Week 7: Analyzing AI Exposure by Occupation and Industry

Akshita K -

Welcome back to Week 7 of my senior project! This week, I’ve been analyzing the relationship between occupation type (white/blue collar) and industry using linear regression.

Regression Results

You can find the full regression results here.

AI Exposure and Occupation Type

For this analysis, the “whiteCollar” variable is defined as:

  • 1 for white-collar workers
  • 0 for blue-collar workers

Key takeaways:

  • The positive coefficient for white-collar suggests that they are more exposed to AI than blue-collar workers
  • This finding aligns with previous studies on AI’s impact across different job types

AI Exposure and Industry

The below list of industries ranks industries by their exposure to AI, from most to least exposed.

  1. Professional Services & Administrative Support (e.g., Marketing, Accounting, Bookkeeping, Clerical, Consulting, Administrative Support)
  2. Media and Communications
  3. Finance, Management, & Real Estate
  4. Education & Public Services
  5. Healthcare & Life Sciences
  6. Information Technology 
  7. Arts, Entertainment & Hospitality
  8. Science, Engineering, & Technical Services
  9. Construction and Repair
  10. Transportation & Logistics
  11. Agriculture, Natural Resources & Mining
  12. Wholesale, Retail, and Manufacturing

What’s Next?

Next week, I’ll explore the interaction between race and occupation type while also beginning my study of multicollinearity. I’ll conduct a Variance Inflation Factor (VIF) analysis to refine my regression models.

Thanks for following along, and feel free to share any questions or thoughts in the comments below!

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    camille_bennett
    Hi Akshita, thank you for sharing! Were there any industries where AI exposure was lower than you expected?
    akshita_k
    Thank you for your question, Ms. Bennett! I think I was most surprised to see IT rank so low in AI exposure, especially considering how much news outlets and media have focused on AI disrupting computer science and tech-related fields.

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