Occupation Tasks - Data Collection Overview

The Occupation Tasks database measures the tasks performed across 160 occupations in eight European countries.

General Database Information

Full name

EurOccupations, Developing a detailed 8-country occupations database for comparative socio-economic research in the European Union

Aims

To measure the tasks in 160 selected occupations across 8 countries.

Data used for...

Research

Countries covered

Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom

Languages

Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish

Data collection method

Telephone and online survey of experts and job holders

Data time frame

2006 - 2009

Data updating policy

Data collection is closed

Sampling Frame

Occupational experts and job holders

Nr. of Observations

4,197 ratings for 160 occupations in 8 countries

Data Access

Data archive

Pieces of the dataset are available via EurOccupations project page. 

For the full dataset for research purposes, please contact us.

DOI code

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3985648

Data visuals

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Codebook/manual

Tijdens, K.G., De Ruijter, E., De Ruijter, J. (2011), Download University of Amsterdam, AIAS Working Paper 11-107.

Publications

Tijdens K.G., De Ruijter, E., De Ruijter, J. (2014) Comparing work tasks of 160 occupations across eight European countries, Employee Relations, 36 (2), pp.110 – 127 (EN)

Tijdens, K.G., De Ruijter, J. and De Ruijter, E. (2012), "Measuring work activities and skill requirements of occupations: Experiences from a European pilot study with a web‐survey", European Journal of Training and Development, Vol. 36 No. 7, pp. 751-763.

Project

EurOccupations

Long list variables

Occupations

Formats

Excel

Citation

Kea Tijdens, Judith de Ruijter, & Esther de Ruijter. (2020). Euroccupations dataset, codebook, and labelset [Data set]. Zenodo.