The Kentucky Longitudinal Data System connects education and workforce data to evaluate programs, inform policymakers, and monitor student outcomes from early childhood through employment. It is maintained by the Kentucky Center for Education and Workforce Statistics, which produces reports on topics like employment and earnings of postsecondary graduates and outcomes of K-12 students. These reports provide aggregate data to institutions and stakeholders to understand the impacts of education.

1. The Kentucky Longitudinal
Data System –
Connecting Education & Outcomes

2. What is the Center?
 Independent state agency charged
with maintaining the P-20 SLDS
and measuring and evaluating
education and workforce at all
levels.
 Legislatively authorized to collect
data from all ed. and workforce
programs.
 Created in June 2010 by Executive
Order and ratified into law in the
2013 legislative session
 Builds upon the work of the P-20
Data Collaborative (since 2009)
Education & Workforce
Development Cabinet
Secretary (CHAIR)
KDE Commissioner
CPE President
EPSB Executive
Director
KHEAA Executive
Director
Board
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3. What is the Center tasked to do?
 Evaluate education and workforce programs
statewide
 Develop state level metrics
 Monitor privacy, confidentiality, data quality
 Better inform policy makers and stakeholders
 Maintain Kentucky Longitudinal Data System
(KLDS)
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4. The Kentucky Longitudinal Data System
De-Identified
Warehouse
Identity
Resolution/
Assignment
And Cleaning
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5. KLDS Data
Current
 K-12 Student
 K-12 Teachers & Staff
 Public & Independent Postsecondary
 Proprietary Colleges
 Teacher/Educator Certification
 In-State Employment and Earnings
(UI)
 Early childhood & Kindergarten
Readiness
 Out of State Proprietary
 Financial Aid
 Career/Tech Ed
 Unemployment Claims
Near Future
 Head Start
 Children & Family Services
 Apprenticeships
 Out-of-State and Military
Employment
 Burning Glass (Workforce Demand)
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6. Why Link K-12 and Workforce Data?
 By linking individual
pieces together we can
see a more complete
picture of public policy.
 The State doesn’t think
of itself as individual
pieces but as a whole.
K-12
COLLEGE
WORK
ECONOMY
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7. Challenges and Caveats
 Employment data are available from the UI wage reports made by
employers which includes about 90% of all people employed in Kentucky.
 Limitations of the data:
 Only includes people employed in-state (Exploring WRIS2)
 Does not include federal or military employees (Exploring FEDES)
 Only provides quarterly wage data by industry and employer location – not
occupations and not “where” they work but where their employer’s central office
exists.
 More detailed employment data are available from K-12 teachers and staff
and adult education staff and those who are making unemployment
insurance claims.
 No individual level data can be accessed by staff outside participating
agencies.
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8. How are we using integrated data?
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9. Reports Using Workforce Data
 White Paper Reports
 Postsecondary Feedback Reports
 Adult Education Report (forthcoming)
 Teacher Prep Feedback Report
 High School Dropout Employment data
 Various Data Requests
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10. White Paper on Employment and
Education
 College graduates’
employment
 Breakouts by major and
credential level
 Employment as a proxy
for migration
 School level data
released in draft to
institutions
 Pre-work of
Postsecondary Feedback
Report
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11. White Paper on Employment and
Education
Percentage of College Grads working in Kentucky
5 Years Later
66%
74% 72%
57% 60%
67%
33%
48%
27%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
Certificate Diploma Associate Bachelor Master's Specialist Doctoral Professional Other
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12. White Paper on Employment and
Education
Median Wages by Credential level
$23,117
$33,250 $33,215
$37,265
$49,303 $51,222
$58,974
$72,500
$0
$10,000
$20,000
$30,000
$40,000
$50,000
$60,000
$70,000
$80,000
Certificate Diploma Associate Bachelor Master's Specialist Doctoral Professional
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13. White Paper on K-12 Employment
Outcomes
 Two out of three graduates were earning
less than full-time minimum wages
 Females earned 70% of what males
earned, three years after high school
 African American students earned 30%
less than Caucasian students, three years
after high school
 Graduates with 20 or more unexcused
absences in their senior year earned up to
55% less than those with 5 or fewer
 60% of graduates work in the four lowest
paying industries
Graduates not attending college
earned:
$7,567 one year out and
$11,511 three years out
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14. White Paper on Postsecondary
Employment Outcomes14
 80% of Associate degree
recipients
 75% of Bachelor’s degree
recipients
 30% of out of state students
KY Employment rates 3 years
later

15. White Paper on Postsecondary
Employment Outcomes
In-State Employment Rates and Average Earnings for 2008 Graduates from Kentucky
Research Universities Five Years Later
86%
79%
61% 65%
$32,278
$37,271
$49,552
$77,552
$0
$10,000
$20,000
$30,000
$40,000
$50,000
$60,000
$70,000
$80,000
$90,000
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Associate Bachelor's Graduate Professional
In-State Employment In-State Earnings
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16. White Paper on Postsecondary
Employment Outcomes
In-State Employment Rates and Average Earnings for 2008 Graduates from Kentucky
Public Comprehensive Universities Five Years Later
83%
74%
72%
53%
$37,752
$34,092
$47,834
$42,840
$0
$10,000
$20,000
$30,000
$40,000
$50,000
$60,000
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Associate Bachelor's Graduate Professional
In-State Employment In-State Earnings
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17. Postsecondary Feedback Report
 Public Research Universities
 Public Comprehensive Universities
 Public 2-Year Institutions
 Independent (AIKCU) Institutions
 Basic enrollment information
 Employment outcomes
 Transfer students
 Graduates pursuing more degrees
 Drop Outs (those leaving without
receiving a credential or
transferring)
Key Sections:
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18. Teacher Preparation Feedback Report
 Available for all KY
postsecondary institutions
with teacher education
programs (4-year public and
independent)
 Provide an initial snapshot
at an aggregate level, by
institution:
 Enrollment
 Time to Employment
 Teacher Retention
 District of Employment
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19. Key Findings – District placement
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20. How to Access Reports
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21. How to Access Reports - Data Sets
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22. How to Request Custom Information
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23. 2015 KCEWS Reports
 High School Feedback Reports
 College Going (HS Graduation classes of 12, 13 and 14)
 College Success (HS Graduation classes of 11, 12 and 13)
 Early Childhood Profile
 Teacher Supply and Demand
 Adult Education Feedback Report
 Teacher Preparation Feedback Report
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24. Questions?
Kate Shirley Akers, Ph.D.
Acting Executive Director
Kentucky Center for Education & Workforce
Statistics
kate.akers@ky.gov
http://kcews.ky.gov
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