For trade associations
Know your industry better than anyone expects you to.
What is happening to our industry that our members need to understand?
Trade associations are expected to know their industry better than anyone and rarely have a research department to prove it. MIQ Studio analyzes employment, wages, occupational composition, geographic concentration and workforce shortages across your industry's whole footprint, then produces the state of the industry report, the quarterly conditions update and the policy evidence. Every figure carries its source, which matters when a regulator is reading.
Industry intelligence
- Employment and wage trends.
- Occupational composition.
- Geographic concentration.
- Industry growth and contraction.
- Workforce shortages.
Member benchmarking across markets
- Compare regions and markets on the measures the industry cares about.
- Identify where the industry is gaining and losing employment.
- Track competitive labor market conditions across the footprint.
Policy research
- Analyze the economic conditions relevant to proposed legislation or regulation.
- Quantify the size and geographic footprint of the industry.
- Identify the workforce characteristics a policy change would affect.
Thought leadership
- The annual state of the industry report.
- A quarterly industry conditions report.
- Executive briefing decks.
- Member newsletters carrying sourced analysis rather than borrowed charts.
Workforce strategy
- Identify the occupations critical to the industry.
- Study the training pipelines feeding them.
- Identify skills shortages.
- Develop career pathways the association can advocate for.
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