Data & Sources

Used for:Primary AI-exposure metric (observed_exposure) per SOC occupation — replaces Frey-Osborne 2013

Used for:Median salary fallback, job forecast, job zone, bright outlook, sector (JobFamily)

Used for:per-occupation employment + median wage (authoritative; overrides AEI bundle when BLS_API_KEY set); employmentHistory and wageHistory annual series 2016–2025

Used for:SOC-keyed 2024–2034 projected employment, employment change, growth rates, wages, and annual openings in employment-projections.json

Used for:Employment totals by occupation (legacy fallback — superseded by OEWS API when key is set)

Used for:Per-country AI usage index, usage %, usage count, GDP per working-age capita

Used for:Supplemental China GDP per working-age capita when Anthropic country usage metrics are not reported

Used for:Supplemental multi-country enterprise AI adoption rate for European reporting countries

Used for:Supplemental enterprise AI adoption and individual generative-AI usage rates by reporting country

Used for:Supplemental U.S. employer-firm artificial-intelligence total-use counts and percentages

Used for:Supplemental China generative-AI user count, penetration rate, and six-month user growth proxy

Used for:Supplemental China AI application MAU, category scale, and token-volume proxy metrics

Used for:Secondary-source China-native AI app MAU figures for Doubao and DeepSeek

Used for:Supplemental open-model download and like-count proxies for Qwen, DeepSeek, Kimi, ChatGLM, and Baichuan

Used for:Supplemental developer-ecosystem proxy metrics for AI repositories

Used for:Supplemental developer AI-tool usage, AI sentiment, and respondent-country proxy metrics

Used for:Supplemental country-level AI research activity proxy from AI publication totals

Used for:Top skills (by importance) per SOC occupation

Used for:Build-time enrichment for occupation descriptions, tasks, detailed work activities, technology skills, and related occupations

Used for:Numeric ISO 3166-1 → alpha-3 mapping used to annotate world-atlas country features

Used for:Share of AI and generative-AI job postings as a % of all postings (7-day trailing average); country-level time series in ai-demand.json

Used for:US employer-announced job cuts citing AI as stated reason (monthly and annual totals); ai-layoffs.json — ⚠️ LICENSE RISK: data is proprietary; see data/COMPLIANCE.md

Used for:Per-SOC AIOE exposure scores (application-ability relatedness) as a supplemental AI-exposure metric; aioe-exposure.json — ⚠️ LICENSE RISK: no open license; see data/COMPLIANCE.md

Used for:GenAI diffusion % of working-age population across three periods (H1 2025 / H2 2025 / Q1 2026) for 147 economies; global-ai-metrics.json

Used for:Overall AI readiness composite (0–1, 178 countries) and four AIPI sub-indices (DI, HCLMP, IEI, RE); global-ai-metrics.json — ⚠️ CONDITIONAL: non-commercial only; see data/COMPLIANCE.md

Used for:Government AI readiness composite score 0–100 for 193 countries; global-ai-metrics.json

Used for:Provider/model catalog snapshot, endpoint-provider counts, and country-level catalog-proxy mapping; openrouter-models.json — catalog footprint only, not usage, traffic, demand, or deployment geography

Used for:Monthly job openings, hires, quits, layoffs & separations by industry (JOLTS); jolts.json

Used for:Per-SOC GPT-4 exposure ratings (E1/E2/E3 tiers, dv_rating + human annotation); llm-exposure.json

Used for:Monthly closing prices for AI-sector ETF tickers (XLC, XLK, BOTZ, ARKQ, etc.) used to derive AI market signals; market-ai-signals.json — ⚠️ HIGH LICENSE RISK: Yahoo ToS prohibits redistribution; see data/COMPLIANCE.md

Used for:Historical adjusted-close observations for public AI-company watchlist; ai-company-stocks.json — descriptive market history only, not investment advice, forecasts, recommendations, or redistribution-cleared market data

Used for:State-level monthly unemployment rate, employment, and labor force totals; state-labor.json

Used for:State-level annual employment and wages by industry (NAICS) from QCEW; state-qcew.json

Used for:Mass layoff and plant closure notices filed with California EDD under the WARN Act; warn-notices.json

Used for:Certified H-1B LCA volume, offered-wage percentiles, top occupations/employers/states over FY2016–FY2025; h1b-trends.json

Used for:SOC-keyed 2016–2025 deterministic job-postings seed for correlation experiments until a licensed historical postings provider is wired in

Used for:SOC-keyed occupational requirements concepts for occupational-requirements.json: preparation burden, physical presence, work conditions, decision-making, and FutureGrid automation-friction score

Used for:International occupation-mix shares by ISCO-08 major group (1-9) for included countries in international-occupation-mix.json

Used for:AI training-compute/cost/power frontier trends (AI Frontier page)