An occupation-level assessment
This work proposes an analysis of the statistical properties and distributional characteristics
of Burning Glass Technologies’ (BGT) data on online job openings from platforms and
companies, at the occupation level. BGT data are compared to official data on employment
by occupation to assess their occupation-specific representativeness. This work further
proposes weighting schemes aimed at making BGT-based analysis fully representative
at the occupation and country levels, where appropriate.
The analysis encompasses six economies – Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore,
the United Kingdom and the United States – for the period 2010-19. Overall, it finds
that BGT data exhibit good statistical properties and are a useful source of timely