European Labour Market
The whole labour-market picture for every European country in one fat Parquet - the official counterpart to scraped job boards, now consolidated into 24 indicators. Demand & slack: job vacancy rate, unemployment, youth unemployment, long-term unemployment, employment & activity rates. Working time: average weekly hours (all / full-time / part-time) and the part-time share. Productivity & cost: real labour productivity and nominal unit labour cost. Quality & inclusion: youth NEET rate, the unadjusted gender pay gap, and employment rates by education level (low / medium / high). One row per country × indicator × period - the single labour panel that replaces a shelf of narrow files.
- Source
- Eurostat
- Licence
- Redistributable open data
- Updates
- Monthly
- Data through
- 2026-06-01
- Quality
- QC clean · 0 failures
- Format
- Apache Parquet + dictionary
Safe to train on
Built only from a named, redistributable official source under a documented open licence - not scraped web data. No copyright grey zone, no personal data. Ships machine-readable Croissant metadata (ML Commons - loads in Hugging Face / Kaggle / Google), an AI training-licence manifest documenting source, licence and provenance for your model's data governance, and a machine-readable data dictionary (drop it into an agent / RAG prompt so the model knows every column) - all inspectable before you buy.
What's included
- 17 indicators: vacancies, unemployment (+youth/LTU), employment & activity, hours (all/FT/PT) + part-time share, real productivity & unit labour cost, NEET, gender pay gap, employment by education
- Every European country (EU27 + EFTA + UK + candidates), mixed monthly/quarterly/annual cadence
- Official labour-market stats - not scraped postings; fully redistributable
- One fat panel (replaces the former hours/productivity/workforce/education standalone files)
- Source: Eurostat (CC-BY-4.0, Decision 2011/833/EU) - EU/EFTA + candidate & neighbourhood geos
Schema
| Column | Type | Description | Filled | Distinct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| zone | str | Geo / country code (DE, FR, NL, …) | 100.0% | 39 |
| ts | timestamp (UTC) | Period start | 100.0% | 318 |
| indicator | str | One of 17: vacancy/unemployment/employment/activity/hours/productivity/unit-labour-cost/NEET/gender-pay-gap/employment-by-education | 100.0% | 24 |
| value | float | Value (%, hours, or index) | 100.0% | 4,335 |
| unit | str | Unit | 100.0% | 13 |
| res_min | int | Native resolution (quarterly/monthly/annual) | 100.0% | 4 |
Sample & preview
Every purchase ships as Apache Parquet with a data dictionary and the full QC report. A free sample (first rows + schema) is downloadable here - confirm fit before you buy. Source: Eurostat (redistributable open data; attribution passes through - see our Licence).
Don't trust screenshots - drop the sample into your notebook right now.
import pandas as pd df = pd.read_parquet("european-labour-market_sample.parquet") df.info() # typed columns, gap-aware, ready to join⬇ Download free Parquet sample or CSV for Excel
Coverage: 39 zones
AL · AT · BA · BE · BG · CH · CY · CZ · DE · DK · EE · EL · ES · FI · FR · HR · HU · IE · IS · IT · LT · LU · LV · MD · ME · MK · MT · NL · NO · PL · PT · RO · RS · SE · SI · SK · TR · UA · UK
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