How Apprentice Atlas uses official data

What this is really about

We use official careers and apprenticeship information as a foundation, normalise terms for clearer comparison and display sources. Data is never presented as a personal guarantee.

Your next steps

Work through these steps at your own pace. Good career decisions come from concrete comparisons, not from finding one perfect answer.

• Display source links and review dates.

• Do not collapse differences between systems.

• Document corrections transparently.

Questions for a useful conversation

Take these questions to a careers adviser, teacher, family member or apprenticeship employer.

• Is the source authoritative for this market?

• How current is the information?

• Which decision must not be automated from it?

From source data to a visible claim

Apprentice Atlas separates source, transformation and presentation. We record origin, market, retrieval time and the meaning of a field. We normalise only what is genuinely comparable, such as spelling or internal categories. The interface then presents plain-language information with its source, date and limitation. Original values remain traceable for correction.

Germany and the UK use different occupational, qualification and administrative systems. We therefore do not invent one-to-one equivalence. A mapping may express thematic proximity; it must not claim equal qualification status or personal suitability.

An example data decision

If one source updates an occupation while another retains an older title, we do not silently choose the more attractive wording. We label scope and date, check the accountable primary source and document any redirect or alias.

• Record source owner and authority.

• Separate retrieval, editorial review and next review dates.

• Document transformations reproducibly.

• Do not merge fields that are not genuinely comparable.

• Log corrections with impact and date.