In this report, researchers at the University of Illinois’ Project for Middle Class Renewal examine differences in access to quality jobs in Illinois by gender, education, and ethnicity. Using our Employment Quality in Illinois 2.0 (EQ-IL 2.0) survey data of over 5,000 workers across Illinois, we created a measure of job quality that utilizes 30 job quality components from our ten core dimensions of employment quality we defined in our EQ-IL 2.0 report. We aggregated the data by occupation and assigned a score for each component by quintile. We grouped occupations by composite scores into five groupings ranging from high-quality, to medium-high, medium, medium-low to low-quality jobs.
