[09·SOURCES]
Sources
Every dataset we pull, with its license, refresh cadence, and primary URL. If we can't cite it, we don't publish it.
[ FEDERAL PRIMARY SOURCES ]
Federal primary sources
US government datasets — pulled directly from the publishing agency. These are the highest-confidence rows on the site.
CareerOneStop Apprenticeship Offices
Public — US Department of Labor / ETA
Office-level only. No wages, completion, or application windows.
Primary sourceCareerOneStop License API (DOL)
Public — US Department of Labor / ETA
Auto-refreshed structured licensing skeletons (education / experience / exam / CE / agency / last-updated) for state×occupation tuples across all 50 states.
Primary sourceFlorida Administrative Code (flrules.org)
Public — Florida Department of State
Chapter index for 61G4 (Construction Industry) and 61G6 (Electrical Contractors).
Primary sourceVA GI Bill Comparison Tool
Public domain — US Department of Veterans Affairs
Highest-value school source. Monthly refresh.
Primary sourceED Heightened Cash Monitoring
Public — US Department of Education
Primary sourceED College Scorecard
Public domain — US Department of Education
Many nulls for certificate programs. Nulls allowed.
Primary sourceBLS Occupational Employment Statistics
Public domain — US Bureau of Labor Statistics
Primary source[ STATE PRIMARY SOURCES ]
State primary sources
State agency datasets — labor commissions, contractor boards, apprenticeship divisions. Refresh cadence varies by state.
Washington L&I Apprenticeship Programs
Public domain — Washington State Open Data
Primary sourceWashington L&I Apprentice Details
Public domain — Washington State Open Data
Primary sourceWashington L&I Contractor License Data
Public domain — Washington State Open Data
Primary sourceTexas TDLR Licensing
Public — Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation
Primary sourceCalifornia Contractors State License Board
Public — California CSLB
Primary sourceCalifornia DIR Division of Apprenticeship Standards
Public — California DIR
HTML scrape only. All records flagged confidence: scraped.
Primary source[ ACCREDITORS AND EDITORIAL IMPORTS ]
Accreditors and editorial imports
Non-governmental accreditors and editorial imports of public-record data. Citation-traceable but not republished verbatim from a federal API.
Sweet v. Cardona settlement list
Editorial import — court settlement record
Primary source