Statistical Services for Data on Education, Skills, and Employment (ETF)

Project Funder:

European Training Foundation (ETF)

Project Duration:

2025 - 2029

Country:

All 28 ETF partner countries (Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Egypt, Georgia, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, North Macedonia, Palestine, Serbia, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.)

Status:

Active

Detailed Project Information:

This project supports the European Training Foundation (ETF) in advancing human capital development by strengthening the availability, quality, and use of statistical evidence on education, skills, and employment across partner countries. Addressing persistent gaps in data comparability, accessibility, and analytical capacity, the project enhances the ability of governments, public institutions, and national stakeholders to collect, manage, analyse, and interpret labour market and skills data for policy design and implementation. It enables the harmonisation of national and international data sources, supports the design and implementation of new multilingual surveys, and facilitates the analysis of large-scale administrative and survey datasets. These activities are complemented by the development of data visualisation tools, dashboards, and policy-oriented knowledge products that translate complex evidence into actionable insights for policymakers and practitioners. Implemented through iterative and demand-driven assignments, the project contributes directly to ETF’s broader strategy of promoting inclusive lifelong learning systems, effective skills development policies, and smoother labour market transitions tailored to diverse country contexts. A strong emphasis is placed on capacity building, collaborative workflows, and methodological rigour to ensure sustainable use of evidence beyond the project lifecycle. WageIndicator Foundation leads data collection and harmonisation processes, designs and implements multilingual surveys, contributes to statistical analysis and labour market insights, develops data visualisation platforms, and supports capacity building through training, technical guidance, and methodological toolkits for national experts and institutions.

Objective:

• Generate reliable, comparable, and policy-relevant data on education, skills, and employment in ETF partner countries.
• Enable evidence-based decision-making to support effective labour market and education reforms.
• Strengthen institutional capacity for data-driven policymaking and implementation.

Key Results:

• Development of a modular framework for managing multiple statistical assignments across countries
• Harmonization strategies for international and national education, skills, and labour market datasets
• Design of multilingual data collection tools, including surveys and administrative data workflows
• Capacity-building plans for national institutions and ETF expert networks
• Preparatory work for dashboards and policy data formats aligned with ETF Knowledge Hub standards

Project Partners:

• WageIndicator Foundation (Netherlands) – Data collection, analysis & visualisation
• Hiberus (Spain) – Data engineering, analytics, and digital platform development
• Dukat (Spain) – Project coordination, contract management and operational support

Role of Wageindicator:

WageIndicator leads data collection and harmonization processes, designs and implements multilingual surveys, contributes to statistical analyses and labour market insight generation, and develops data visualization platforms. WageIndicator also supports capacity building through training, technical guidance and methodological toolkits for national experts and institutions.

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