Data Bulletin: Women in Construction: Employment, Business Owner, and Injury Trends

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• Journal Article:
  Women in construction: employment, business owner, and injury trends
• Personal Author:
  Trueblood, Amber B. ; Harris, William ; Yohannes, Thomas
• 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. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Mortality Occupational Health Safety Women
• Keywords:
  Construction industry; Injuries; Fatalities; Statistical analysis; Surveillance; Women
• Source:
  CPWR Data Bulletin. Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2023 May; :1-6
• Series:
  CPWR - Center for Construction Research and Training Publications
• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  cooperative agreement OH 009762 from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Genre:
  Newsletter
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  6 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20067509
• Contact Point Address:
  Data Center, CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 8484 Georgia Avenue, Suite 1000, Silver Spring, MD 20910
• Email:
  datacenter@cpwr.com
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2023
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/128163/cdc_128163_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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