Similarly, while data measuring the educational attainment of a state's workforce are available, there are no data measuring the degree to which a state's industries are training their workforce or reorganizing work to become high-performance organizations. Data on exports are only available for manufacturing, not services. Moreover, not all indicators in this report are perfect measures of New Economy characteristics. Likewise, the measure of office jobs not only tracks New Economy occupations such as product designers, sales and marketing managers, and financial analysts, it also includes many government jobs. However, despite these limitations, a number of factors can still be measured which, we believe, collectively paint a robust picture comparing state economies.
Indicators measure the export orientation of manufacturing and foreign direct investment.
Economic dynamism and competition. The transformation to a digital economy. Technological innovation capacity. In all cases, the report relies on the most recently published data available, but because of the delays in publishing federal statistics, the data may in some cases be several years old. In addition, in all cases, data are reported to control for the size of the state, using factors such as the number of workers or the gross state product as the denominator.