2023 Voice of the Workforce
Study Overview
In the summer of 2023, the Center for the Future of Work at the Oklahoma State University Spears School of Business conducted a study to better understand the experiences and needs of Oklahoma’s workforce. Data was collected between June 8 and Sept. 9, 2023. A total of 1,106 complete responses were collected with 734 retained after responses were screened and analyzed. To ensure reliability of the data, responses were screened using best practices to ensure potential bot responses or responses intended to skew results were identified and removed. While the study aimed to collect feedback from a variety of work statuses, 71% of the sample were employed full-time and 11% were employed part-time, with all remaining populations under 10%. To complete the survey, respondents had to confirm that they were Oklahoma residents, however, county-level data was not collected so results should be interpreted with broad and high-level application. Future studies will collect county-specific information. While all anonymous quantitative data that was collected is available upon request, it’s important to note the results may not be generalizable to smaller sample sizes including retirees (4%), unemployed (4%), full-time students (9%), disabled (1%), and not employed/not looking for work (1%). We believe that low unemployment rates (2.7% - 3.0%) during the time of our data collection likely led to our difficulty in reaching these populations. For most of this section, we will focus on the results from the employed samples.
Participant Demographics
For respondents who reported gender, 50% were male, followed by 49% female, less than 1% non-binary, and less than 1% preferred not to say.
For ethnicity:
75% identified as white 9% identified as black or African American 7% identified as American Indian or Alaska Native 3% identified as two or more races 2% identified as Asian Less than 1% identified as Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander and other
Of those who responded, 5% identified that they had a justice-involved background, 7% identified as veterans, approximately 3% were current active military and 3% identified as disabled veterans.
WorkTrends 2024
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