WAGEINDICATOR MULTILINGUAL TASKS DATABASE

The International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO–08) is maintained by the International Labour Organisation (ILO). ISCO-08 is increasingly being adopted worldwide. ISCO-08 defines a job as a bundle of tasks and duties performed by one person. Homogeneity of tasks define an occupation. ILO's coding index (2012) provides lists of task sets for 427 occupational titles at 4-digit level, varying between 2 and 14 tasks per title. In total 3,264 tasks are available, on average 7.6 tasks per occupational title. Almost all tasks are occupation-specific, and only a limited number of tasks are similar across more than one occupation.

The ISCO-08 lists of tasks per 4-digit occupation offer a great opportunity to investigate the homogeneity of tasks within an occupation across survey respondents, either in one country or in multiple countries. However, due to technical limitations this assumption has hardly ever been tested empirically, but recently web surveys offer possibilities to do so. For this purpose a WAGEINDICATOR MULTILINGUAL TASKS DATABASE has been developed. The starting point for this database were the task descriptions provided by ILO's English ISCO-08 coding index for occupations at the most detailed ISCO-08 4-digit occupational groups (ILO, 2012). Task descriptions for other languages have been added from two sources, namely the task descriptions as included in coding indexes of national statistical offices, and from translations of ILO's task descriptions provided by WageIndicator Foundation. For the descriptions in the coding indexes, the tasks have been checked for correspondence with the ILO index. Please note that in these countries the TASKS DATABASE does not contain translations of the tasks in the ILO coding index, but the ‘translation’ provided by the national statistical offices. In most cases these comprise of a literal translation, but in other cases tasks were dropped if the office considered these not to be part of an occupation, new tasks were added if applicable, or task descriptions were adapted to national practices. In the latter cases, the ILO task and the national task may deviate slightly from each other.

The resulting WAGEINDICATOR MULTILINGUAL TASKS DATABASE consists of 3,264 tasks for 427 ISCO-08 4-digit occupations in 19 languages: Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, English (British), Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Lithuanian, Mongolian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovakian, Spanish and Turkish. Note that in the Finnish and the Norwegian columns approx. 20% of the tasks have no content, because the statistical office did not provide these in their coding indexes. Note that the Norwegian language is of moderate quality. For Mongolian 6% is not translated, for Indonesia and Albanian 1% is not translated, and for Bosnian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, and Slovakian 1-19 tasks are not translated. The table hereafter details the sources used.

COUNTRY

SOURCE

Albania

PËR MIRATIMIN E LISTËS KOMBËTARE TË PROFESIONEVE (LKP), TË RISHIKUAR, VENDIM Nr. 514, datë 20.9.2017

Austria

Übersicht über die Gliederung der ÖISCO, OEISCO08_Erlaeuterungen

Bosnian

Translations

Bulgaria

Национална Класификация На Професиите И Длъжностите, 2011 г.

Czech Republic

Klasifikace zaměstnání - systematická část_1_20110909

English (British)

ILO. (2012). International Standard Classification of Occupations ISCO-08 Volume 1 Structure, Group Definitions And Correspondence Tables. Geneva: International Labour Office.

Estonia

Ametite klassifikaator 2008v1.5b

Finland

2011 Tilastokeskus – Statistikcentralen – Statistics Finland

French

Translations

Indonesia

Translations

Lithuania

LIETUVOS RESPUBLIKOS PROFESIJŲ KLASIFIKATORIAUS ATNAUJINTA ŠEŠIAŽENKLĖ STRUKTŪRA PAGAL ISCO-08, LPK pagal ISCO-08 kodas, PATVIRTINTA Lietuvos darbo rinkos mokymo tarnybos prie Socialinės apsaugos ir darbo ministerijos direktoriaus 2010 m. rugsėjo 30 d. įsakymu Nr. V(5)-167

Mongolia

Монгол Улсын Їндэсний, Ажил, Мэргэжлийн, Ангилал ба Тодорхойлолт ЇАМАТ-08 (ISCO - 08). Нийгмийн хамгаалал, хєдєлмєрийн яам Улаанбаатар. 2010 он

Netherlands

Translations

Norway

Notater 17/2011, Standard for yrkesklassifisering (STYRK-08) Statistisk sentralbyrå • Statistics Norway, Oslo–Kongsvinger

Portugal

Classificação Portuguesa das Profissões 2010, Edição 2011. Instituto Nacional de Estatística, Lisboa, Portugal

Russian

Translations

Slovak Republic

Štatistická Klasifikácia Zamestnaní Sk ISCO-08 Číselný kód Názov zamestnania

Spain

Clasificación Nacional de Ocupaciones 2011 (CNO2011), Notas Explicativas. INE (Statistics Spain), Enero 2012

Turkey

Uluslararası Standart Meslek Sınıflaması (ISCO-08)

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