Background
Overview
The Minnesota WorkForce Center System conducts an ongoing survey of employers served through the system. Samples are drawn monthly of employers who received either business services or have posted a job order within the previous month. A DEED staff member trained in interviewing conducts the telephone interviews.
The questionnaire consists of a core set of questions plus three modules covering: business services, labor market information (LMI), and worker recruitment. Each contact completes no more than two modules. Modules are rotated from interview to interview and if a contact has no knowledge of one area, that module is skipped and the contact asked about another area.
- Total sample size was 1622 employer contacts; 74 percent had submitted a job order and 26 percent received business services. Interviews were completed for 72 percent of the total sample (1160 respondents). See more information about the ESS response rate.
- See the ESS sample break-out by service provided and by location of service (4 planning regions).