JobMarketHealth

The GDELT Project

GDELT: GDELT Project global news index (DOC 2.0 article search)

GDELT indexes news coverage worldwide and lets a query return recent English-language articles. JobMarketHealth uses it only to discover recent employment coverage mentioning a state; the direction shown on the page comes from our own headline classifier, not from GDELT.

Shown as contextContinuous news indexing; JobMarketHealth reads a rolling 30-day window

What it measures

  • That articles matching a query were published and indexed in a time window
  • Article title, publication date, source domain and link

What it does not measure

Most misreadings of labor data come from asking a dataset a question it was not built to answer. These are the limits worth holding onto.

  • Employment levels, job openings, hires or layoffs of any kind
  • Whether coverage is representative of a state's labor market
  • Anything about a specific occupation unless a headline happens to name it

Update cadence

Continuous news indexing; JobMarketHealth reads a rolling 30-day window.

Occupation pages name the specific release behind each figure and when it was imported, so you can see how current a number is rather than assuming it is new. More on that on about the data.

How JobMarketHealth uses it

  • Recent English-language headlines mentioning a state are read server-side, deduplicated so one event is counted once, and classified as positive, negative or mixed employment events by a deterministic keyword classifier documented in the repository.
  • The Employment News Pulse is (positive − negative) ÷ (positive + negative) over those unique classified events. Fewer than four events shows no direction at all.
  • GDELT's own tone score is deliberately not used, because article tone is not employment meaning.
  • This is a headline-based context signal and not an input to the Job Market Health score.

Where it sits

This dataset is displayed as context on occupation pages and is not an input to the score. Read the methodology.

Official source

The GDELT Project publishes GDELT Project global news index (DOC 2.0 article search). JobMarketHealth organizes and derives from that public data and is not its publisher.

The GDELT Project

Related guides

  • How to tell if a job market is healthyHealthy is not the same as large or well paid. It means employers are actively adding people, separations are not spiking, and the occupation has room to keep hiring.

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