What data actually exists about this industry, who typically holds it, at what granularity, and how obtainable it is. Public means openly published; purchasable is sold by a vendor; partnership needs a bilateral deal; exclusive is effectively locked up by one party.
| Data category | Who holds it | Granularity | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| registry/licensing/permits | National sworn/certified translator registers (e.g. Spanish MAEC, Dutch Bureau Wbtv, German Landesjustiz registers), court interpreter… | Per individual translator/interpreter: name, language pairs, certification… | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistics offices (LFS/business registers for NACE 74.30), professional association membership surveys (CIOL/ITI, BDÜ, AIIC)… | Per-country annual counts and earnings aggregates; per-linguist profiles on… | public |
| reviews & sentiment | Directories and marketplaces (ProZ Blue Board, TranslatorsCafé, Trustpilot, G2 for LSPs and CAT tools), client feedback stored in LSP… | Per review of an LSP or freelancer; per vendor rating record | public |
| financial filings | Company registries (Companies House, EU business registers), listed LSP investor relations (RWS, Keywords Studios), M&A/market analysts… | Annual/half-year per legal entity; annual revenue rankings per LSP | public |
| production output | LSPs and TMS/MT vendors holding translation memories, termbases and aligned bilingual corpora; public corpora bodies (EU DGT translation… | Per segment/sentence pair; per-project word counts; monthly MT character volumes | public |
| pricing | Marketplaces and directories publishing rate cards (ProZ rate surveys, Gengo, Smartcat), industry analysts (Slator, Nimdzi, CSA Research)… | Per-word / per-hour / per-minute rate by language pair, service type and… | purchasable |
| transactional/sales | Language service providers (RWS, Lionbridge, TransPerfect, Keywords), translation marketplaces (Smartcat, Gengo, ProZ, Upwork), and TMS/BMS… | Per project/job: language pair, word or minute volume, deadline, client, price | partnership |
| booking/utilization/occupancy | Over-the-phone and video remote interpreting platforms (LanguageLine, Propio, Boostlingo, AMN Language Services), hospital and court… | Per call/assignment: language, duration in minutes, timestamp, wait time… | partnership |
| customer demographics | LSP CRM systems; industry analysts segmenting demand by buyer vertical; public-sector buyers publishing spend (EU institutions, national… | Per client account: sector, country, language pairs, annual spend; aggregated… | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | LSP quality departments using MQM/DQF error typologies, TAUS (DQF benchmarking data), certification auditors for ISO 17100/18587/9001… | Per reviewed segment or per-project LQA score with error categories… | partnership |
| communications/marketing performance | Marketplaces and LSP marketing teams (web traffic, lead conversion), directory operators (ProZ profile views), ad platforms serving… | Per campaign/keyword monthly; per listing impressions and enquiries | exclusive |
Compiled by the TriData research system from public registers, industry structure and regulatory reporting obligations; refreshed as the underlying catalogue grows. Look up the code itself in the NACE code finder.