Überblick
The "AMS-Skills Barometer? was developed to provide a broad group of users with valid, comprehensible and well structured information on current and short term qualification needs as an internet information platform. Information that was already available is exploited and merged in a synoptical way. Information on regional labour market trends is not the main focus of the AMS-Skills Barometer. But since studies used contain regional forecasts and the compilation of information on occupational fields also uses regional labour market data, a regional focus of information on basis of the nine Austrian regions ("Bundesländer?) can be found in the AMS-Skills Barometer. Although there is an attempt to attract more notice to skills and competencies, it is still occupational and vocational information which guides the structure and composition of the information system. Regional information sometimes merges into the AMS-Skills Barometer through the
regional distribution of different occupations, and therefore regional labour market trend
information is sometimes also part of the edited occupational information (like in specific
occupational fields such as service tourism, automotive industries, or the creative
industries).