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The role of demographic data in the operation of public policy: a case study of the job training partnership act

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To work at the state and local levels, the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) requires specific kinds of demographic data. Unemployment figures, poverty information, occupational supply and demand data, wage structure, and many other types of data are used in planning and operating JTPA programs, and in modifying the performance standards by which the programs are evaluated. The decennial census provides some key data and thus some significant types of information become less timely as the decade progresses. Furthermore, the framers of the Act had little or no knowledge of the forms in which data are collected and thus definitions given in the Act do not always agree with definitions used in the demographic data which are available. The policymakers for future government benefit programs could learn from this mistake: before writing legislation which is so heavily dependent on demographic data, they should ascertain what types of data are available or can be generated for use in the program.

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  1. School of Business, Belmont College, 37203-5740, Nashville, TN, USA

    Geraldine B. Terry

  2. Tennessee Department of Employment Security, 400-A Cordell Hull Building, 37219, Nashville, TN, USA

    Shirley K. Hart

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Terry, G.B., Hart, S.K. The role of demographic data in the operation of public policy: a case study of the job training partnership act. Popul Res Policy Rev 5, 147–162 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00137178

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