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I want to measure the impacts of my initiative on the economy… 
…by assessing its impact on demand 

Aggregate indicator title

Employment 

Description

Changes in employment in a company, because of involvement in a CS project 

Domain

Economy

Qualitative/Quantitative

Quantitative & qualitative

Primary/Secondary data

Primary data

Source of data

Project partners, participants 

Time series

Yes, ex-ante/ex-post survey 

Unit of measurement (observation)

Absolute values & nominal 

Unit of analysis

Organization 

Analytical level (logic model)

Context, input, output, outcome, impact 

Links with indicators in other domains

N/A 

Data collection method(s)

Questionnaire that was filled in by project partners twice to collect data about baseline and economic impacts of the COs 

Data collection item(s)
  • In your organization, how many jobs are currently directly related to [CO topic]?
  • What is the nature of these jobs? (junior, medior, senior position(s))
Indicator building
  • # subject-related job

 Nature of jobs

Availability of data

Low

Feasibility

Resource demanding 

Comments/caveats

This is part 1 of 3 re. CS demand side

Source of indicator definition

Wehn et al (2017; 2019; 2020)