Educational and Career Trajectories in Russia: Open Datasets

The datasets contain data retrieved from the “Jobs in Russia portal”. The datasets contain information about the education, work experience, desired salary and some demographic characteristics of candidates who posted their CVs on the portal between 2015 and 2023. The datasets cover 83 regions of Russia. Dataset 1 contains information on the education and career trajectories (N=6221439), while Dataset 2 contains the information about the general activity of unemployed and job seeking candidates (N=7662089). Each candidate has a unique ID and there are characteristics such as age, education type, region, working experience. The datasets are available as .csv files. Dataset 1 is designed to study educational and career trajectories. It was obtained by aggregating all CVs for each candidate into a single record with a unique id_candidate, then normalizing text information about the candidates' work experience and education, and finally excluding records that do not contain required information. Dataset 2 includes all records for the available period, but only covers general information and the activity metric. It might be useful to study the general portal dynamics and, therefore, the activity on the Russian labor market. An updated version of the codebook can be found here.