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Department of Labor and Workforce Development - Labor Market Information

Mission

Produce and disseminate objective economic and demographic information.

Core Services

  • Provide timely economic and demographic statistics and analysis.
  • Maximize the accuracy of information produced.
Arrow GraphicMission Results Core Services
A: Provide satisfactory Labor Market Information services.  Details >
  • TARGET #1: 90 percent of survey respondents rate Labor Market Information (LMI) services as three or better on a scale of one to five.
A1: Provide timely economic and demographic statistics and analysis.  Details >
  • TARGET #1: Meet or exceed all Bureau of Labor Statistics program deliverable deadlines.
  • TARGET #2: Submit all state required reports on time.
A2: Maximize the accuracy of information produced.  Details >
  • TARGET #1: Meet or exceed an 85 percent response rate on the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages Annual Refiling Survey.

Performance Detail


A: Result - Provide satisfactory Labor Market Information services.
    
Target #1: 90 percent of survey respondents rate Labor Market Information (LMI) services as three or better on a scale of one to five.

Methodology: Source: Labor Market Information - online survey

Analysis of results and challenges: The Labor Market Information program redesigned its web site during FY2021 and removed a request for visitors to provide general survey information about their satisfaction and made more prominent the menu options for providing specific feedback about satisfaction with data sets, articles, reports, and other analyses. That change has been productive, as have other efforts to seek out specific feedback, but it also makes the graph above less useful. Reviewing feedback from the variety of sources, 100 percent of it is neutral or better.


A1: Core Service - Provide timely economic and demographic statistics and analysis.
    
Target #1: Meet or exceed all Bureau of Labor Statistics program deliverable deadlines.

Methodology: Labor Market Information - Bureau of Labor Statistics Cooperative Agreement

Analysis of results and challenges: All Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) program deliverables were met in federal fiscal year 2021. Federal deliverables include six different federal-state cooperative statistical programs (Current Employment Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, Occupational Employment Statistics, Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, and Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses) and a large number of final and intermediate deadlines and deliverables.
    
Target #2: Submit all state required reports on time.

Methodology: Labor Market Information - Program deliverables

Analysis of results and challenges: All statutorily-required reports were been completed on time in FY2021.

A2: Core Service - Maximize the accuracy of information produced.
    
Target #1: Meet or exceed an 85 percent response rate on the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages Annual Refiling Survey.

Methodology: Source: Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages; a federal/state cooperative program between the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Research and Analysis Section; and the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Analysis of results and challenges: Alaska’s response rate of 84 percent was the highest in the Western Region (the average for states in the region was 68 percent) and second highest in the country overall. it was below the target percentage of 85 percent because of COVID-related disruptions and challenges in getting employers to respond to the survey.

The Annual Refiling Survey (ARS) is the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) mechanism for maintaining current information in its sampling frame. Every year, state Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) offices mail ARS forms to approximately one-third of the Unemployment Insurance account holders in their states. These BLS-designed forms ask respondents to verify the business name, mailing address, physical location address, borough/census area, and economic activity for the location(s) in that state. Alaska regularly exceeds the BLS target response rate of 75 percent.

 

Current as of November 19, 2021