Resources
What we publish, to read, cite or replicate
Everything we publish has a calculation behind it that can be run again. Here are the indicator releases, the technical notes behind them and the firm’s documents.
Indicator releases
TAPIL and IGIL, every month, on Substack
Each release presents the month’s national figure, its comparison with the same month of the previous year, and what the number does and does not say for public policy. Since the July 2026 release, the indicator is a Kappa product and is published on the firm’s Substack. Releases are written in Spanish.
The earlier May and June 2026 releases, and the note that introduced the indicator in July 2026, are on Carlos Ospino’s Substack, where they were first published.
Technical notes
Technical notes document the full method and every result. They are written for researchers and technical teams working with the same microdata. There are two series:
- TAPIL and IGIL, every month. One note per release, with results by geographic domain, standard errors, significance tests and a profile of the population below the poverty line.
- City notes, every quarter. Labor market, poverty and income inequality in Colombia’s main cities and metropolitan areas, over a rolling year.
Both series are on Kappa’s technical notes page, where they are added as they are published. For the 90 days after publication, each note is under restricted access: you request it from the note itself and access is granted per person. When that period ends, the note becomes public. The notes are in Spanish.
Publications
Work by the founders
- Morales, L. F., Ospino, C. and Amaral, N. (2024). “Online Vacancies and Their Role in Labor Market Performance”. In B. Elsner and S. W. Polachek (eds.), Big Data Applications in Labor Economics, Part A, Research in Labor Economics, vol. 52A, pp. 119–159. Emerald Publishing. DOI
- Roldán, P. and Ospino, C. (2009). “¿Quiénes terminan en la informalidad? Impacto de las características y el tiempo de búsqueda”. Revista de Economía del Caribe, no. 4, 149–180.
The full lists are in the CVs of Carlos Ospino and Paola Roldán.
Firm documents
For a procurement process
The capability statement sums up in two pages what we do, who we are and how we deliver.