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Industry and entrepreneurship
How well do online job postings match national sources in large English speaking countries?
Benchmarking Lightcast data against statistical sources across regions, sectors and
occupations
This paper presents the first international assessment of the Lightcast vacancy data
representativeness based on benchmarking against officially reported vacancy data
in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. The analysis compares
distributions in the Lightcast data versus official data across large (TL2) regions,
industrial sectors and occupational categories. The analysis shows differences in
representativeness across countries and on the three dimensions considered. In general,
regional representativeness is considerably better than both occupational and sectoral
representativeness.
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