CPWR Data Brief: Hispanic Employment in Construction

Details

• Journal Article:
  Hispanic employment in construction
• Corporate Authors:
  CPWR--The Center for Construction Research and Training. CPWR Data Center
• Description:
  The recent economic downturn affected the entire U.S. construction industry. To better understand how Hispanic construction workers have been impacted by the crisis, the CPWR Data Center analyzed current employment data on construction workers. This CPWR Data Brief, the first of its kind, reports the findings concerning this special population group. This data brief also updates and expands on the employment information on Hispanic construction workers found in CPWR's The Construction Chart Book. Topics such as fluency in speaking English and current union membership are covered in this data brief. CPWR has been analyzing large national datasets since the organization's inception in 1990. Since then, the CPWR Data Center has studied economic and safety and health issues affecting racial and ethnic groups of construction workers. Particular interest has been paid to Hispanic workers after the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) identified Hispanic construction workers as a high-risk or "vulnerable" population group that is rapidly expanding. In the last 10 years, the proportion of workers who identified themselves as Hispanic doubled among all U.S. industries, but more than tripled in construction. This data brief on Hispanic employment in the construction industry provides insight into this unique and vulnerable population group. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Economics Occupational Health Race Factors Safety
• Keywords:
  Construction; Construction-industry; Construction-workers; Employees; Workers; Unemployment; Racial factors; Economic analysis; Economic impact; Economics; Special populations; Data processing
• Source:
  CPWR Data Brief. Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2009 Nov; 1(1):1-17
• Series:
  CPWR - Center for Construction Research and Training Publications
• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  NIOSH grant U54 OH008307
• 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:
  17 pdf pages
• Volume:
  1
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20052101
• Contact Point Address:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 8484 Georgia Avenue, Suite 1000, Silver Spring, MD 20910
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2010
• 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:
  urn:sha-512:968cd13848fe81bf633623375bbb35f639e5253909be1f7214bbf0b974c7fccebe1f10206d74e832d790f1c21e4b864a6780d5433ddf3c3225f89df83b85635e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/85763/cdc_85763_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.95 MB ]