Fresh, new statistics
I invented a new statistic today. I was looking at the list HRCI provides of the number of certified HR professionals in each state. Texas and California have the most, but this is hardly surprising considering they are the largest states. So I started wondering which states had the highest levels of certification when you adjust for the size of the population. I wasn’t able to find any such data, so I had to create my own metric: the CHRPR. It stands for Certified Human Resource Professional Rate, and it is the number of certified human resource professionals per 1,000 population. Out of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, D.C. comes in first with a CHRPR of .65, followed by Virgina at .52, and Colorado at .51. Texas comes in at 15th and California comes in at 43rd.
As proud as I am of my new statistic, I realize that it is flawed. The number of certified HR professionals in the general population is not nearly as relevant as the number of certified HR professionals relative to the size of the workforce. Ah, well. Maybe the CHRPR is not quite ready for the HR metrics section of the PHR and SPHR exams.