ICT specialists in employment. Methodological note.

Autor/inn/en	Cobo, Montserrat López; Rohman, Ibrahim K.; De Prato, Giuditta; Cardona, Melisande; Righi, Riccardo; Samoili, Sofia; Baillet, Miguel Vázquez-Prada
Institution	Europäische Gemeinschaften / Gemeinsame Forschungsstelle
Titel	ICT specialists in employment. Methodological note. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Beschäftigung von IT-Spezialisten. Methodische Anmerkung.
Quelle	Sevilla (2020), 42 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	JRC working papers series on labour, education and technology. 2020,07
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Schätzung; Erwerbsstatistik; Beschäftigungsentwicklung; Arbeitskräftemangel; Arbeitsmarktforschung; Arbeitsmarktstatistik; Berufsklassifikation; Fachkraft; Informationstechnischer Beruf; Internationaler Vergleich; Daten; Messfehler; Qualität; Europäische Union
Abstract	"The digital transformation of the economy and society has intensified the need for digitally skilled labour force. Recent studies inform about expected increased demand, and skill shortages in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector, with a widening gap between supply and demand of ICT specialists. The need for accurate data on the number of ICT specialists in employment becomes more pertinent due to the development of policy initiatives aimed at increasing digital skills. Eurostat and the OECD define ICT specialists and propose a statistical definition using the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO) 2008. Based on the Labour Force Survey, Eurostat provides an estimated 8.9 million persons working as ICT specialists in 2018 in the EU. This indicator annually feeds the Digital Economy and Society Indicator, a composite indicator that assesses the digital performance of EU Member States. This paper shows that this value underestimates the actual number of ICT specialists and proposes a more accurate method for the estimation. The list of ICT occupations includes both 3-digit (3d) and 4-digit (4d) codes. The number of EU Member States not reporting 4d data was 12 in 2011 and 6 in 2018. Therefore, the direct implementation of the definition is not possible, and a method is needed to estimate the missing 4d values and produce complete estimates for the EU. Eurostat developed an estimation method based on education data (EF method) to provide estimates for ICT in employment. This paper proposes the Ratio method for the estimation of missing data, compares its performance with the EF method, and produces estimates on ICT specialists in employment for 2004-2018, for the EU and its Member States. The results show that the Ratio method provides more accurate estimates than the EF method. We test the performance with two error measures by means of a cross-validation algorithm; in both cases, all six variants of the Ratio method tested" (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2021/3