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The digital economy, which encompasses goods sold and purchased online, business activity facilitated by internet connected infrastructure, and online media that internet users produce and consume, is thought to be a fast-growing sector of the overall economy. However, very little is known about the types of jobs that make up this segment of the workforce. The newness of these jobs and their gig or side hustle nature means they may go uncounted or be subsumed into larger non explicitly digital job titles in federal surveys that measure the workforce. Using occupation and industry write-in data from the American Community Survey, this project examines how and if the digital economy is being captured and how federal occupation coding lists can be updated or expanded to capture this workforce.
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