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What's the Complete List of Sources Lightcast Uses?

United States

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

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.

Canada

Canadian Business Patterns (CBP):

  • Establishment Counts by Industry, CSD

  • Location Counts by Industry, CSD

Census and National Household Survey (2001, 2006, 2011, 2016):

  • Workplace-Based: Earnings by Class of Worker, Industry, CD

  • Workplace-Based: Employment by Class of Worker, Industry, CSD

  • Workplace-Based: Employment by Class of Worker, Industry, Occupation, Province

Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours (SEPH):

  • Annual Employment by Industry, Province/Territory

  • Annual Weekly Earnings by Industry, Province/Territory

  • Monthly Employment by Industry, Province/Territory

  • Monthly Weekly Earnings by Industry, Province/Territory

Labour Force Survey (LFS):

  • Annual Employment by Occupation, Class of Worker, Economic Region

  • Annual Employment by Industry, Economic Region

  • Annual Employment/Earnings (two-year rolling averages), Occupation, Employees, Economic Region

Canadian Occupational Projection System (COPS):

  • Industry Employment Projections, Canada

  • Occupation Employment Projections, Canada

Demographics:

  • CANSIM 17-10-0084-01 Historic Age/Gender, CD

  • CANSIM 17-10-0085-01 Historic Population Components, CD

  • CANSIM 17-10-0057-01 Projected Age/Gender, Province/Territory

  • CANSIM 13-10-0418-01 Fertility Rates

  • CANSIM 13-10-0710-01 Death Rates

Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS):

  • Enrollments and Completions by Award Level, Program, Institution, CSD

United Kingdom

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

AU-Australia

AT-Austria

  • Statistics Austria

  • European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop)
    EU Labour Force Survey (LFS)

BE-Belgium

  • Statbel

  • European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop)
    EU Labour Force Survey (LFS)
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BG-Bulgaria

BR-Brazil

CH-Switzerland

CR-Costa Rica

CY-Cyprus

CZ-Czechia (Czech Republic)

  • Czech Statistical Office

  • European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop)

  • EU Labour Force Survey (LFS)

DE-Germany

DK-Denmark

  • Danmarks Statistik

  • European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop)

  • EU Labour Force Survey (LFS)

EE-Estonia

  • Statistics Estonia

  • European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop)

  • EU Labour Force Survey (LFS)

EL-Greece

ES-Spain

FI-Finland

  • Statistics Finland

  • European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop)

  • EU Labour Force Survey (LFS)

FR-France

HK-Hong Kong

HR-Croatia

HU-Hungary

IE-Ireland

  • Central Statistics Office

  • European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop)

  • EU Labour Force Survey (LFS)

  • 2016 Census

IL-Israel

IN-India

IS-Iceland

  • Statistics Iceland

  • European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop)

  • EU Labour Force Survey (LFS)

LT-Lithuania

LU-Luxembourg

LV-Latvia

MT-Malta

MX-Mexico

NL-The Netherlands

  • StatLine (Netherlands Official Statistical Portal)

  • European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop)

  • EU Labour Force Survey (LFS)

NO-Norway

  • Statistics Norway

  • European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop)

  • EU Labour Force Survey (LFS)

PH-The Philippines

PL-Poland

  • Statistics Poland

  • European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop)

  • EU Labour Force Survey (LFS)

RO-Romania

SE-Sweden

  • Statistics Sweden

  • European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop)

  • EU Labour Force Survey (LFS)

SG- Singapore

SI-Slovenia

SK-Slovakia

TR-Turkey

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.

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