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5 Challenges to Collecting Data on the Psychology Workforce

Seven years ago, when I first began working at the Center for Workforce Studies (CWS), my colleagues and I were given the task of collecting, mining, analyzing, and disseminating data that would be relevant to the psychology workforce and education pipeline. I naively asked myself, “how hard could this be?”  After all, other disciplines seemed to be doing it just fine.  At the time, I had no idea just how immensely difficult this task would prove to be.