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

星期五, 12月 05, 2008

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

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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A Holland perspective on the U.S. workforce from 1960 to 2000 - FindArticles
Career Development Quarterly, March, 2007, by Robert C. Reardon, Emily E. Bullock, Katie E. Meyer

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In 1990, the income for women was lower than the income for men in all six categories, and the discrepancy became greater as income levels rose.

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This graph shows that, in 2000, the income for women was lower than the income for men in all categories except Conventional.

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This graph shows the number and percentage of men and women over and under the age of 40 years according to the six types of work. We conducted chi-square tests to determine whether there was a relationship in the percentage of persons over and under 40 across the six types. The results indicated that there was no statistically significant relationship between age and kind of work for either men. It shows very little discrepancy between the percentage of male and female workers employed in the various kinds of work with regard to age. For women under 40, 30% are working in Enterprising occupations as opposed to only 26% for the over-40 group. For men under 40, 29% are working in Enterprising occupations as opposed to 33% in the over-40 group. These discrepancies do not suggest large shifts In employment across the six areas with respect to age.

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The RECSIA profile for 2000 actual employment (most to fewest jobs) reported by the U.S. Census Bureau (2002) stands in contrast to the SERCIA profile ofthe 20 occupations projected to have
the most new jobs through 2012 by the BLS (Horrigan, 2003-2004). Reardon, Lenz, Sampson, and Peterson (2005) aiso found that the 20 occupations with the fastest projected percentage of employment growth had a profile of SRICEA.

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Findings are clear that Enterprising area nearly doubled in employment from 1960 to 2000, from 17% to 30%. The Social area almost doubled in the same period, from 9% to 16%. At the same time, stability, not change.

Male employment has been concentrated in the Realistic and Enterprising areas, and there has been an increase of employment in the Investigative area from 4% to 10% over the 5 decades. There was a corresponding increase for women from 1% to 6% in the Investigative area.
Compared with women, men are more segregated with respect to the six areas of work, with 8 out of 10 working in either the Realistic or Enterprising area. Career guidance programs might encourage men to explore occupations that are frequendy dominated by women.

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