2001 NCSC News
Military-O*NET Crosswalk Files... The Defense Manpower Data Center and the National Center for O*NET Development have developed a crosswalk linking military occupations to the O*NET classification. We've made MS Access and FoxPro versions of the file available for downloading. (12/24/01)
OES Files... The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) recently released employment and wage estimates from their 2000 Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) survey. You can download their files from the OES download page. We've made the original BLS files, as well as DBF files for each of the states available on our FTP server. Click here to view our README.TXT file or here to go directly to the directory containing the files. (12/7/01)
New Projections Files... On Monday, December 3, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a new set of national employment projections by industry and occupation. Visit the BLS employment projections home page for information about the projections. A variety of projections-related files are available for downloading from BLS. We've made MS Access and FoxPro versions of the files available for downloading from our FTP server. You can view the README.TXT file or go directly to the download directory. (NOTE: earlier versions of the national employment projections have been removed from our server to save space. Contact us if you need these files.) (12/5/01)
New O*NET Files... We recently developed a version of the O*NET 3.1 database for use with SAS/PC software. (11/28/01)
New Crosswalk... We recently added the Department of Defense 2001 crosswalk file linking military occupations to the Standard Occupational Classification to our FTP server. The file is available for downloading (MS Access file, 1.6 MB) by clicking here.
Click here to view the documentation for the file (PDF file, 320 KB).
(10/30/01)
New Video Files... The Employment and Training Administration, through the New Jersey Department of Labor, recently released another set of career video files. To read the MS Word document announcing the release, click here.
We've added the new files to those already available for downloading from our FTP server. Click here to go to the main video directory. You'll find the Spanish-language versions in the Spanish directory, and the RealNetworks files in the Real directory.
(10/19/01)
NCSC Annual Report... We recently completed a report that documents our activities for the year ending June 30, 2001. Go to our Reports page for a look at the document (and those from previous years). (9/10/01)
O*NET 3.1 Database...We've created MS Access and Visual FoxPro versions of the O*NET 3.1 database. The MS Access database results from a fairly simple import of the source O*NET text files. The Visual FoxPro versions has been reconfigured to a more normalized database. (8/16/01)
O*NET 3.1 Files...On June 29, the National O*NET Consortium released the O*NET 3.1 database. The NCSC has converted the text files available from the O*NET Center to MS Access and Visual FoxPro databases. The Access database is a direct import of the O*NET text files, while the Visual FoxPro files have been modified to bring them into a more normalized configuration. (8/1/01)
New SOC Files... We've developed a pair of new files which link the Standard Occupational Classification System (SOC) occupations to those from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT). These files, based on information in the O*NET 3.1 database, contain links to 12,814 DOT occupations. Earlier versions of this crosswalk, based on the O*NET 3.0 database, contained SOC links for 9,480 DOT occupations. Look for the file DOTSOC31.DBF here for links to the 1998 SOC, and look here for a file with links to the 2000 SOC. Watch this space for news as more files based on the O*NET 3.1 database become available from the NCSC. (7/23/01)
New list... The NOICC Listserve, operated by the NCSC, has been replaced by a new list which will continue to emphasize occupational and training classification resources. Subscribers to the NOICC Listserve have been automatically added to the new list. For information about this service, or if you'd like to have your e-mail address added to this list, contact the NCSC. (5/21/01)
So long, noicc.gov... When NOICC went out of business last year, you would expect that the agency's home page would eventually follow suit. All content has been removed from the noicc.gov web site, and the address will stop functioning after 5/31/01. We suggest you monitor the home page of the Office of Vocational and Adult Education, which is responsible for many of NOICC's career guidance activities. (5/9/01)
New Crosswalk Page... The NCSC distributes a number of crosswalk files used in the Department of Labor's Career OneStop Internet applications. (4/24/01)
New Search Function... The NCSC FTP server has over 4,000 files available for you to download. Finding what you want in that large assortment of files can be difficult. We've added a tool which allows you to search through the contents of the files for text that you specify. This search tool can look inside text, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other files for specific content. Check our Internet page for more information. (3/23/01)
O*NET Information... The national O*NET Consortium recently added information about the O*NET Interest Profiler to their News page. The page also contains a an on-line demo which demonstrates the use of the Interest Profiler. (3/23/01)
More ALMIS Database Files... We've added monthly labor force, employment and unemployment data formatted for use in the ALMIS Database LABFORCE table. Check our National Data Calendar page for more information. Look for the information about the CPS data. (3/14/01)
SOC Files... We've reorganized our FTP resources slightly to help differentiate between products based on the 1998 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) and its 2000 revision. The /download/soc1998 directory contains the original 1998 SOC resources. Files in /download/soc20000 have been modified by the NCSC to reflect changes in the classification. See the "file information" file in each directory for brief descriptions of the files and "socdoc.txt" for a description of the variables. (3/9/01)
ALMIS Database Managers... We've added a page containing more information about the major national, state and county data files available for downloading from our FTP server. The page contains the dates last updated and of the next anticipated update, the name of the ALMIS Database table to which it relates, a link to the Internet source of the data and notes on use. Check it out here. (3/8/01)
30,000+ Occupational Titles... On February 27, the Census Bureau placed their indexes of industry and occupational titles on their web site We've placed MS Access versions of the files on our ftp server. See the whatsnew.txt file on the server for more information about the files. (3/5/01)
New Server... We've replaced the server we use for providing FTP services. While we believe that all 4,000+ files made the trip safely to the new server, please let us know if you notice that we've missed anything. (3/1/01)
More OES Data...On February 16 the Bureau of Labor Statistics released state, metropolitan area and balance of state (sum of nonmetropolitan areas) employment and wage estimates from the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) program. The NCSC has converted the MS Excel files furnished by BLS into DBF files, and the resulting DBF files, as well as the original BLS files are available for downloading from the NCSC FTP server. See the file readme.txt for a description of the files. You can go directly to the directory which contains the files by clicking here. Or, click here to go to the BLS page from which the files are available. (2/27/01)
New OES Data...On January 19, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released national employment and wage estimates from the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) programs. The web page for the OES data states that state and metropolitan data will be available soon. You can download the national OES estimates from the BLS OES data page or from the NCSC Internet FTP server, where the data are available as either MS Excel or FoxPro files. (1/30/01)
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