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Women in construction : employment, business owner, and injury trends
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May 2023
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Series: CPWR data bulletin
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Description:"Women are underrepresented in construction, accounting for almost half of the entire workforce in 2021 but only 11.0% of the construction workforce. This trend persists among blue-collar workers; only 3.7% of construction workers are women, compared to 16.5% in all industries. The continuing labor shortages in construction highlight the need for a diverse workforce and for understanding growing workforce populations, including women, Hispanics, and workers 55 years or older. This Data Bulletin provides information on employment, business owner, and fatal and nonfatal injury trends among women in construction. Data for employment were estimated using the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Current Population Survey (CPS), which is published monthly, downloaded through IPUMS. Employment for private nonfarm wage-and-salary workers for major subsectors was obtained from the BLS Current Employment Statistics (CES) program, which collects monthly data from payroll establishments. Data for construction business owners were from the Annual Business Survey, Characteristics of Business Owners, administered by the U.S. Census Bureau. Data for fatal injuries from 2011 to 2021 were obtained from the BLS Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), a complete count of fatal injuries. Estimates of nonfatal injuries for private, wage-and-salary construction were obtained from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII), which is based on employer logs. Nonfatal injuries include injuries or illnesses that resulted in days away from work (DAFW). Due to SOII publication frequency changing to biennially, injury data for 2021 are unavailable at this time, and as a result, charts using SOII data are limited to 2011-2020. Injury rates were calculated per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers (FTEs) based on BLS CPS data." - NIOSHTIC-2
NIOSTIC no. 20067509
CPWR is the research and training arm of NABTU. Production of this document was supported by cooperative agreement OH 009762 from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). The contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of NIOSH.
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