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Translate 4-digit ISCO08/ISCO88/ISCO68 to ISEI

isco08_to_isei.Rd

This function translates a vector of 4-digit ISCO08/ISCO88/ISCO68 codes to ISEI codes using the translation tables stored in all_schema$isco08_to_isei / all_schema$isco88_to_isei / all_schema$isco68_to_isei.

Usage

isco08_to_isei(x, to_factor = FALSE)

isco88_to_isei(x, to_factor = FALSE)

isco68_to_isei(x, to_factor = FALSE)

Arguments

x

A character vector of 4-digit ISCO codes.

to_factor

A logical value indicating whether to return a factor instead of a character. The order of the labels is taken from the sorted codes of ISEI in all_schemas$isco08_to_isei, all_schemas$isco88_to_isei and all_schemas$isco68_to_isei.

Value

A character vector of ISEI codes.

Details

This translation was taken from the iscogen Stata package. For more details, check out the package documentation and search for ISCO08/ISCO88/ISCO88 -> ISEI.

Since ISEI doesn't have any labels, the labels is not availabe in this function.

For more information on this class schema, please check the references below:

  • Ganzeboom, H.B.G. (2010) International Standard Classification of Occupations. ISCO-08. With ISEI-08 scores. Last revised: July 27 2010. Available from http://www.harryganzeboom.nl/isco08/.

  • Ganzeboom, H.B.G., D.J. Treiman (1996) Internationally Comparable Measures of Occupational Status for the 1988 International Standard Classification of Occupations. Social Science Research 25: 201-239.

Resource websites of the International Socio-economic Index (ISEI):

Examples

library(dplyr)

ess %>%
  transmute(
    isco08,
    isco88,
    isco68,
    isei_08 = isco08_to_isei(isco08),
    isei_88 = isco88_to_isei(isco88),
    isei_68 = isco68_to_isei(isco68)
  )
#> # A tibble: 48,285 × 6
#>    isco08 isco88 isco68 isei_08 isei_88 isei_68
#>    <chr>  <chr>  <chr>  <chr>   <chr>   <chr>  
#>  1 5414   5169   5890   27      40      35     
#>  2 1321   1222   2120   63      67      67     
#>  3 3135   8120   7200   37      30      34     
#>  4 7131   7141   9310   33      29      32     
#>  5 6111   6111   6220   16      23      16     
#>  6 6111   6111   6220   16      23      16     
#>  7 9313   9313   9595   22      21      24     
#>  8 1311   1221   6000   60      67      46     
#>  9 1311   1221   6000   60      67      46     
#> 10 6111   6111   6220   16      23      16     
#> # ℹ 48,275 more rows