“If you asked me to predict what a quantitative economist would be using, it would be Python, followed by R, and maybe followed by Java or C, or something like that.”

I too was looking for good data. It’s hard to measure this as practical application doesn’t line up with publication.

I was surprised when I started working in health 10 years ago that the predominant tool was Excel, and then SAS. Even 5 years ago in health grad school, they only taught SAS.

This is slowly changing to R and python, but general data analysis skills is less than basic engineering stuff 20 years ago.