Training & Retention in the Federal Workforce
People analytics · Personal project · Nov 2026
- Designed and directed a study of 15 years of OPM Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey data (1.65M responses, 29 agencies) asking whether employees who feel well trained are less likely to plan to leave, with AI-assisted analysis in Python (DuckDB, statsmodels) through a reproducible pipeline.
- Found the raw ~23-point gap in intent to leave shrinks to about 5 points after controlling for supervisor support, workload and tenure. Agencies whose development scores rose did not see less leaving the following year (p = 0.81); feeling well trained therefore signals retention risk but is not shown to reduce it on its own.