Issue 28
March 2015
In this month's issue...
Welcome to Data Blast
Thanks to all who attended the 2015 Oklahoma Economic Census
Data Symposium, and thanks again to our presenters -- Andy Hait
and Earlene Dowell from the US Census Bureau! Andy and Earlene
both gave fantastic presentations, which are available here as
powerpoints or as recorded webinars.
Data Blast is an e-newsletter
prepared and distributed by the
Census Information Center of
Eastern Oklahoma, a program of the
Community Service Council of
Greater Tulsa, and supported by the
Metropolitan Human Services
Commission.
Be watching for notices in future Data Blasts about trainings for using
economic census data and the OnTheMap data tool this winter after Data Blast is intended to inform and
educate people in eastern Oklahoma
the complete Oklahoma data set has been
about population, economic,
released.
We're highlighting some of the key slides from the
symposium in this month's Data Blast. Enjoy!
educational, health and social trends
in our local communities as well as in
our state and nation.
Highlights from the 2015 Oklahoma Economic Census
Data Symposium
Key Points from "2012 Economic Census: An Update for
Oklahoma"
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Accessing economic data from the US Census Bureau can be accomplished in several ways
including through the Industry Statistics Portal (ISP) and with the Industry Snapshots.
Through the ISP, the data user can reach data access tools for a particular industry and a specific
Census Bureau source.
The Industry Snapshots tool generates maps, trend tables and charts depicting key industry
statistics for selected industries.
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The cutoff point for places for inclusion in the Economic Census was lowered from 5,000 people
or jobs in 2007 to 2,500 people or jobs in 2012, which resulted in an increase of nearly 5,000
places nationwide for 2012.
Several dozen new places were added in Oklahoma, including Fort Gibson, Drumright, Mannford,
Bristow, Nowata, Pawhuska and Cleveland in the northeastern part of the state.
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This slice of data from the 2012 Economic Census gives powerful information, including the fact
that there are 3,610 manufacturing establishments in the state of Oklahoma, with nearly $75
billion in shipments, and over 133,000 employees.
That same information and more for all categories of manufacturing and all other industries will
be available when the complete data sets from the 2012 Economic Census are released later this
year.
Level of geographic detail varies by industry; some are published down to zip code level, while
others are available only down to county and place level; a few industries are limited to state
level data.
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Another sample of data that have already been released indicates that 903 manufacturing
establishments exist in Tulsa County, with a total of over 37,000 employees.
Woodward, Carter and Kay Counties have some of the highest levels of payroll per employee in
the manufacturing industry in the state, each exceeding $57,000.
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An examination of the manufacturing industry in Oklahoma's metropolitan and micropolitan
areas reveals that the Tulsa Metropolitan area is home to the most establishments, the greatest
value of shipments, the highest annual payroll and the largest number of employees.
Ardmore Micropolitan area boasts highest value of shipments both per employee and per
establishment.
The highest annual payroll per employee -- nearly $65,000 -- is found in Woodward Micropolitan
area.
Key Points from "Local Employment
Dynamics: Partnership, Employment and Public -Use
Data"
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The OnTheMap online mapping and reporting application is recognized by the United Nations as
a major US statistical innovation.
This Census tool depicts employment flow patterns and worker demographic and socioeconomic
data for geographies as small as a census block.
Analysis illustrates flow patterns regarding both where people live and work.
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OnTheMap for Emergency Management is a public data tool that enables users to access and
map demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, in real time, for areas impacted by natural
disasters.
The tool allows users to quickly retrieve data regarding detailed workforce, population, and
housing characteristics for areas affected by hurricanes, floods, wildfires, winter storms, and
federal disaster declaration areas.
This sample depicts the impact area of Hurricane Sandy in 2012 along with relevant data about
the affected population including poverty level and distribution of the elderly and disabled.
Such information helps responders and planners more appropriately and effectively help victims
in the aftermath of natural disasters.
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Another Census application, QWI Explorer, reports quarterly employment data by a host of
worker characteristics.
An analysis of trends in employment by age group in Oklahoma indicates that persons in the 2534, 55-64, and 65+ age groups was on the rise between mid 2009 and mid 2012, while
employment among the younger age groups were relatively stagnant.
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This OnTheMap report depicts the distribution and density of the nearly 400,000 primary jobs in
the Tulsa metro area in 2011.
The report also describes worker characteristics for the people who are employed in these jobs,
including age, race, sex, earnings, and educational attainment, and firm characteristics including
industry sector, and firm age and size.
Further analysis would reveal where these workers live and how far they commute to their jobs.
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Another important analysis feature of OnTheMap is Inflow/Outflow, which, as the name
suggests, reports the number of workers who live and work in the selected geography, the
number who live elsewhere but work in the geography and the number who live within selected
geography but work elsewhere.
According to this analysis, nearly 400,000 people work in the 7-county Tulsa metro area, of whom
19% commute from outside of the metro area.
Looking from the other perspective, 17% of workers who live in the Tulsa metro area commute
outside of the metro area for work.
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Until next time,
Melanie Poulter
Senior Planner, Demography and Geography
Community Service Council
mpoulter@csctulsa.org
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