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Table 1 Summary statistics for WIA participants and comparison group

From: Do Public Employment and Training Programs Work?

 

WIA adult

WIA dislocated worker

Comparison group

 

Overall

Training

Overall

Training

Sample Size

     

Unique individuals

95,580

27,325

63,515

20,002

2,929,496

WIA entries, or quarters of comparison program participation

97,552

27,840

64,089

20,195

6,161,510

Demographic

Mean

Mean

Mean

Mean

Mean

Male

0.420

0.356

0.482

0.456

0.585

Black

0.445

0.277

0.330

0.198

0.171

Hispanic

0.031

0.072

0.022

0.043

0.064

Age

32.70

32.16

40.24

40.46

39.59

Years of education

12.27

12.43

12.55

12.63

12.42

Employment transitions

     

Employment-employment

0.297

0.307

0.462

0.456

0.476

Employment-not employed

0.208

0.241

0.281

0.335

0.279

Not employed-employed

0.325

0.297

0.183

0.149

0.225

Not employed-not employed

0.168

0.151

0.070

0.053

0.040

Program experience

     

WIA in prior two years

0.052

0.035

0.041

0.034

0.020

Comparison program participation in prior two years

0.211

0.297

0.409

0.551

0.668

  1. Note: Employment transitions are based on quarterly earnings data in prior five quarters and current (entry or participation) quarter, coded into four exclusive categories. Employed-employed identifies cases with all positive earnings and not employed-not employed identifies cases with no earnings. Other cases are coded by the most recent employment transition.