Construction Industry Data and Statistical Core
Amber Trueblood
Research Team
William Harris, Derek Dufoe
Abstract:
The Data Center continues to build on thirty years of work that has earned it recognition as the one-stop shop for high-quality construction safety and health statistics. Although the 7th edition of the Construction Chart Book — the most complete source for data on the industry, including economic, demographic, employment/income, education/training, and safety and health issues — was only released earlier this year, the team has already begun working to update the Chart Book’s highly interactive Data Dashboards. The Data Center also published six Data Bulletins, online publications that focus on a specific topic important to construction workers; this year the topics included aging and retirement trends, injuries, heat, mental health, and musculoskeletal disorders. The team is now developing a survey to evaluate how their work is used and how they can improve future work to better meet the industry’s data needs, as well as working on characterizing the content of injury narratives.