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What's the Complete List of Sources Lightcast uses in UK data?
What's the Complete List of Sources Lightcast uses in UK data?
Updated over a year ago

We take over 20 million data points each year from the following sources. These sources do not include sources of postings and profiles.

Office of National Statistics (ONS)

  • BRES- Business Register Employment Survey

  • WJS- Workforce Job Series

  • ASHE- Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings

  • APS- Annual Population Survey

  • Mid-Year Population Estimates

  • LFS- Labour Force Survey

  • MicroLFS- Labour Force Survey Microdata

  • Sub-National Population Projections

  • Census for England, Wales and Scotland (2001, 2006, 2011)

  • ABS- Annual Business Survey (previously ABI)

  • ABI- Annual Business Inquiry

  • Business Counts

Additional Data Sources

  • National Records of Scotland (NRS)

  • National Statistics Wales (NSW)

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)

  • Department for Education

  • Higher Education Statistics Agency

  • Industry Legacy Data

  • Lightcast Projections

  • O*Net

  • Job Centre Plus Claimant Counts

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