- Author
- Year
- 2010
- host editors
-
S. Pavlin
A.N. Judge - Title
- Measuring occupations in worldwide web-surveys
- Event
- Development of Competencies in the World of Work and Education (DECOWE), Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Book/source title
- Development of competencies in the world of work and education: Conference proceedings
- Pages (from-to)
- 189-194
- Publisher
- DECOWE
- Document type
- Conference contribution
- Faculty
- Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB)
- Institute
- Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI)
- Abstract
-
This paper summarizes the design principles underlying the WISCO Database of Occupations for the measurement of occupations in multi-country web-surveys by means of self-identification. It is discussed why the Database has been designed, and its source list, search tree and translations. The Database holds almost 1,600 occupational titles. Using a wide variety of sources, the list of occupational titles has been compiled as part of the FP6 funded EurOccupations project. It is explained how the Database deals with issues such as skill levels, corporate hierarchies, job ladders, managerial and supervisory occupations, craft versus manufacturing occupations, composite occupations and the methods used for translations. Finally, the paper sketches briefly how the database is used in the worldwide WageIndicator web-survey. For more information see www.euroccupations.org or www.wageindicator.org
- Link
- Link
- Language
- English
- Persistent Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.336182
- Downloads
-
336182.pdf(Final published version)
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