Historical data

Platsbanken 2006-2016

Please note this is early access.
Description, examples, data links and format may change.

License
CC BY 4.0

Data download
All years (2.36GB zip, 9.00GB unzipped)
or
2006 (84MB), 2007 (120MB), 2008 (124MB), 2009 (90MB),
2010 (139MB), 2011 (192MB), 2012 (201MB), 2013 (213MB),
2014 (292MB), 2015 (428MB), 2016 (541MB)

Description
This dataset consists of 4.2M job postings (7.7M job positions) published on Platsbanken from the year 2006 up to and including 2016. Texts have been anonymized with sentences including names, telephone numbers and email adresses removed. Each listing contains metadata on location, dates, employer name, job type and any additional job details.

For a visual overview of this dataset, please see the dashboard example.

API with basic statistics
We provide a microservice for basic statistics and queries on the dataset. A notebook with examples can be found here.

Examples
Dashboard (Source) – Visualize and explore the dataset. Uses the above API.

Data format
Each line in a file contains a job listing in a JSON format (JSON Lines):

2010.json:

{“ANTAL_AKT_PLATSER”: “3”, “PLATSBESKRIVNING”: “…”, … }
{“ANTAL_AKT_PLATSER”: “1”, “PLATSBESKRIVNING”: “…”, … }
{“ANTAL_AKT_PLATSER”: “1”, “PLATSBESKRIVNING”: “…”, … }

A listing has the following fields:

Field Description
ANTAL_AKT_PLATSER Number of placements
PLATSBESKRIVNING Job ad text
ADRESSLAND Country (Sweden if not specified)
AG_NAMN Employer name
ARBETSDRIFT Work information
ARBETSTID Working hours
BESKR_ARBETSDRIFT Additional work information
FORSTA_PUBLICERINGSDATUM Publication date
KOMMUN_KOD Municipality code
PLATSNUMMER Unique id
PLATSRUBRIK Job ad heading
POSTORT District
SISTA_ANSOK_PUBLDATUM Last apply date
TILLTRADE Admission information
VARAKTIGHET Duration
YRKE_ID Occupation id

All fields are strings and may be nullable, i.e. no data may be given for a field.