sunnysardine's blog: Holland 1960-2000 U.S. Data [2/3]

星期五, 12月 05, 2008

Holland 1960-2000 U.S. Data [2/3]

Many might know Holland's famous RIASEC theory of career choice, you might get the information through wikipedia here if you are not sure you still remember it. Here I would like to show you a presentation PPT, i made for my class discussion, to brief a research done by Robert C. Reardon, Emily E. Bullock and Katie E. Meyer. The authors analyze civilian occupations and employment data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau in 1960,1970,1980, 1990, and 2000 with respect to 6 kinds of work (Holland's RIASEC).

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Career Development Quarterly, March, 2007, by Robert C. Reardon, Emily E. Bullock, Katie E. Meyer

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R and E are both 30% when it reaches 2000.

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Holland (1997) noted several "rules" to use in interpreting the SDS, such as the "Rule of Asymmetrical Distribution of Types and Subtypes." This rule reminds counselors and clients that the distribution of types across the six RIASEC areas is very uneven and unequal. Codes associated with small employment numbers may have fewer jobs and new openings. Our research underscores the validity of this rule.

Career guidance programs might properly help participants understand the economic realities of current employment data, rather than relying exclusively on projections of expected fliture occupational
activity.

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As shown in data, more and more women work force are contributing their labor nowadays. The red represents man, while blue is woman.

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Most men were employed in the Realistic area, followed by the Enterprising area. Over the 5 decades, between 75% and 85% of male workers were employed in these two areas. This means that only 15% to 25% of men were employed in the other four areas.

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As compared with men, women have been employed in more varied kinds of work, including Conventional; Realistic; Social; and, more recently. Enterprising areas. Indeed, the percentage of women employed in the Enterprising area more than doubled over the 5 decades, from 13% to 28%. In contrast, there were slight decreases in female employment in the Conventional and Realistic areas.

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The graph shows that male employment in the Realistic area decreased over the 5 decades, whereas the total number and percentage of men and women employed in the Realistic area remained the highest for the six kinds of work (44%).

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The percentage of women employed in Realistic occupations decreased from 33% in 1960 to 15% in 2000 in spite of some efforts to encourage nontraditional work for women. The percentage of women in Investigative occupations increased from 1% in 1960 to 6% in 2000. From 1960 to 1990, Conventional was the area of work in which most women were employed, but in 2000, that shifted to the Enterprising area. In 2000, 28% of women were employed in Enterprising occupations and 26% were employed in Conventional occupations.

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Because the method for calculating the income levels differed for the 1990 and 2000 census years, comparisons between the 2 years should be made with caution. The more accurate way of viewing this graph is to focus on the continued discrepancy with regard to income among the
Holland types in each of the two census periods. These numbers show wide variations in income levels among different groups.

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