Create career pathways to fast-growing, 21st century jobs

Develop a skilled workforce that meets the needs of Pennsylvania's business community

Promote access to good-paying jobs for all Pennsylvanians

This dataset contains summary information on numbers for all jobs pledged to be created and retained through the Department of Community and Economic Development.

The data collection started January 20th, 2015. The beginning of the Wolf Administration.

County level educational attainment data on the adult working aged population (25-64) by age range and gender. Data is sourced from the US Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates allowing for increased statistical reliability of the data for less populated areas and small population subgroups.

More information here - https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/acs-5year.html

Attainment data is a 3-year average estimate of the adult, working age population (age 25-64) by age group, gender, and race/ethnicity. Data is based on Public Use Microsample (PUMS) data from the American Community Survey (ACS) downloaded in a custom data set from the IPUMS USA project at the University of Minnesota and summarized for Pennsylvania. Note that the estimates in this data set represent a 3-year average and is not directly comparable to the county-level 5-year county level estimates.