EurOccupations
Title | Developing a detailed 8-country occupations database for comparative socio-economic research in the European Union |
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Duration | April 2006 - March 2009 |
Funded by: | European Commission - 6th Framework Programme - FP6-028987 |
EurOccupations Partners |
Project management: Erasmus University Rotterdam, Department of Sociology - Kea Tijdens. For further information about EurOccupations contact prof. Kea Tijdens or dr. Judith de Ruijter. |
EurOccupations Project description | The EurOccupations project aimed to build a publicly available database containing the most common occupations for use in multi-country data-collection, through the Internet or otherwise. It covered eight EU countries, notably Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and United Kingdom. The database includes a source list of 1,594 distinct occupational titles within the ISCO-08 classification, country-specific translations and a search tree to navigate through the database. EurOccupations has investigated the similarity of occupations in eight countries for 150 occupations selected from the source list. The test focused on job content, required skill levels, and competencies. The test was based on information gathered via existing databases and via experts from interest organisations and social science researchers. The database contains job descriptions and task lists as well as expert ratings with regard to the frequencies of the tasks and the required entry qualification for eight countries and 150 occupations. EurOccupations has developed several tools, among others a procedure for drafting new task lists, a procedure for expert data collection, a web-survey on occupations for experts, CASCOT software for coding job titles, and a website to search task frequencies, see the Icares and EuOccupations website. In addition, it has produced research papers about the state-of-the-art of occupational classifications, the occupational structure in Poland, on social stratification, on gender and skill bias in the EurOccupations Database, and on the priciples underlying the design of the EurOccupations Database. Here the database can be consulted in many languages. |
EurOccupations Deliverables | D01a1D01a1-Paper-Update-of-the-underlying-principles-of-the-EurOccupations-database (pdf 300 kB) D01bD01b1-Note-The-EurOccupations-Database-of-Occupations (pdf 120 kB) D01b1D01b1-Tables-EurOccuptions-Database-of-Occupations-for-8-countries-Excel-2003 (Excel 2003 4.3 MB) D01b1D01b1-Tables-EurOccuptions-Database-of-Occupations-for-8-countries-Excel-2007 (Excel 2007 1.9 MB) D01cD01c-Note-Key-occupations-and-cluster-division (pdf 730 kB) D01dD01d-Frequency-tables-Gender-distributions-at-aggregated-levels-per-country (pdf 150 kB) D01eD01e-Frequency-tables-Education-distributions-at-aggregated-levels-per-country (pdf 270 kB) D01fD01f-Frequency-tables-Age-group-distributions-at-aggregated-levels-per-country (pdf 270 kB) D01gD01g-Tables-EurOccupations-Job-descriptions-and-job-content-for-8-countries-Excel-2003 (Excel 2003 2.3 MB) D01gD01g-Tables-EurOccupations-Job-descriptions-and-job-content-for-8-countries-Excel-2007 (Excel 2007 920 kB) D01hD01h-Tables-EurOccupations-Results-websurvey-Excel-2003 (Excel 2003 290 kB) D01hD01h-Tables-EurOccupations-Results-websurvey-Excel-2007 (Excel 2007 80 kB) D02D02-Screenshots-A-facility-to-search-the-web-based-database (pdf 1 MB) D03D03-Paper-A-Toolkit-for-non-EurOccupations-EU-member-states (pdf 990 kB) D05D05-Paper-Procedures-expert-data-collection (pdf 330 kB) D06D06-Paper-Web-survey-for-experts (pdf 380 kB) Also check http://eurocc.icares.com for the online database of occupations D7-D14National reports: D15bD15b-Cluster-report-Care-and-welfare (pdf 3.7 MB) D16bD16b-Cluster-Report-Education,-Research-and-Personnel (pdf 5.3 MB) D17bD17b-Cluster-report-Manufacturing (pdf 19.6 MB) D18bD18b-Cluster-report-Construction-and-cars (pdf 6.5 MB) D19bD19b-Cluster-report-Information-communication-finance-legal-occupations (pdf 4 MB) D19bD19b-Appendix-Frequency-tabels-IT-cluster-part1-20090420 (pdf 3 MB) D20bD20b-Cluster-report-Transport (pdf 6 MB) D21bD21b-Cluster-report-Trade-and-agriculture(pdf 2.1 MB) D22bD22b-Cluster-report-Clerks-staff-management-and-army-police (pdf 1.8 MB) D23D23-Paper-Gender-bias-in-the-EurOccupations-database (pdf 1.7 MB) D24D24-Paper-A-test-of-the-usefulness-of-the-EUROCCUPATIONS-database((pdf 440 kB) D25D25-Manual-For-surveys-using-the-EurOccupations-Database-of-Occupations (pdf 200 kB) D26 D27D27-Paper-Occupational-structure-in-Poland-1989-2008 (pdf 1.4 MB) D28D28-Paper-EurOccupations-and-social-stratification (pdf 280 kB) D30Mid term conference in Marseille, 23 & 24 April 2008 D31Final conference in Brussels, 23 & 24 April 2009 D33Dissemination activities for the EUROCCUPATIONS D35D35-State-of-the-art-report-Occupational-classifications-in-eight-countries (pdf 20.4 MB) |
