Unique ID: 2015012
| Division: | Coordination administrative & big data |
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| Issue Date: | February 13th 2019 |
| Last modified: | March 21st 2019 |
Feasibility study on web scraping for labor market indicators
Use of web scraping for labor market indicators
Partner: Statbel - Statistics Belgium
Explore the possibility of using web scraping as input for labor market indicators, focusing on job vacancies but not excluding other potentially interesting information. Statistics Belgium has some experience and knowhow on web scraping: it is already used for scraping online prices of several products and services for the calculation of CPIs.
Project Objective:
Exploration, Pilot intended to go to production to supplement existing data, Pilot intended to go to production to improve timeliness, Pilot intended to go to production to replace existing data
Project Outcomes:
Quick and easy labor market indicators (job vacancies and/or others) supplementing the presently available but not so timely data.
Statistical Area
Project Sources
| Type Of Institution: | National statistical office |
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| Big Data Source: | Web scraping data |
| Region: | Europe & Central Asia |
| Country Area: | Belgium |
| Id Country Regional: | country |
| Partner: | Statbel - Statistics Belgium |
Partnerships
| Partnership Comments: | Not yet known, but need for partner seems unlikely (except, possibly, for technical assistance). |
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Accessing Data
| Data Access Rights: | Broader access rights |
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| Data Access Comments: | Public online data can be used for whatever purpose. |
Data Coverage
| Data Coverage: | All available data |
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| Coverage Geo Pop: | Whole country / high % of market |
| Cost Implication: | Free |
| Coverage Period: | Not yet known. |
Project Details
| Partner: | Statbel - Statistics Belgium |
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Data Quality
| Quality Aspects Evaluated: | Completeness, Usability, Time Factors, Accessibility, Relevance, Validity, Accuracy, including selectivity, Coherence, including linkability to other sources |
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| Validation Comments: | Not yet known, but existing statistical data can be used for benchmarking results. |
| Quality Framework Comments: | Not yet relevant. |
| Data Quality Concerns Comments: | Not yet known. |
Technologies
| Technologies Comments: | To be explored and determined; for web scraping prices DJuggler is used. |
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Other
| Income Level: | High-income |
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| Iso: | BE |
| Timeframe To Produce Indicator: | NA |