Staffing Patterns represent the distribution of employment for an occupation among industries. Staffing patterns are created by merging Industry projections data with staffing patterns from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) program to create an industry-occupational matrix. This matrix shows the ratios of occupations employed within a particular industry, or a list of the industries that employ a particular occupation.
Staffing patterns are extracted from the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) program and based on survey data. Occupation data are coded according to the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system.
The staffing pattern divides each industry’s employment into different occupations, forming a matrix.