electricsheepeurope/europe-ilo-sdg-08b1-noc-nb-sdg-indicator-8-b-1-existence-of-a-developed-and-o

SDG indicator 8.b.1: Existence of a developed and operationalized national strategy for yo | Europe (ILOSTAT)

🇪🇺 195 observations · 39 Europe countries · 2019–2025 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe

TL;DR

This dataset contains 195 observations of Employment data across 39 Europe countries, spanning 2019–2025, covering 1 distinct indicators.

About the source

ILOSTAT is the ILO's central statistics database, the leading global source for labour statistics. It compiles indicators across employment, unemployment, wages, working time, child labour, informal economy, social protection, occupational injuries, and SDG decent work targets — drawing on national labour force surveys, household income surveys, establishment surveys, and administrative records. Coverage spans 200+ economies, with the ILO's Department of Statistics responsible for harmonisation.

• Source: ILOSTAT
• Publisher: International Labour Organization (ILO)
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Employment

Methodology

Data pulled directly from the ILOSTAT REST API at https://rplumber.ilo.org/data/indicator?id=SDG_08B1_NOC_NB and filtered to Europe ISO3 country codes. ILOSTAT harmonises raw survey microdata using ICLS (International Conference of Labour Statisticians) definitions; sources are flagged in the source.label column for traceability.

Geographic coverage

39 Europe countries · top rows shown below, sorted by row count:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
BEL	7	2019	2025
BIH	7	2019	2025
MNE	7	2019	2025
SRB	7	2019	2025
ESP	7	2019	2025
DEU	7	2019	2025
CZE	7	2019	2025
PRT	7	2019	2025
NLD	7	2019	2025
MDA	7	2019	2025
LVA	7	2019	2025
BLR	6	2019	2025
SVN	6	2019	2025
ITA	6	2019	2025
HUN	6	2019	2025
...	24 more countries

Indicators (sample)

• SDG_08B1_NOC_NB — SDG indicator 8.b.1: Existence of a developed and operationalized national strategy for youth employment

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
ref_area	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code	ALB
ref_area.label	string	Country name in English	Albania
source	string	ILOSTAT source code (e.g. labour force survey)	XA:16764
source.label	string	Source name in English	ILO - ILO Employment Policy Gateway
indicator	string	ILOSTAT indicator code	SDG_08B1_NOC_NB
indicator.label	string	Indicator name in English	SDG indicator 8.b.1: Existence of a d…
time	int64	Observation year	2025
obs_value	int64	Observed indicator value (unit varies — see indicator definition)	3

Data quality & caveats

• Data is annual frequency. Some indicators also publish monthly or quarterly series — those are not included here.
• When an indicator has multiple sources for the same country×year, the ILO-selected 'best source' is used.
• Disaggregation columns (sex, classif1, classif2) are non-null only when the indicator publishes that breakdown.

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepeurope/europe-ilo-sdg-08b1-noc-nb-sdg-indicator-8-b-1-existence-of-a-developed-and-o")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

germany = df[df["ref_area"] == "DEU"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = (df[df["indicator"] == "SDG_08B1_NOC_NB"]
          .sort_values("time"))
sample.plot(x="time", y="obs_value", title="SDG_08B1_NOC_NB")

Pivot to country × year matrix

matrix = (df[df["indicator"] == "SDG_08B1_NOC_NB"]
          .pivot_table(index="time", columns="ref_area", values="obs_value"))
print(matrix.tail())

Citation

@misc{europe_ilo_sdg_08b1_noc_nb_sdg_indicator_8_b_1_existence_of_a_developed_and_o_2025,
  title        = {SDG indicator 8.b.1: Existence of a developed and operationalized national strategy for yo | Europe (ILOSTAT)},
  author       = {International Labour Organization (ILO)},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://www.ilo.org/shinyapps/bulkexplorer/?id=SDG_08B1_NOC_NB},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepeurope/europe-ilo-sdg-08b1-noc-nb-sdg-indicator-8-b-1-existence-of-a-developed-and-o}}
}

License

Released under cc-by-4.0.

Original data © International Labour Organization (ILO). When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Europe repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Europe is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Europe on HuggingFace. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepeurope

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Provenance: ingested 2026-05-25 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://www.ilo.org/shinyapps/bulkexplorer/?id=SDG_08B1_NOC_NB