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4.3 IT Practitioners in Germany
The most significant recent national analysis of the ICT skills position in Germany is provided in
“Monitoring Informationswirtschaft” (Monitoring the Information Economy) published in 2001 by the
Institute for Information Economics (IIE) together with the market research company Infratest Burke for
the German Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology. The “Core report” (Band 1: 2. Kernbericht)
is a broad, comprehensive analysis of the current international technology/market position, covering
- from a German perspective - the overall market for the Information Economy (IE), Infrastructure basics,
and Applications. The analysis of the “ICT and Information Economy Labour Market” covers
• Employee numbers in ICT,
• Salaries in the IT field,
• “Green Card” arrangements,
• Education and Training, and
• Call Centre requirements.
The study reports a number of figures, based on a survey of experts in the field, associated with
estimated numbers of workers and shortages.
Figure 4 shows the development over the second half of the 1990s of the estimated IT Practitioner
workforce in Germany, based on official German Labour Force Survey (LFS) data (for the two IT
Practitioner occupations - i.e. total of figures for ISCO’s 213 and 312).
Figure 4
Total IT Practitioners in Germany
from national LFS Statistics
600,000
Women
Number in employment in ISCO 213 + ISCO 312
500,000
400,000
300,000
200,000
100,000
0
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
Men
Total
Year
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