Occupations - Data Collection Overview
Full name | WageIndicator Occupations Database WISCO |
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Aims | This database consists of occupational titles, which are coded according to ILO's ISCO08 occupational classification. |
Data used for... | This database aims to serve occupational self-classification of web survey respondents and interviewer-classification of face-fo-face or telephone survey respondents. |
Countries covered | 195 countries |
Languages | 58 languages in 222 locales (language by country) |
Data collection method | Desk research, translation by professional translators |
Data time frame | 2004 - ongoing |
Data updating policy | Irregularly |
Sampling Frame | The database started in 2001 with a list of coded occupational titles for one country, and gradually the number of countries in the database increased. By 2009 all titles were coded according to the ISCO08 classification. |
Nr. of Observations | Approximately 4,200 occupational titles translated in 58 languages |
Data archive | The database version as of February 2023 for 4,000 occupation titles can be download at https://www.surveycodings.org/articles/codings/occupation |
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DOI code | DOI 10.5281/zenodo.7598568 |
Data visuals | - |
Codebook/manual | The tab CODESET includes the codes, the master label, and the translations The tab MAPPINGS includes the cross-over tables from the codes in the CODESET to ISCO1-4 digit, skill level and the social stratification variable ISEI The tab OCC>>INDUSTRY includes the 3-4 digit NACE Rev2 codes for all codes in the CODESET The tab LABELSET ISCO-1-4dgt NACE includes the labels for the codes used in MAPPINGS and OCC>>INDUSTRY The tab CITATION includes how to cite the database in publications |
Long list variables | Occupation |
Formats | Excel |
Citation | Tijdens, K.G. (2023). Occupations_ISCO08_5dgt_55languages_4000titles_with_mapping_20230202. Netherlands, WageIndicator Foundation/Surveycodings, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.7598568 In case the OCC>>INDUSTRY prediction is used, please cite: Belloni, M, Tijdens, K.G. (2017). Occupation > industry predictions for measuring industry in surveys, Deliverable 8.11 of the SERISS project funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme GA No: 654221, DOI 10.13140/RG.2.2.31328.02566 |
