HISCO
Subtitle: Historical international standard classification of occupations
By: Marco H. D. van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas and Andrew Miles with further contributions by, Sören Edvinsson ... [et al.].
Contributors: Maas, I. 1964-; Miles, Andrew, 1961-
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Leuven, Bilgium
Language: eng
Number of pages: 441
Subjects: Occupations -- Classification.
Other titles: Historical international standard classification of occupations.; International standard classification of occupations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.30-32) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Creating HISCO 9 1.1 Introduction 9 1.2 The need for a comparative scheme 9 1.3 Starting from ISC068 to build HISCO 10 1.4 The organisation and coverage of HISCO data 11 1.5 The principles used in creating HISCO 25 1.6 Conclusion 29 1.7 Bibliography 30 2. Using the HISCO manual 33 2.1 How the book is organised 33 2.2 Coding procedure 34 2.3 Glossary of key terms and abbreviations 35 3. Outline of HISCO structure 39 3.1 Major groups 39 3.2 Minor groups 39 3.3 Unit groups 41 4. HISCO groups, defimitions and codes 89 Major group 0/1: Professional, technical and related workers 89 Major group 2: Administrative and managerial workers 142 Major group 3: Clerical and related workers 155 Major group 4: Sales workers 169 Major group 5: Service workers 177 Major group 6: Agricultural, animal husbandry and forestry workers, fishermen and hunters 191 Major group 7/8/9: Production and related workers, transport equipment operators and labourers 202 5. Subsidiary classifications 315 5.1 Introduction 315 5.2 Status 315 5.3 Relation 319 5.4 Product 321 6. Concordance between HISCO and ISC068 331 6.1 New groups 331 6.2 The restructuring of major group 2 and subsequent movement of codes 335 6.3 Other movement of codes 337 6.4 Categories no longer in use 337 6.5 Changes in the description of task and duties 337 6.6 Changes to the titles of groups 338 7. Alphabetical coding index 339 7.1 Alphabetical list - headings of the HISCO-classification 339 7.2 Alphabetical list - Dutch 368 7.3 Alphabetical list - English 376 7.4 Alphabetical list - French 391 7.5 Alphabetical list - German 417 7.6 Alphabetical list - Norwegian 426 7.7 Alphabetical list - Swedish 432.