A labor market area that is usually a group of contiguous counties where employment, training, and educational services are provided as established under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to provide services for dislocated workers and other eligible individuals.

The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) is a federal act passed in 2014 designed to help job seekers access employment, education, training, and support services to succeed in the labor market and to match employers with the skilled workers they need to compete in the global economy. WIOA ensures that employment and training services provided by the core programs of employment services, workforce development, adult education, and vocational rehabilitation activities are coordinated and complementary so that job seekers acquire skills and credentials that meet employers' needs.

The data submitted reflects the number of trainings of Pennsylvania workers offered by DCED and its affiliate programs in Fiscal Year 2015-2018

These data describe the percentages of students that attained specific education milestones and objectives. The indictor-level definitions can be found here: Future Ready Glossary

The Industry Based measured are for the 2020-2021 school year, and all other measures are for the 2018-2019 school year,

This dataset contains the Industry Certifications offered by each secondary Career and Technical Education (CTE) program for 2016 school year to the current period.

For additional information on Career and Technical Education visit Career and Technical Education.

This data set includes the unemployment rate and the labor force participation rate for individuals with and without disabilities as well as the total for all individuals. This data is Pennsylvania specific and is source from the U.S. Census' Current Population Survey (CPS).


The data given for each month is a "rolling" average, which represents the average for the 12 month period ending with the reference month. For example: The July 2019 “People with Disabilities Participation Rate” is the average participation rate of August 2018 – July 2019. The August 2019 rate is the average of September 2018 – August 2019, and so on.

The data depicts each training opportunity completed by individuals through Industry Partnership training funding by Program Year (PY). The file includes all training and the number of individuals that benefited from the training and the workforce development area in which the industry partnership is organized. The data show the amount of training that is driven by employer demand to ensure PA’s employers remain competitive and workers retain employment and enhance their career opportunities.

This is Department of Labor and Industry(DLI) dataset.
There are 5 other Workforce training files from Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) that when combined with this file support the Governor's Workforce Development Goal of training 340,000 individuals by 2020