Data for Impact

A Partnership for Economic Opportunity

Data for Impact

A Partnership for Economic Opportunity

About Data for Impact

LinkedIn data for economic development

Our Data for Impact program aims to empower government and multilateral partners with the economic data they need to make informed decisions and invest in programs that create economic opportunity for the global workforce. We partner with multilateral organizations, government institutions, and select public-benefit entities to share these data and insights at no cost to them. See our full list of partners and learn more about how we support their work below.

Our data

Powered by LinkedIn’s Economic Graph and trusted by public partners

The data we make available to partners for research and development purposes comes from LinkedIn’s Economic Graph — a real-time, granular representation of the global economy composed of the activity of more than 1 billion professionals. Because protecting our members’ privacy is our first priority, our data menu contains only anonymized, aggregated datasets that meet strict data quality thresholds, and have been validated by public partners.

While LinkedIn’s Economic Graph is expansive and growing, we know it is not yet representative of the full global workforce. Therefore, we encourage partners to use our data to supplement, never replace, existing data sources. Moreover, we work with government and multilateral partners to test and validate our data (see examples from the World Bank, the European Central Bank, and German Statistical Authority Destatis).

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Our impact

Public-private partnerships generating insights to power the world of work

Our privacy-preserving datasets have helped partners generate unique insights to advance inclusive, green, and digitally-enabled economic growth. These insights, in turn, have informed $2B+ in public investments, shaped senior policy dialogues, and produced dozens of partner-led research products.

In addition to sharing data, we seek to encourage improved sharing of privately-sourced data for public good. Our Engineering teams document and share their innovations that enable this work. We collaborate with the Industry Data for Society Partnership to support peers in improved data sharing programs. And organizations like the Future of Privacy Forum have documented our best-in-class efforts to ensure these efforts center and prioritize member privacy.

Economic insights

• The German Institute for Employment Research (IAB) conducted collaborative research with LinkedIn to help predict industrial career shifts in Germany, resulting in the innovative IAB-LinkedIn Reallocation Radar.

• The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) leveraged LinkedIn hiring data to diagnose Latin America’s post-COVID labor market challenges and identify opportunities for recovery.

Green economy

• OECD drew upon LinkedIn’s green skills data in ministerial roundtables on the facilitating the green transition as well as their 2023 report on green skills.

• The IDB examined green jobs and skills in Latin America to identify risks and opportunities related to economic resilience and the necessary green transition.

Digital economy

• LinkedIn’s exploration of artificial intelligence skills informed AI ecosystem assessments undertaken by OECD.AI, Stanford HAI, and Chile’s National AI Center, CENIA.

• The International Monetary Fund (IMF) analyzed LinkedIn data on digital skills to explore changes in the digital intensity of distinct occupations in the age of remote work.

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Our process

We currently prioritize proposals from governments, multilaterals organizations, as well as data requests under EU DSA Art 40(12). If you seek data related to your organization’s workforce or hiring decisions, find out how LinkedIn Talent Insights can help here. If you seek data for another purpose, we encourage you to review our research for insights relevant to your work.

Governments

We work with Statistical Authorities, Central Banks, Workforce Development and Economic Research organizations at the national level (and state level in the US). If you work with one of these organizations and are interested in leveraging LinkedIn data, please email DataForImpact@linkedin.com.

Multilaterals

As a founding Data Partner with the Development Data Partnership, we are pleased to work with the World Bank, IMF, OECD, IDB, UNDP, CAF, and EBRD. If you work at one of these institutions and seek LinkedIn data, you can submit a proposal for review here.

EU DSA Article 40(12)

We are pleased to comply with EU DSA Article 40(12). Learn more about researcher access related to this Act here.