The U.S. Census Bureau has announced new data-sharing agreements with Brigham Young University-Idaho and the University of North Carolina System as part of its Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) experimental data product. These partnerships bring information from 17 additional post-secondary institutions into the PSEO, which now covers a total of 952 institutions and about 35 percent of all college graduates in the country.
The PSEO provides insights into earnings and employment outcomes for graduates, organized by degree level, major, institution, and state. The tool is intended to help parents, students, educational institutions, and workforce agencies understand labor market results for college graduates.
According to the Census Bureau: “The PSEO are made possible through data-sharing partnerships between universities, university systems, state departments of education, state labor market information offices, and the U.S. Census Bureau.”
Users can access this data by linking graduate transcript records with Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics information using resources such as the PSEO Explorer tool, raw files, and the Census API.
No formal news release accompanied this announcement; it was distributed as a tip sheet.
