Among respondents who expressed some lack of confidence in their job skills, the share selecting 'I need more job training' from a check-all list, in the 2013 and 2015 SHED.
AI-matched An AI model grouped these questions and mapped their answers onto shared categories, and a second AI review checked and corrected the grouping and mapping. No person has checked it: compare the question wordings and the answer mapping below before reading the lines against each other.
Latest: 63% answered “No, does not need more job training” in Fed SHED: Agrees they need more job training, 2015.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fed SHED: Agrees they need more job training | Agrees they need more job training [I need more job training] Which of these statements, if any, do you agree with? Caveat: Checklist-style agree item; unselected counts as No. | identical | No → No, does not need more job training; Yes → Yes, needs more job training |
| Fed SHED: Need more job training for current jobs | Need more job training for current jobs [I need more job training] You expressed some lack of confidence in your skills Caveat: Asked as a follow-up to expressed lack of confidence in skills (2013); different framing and likely narrower base than 2015. | equivalent | No → No, does not need more job training; Yes → Yes, needs more job training |