convert: Converts ISCO-88 to Common SES Codes

In pdparker/isco88conversion: Converts ISCO-88 Codes to EGP, ISEI, or SIOPS codes

Description

Converts ISCO 88 to common ses or social class codes. See Ganzeboom's website for official correspondence tables.

Usage

convert(ISCO, type = "EGP", selfEmployed = NULL, unemployed = NULL)

Arguments

ISCO	Vector of four digit ISCO-88 codes as int or char
type	The requested conversion type (see details)
selfEmployed	The code that is used for self-employed individuals (see details)
unemployed	The code that is used for unemployed individuals (see details)

Details

Types include EGP, ISEI, and SIOPS. We strictly use Appendix A from Ganzeboom & Treiman (1996) for conversions. This means no distinction is made between Routine non-manual employees higher grade or lower grade. Both are coded as 3.

ISCO-88 does not contain codes for self-employed or unemployed individuals. Thus user input is required to specify the codes used for each (if any). Self-employed and unemployed codes will be translated to EGP codes of 6 and 12 respectively. They will be coded as NA for ISEI or SIOPS.

Value

Options for type include EGP, ISEI, and SIOPS.

References

Ganzeboom & Treiman (1996). Internationally Comparable Measures of Occupational Status for the 1988 International Standard Classification of Occupations. Social Science Research, 25, 201-239

Examples

#Converts ISCO codes to EGP classes
convert(c(1000,9000), type = "EGP")

pdparker/isco88conversion documentation built on May 24, 2019, 11:45 p.m.