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help for iskolab                                                 John Hendrickx
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iskolab

        iskolab

Description

The isko package consists of a series of programs to recode ISCO-88
(International Classification of Occupations) codes into other occupational
scales. Use the isco package to recode ISCO-68 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.

iskolab defines labels for the ISCO-88 codes using label define.  Use label
values varname isko to assign these labels to variables containing ISCO-88
codes.  There are no options or arguments for iskolab. 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). 1990.  International standard classification
    of occupations: ISCO-88.  Geneva: International Labour Office.

Direct comments to:

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


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


Also see

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