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Veterinary employment in the Wichita metropolitan area accounts for a small fraction of the local labor force, approximately 590 workers. However, they provide valuable services to the community.
In the Wichita metropolitan area, employment in veterinary occupations has grown significantly between 2008 and 2013. The concentration of these occupations in the Wichita area is well above the national average.
Nationally, the number of veterinarians has grown by 13.4 percent between 2008 and 2013 and is projected to grow 12 percent from 2012 to 2022. The number of veterinary assistants has grown by 1.7 percent between 2008 and 2013 and is projected to grow 10 percent from 2012 to 2022.
Serving the Community Well: The Economic Impact of Wichita's Health Care and Related Industries
The Center for Economic Development and Business Research completed an economic impact study of health care and related industries in the Wichita metropolitan area. The study, prepared for and released by the Medical Society of Sedgwick County (MSSC), lists the healthcare and social assistance industry as second among the area’s top five industries.
By level of employment growth, the health care industry in Wichita ranked number one out of 19 private industries from 2009 to 2012. In terms of wage growth, this industry has seen a much lower increase than other top industries in the area, ranking 17 out of 18 private industries in the Wichita MSA.
The health care industry in the Wichita MSA employs 18 percent of the total workforce.
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CEDBR's Health Care Series
The Center for Economic Development and Business Research released a series of reports in 2014 and early 2015 that provide insight into the employment trends of Wichita MSA health care occupations.
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Veterinarian Occupations Employment
Pharmacist Occupations Employment
Nursing Occupations Employment
Physician Occupations Employment
Physical Therapy Occupations Employment
Therapy Occupations Employment
Health Technologist and Technician Occupations Employment
Wichita and similar cities have seen large changes, mostly declines, in their employment-population ratio over the last decade. Many have been more strongly affected by the 2008 recession than the rest of the United States. The employment-population ratio is a measure of labor market strength; it is calculated by dividing the number of employed workers in an area by the total civilian noninstitutionalized population aged 16 and over in that region. Typically, the employment-population ratio will increase during expansionary periods and decline during recessionary periods.
The employment-population ratio has varied significantly across different areas in Kansas over the last fourteen years. Some counties have seen sharp declines, while others have been slowly growing.
Sedgwick County’s employment-population ratio had the largest drop during the 2008 recession of any population center in Kansas, and the Sedgwick County ratio has remained roughly flat since the 2008 recession.
Johnson County had the largest decline from 2000 to 2014 in its employment-population ratio, with a long-term decline of almost ten percentage points.
The Center for Economic Development and Business Research, part of Wichita State University's W. Frank Barton School of Business, has completed a study of the regional export potential Wichita has to the surrounding areas.
"For long-term economic viability, there is an increasing need for Wichita's economy to be linked to surrounding metropolitan areas," said WSU President John Bardo. "This study is an important resource to encourage these relationships and provide greater growth opportunities for the South Central Kansas economy."
The project investigated the potential export markets for intermediate goods in eight major nearby metropolitan areas: Denver, Kansas City, St. Louis, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. Wichita has a diverse set of goods-producing sectors that are in demand as inputs to these nearby metropolitan areas, and two sectors in Wichita that are demanded consistently across metropolitan regions are the coating and engraving sector and the machine shop sector.
Wichita can potentially supply a variety of additional goods to each of the metropolitan and megapolitan areas discussed in this report. The markets with the most diverse demands from Wichita are Houston and Tulsa, each with eight different sectors potentially demanding Wichita inputs from its top ten most concentrated industries.
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