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Government
of Canada Online
Canada's
Government Online site has as its mission "to provide information and
services on the Internet by 2005" and the progress
of this online initiative may be tracked online by the public. That is very
interesting, as are several of the site's areas, but one page deserves special mention.
Environmental
Scan News Files, updated daily and annotating current Internet sources for a
broad range of issues, is definitely worth a regular visit. Recent topics range
from the US initiative to define government information to the question of
whether Canadians have a better sense of humor than Americans (and even whether
the Government Online project itself faces
failure).
Recent State Reports
Alaska
A Sunset Review of the Alaska Real Estate Commission was
released December 12, 2003 by the Alaska Division of Legislative Audit
Ohio
Ohio's Occupational and Regulatory Boards Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2003
Texas
Saying that both agencies
face significant operational problems, and the state needs to change its regulation of barbering and
cosmetology, the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission issued a rare joint report on
the Texas State
Board of Barber Examiners and the Texas
Cosmetology Commission. The report recommends abolishing both boards and moving
regulatory oversight to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. It
also recommends against full licensure for the professions, suggesting that
certification is sufficient to properly protect the public and that practical
examinations are unnecessary.
Other recently released
Texas reports are the Texas
Board of Chiropractic Examiners and the
Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists. For
additional information see the Texas
Sunset Advisory Commission and The
Texas Sunset Commission's Occupational Licensing Model..
Vermont
Vermont Landscape Architects -
Sunrise Application - December 2003
Washington
WA Dental Care Scope of Practice Sunrise Review
US
Census Bureau: 2000 Occupations Data
Census
2000 Special Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Tabulation provides
a useful
Census 2000 EEO Data Tool
that permits visitors to build
their own data tables based on occupation codes or groups. For a general description of the industries and occupations indexes, see the overview.
There are 31,000 occupational titles in the 2000 census.The Standard Occupational Classification System (SOC) places workers into one of
820 occupations which in turn fit into one of 23 occupational groups. You can now use
the online tools to compare 1990 with 2000 occupational census
data.
These are good companion sites to the State
Health Workforce Profiles from the National Center for Health Workforce
Analysis mentioned in the last issue of CLEAR News.
Other Useful Data Sets
Integrated
Public Use Microdata Series
IPUMS USA
IPUMS International
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