Alternative data to monitor cultural occupations
An assessment of online job ads
The economic turbulence experienced in recent years as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic highlights the importance of obtaining complementary sources to official statistics for monitoring variables of socio-economic interest such as employment in real time. The need to obtain accurate and timely data is more important for domains such as the cultural and creative sectors (CCS), which have been highly affected by the social distancing rules introduced as a response to outspread of the pandemic. At the same time, the rise of the digital economy and the increasingly popular use of job posting platforms offer new and potentially very valuable sources of alternative data to monitor the labour market in real time. This technical report investigates the statistical and distributional features of online job posting data on cultural occupations in EU countries. Job posting data come from Online Job Adverts (OJA), a database developed by CEDEFOP: the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training. The aim is to assess the representativeness of such data for policy-relevant work, using Eurostat cultural employment statistics as a benchmark. CEDEFOP collects data by web scraping a variety of sources including job search engines, public employment services, websites and agencies and online newspapers. This results in a database containing more than 134 million observations for the EU-27 and the UK.
SANJUAN BELDA Jordi;
MONTALTO Valentina;
PANELLA Francesco;
ALBERTI Valentina;
2023-02-15
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC132055
978-92-76-99158-8 (online),
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 31416 EN,
OP KJ-NA-31-416-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC132055,
10.2760/008462 (online),
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