The IBRC works closely with many different organizations and boasts a wide variety of collaborations, professional relationships and official responsibilities.
Indiana Data Partnership
The Indiana Data Partnership empowers collaboration among government, nonprofit and private sector entities to drive positive change in key challenges impacting Hoosiers.
One example of the partnership in action focuses on Youth Employment Services (an Employ Indy program), which needed to identify the best areas to evaluate for program expansion locations. The IBRC assessed existing organizations, key demographic indicators of youth disconnected from education/work opportunities and connectedness to other education and workforce resources, which helped Employ Indy identify locations that could provide the highest impact.
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Indiana State Data Center Program
We have served many decades as the state of Indiana’s official representative to the Census Bureau, through the Indiana Data Center Program and the Federal-State Cooperative for Population Estimates, and more recently by serving as the Governor’s Liaison to the Census Bureau (Carol Rogers).
The Indiana State Data Center (SDC) Program is a federal-state partnership between the U.S. Census Bureau and the State of Indiana. The Business and Industry Data Center portion of the program is managed by the IBRC, while the SDC program is led by the Indiana State Library as part of a state-level collaboration with its coordinating agencies: the Indiana Business Research Center, the Indiana Geographic Information Council and the Indiana Department of Workforce Development.
This partnership was designed to provide demographic and economic statistics to all sectors of the community, including government agencies, businesses, academia, nonprofit organizations, and private citizens. STATS Indiana is a major provider of census data. The IBRC was a founding partner in the program and also spearheaded the first pilot version of this nationwide program.
Information for Indiana
Begun as a partnership with the Governor's office with funding and guidance from the Lilly Endowment, the IBRC continues this effort to enhance the quantity and quality of data available to Hoosiers. Working closely with state agencies, the Information for Indiana initiative aims to improve the collection, quality and dissemination of data gathered by the agencies to better inform effective policy and decision making in Indiana. It included the Indiana Gateway for Government Units and the Indiana Workforce Intelligence System, which gained national recognition by creating a data warehouse of integrated workforce and education data. IWIS helped us understand brain drain, workforce vulnerabilities, job creation opportunities, and the education-to-work skills pipeline. In 2014, the Management Performance Hub (formerly Indiana Network of Knowledge) replaced IWIS as the state’s education and workforce longitudinal data system.
Collaborations
Links to some of our partners and collaborators are below.
State of Indiana
- Indiana Department of Local Government Finance
- Indiana Department of Workforce Development
- Indiana Economic Development Corporation
- Indiana Family and Social Services Administration
- Indiana Management Performance Hub
- Indiana State Board of Accounts
- Indiana State Data Center (official state representative)
- Indiana State Department of Health
- Indiana State Library
Federal
- Federal State Cooperative for Population Estimates (official state representative)
- Labor Market Institute
- National State Data Center / Business & Industry Data Center
- U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
- U.S. Census Bureau
- U.S. Economic Development Administration
- U.S. International Trade Administration
Professional Associations
- Association for University Business and Economic Research
- Council for Community and Economic Research
- Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics
- Indiana Geographic Information Council
- National Association for Business Economics
Industry Associations
Indiana University
- Crisis Technologies Innovation Lab: Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering
- Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
- IU Center for Evaluation and Education Policy
- IU Public Policy Institute
Purdue University
- Center for Families
- Extension Services
- Purdue Center for Regional Development
- State Utility Forecasting Group
University of Indianapolis
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