help for oesch

Package

The oesch package consists of two programs to recode 4-digit ISCO (International Classification of Occupations) codes into the class scheme proposed by Oesch (2006). The third command (oesch) allows to shrink existing Oesch class
variables into their condensed versions.

iskooesch makes the transformation into the Oesch scale based on ISCO-88 codes.

iscooesch makes the transformation into the Oesch scale based on ISCO-08 codes.

These programs are adaptations of the scripts by Amal Tawfik, which are available at
http://people.unil.ch/danieloesch/scripts/. Syntax and behavior are modeled to be more or less analogous to the isko and isco packages by John Hendrickx.

oesch

oesch newvarname, oesch(varname)
[eight five replace]

Description

This command recodes a given 16-class Oesch variable into the 8- and 5-class
versions.

The newvarname argument can be any string.
The program combines it with a class scheme indicator to create the names of the generated variables (see options eight, five).

Options

oesch specifies the variable to be recoded. This must be an integer with
values from 1 to 16 (16-class version).

eight, five specify which versions of the Oesch class scheme (8-class, 5-class) are generated. If no option is specified, the 8-class version is
generated.
The resulting variables are named oesch8_newvarname, oesch5_newvarname respectively.

replace permits to overwrite existing variables.

References

Hendrickx, J. 2002. "ISKO: Stata module to recode 4 digit ISCO-88 occupational codes" Statistical Software Components S425802,
Boston College Department of Economics, revised 20 Oct 2004.

Oesch, D. 2006a. "Coming to grips with a changing class structure" International Sociology 21 (2): 263-288.

Oesch, D. 2006b. "Redrawing the Class Map. Stratification and Institutions in Britain, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland" Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Tawfik, A. 2014. Various scripts for creating Oesch class variables. http://people.unil.ch/danieloesch/scripts/

Author

Simon Kaiser, Institute of Sociology, University of Bern, simon.kaiser@soz.unibe.ch

Thanks for citing this software as follows:

Kaiser, S. (2018). oesch: Stata module to create Oesch class schemes. Available from
https://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s458490.html.

Also see

https://github.com/sikaiser/oesch for most
up-to-date version and to report issues or feature requests.

On-line: help for
isko, isco