What kind of work do you do? A practical workshop on occupational classification and coding
Venue: Royal Statistical Society, London
Date: Monday 21 June 2004
A joint meeting organised with the Warwick Institute for Employment Research.
This workshop will now be held in the RSS Lecture Theatre so there are more places available. If you would like to attend please turn up on the day.
This full-day workshop is designed to improve awareness among social scientists of the ways in which occupational information can inform a variety of research issues, both in UK-based research and within comparative international studies. The workshop will provide practical guidance on the process of occupational coding, including demonstrations of software developed for coding text responses.
Sessions will also be devoted to the construction and use of social classifications derived from occupational information and to the use of occupationally-classified data from recent Censuses of Population.
Programme
| 10:30 – 11.00 | Registration and coffee |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Introduction Angela Dale, University of Manchester |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Occupational coding – principles, practice and problems Peter Elias, University
of Warwick |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | Occupational classification – a historical overview Ken Prandy, Cardiff University |
| 12:15 – 12:45 | Social classification – the making of the NSSEC David Rose, University
of Essex |
| 12:45 – 1:15 | International statistical comparisons of occupational and social structures: problems, possibilities and the role of ISCO-88 Eivind Hoffmann, Norwegian
Directorate of Immigration and formerly International Labour Office |
| 1.15 – 2.15 | Lunch |
| 2:15 – 2:45 | Occupational coding in practice: from the 1981 to 2001 Census of Population Tessa Staples, Office
for National Statistics |
| 2:45 – 3:15 | Coding Tools (1): CASOC and CASIC Rob Jones and Peter
Elias, University of Warwick |
| 3:15 – 3:45 | Coding Tools (2): The ONS Coding Tools Project Nigel Swier, Office
for National Statistics |
| 3:45 – 4.15 | Questions, comments, networking |
