VSECAT

VSECAT (Variables Sociales y Económicas, Computerización, Automatización y TeletrabajoSocial and Economic Variables, Computerization, Automation and Telework) is a research database designed to analyze how digitalization and automation influence labour markets and socio-economic structures across European Union countries.
The database provides harmonized indicators at territorial (country) and sectoral levels, enabling comparative studies of employment patterns, automation exposure, and telework adoption. It supports both structural analysis and short-term monitoring, offering breakdowns by demographic characteristics (such as gender, age, and origin) and by enterprise characteristics.

VSECAT is intended to complement ILTED (Intensidad Lingüística del Trabajo en la Era DigitalLinguistic Intensity of Work in the Digital Era), which focuses on occupation-level measures of language and digital skills. Together, these databases allow integrated analyses of skills demand, education alignment (Higher Education and Vocational Training), and labour market dynamics in the context of technological change.The data in VSECAT originates from authoritative sources such as AES (Adult Education Survey), LFS (Labour Force Survey), and SES (Structure of Earnings Survey), harmonized to ensure comparability across countries and sectors.

The data in VSECAT originates from authoritative sources such as AES (Adult Education Survey), LFS (Labour Force Survey), and SES (Structure of Earnings Survey), harmonized to ensure comparability across countries and sectors. Details on sources and integration methodology will be provided in dedicated sections.

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Data Sources & Methodology

What’s included, how variables are harmonized, and how sources are merged into VSECAT.

Structure & Keys

Rows, columns, countries covered, and the full list of variables with short descriptions.

Variable Dictionary

Information of each available variable, including a value / count table for categorical variables and statistics for numeric ones.

Annexes

Additional information of some variable codings.

Complete Codebook

The complete Codebook of VSECAT can be downloaded in the following link.

Database

The VSECAT database can be accessed in the following link.

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