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Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Net Impact Evaluation Dataset

Dataset Summary

Agency	Department of Labor
Sub-Agency	Employment and Training Administration
Category	Labor Force, Employment, and Earnings
Date Released	01/20/2010
Date Updated	12/31/2009
Time Period	Participants who entered the Workforce Investment Act Adult or Dislocated Worker programs between July 2003 and June 2005
Frequency	Annual, quarterly
Description	The evaluation employs administrative data from 12 states, covering approximately 160,000 WIA participants and nearly 3 million comparison group members. Focusing on participants who entered WIA programs between July 2003 and June 2005, the evaluation considers the impact for all those in the program, the impact for those receiving only Core or Intensive Services, and the incremental impact of Training Services. This dataset contains all of the information used to conduct the non-experimental evaluation estimates for the 1) WIA Client Treatment Group and 2) The Unemployment Insurance and Employment Service Client comparison group. (more)

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Dataset Information

Data.gov Data Category Type	Raw Data Catalog
Specialized Data Category Designation	Research
Keywords	evaluation, workforce investment act, adult, dislocated worker, matching, wagner-payser, employment service, public labor exchange, WIA, net-impact, propensity score, core, intensive, training, employment, earnings, exiters, quasi-experimetal, non-experimental
Unique ID	1498

Contributing Agency Information

Citation	http://wdr.doleta.gov/research/keyword.cfm?fuseaction=dsp_resultDetails&pub_id=2419&mp=y
Agency Program Page	http://www.doleta.gov
Agency Data Series Page	http://wdr.doleta.gov/research/keyword.cfm

Dataset Coverage

Unit of Analysis	person
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Geographic Coverage	12 states

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Additional Dataset Documentation

Technical Documentation	http://wdr.doleta.gov/research/keyword.cfm?fuseaction=dsp_resultDetails&pub_id=2419&mp=y
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OMB Control No. 3090-0284