Local Employment Dynamics & American Factfinder Workshops
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (check-in starts at 8:30 am)

Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter Auditorium
101 Eighth Street, Oakland, California

Online Registration is closed.
Local Employment Dynamics
Unprecedented details about America’s jobs, workers, and the local economies

9:00am - Noon Online Registration is closed

Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI): a tool to analyze employment, hiring, job creation, destruction and earnings

Industry Focus: a tool to identify hot industries in a local economy

CED HotReports: a tool for analysis of key social and economic information for all counties in the U.S.

OntheMap: a map and reporting tool displaying employment and home locations of workers

American FactFinder
Finding Census data via online access to data sources and tools

1:00pm - 4:00pm Online Registration is closed

Census Data Overview

  • Decennial Census: Summary Files 1 & 2
  • American Community Survey new estimates
  • Population Estimates program

Navigation on www.census.gov

  • QuickFacts
  • Interactive Map
  • Population Finder

Navigation on American FactFinder

  • Quick searches
  • Search filters (topic, geography, race and ethnicity, industry codes)
  • Narrowing your search
  • Working with tables
  • Map and mapping resources
CM 6.00 Pending