EurOccupations Data | For a selection of 150 occupations, EurOccupations aimed at testing the similartity regarding job content, required skill level, and competency profiles across the 8 member states. For this test, experts on occupations in the participating countries have been asked to complete a web-survey. The dataset of this survey is freely available by sending an email with name and affiliate information to Kea Tijdens, University of Amsterdam. The codebook of this data can be downloaded WP107-Codebook-and-explanatory-note-on-the-EurOccupations-dataset. |
EurOccupations Policy Briefs | European-Policy-Brief-no-1-Database-of-Occupations-EUROCCUPATIONS-20100104 (pdf 150 kB) |
EurOccupations Conferences and meetings | Final conference, 23 & 24 April 2009, Brussels and Leuven, Belgium During the final conference the results of our expert research were presented and workshops were given on the basis of our latest papers. Downloads of research papers and further details on the final conference are available in the EurOccupations Deliverables. The third and last international conference took place in Brussels and Leuven (Belgium) on Thursday 23 and Friday 24 April 2009. Click to download the presentations of 23 April or 24 April. Thursday 23 April, 11:00hrs-17:00hrs Location: The International Auditorium in Brussels 11:00u – 13:00u Welcome and lunch 13:00u – 13:05u Welcome - Prof. Peter Elias (Warwick, IER) 13:05u – 13:15u Presentation by EC project officer Tihamer Laczko 13:15u – 15:20u Results of the EurOccupations database for different clusters of occupations – 8 EurOccupations partners 15:20u – 15:40u Break 15:40u – 15:55u Demonstration website EurOccupations database – Icares 15:55u – 16:55u Panel discussion on results of the EurOccupations project and future possibilities - chair: Paulien Osse, Wageindicator 16:45u- 17:00u Final words - Prof. Peter Elias (Warwick, IER) Friday 24 April, 09:00hrs-15:30hrs 09:00u – 09:15u Welcome 09:15u – 09:45u Introduction EurOccupations project and expert data collection - Dr. Judith de Ruijter (AO Consult) and Dr. Yves de Weerdt (KU Leuven) 09:45u – 10:30u 2 parallel paper sessions: 10:30u – 10:45u Break 10:45u – 11:30u 2 parallel paper sessions: 11:30u- 12:00u Use of the EurOccupations database of 1,500 occupations in web surveys – Prof. Kea Tijdens (Erasmus University Rotterdam) 12:00u – 12:30u Lunch EurOccupations international expert conference, 21-22 May 2008, Marseille, France The goal of the international expert conference was to gain further insight into similarities and differences in the relevant occupational and educational structures in the 8 countries and to discuss certain problematic cases. Each session focused on relevant issues for (occupations in) the cluster of occupations and the consequences for the EurOccupations database. During the conference sessions, the following topics were addressed:
(generalised) heterogeneity). The International expert conference was a great success. The presentations of the experts sessions can be downloaded here. Plenary session Transport Trade and Agriculture
Information, communication, finance and legal Construction Clerks, staff, management, army & police
Manufacturing Care and Welfare Education |
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Adding new occupations to the EurOccupations database | If you are interested in adding new occupations to the EurOccupations database, a toolkit is available. This toolkit includes the following procedures:
For more information about adding occupations and the EurOccupations toolkit, please contact Judith de Ruijter, AO Consult (www.aoconsult.nl). |
EurOccupations Procedures | To ensure a uniform execution of research by all project partners in Europe the EurOccupations project was done using the following procedures: |
EurOccupations Researchers | The EurOccupations researchers in the Netherlands are:
The EurOccupations researchers in the United Kingdom are:
The EurOccupations researchers in Belgium are:
The EurOccupations researchers in Poland are:
The EurOccupations researchers in Spain are:
The EurOccupations researchers in France are:
The EurOccupations researcher in Germany is:
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EurOccupations Newsletters | Click to download our published newsletters: |
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