U.S. Department of Commerce
Bureau of Economic Analysis
State Personal Income and Employment (SPI)
Local Area Personal Income and Employment (LPI)
National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA)
Annual Input-Output (I-O) Accounts
Benchmark Input-Output (I-O) Accounts
GDP by State
U.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey (ACS)
County Business Patterns (CBP)
ZIP Code Business Patterns (ZBP)
Nonemployer Statistics (NES)
Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI)
OnTheMap (OTM)
TIGER/Line File (with additions by DM Solutions Group)
Population Estimates
U.S. National and State Population Projections
Census 2000 & 2010 Summary Files
Census of Government — State and Local Government Finances by State
Journey-to-Work (JtW)
Consumer Expenditures Survey (CEX)
Current Population Survey (CPS)
Commodity Flow Survey (CFS)
Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES)
Origin-Destination (OD)
Resident Area Characteristics (RAC)
Work Area Characteristics (WAC)
U.S. Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW)
Current Employment Statistics (CES)
Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS)
National Industry-Occupation Employment Matrix (10-year, current/projected)
Occupational Employment Statistics (OES)
Occupational Education and Training Projections
Employment and Training Administration (ETA)
Characteristics of the Insured Unemployed (CIU)
Occupational Information Network
National Center for O*NET Development
O*NET Database (see Dataset Chart for specific database per Lightcast datarun)
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Wage and Hour Division
Minimum Wage Laws in the United States
U.S. Department of Education
National Center for Education Statistics
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
Office of Educational Research and Improvement for the CIP – SOC crosswalk, Classification of Instructional Programs Crosswalk to Standard Occupational Classification
Common Core of Data
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
National Center for Health Statistics
Health, United States
U.S. Postal Service
Address Information Systems (AIS) Products, Delivery Statistics
AIS Products, 5-Digit ZIP Product
AIS Products, City State Product
U.S. Railroad Retirement Board
Annual Railroad Retirement Act and Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act Statistical Tables
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
County-to-County Distance Matrix (Skim Tree)
Private sources
DatabaseUSA business-level data
State Sources
In addition to our federal sources, we use state-level industry projections produced by all 50 states.
Job Postings
Lightcast collects job postings worldwide from over 220,000 current and historical sources, including jobs boards and company websites, to develop a comprehensive, real-time portrait of labor market demand.
Social Profiles
For proprietary and confidentiality/non-disclosure reasons, Lightcast cannot provide a detailed list of data sources. Most common source of data that Lightcast hold on profiles are from online professional network sites.