{smcl} {.-} help for {cmd:oesch} {.-} {title:Package} {p 4 4 2} The {cmd:oesch} package consists of two programs to recode 4-digit ISCO {it:(International Classification of Occupations)} codes into the class scheme proposed by Oesch (2006). The third command ({cmd:oesch}) allows to shrink existing Oesch class variables into their condensed versions. {p 8 12 2} {help iskooesch} makes the transformation into the Oesch scale based on ISCO-88 codes. {p 8 12 2} {help iscooesch} makes the transformation into the Oesch scale based on ISCO-08 codes. {p 4 4 2} These programs are adaptations of the scripts by Amal Tawfik, which are available at {browse "http://people.unil.ch/danieloesch/scripts/"}. Syntax and behavior are modeled to be more or less analogous to the {cmd:isko} and {cmd:isco} packages by John Hendrickx. {title:oesch} {p 8 15 2} {cmd:oesch} {it:newvarname}, {cmd:oesch(}{it:varname}{cmd:)} [{cmd:eight} {cmd:five} {cmd:replace}] {title:Description} {p 4 4 2} This command recodes a given 16-class Oesch variable into the 8- and 5-class versions. {p 4 4 2} The {it: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 {cmd:eight}, {cmd:five}). {title:Options} {p 4 8 2} {cmd:oesch} specifies the variable to be recoded. This must be an integer with values from 1 to 16 (16-class version). {p 4 8 2} {cmd:eight}, {cmd: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_{it:newvarname}, oesch5_{it:newvarname} respectively. {p 4 8 2} {cmd:replace} permits to overwrite existing variables. {title:References} {p 4 8 2} Hendrickx, J. 2002. "{browse "https://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s425802.html":ISKO: Stata module to recode 4 digit ISCO-88 occupational codes}" {browse "https://ideas.repec.org/s/boc/bocode.html":Statistical Software Components S425802}, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 20 Oct 2004. {p 4 8 2} Oesch, D. 2006a. "Coming to grips with a changing class structure" International Sociology 21 (2): 263-288. {p 4 8 2} Oesch, D. 2006b. "Redrawing the Class Map. Stratification and Institutions in Britain, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland" Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. {p 4 8 2} Tawfik, A. 2014. Various scripts for creating Oesch class variables. {browse "http://people.unil.ch/danieloesch/scripts/"} {title:Author} {p 4 4 2} Simon Kaiser, Institute of Sociology, University of Bern, simon.kaiser@soz.unibe.ch {p 4 4 2} Thanks for citing this software as follows: {p 8 8 2} Kaiser, S. (2018). oesch: Stata module to create Oesch class schemes. Available from {browse "https://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s458490.html"}. {title:Also see} {p 4 4 2} {browse "https://github.com/sikaiser/oesch"} for most up-to-date version and to report issues or feature requests. {p 0 21} On-line: help for {help isko}, {help isco} {p_end}