Alaska government employment: state and local jobs outpace federal: gains significant over losses from 2001 through 2012.

• Author: Malone, Michael
• Position: ALASKA TRENDS

Since 2001, Alaska state and local government jobs gained in number while federal government jobs in Alaska fell slightly, according to data published by Alaska's Department of Labor and Work Force Development (DOLWD). The department's Research and Analysis (R&A) Section publishes monthly figures containing employment statistics by job sector and calculates an annual average for each. DOLWD's R&A Section offers a number of Labor Market Information products and services. They deliver information to contracted customers, respond to individual information requests, make presentations, and collect information. Most of the data produced is available on the Internet and some are available in hard copy. This includes the size of the labor force (total number of people employed plus those seeking employment), the number and percent of workers unemployed, the number and percent of the workforce that were not Alaska residents, the number and percent of new hires, the number of layoffs, monthly estimate of payroll jobs by industry, quarterly employment and earnings by industry, short and long-term employment forecasts by industry, the number of new hires by industry, employment and wages by...