Research & Planning 

Valerie A. Davis, Senior Statistician
 

She received her BA in the Social Sciences from the University of Hawaii/West Oahu College. She started working at Research & Planning as an Administrative Specialist and is currently a Senior Statistician.

She is in charge of handling the Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII) for Wyoming. Valerie assists in editing both the hard copy and the web page for Wyoming Labor Force Trends. Valerie assists in maintaining the R&P website at http://doe.state.wy.us/lmi/. 

At Research & Planning, Valerie does thematic maps for various publications as well as articles for the monthly publication Wyoming Labor Force Trends:

• Wyoming's Nonfatal Occupational Injury and Illness Incidence Rate was 3.3 for private industry in 2015
• The Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses for 2014
• The Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses for 2013
• The Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses for 2012
• A Guide to Licensed Occupations in Wyoming (with T. Glover)
• Long-Term Occupational Projections by Educational Level and Replacement Need: 2012 to 2022
• Wyoming Saw Little Change in Number of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses in 2011
• The Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses for 2009 and 2010
• The Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses for 2008
• The Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses for 2007
• The Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses for 2006
• The Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses for 2005: Case and Demographic Data 
• A Discussion of Highway Accident Data Collection and Statistics (with C. Cowan and S. Saulcy)
• Map: Change in the Seasonally Adjusted Unemployment Rate by State, November 2004 to November 2005
• Employment Growth, But With Caution (with S. Jones and T. Gallagher)
• The Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses for 2003
• The Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses for 2002
• Map: Change in the Unemployment Rate by State (10/02 to 10/03)
• Map: Work Injury Fatality Rates, 2001
• Map: Population Distribution in Wyoming Counties, 1990-2000
• Map: Wyoming Regions
• Map: Wyoming's Counties Grouped by Region
• Who are Wyoming's New Hires?
• Wyoming Mining Continued Unemployment Insurance Claims by County: Maps Can Reveal More Information
• Seasonal Variation in Separation from the Wyoming Labor Market?
• Wage Variations for Registered Nurses by Region in Wyoming
• Seasonal Variation of Employment in Wyoming
• Wyoming Wholesale Trade and Retail Trade Industries
• The Importance of Wage Surveys
• Do You Want to be a Cowboy in Wyoming?

At Research & Planning, she has attended the following training:

• OSHA Training (Casper, WY)
• Equal Opportunity Nondiscrimination & Universal Access Training (Casper, WY)
• Wyoming Team Building (Casper, WY)
• Desktop Publishing, PageMaker, Visual FoxPro 3.0 (Casper, WY)
• LMI Analyst (Tempe, AZ)
• Web Design and HTML Authoring (San Jose, CA)
• OES Overview (Seattle, WA)
• Fundamentals and Intermediate Business Geographics (Portland, ME)
• Advanced Business Geographics for LMI (Portland, ME)
• OES Systems Training (Kansas City, MO)