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iscooesch

iscooesch newvarname, isco(varname)
emplrel(varname) emplno(varname) [sixteen eight five replace]

Description

This command converts 4 digit ISCO-08 (International Classification of Occupations) codes into the class scheme proposed by Oesch (2006).

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

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

Options

isco specifies the variable to be recoded.
This must be a 4 digit integer containing ISCO-08 occupational codes.

emplrel specifies a categorical variable indicating the employment relation. Relevant values are: 1 = employee, 2 = self-employed, [3 = working for family business, optional]. All other values are ignored.

emplno specifies a numerical variable indicating the absolute number of employees supervised. The relevant intervals for placement in the respective Oesch categories are 0, 1/9, and 10/max.

sixteen, eight, five specify which versions of the Oesch class scheme (16-class, 8-class, 5-class) are generated. If no option is given, the 16-class scheme is generated.
The resulting variables are named oesch16_newvarname, 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
oesch, iskooesch, isko, isco