mc_isco08_to_macro() -- Translate 4-digit ISCO-08 to Macro-SEC

Syntax

mc.isco08_to_macro(varname case)

where varname contains 4-digit ISCO-08 codes
and case selects the employment status column.

Typical usage:

mc.isco08_to_macro(varname case.mcempstat(sempl supvis))

with sempl and supvis as described in
case.mcempstat().

Description

crosswalk table translating 4-digit ISCO-08 codes to
the Macro-SEC - ESEC plus differentiation of SC I and II (11 classes). Note that the Multilevel Socio-Economic Classes
are defined at the level of minor ISCO groups
(3 digit); that is, all unit groups within a minor group
translate into the same class.

Cases (destination columns), following the same convention as the ESeC
tables shipped with crosswalk:

1 = employment status unknown
2 = employed, without supervisory status
3 = employed, with supervisory status
4 = self-employed, no employees
5 = self-employed, 1-9 employees
6 = self-employed, 10 or more employees

Column 1 is . throughout: the Multilevel Socio-Economic Classes have no simplified
variant for unknown employment status, so observations whose employment
status is unknown come back uncoded rather than picking up another class.

Source

Multilevel Socio-Economic Classes crosswalk files for Macro-SEC,
introduced in Smallenbroek, Hertel and Barone (2022); see
References.

mc_isco08_to_macro() is implemented as a wrapper for
isco08_to_isco08_3() followed by
mc_isco08_3_to_macro().

For plain 9-class ESeC, use crosswalk's own
isco88_to_esec() /
isco08_to_esec() rather than a table from
this package; see crosswalk_multiclass
for why, and note that they take a different case function
(case.esec88() /
case.esec(), not
case.mcempstat()).

Class labels: labels_mc_macro()

References

Hertel, F. R., C. Barone, O. Smallenbroek. 2025. The Multiverse of Social
Class. A Large-Scale Assessment of Macro-Level, Meso-Level and Micro-Level
Approaches to Class Analysis. European Societies 1-65.
doi:10.1162/euso_a_00044.

Smallenbroek, O., F. R. Hertel, C. Barone. 2022. Measuring Class
Hierarchies in Postindustrial Societies: A Criterion and Construct
Validation of EGP and ESEC Across 31 Countries. Sociological Methods &
Research 53(3):1412-52. doi:10.1177/00491241221134522.

Harrison, E., D. Rose. 2006. The European Socio-economic Classification
(ESeC) User Guide. Institute for Social and Economic Research, University
of Essex.

Jann, B. 2025. crosswalk: Stata module to recode variables based on
crosswalk tables. Statistical Software Components S459534, Boston College
Department of Economics.

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