Based on the counting of Help-wanted advertisements in print newspapers, we present national vacancy indexes and vacancy rates for Colombia. These series will allow tackling a myriad of questions related to the functioning of the labor markets in emerging economies, where such datasets were not available until now.

A partir del conteo de avisos clasificados de empleo en los principales periódicos se construye un índice de vacantes y una tasa de vacantes para Colombia. Este es el primer intento de construir series con representatividad nacional y de tal extensión no