Coverage
Initial European coverage
We are auditing sources in five initial markets. A country enters the published index only when its source panel meets the documented threshold.
Market status
Updated 20 August 2026| Market | Research status | Source panel | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | Researching | — | Auditing employer career pages and public hiring sources. |
| Ireland | Researching | — | Auditing employer career pages and public hiring sources. |
| Germany | Researching | — | Auditing employer career pages and public hiring sources. Local-language titles required. |
| Netherlands | Researching | — | Auditing employer career pages and public hiring sources. Local-language titles required. |
| Sweden | Researching | — | Auditing employer career pages and public hiring sources. Local-language titles required. |
An em dash indicates a value that does not exist yet. No market has a published source-panel count until its audit is complete.
What each status means
Controlled vocabulary- Planned
- Identified as an initial market. Source auditing has not begun.
- Researching
- We are auditing candidate sources and testing whether they can be collected reliably.
- Panel qualified
- The source panel meets the documented coverage and quality threshold. Observation can begin.
- Baseline observed
- A first complete qualifying observation has been recorded and approved.
- Live
- Weekly movements are published for this market.
- Insufficient data
- Coverage fell below the threshold. No value is published for the period.
How a market qualifies
Source criteriaA market is not published because we have found some vacancies in it. It is published when we can observe the same defined panel of sources, in the same way, week after week.
What we look for in a source
Every candidate source is assessed against the same criteria before it can enter a market's panel:
- Attributable. The source identifies the employer responsible for the vacancy. Aggregators that obscure the original employer are not sufficient on their own.
- Repeatable. The source can be observed on a predictable schedule without unstable access patterns.
- Complete for its scope. The source lists that employer's advertised senior-care roles, not a promotional subset.
- Dated. Listings carry enough information to establish when a vacancy appeared and when it stopped being advertised.
- Stable in structure. The listing format is consistent enough that normalisation does not silently change meaning between weeks.
Why the threshold matters
An index that adds and drops sources between weeks produces movement that reflects our collection, not the labour market. The threshold exists so that a change in the index means a change in advertised hiring — not a change in what we happened to look at.
Where coverage falls below the threshold in a given period, we publish insufficient data for that market rather than a value. A missing observation is reported as missing. It is never reported as zero, and it is never quietly carried forward from the previous week.
Vacancies are evidence, not the product
SeniorCareWork collects individual vacancies as the evidence layer behind the index. Those records stay private. This publication does not operate a job board, does not republish individual listings and does not provide vacancy search. The public product is the measurement.
Employer career-page links may eventually appear in the approved source registry, so that anyone can audit what the index is built from. That registry is published once the first panels qualify.
Suggest an employer or public hiring source
ContributionIf you know a source that meets the criteria above — particularly in a market or language we are likely to under-reach — we would like to see it. Every suggestion is assessed against the same documented criteria.
Source suggestions are handled by email while the submission form is being configured. Send the market, the source URL and a short note to [email protected].