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

• National Center for O*NET Development
• O*NET Database (see Dataset Chart for specific database per Lightcast datarun)
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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

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.