HEALTH GRADS ANALYSIS

For this project, only overall/group-level counts were provided as deliverables; no individually-identifiable or confidential information was shared and certain low-value figures were suppressed to preserve data confidentiality. Deliverables were provided to EOHHS and selected visualizations were published with the approval of the agencies contributing source data to the Rhode Island DataHUB (e.g., OPC and DLT).

Data in the visualizations were given a value of “10” if the data point was above 0 but below 10. For example, if 4 graduates of a particular degree program were employed in a particular subsector, that value was visualized as “10.”

URI, RIC and CCRI Data:

Source: RI Office of the Postsecondary Commissioner.

School years include (in order) fall, spring, and summer terms. For example, the 2012-2013 school year includes the fall term of 2012, and the spring and summer terms of 2013. Counts include individuals with degrees and certificates meeting the following criteria: 

• those with a primary field of study recorded;
• those for students who graduate in a term in which they were registered (a small number do not);
• the most recently-earned certificate or degree within the available data for each graduate.
  

Industry/Employment Data: 

Source: RI Department of Labor and Training, Unemployment Insurance System. 

• Information is based on employment records through Q3 2017, which was the most recent data available at the time the figures were run. 
• To determine employment within one year of graduation, employment records in Q4 after the end of the school year to Q3 of the following year are included (e.g., for the 2012-13 school year Q4 2013 to Q3 2014 are included). 
• “Health care and social assistance industries” jobs include those with NAICS codes beginning in “62”. For the data refresh, additional industries were added to capture healthcare occupations (e.g., pharmacists or school nurses) in other sectors of employment such as Health and Personal Care Stores or Educational Services.
• For individuals with more than one employer in a given quarter, only the industry for the employer paying the individual the most wages (in total) during the quarter is counted. Health care and social assistance jobs are counted even in cases where and individual has a higher-paying job outside the sector within the same quarter.
• This data set does not include employment information for military jobs, federal government jobs, jobs outside of RI, and jobs with the limited number of private employers that do not participate in the Unemployment Insurance System.

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