European skills and jobs survey (ESJS)

Cedefop’s periodic EU-wide data collection on skill requirements, skill mismatches and initial and continuing learning by adult workers in European labour markets.

Comment

ESJS aims to provide robust information from representative samples of adult workers on a set of core variables, including:

  • sociodemographic characteristics;
  • job characteristics;
  • job-skill requirements (literacy, numeracy, digital, analytical, manual and interpersonal skills);
  • digitalisation (new digital technologies in workplaces and jobs);
  • skill mismatches (vertical, horizontal, mismatches in specific skills, skill gaps and shortages, skill mismatch transitions);
  • participation in initial and continuing vocational education and training;
  • labour market outcomes (wages, job insecurity, job satisfaction).
Source

Cedefop.

Related term(s)
Adult education survey (AES)
Continuing vocational training survey (CVTS)
employer skills survey
European company survey (ECS)
European working conditions surveys (EWCS)
Labour force survey