, and usefulness for planning…

Intended to foster greater understanding of employment projections available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), this paper describes their development, their limitations, their use, and publication details. The methods used to develop BLS occupational employment projections are first described: projection of the labor force based on…

DESPITE SHARP INCREASES, THE SUPPLY OF HEALTH MANPOWER CONTINUES TO BE OUTSTRIPPED BY THE DEMAND WHILE THE NEED FOR 3,700,000 TO 4,000,000 WORKERS BY 1975 IS COMPLICATED BY THE SERIOUS DEMAND FOR PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL WORKERS AND FOR LEADERS AND TEACHERS. PREPARATION FOR THE HEALTH FIELD HAS INCREASINGLY BECOME THE RESPONSIBILITY OF…

This report of employment and job projections in Missouri for 1974 through 1980 is divided into two parts. The first part describes in detail the methods and data sources which have been used to generate employment and job opening projections. The concepts of projections versus forecasts and employment projections versus demand projections are…

The Allied Health Professions Personnel Training Act of 1966 as amended by Title III of the Health Manpower Act of 1968 requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to submit a report on the administration of the act, an appraisal of programs in terms of their adequacy to meet needs, and recommendations for the future. This document is…

These guidelines for the use of labor market information are presented in order to improve program planning for vocational education in Pennsylvania by supplying necessary manpower supply/demand data. Once occupational needs are defined for a specific geographic area, a systems approach to program development can be utilized by vocational training…

In the first half of this report a format or framework is outlined for displaying occupational supply and demand information for use in planning education for work programs. In the second half, the use of the procedure is demonstrated by filling in the format with Minnesota supply and demand information (1970-71) and drawing from it illustrative…

The primary purposes of this study were to determine occupational opportunities for ornamental horticulture technicians in Ohio and to propose curriculums for training them. In the first phase, data were collected by questionnaire from 64.8 percent of 962 potential Ohio employers which was a 50 percent random sample of 1900 employers. In the…

Part One, "Needs and Goals," (1) examines nursing practice and nursing education, the supply of nurses, educational resources, and the needs in relation to specific fields of nursing, (2) sets of 1970 goal of 680,000 "professional nurses" in practice, an increase of 130,000 over those in practice in 1962, and 350,000 licensed practicial nurses,…

A project was initiated (1) to improve internal communications among various vocational education providers within the River Hills Region (Indiana), (2) to improve external communication among providers and users of products of vocational education, and (3) to incorporate vocational education information into regional planning efforts. Local…