What is Anthropic Economic Index?
Anthropic studies how people use Claude for work. The files describe observed use across jobs, tasks, places, and product channels.
- Full name
- Anthropic Economic Index
- Published by
- Anthropic
- Edition in EduInsights
- June 26, 2026
- Current availability
- Used in the current EduInsights data release.
Why it matters
Why we use Anthropic Economic Index
This study helps us see which parts of work people ask Claude to help with and how that use changes.
Where Claude shows up
Anthropic matched work conversations to published job and task categories.
How people worked with it
The labels separate help from cases where Claude did more of the activity.
When and where it happened
Month, place, and product stay separate. Claude.ai use is not folded into API use.
Good to know
What to keep in mind
- This is Claude, not all AI
- The patterns are real, but they come from Anthropic's products and the people using them.
- Not every activity can be shown
- Some activity was too rare to publish or could not be matched to a task.
- Use is not impact
- These files show how people used Claude. They do not show changes in jobs, pay, or productivity.
On its own
Questions this source can answer by itself
These questions need no facts from another source.
- Which jobs show the most observed Claude use?
- Which work tasks appear most often in Claude conversations?
- Where does Claude assist people more often than it performs activities?
With other sources
Questions this source helps answer
We use another source only when it describes the same college, field, career, place, or time.
- Which skills matter in jobs with substantial observed Claude use?
- How do job outlook and observed Claude use differ across careers?
Where it stops
What this source cannot tell you
- Claude use does not represent all AI use.
- The source does not measure job losses, productivity, or wage changes.
- A task without a published match is not the same as zero use.
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