The Cowork4YOUTH project is excited to present its second output: the Cowork4YOUTH Employment Observatory!
The vision behind the Observatory is to help researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders access reliable and useful information regarding youth employment in European regions. Although the Observatory is based on publicly available data (e.g. from Eurostat) it is far more versatile and user-friendly than most official sources.
TheCowork4YOUTH Observatory’s most visible feature is the visualization of the stats. Good and clear visual presentation is an essential component of making such information more accessible. That is why the Observatory is presented as a Web-GIS based BI platform that offers a wide array of data on youth population, employment, and skills, by employing visualization techniques that include maps, graphs and charts.
But the Observatory offers much more than just nice graphs and maps, as it provides processed results for various categories, regions and timeframes, as well as composite indicators. The Cowork4YOUTH Employment Observatory includes raw data on sectoral employment, unemployment and NEETs, while the dashboard is regularly updated with simple and composite indexes, such as the Location Quotient. Data incorporated in the dashboard refers to the NUTS-2 regions of the European Economic Area, which includes all European countries plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. If there is no available data for some regions, then the corresponding indexes are not available.
Another important aspect is that it provides ready-for-download data in various formats, whereas obtaining them from official sources can take a long time and then require lots of work to make the data usable.
Gradually the Cowork4YOUTH Observatory will be further enriched with data from various sources, as well as more indicators.
We believe that the Cowork4YOUTH Observatory will be of great value to policymakers, stakeholders and researchers in the field of Youth Employment.
The Observatory can be accessed through the Cowork4YOUTH website
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