Topic area: Labor

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Census of Agriculture Viewer

The Census of Agriculture Viewer, developed by UW-Extension, can be used to explore data from the USDA Census of Agriculture between 2022 and 2002. The data is organized into 4 tabs: Farms, Demographics, Crops and practices, and Livestock.

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CORI Economic Development Tool

The Center on Rural Innovation (CORI) Economic Development tool allows users to create a custom dashboard of indicators focused on the strengths and weaknesses of the selected area’s economy.

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County Business Patterns

County Business Patterns, from the U.S. Census, provides economic data by industry and number of employees. The County-level data includes the number of establishments by NAICS code, number of employees by sector, and annual payroll by sector.

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DataUSA

DataUSA is a public-private partnership leveraging U.S. Census and other public data using a flexible dashboard generator for geographies including state, county, and municipality, and Tribal area. Topics include employment, industry, education, income, housing, transportation, poverty, and health.

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DWD Data Dashboards

The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development data dashboards provide comprehensive, localized economic and workforce data.

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DWD’s Wisconomy Labor Market Information Portal

Statewide visualizations and maps can be generated on this site to examine topics such as businesses, industries, the labor force, unemployment, wages, and several others.

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GetFacts

APL’s GetFacts is a tool for generating demographic profiles of Wisconsin Counties, County Subdivisions, or the State with a focus on population trends, health, housing, race and ethnicity, economics, or civil rights.

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Hmong Chartbook

APL’s Hmong Chartbook is the most detailed information source available in regard to the Hmong/HMoob population of Wisconsin.

Screenshot of LEHD data visualized using the OnTheMap tool.
LEHD (U.S. Census Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics)

This resource is instrumental in understanding labor market dynamics. LEHD data consists of job mobility, commuting characteristics, and quarterly workforce indicator datasets.

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Migration Data Hub

The Migration Data Hub provides comprehensive profiles and interactive maps detailing the demographics, geographic distribution, and socioeconomic characteristics of immigrant populations mostly at the state level, but some data is available at the county, and local levels.

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My Tribal Area

Finding data collected from Tribal Nation geographies can be challenging. This resource allows users to view statistics from the most current ACS aggregated and tabulated specifically to match the boundaries of the designated Tribal Geographies in Wisconsin.

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OnTheMap – Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics

The Census Bureau’s OnTheMap application can be used to answer fundamental questions about the relationship between where people live and where they work.

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PolicyMap

PolicyMap makes one of the most extensive lists of demographic and socio-economic variables accessible in one place—at nearly every level of geography imaginable. Current Census data exists alongside historical data of various types.

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Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages

The Bureau of Labor Statistics Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages is a highly reliable near-census of all jobs covered by unemployment insurance. The QCEW data is useful for determining county employment trends, identifying emerging job needs, targeting skills gaps, among other uses.

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Social Explorer

The Social Explorer, available with a UW NetID login, allows the user to access and map an extensive list of demographic, socio-economic, health, environmental, business, and election data sets.

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Statewide Parcel Map Initiative

This resource aggregates local parcel datasets into a statewide file. The data includes typical attributes such as owner name, address, school district, assessed values, and property tax.

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StatsAmerica

StatsAmerica is an extensive and up-to-date collection of data and indices related to economic and community development. The site is also a handy source of Census and other federal data at the County, Place, or MSA level.

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The Wisconsin Food Security Project

APL’s Wisconsin Food Security Project provides data to help identify food security strengths, risk factors, and gaps via socio-economic factors.

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United for ALICE

The United Way developed the ALICE (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed) metric to examine the group of households earning more than the Federal Poverty Level, but not enough to afford the essentials for survival in the communities in which they reside.

An example of the data available on the US Census County Profiles site
US Census County Profiles

The U.S. Census County Profiles offer a comprehensive and current socio-economic picture of each county in Wisconsin from economic, employment, and housing data to health, education, and demographics.

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US Census QuickFacts

The U.S. Census’ QuickFacts site provides a customizable table of common demographic and socio-economic statistics for the U.S., individual States and Counties, or cities and towns with populations of more than 5,000 people.

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USDA Agricultural Statistics

The USDA conducts a census of U.S. farms and ranches at five year intervals looking at “land use and ownership, operator characteristics, production practices, income, and expenditures.”