CASCOT for EurOccupations

• Demonstration of the software

• English, Dutch, French

• Manual coding

• Linking to EurOccupations database

• Automated coding

• Specific issues

CASCOT for EurOccupations

Select the language

EurOccupations (English)

Manual coding (English)

Enter manually the occupational text

‘Hairdresser’

Manual coding (English)

After pressing ‘Enter’ CASCOT shows

• the best matching ISCO’08 code

• within the ISCO group, the best matching EurOccupations title

Manual coding (English)

It is possible to add more information about the occupation to the output

Manual coding (English)

Select additional output items:

• Score

• Key occupation information

• Link to EurOccupations documents

Linking to EurOccupations database

Link to the related EurOccupations document is now available through browser software

Linking to EurOccupations database

Further information is available for this occupation - the data analysis tables can be accessed

Manual coding (English)

Enter another occupational text

‘Financial manager’

Linking to EurOccupations database

‘Financial manager’ is not a key occupation but some information is available, e.g. the occupational titles in all EurOccupations languages

Manual coding (English)

People do not always give their job title

Enter another occupational text

‘I am transporting oranges from Spain to the UK’

Manual coding (English)

The resulting ISCO code is not correct

The relevant code can be found manually from the ISCO structure

Manual coding (Dutch)

Change to the Dutch classification

Enter the occupational text

‘Hovenier’

Manual coding (Dutch)

Enter the text

‘schoonheid’

Linking to EurOccupations database

Again, links to the EurOccupations (English language) documents work

Manual coding (French)

Change to the French version and input ‘cuisine’

Manual coding (French)

Enter the text

‘Secrétaire’

Manual coding (French)

CASCOT does not find the occupation

and has changed ‘é’ into ‘e’

Try again, leave ‘é’ completely out

Manual coding (French)

Correct match this time

The special characters need adjusting

Automated coding

An experienced person can code manually about 100 occupations/hour

What if they are given 40,000 occupational texts to go through?

Use the automated coding

An example of coding 20 rows with EurOccupations English classification

Automated coding

Open the English input file

The fields in the file should be separated, e.g. by comma or Tab

Automated coding

Open the English output file

It will be Tab-separated text file which can be later imported e.g. to Excel

Automated coding

Select the level of automation

• fully manual

• semi-automatic, the certainty level can be selected (score 0-100)

• fully automatic

Automated coding

Click ‘Accept’

CASCOT will go through the file assigning ISCO codes to all rows

Automated coding

An input file of 20 Dutch job titles from Wageindicator data

Further development• Special characters: à â ä ą æ ć ç é è ê ë ę

í î ï ł ń ñ ó ô ö œ ś ß ú û ù ü ÿ ź ż

• Synonyms from EurOccupations database

• Extension to ISCO’08 descriptions

• Language-specific adjustments– Downgraded words: deputy, junior, staff, …– Equivalent word ends: man, person, woman– Abbreviations: asst – assistant– Replacement words: secetary – secretary– Word alternatives: IT - computing

Further information about CASCOT

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ier/

publications/software/cascot