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help for iscolab                                                 John Hendrickx
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iscolab

        iscolab

Description

The isco package consists of a series of programs to recode ISCO-68
(International Classification of Occupations) codes into other occupational
scales. Use the isko package to recode ISCO-88 occupational codes.  These
programs are Stata versions of the SPSS recode files by Harry B.G. Ganzeboom
and Donald J. Treiman, which are available at http://www.fss.uu.nl/soc/hg/ismf.

iscolab defines labels for the isco-68 codes using label define.  Use label
values varname isco to assign these labels to variables containing isco-68
codes.  There are no options or arguments for iscolab. See help label for
further information.

References

Ganzeboom, H.B.G., de Graaf, P.M. & D.J. Treiman. 1992.  A Standard
    International Socio-Economic Index of Occupational Status.  Social Science
    Research 21: 1-56.

ILO (International Labour Office). 1968.  International Standard Classification
    of Occupations, revised edition.  Geneva: International Labour Office.

Direct comments to:

    John Hendrickx
    Management Studies Group
    Wageningen University
    Hollandseweg 1
    6706 KN Wageningen
    The Netherlands


The isco package is available at SSC-IDEAS.  Use ssc install isco to obtain the
latest version.


Also see

On-line: help for isco, iscoegp, iscoisei, iscotrei, isco6888, isko, iskoegp, 
                     iskoisei, iskotrei, isko8868, iskolab