<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The global diffusion of Internet involves economic, political and demographic factors that can predict in real time. In this article, we demonstrate that according to data provided by EUROSTAT, the number of people looking for a job in Romania it is correlated with specific query terms using Google Trends. Search engine data is used to “predict the present” values of different economic indicators. The obtained results are compared with the classical method of developing the economic indicators, with official EUROSTAT employment data. In this paper, we demonstrate that the new methods to extract the economic indicators from web technologies are accurate.</p></abstract>

The global diffusion of Internet involves economic, political and demographic factors that can predict in real time. In this article, we demonstrate that according to data provided by EUROSTAT, the number of people looking for a job in Romania it is correlated with specific query terms using Google Trends. Search engine data is used to “predict the present” values of different economic indicators. The obtained results are compared with the classical method of developing the economic indicators, with official EUROSTAT employment data. In this paper, we demonstrate that the new methods to extract the economic indicators from web technologies are accurate.

Distance Education in Romanian Higher Education

The Bucharest University of Economic Studies

HOLISTICA – Journal of Business and Public Administration

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

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The global diffusion of Internet involves economic, political and demographic factors that can predict in real time. In this article, we demonstrate that...

Distance Education in Romanian Higher Education

Data publikacji: 16 kwi 2018

Zakres stron: 65 - 70

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/hjbpa-2018-0005

Słowa kluczowe
Data Mining, Big Data, Demography, Unemployment, Job Search

© 2018 Andreea Bianca Ene, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Distance Education in Romanian Higher Education

Data publikacji: 16 kwi 2018

Zakres stron: 65 - 70

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/hjbpa-2018-0005

Słowa kluczoweData Mining, Big Data, Demography, Unemployment, Job Search

© 2018 Andreea Bianca Ene, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Słowa kluczowe
Data Mining, Big Data, Demography, Unemployment, Job Search