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CY-Cyprus Methodology
Updated over 11 months ago

Population Data

To project Cyprus’s population we gathered data from Cyprus’ Statistical Service website. Using historical trends, and assuming the current activity prevails, we were able to establish a reasonable expectation for predicting future population values.

We used two models for these population projections: The Monte Carlo and the Autoregression Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) models. In each of Cyprus’ metropolitan areas, we ran multiple configurations of each of the two models to find out which model (and which configuration within that model) was most accurate for that metro.

Cyprus’s metropolitan areas are based on the country’s regions and with consideration of the occupied territory. A full list of the states and Turkish occupied land can be found here.

In addition to the LMI data mentioned here Lightcast also offers insights through Global Worker profiles in Cyprus.

Labor Market Information (LMI) Data

We pulled Cyprus’s labor market information (LMI) from three sources:

  1. Cedefop (European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training), an agency of the EU.

  2. The EU Labor Force Survey (LFS), a large household sample survey conducted annually since 1983.

  3. Industry data from the country’s statistical website.

When creating the occupation supply projections, we took the expected population growth rate from the models mentioned above and applied that same growth rate across the LMI in each Cyprian metros. Once we had the projections, we mapped the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-08) to Global Occupations.

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