Career Data Crunch
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Career Data Crunch
DATA CRUNCH: How Have Real Wages Changed Over Time?
In this activity, students will be able to:
- Analyze and interpret data regarding the effect of inflation on earnings
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
DATA CRUNCH: What Goods and Services Are Exported by the U.S.?
In this activity, students will be able to:
- Analyze and interpret data regarding the volume of goods and services exported by the United States
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DATA CRUNCH: What Goods and Services Are Imported by the U.S.?
In this activity, students will be able to:
- Analyze and interpret data regarding the volume of goods and services imported to the United States
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DATA CRUNCH: Which Careers Are the Biggest Gamble?
In this activity, students will be able to:
- Analyze a scatterplot of earnings variabilty across careers.
- Make an inference about what factors make a career have high variability in earnings vs low variability in earnings.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
DATA CRUNCH: Which Careers Are Growing Fastest?
In this activity, students will be able to:
- Analyze the ten careers with the highest projected growth over the next ten years.
- Explain why a small profession could have a high percentage growth without adding a large number of new employees.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
DATA CRUNCH: Which Benefits Are Most Valued By Job Seekers?
In this activity, students will be able to:
- Analyze a bar graph of the benefits the workers say they most value.
- Consider factors that might influence how much a worker values specific benefits.
Source: 4 Day Week
DATA CRUNCH: What Job Characteristics Matter Most to College Grads?
In this activity, students will be able to:
- Analzye the characteristics that college graduates said were important to their first “good job”.
- Compare responses for all graduates and recent graduates.
Source: Gallup
DATA CRUNCH: What’s The Relationship Between Education and Unemployment?
In this activity, students will be able to:
- Analyze unemployment rates over the last 20 years, disaggregated by educational attainment.
- Determine which groups experience the least variability in unemployment rates.
- Consider the impact of COVID-19 on unemployment rates.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
DATA CRUNCH: Where Are Teens and Young Adults Working?
In this activity, students will be able to:
- Analyze a pie chart of the most common industries where teens and young adults work.
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics
