What's the Complete List of Sources Lightcast Uses in US data?

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.

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.