Design Doc: Geographic Representativeness

In order to more widely expose geographic data to Open Skills API users, we want to ensure that our job listing data is geographically representative of the nation's jobs as a whole. We want to be able to view this data on our aggregate dataset at any time, so as we add new data sources to the mix we can ensure continued quality.

To do this, we want to compare our data with survey estimates gathered from government agencies. The form in which we want to compare our data is in job counts per ONET SOC code per metro area (CBSA).

Potential government data sources:

• Occupational Research Survey (http://www.bls.gov/ors)
• Quarterly Workforce Indicators (http://lehd.ces.census.gov/)
• LODES (http://lehd.ces.census.gov/)