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THE HIRE CENTER DATA BASES
The HIRE Center initiated, developed, fielded and maintains the integrity of data bases from two separate research projects.
The Bay Area Longitudinal Surveys (BALS) research project was designed to uncover the knowledge and skills that San Francisco Bay Area employees require in entry-level, low-skilled jobs and those that individuals from a Bay Area low-income neighborhood hold. Low-skilled jobs were defined as positions in which employers require no more than a high school education and no more than one year of work experience. BALS contains detailed skill information in two different time periods from 405 firms in Alameda, San Francisco, and San Joaquin counties and 766 individuals in the 94544 zip code in Hayward California. Surveys were fielded from June 1998 through January 2003.
The California Employment and Health Surveys (CHES) research project was designed to uncover benefits offered to workers in Northern California firms. The focus was on the firm’s health insurance offer and workforce characteristics. CHES contains information from 1,427 firms in 27 metropolitan and nonmetropolitan counties in Northern California. Surveys were fielded from July 2005 through December 2006.