This report is based on data collected and analyzed by the Workforce Diversity Indicators Initiative. The first round of analysis focused on workforce participation, job sector employment and worker income. Local data were benchmarked against 14 peer regions. The data are largely drawn from U.S. Census Bureau Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics program’s Quarterly Workforce Indicators. The... More
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Behind the Times – About the Data
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Behind the Times – Introduction
With mobility in the domestic and international workforce continuing to increase, regions across the United States face increasing competition to retain and attract the workers needed to fuel the maintenance and growth of their regional economies. Having a diverse workforce in which minority workers perceive that they can thrive is one key element in this... More
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Behind the Times – Jobs and Income
Rayfield Lucas had heard there were well-paying jobs to be had in the shale gas industry. Jobs that offered the opportunity to earn his way to a future more secure than the maintenance and warehouse work he’d done in the past could ever promise. He went for it. A little more than a month after... More
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Behind The Times – Minority Workforce Participation
Southwestern Pennsylvania’s decades-old recovery from the collapse of its industrial economy has long been recognized as nothing short of remarkable. More recently, other regions watched with envy as it proved resilient to the harshest consequences of recession. “Pittsburgh’s transformation has captured the attention of other communities now confronted with economic crises of their own,” the... More
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Behind the Times – The Road Ahead
The dynamics of minority workers and their role in the southwestern Pennsylvania labor force are complex, broad in scope and not fully understood. And for decades, those who’ve tried to diversify the workforce have found it largely resistant to change. Data that depict a southwestern Pennsylvania labor force conspicuously low in minority workers lend little... More
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The Pittsburgh Regional Diversity Survey – Introduction
Southwestern Pennsylvanian is an outlier among U.S. metropolitan regions when racial and ethnic diversity is the measure. Less than 14 percent of the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area population is African American, Asian, Hispanic and people of mixed race. In none of the other 14 Pittsburgh Today benchmark regions do minorities claim a smaller slice of... More
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The Pittsburgh Regional Diversity Survey – Survey Methods
The Pittsburgh Regional Diversity Survey was conducted in August and September 2015. Data were collected via a web-based survey by the University Center for Social & Urban Research (UCSUR) at the University of Pittsburgh. More
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The Pittsburgh Regional Diversity Survey – Sexual Orientation
Sexual orientation tends to be less of an influence on how people view diversity in the workplace than it is on how they perceive diversity in the region and in their communities. More
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The Pittsburgh Regional Diversity Survey – Gender
The differences in how men and women surveyed view issues related to diversity at work and in the region and their neighborhoods tend to be narrow compared to those found among white and minority residents and U.S.-born and foreign-born residents. More