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What's the Complete List of Sources Lightcast Uses in US data?
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- Characteristics of the Insured Unemployed (CIU)
- National Center for O*NET Development
- O*NET Database (see Dataset Chart for specific database per Lightcast datarun)
- Minimum Wage Laws in the United States
- 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
- Address Information Systems (AIS) Products, Delivery Statistics
- AIS Products, 5-Digit ZIP Product
- AIS Products, City State Product
- Annual Railroad Retirement Act and Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act Statistical Tables
- County-to-County Distance Matrix (Skim Tree)
- DatabaseUSA business-level data
- In addition to our federal sources, we use state-level industry projections produced by all 50 states.
- 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.
- 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.