Ultimately, workforce data empowers us to guide students through the complexities of social work, helping them articulate their long-term career goals and navigate the challenges ahead.

The robust workforce dataset collected through the 2024 Social Work Census is now available for use by researchers. ASWB funded and conducted the Census between March 1 and June 30, 2024, to contribute to a better understanding of the social work profession. The workforce dataset comprises responses from 84,775 individuals and encompasses 245 variables. The […]

The 2024 Social Work Workforce Study Series provides hard data about the social work workforce that employers can use to advocate for the resources they need to serve their communities.

Achieving substantive change for our profession – for any system or institution – will require collaborative discussions and decision-making that is driven by data, not by conjecture, opinion, or personal agendas. This holds true regardless of the topic at hand.

ASWB has published a series of workforce study reports authored by Joy Kim, MSW, Ph.D., of the School of Social Work at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. These reports draw on a survey dataset collected by ASWB as part of the Social Work Census.