County capability mix, 2001 to 2025
Only one input moves: the industry mix of a county, year by year. The capability ratings and the staffing patterns stay at one vintage throughout. The chart on the right is the mix on the left, translated into capabilities.
Every county in the panel, one capability at a time
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Nobody moved. This is where the work is, year by year, not where people went. It is composition, not a measure of what employers ask for: a county rises when the mix of work located there shifts toward industries that lean on the capability at the held staffing and the held ratings. And the colour is distance from the national mix of the same year, so a county can cool while its own level rises, because the country rose too.
The mix: share of jobs by industry family
Outlined ghost is the same place in 2001. Shares are of private employment covered by the 3-digit rows; a sliver is unassigned and is not drawn.
Capability deviation from the national mix
Bars are the deviation from the national mix of the same year. A bar can fall while the level rises, because the country moved too. Hollow marker is 2001. Grey band is the middle half of the 250 counties carried.
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Limits of this measure
The capability ratings do not move when the year does. Only the weights on them do. If an industry here changed how it works over these years, by automating a line or moving a service online, this series cannot see it. It sees only that more, or less, of the work located here is the kind that leans on a capability.