Euroccupations dataset, codebook, and labelset

Title: Developing a detailed 8-country occupations database for comparative socio-economic research in the European Union
Duration: April 2006 - March 2009
Funded by: European Commission - 6th Framework Programme - FP6-028987

The EurOccupations project aimed to build a publicly available database containing the most common occupations for use in multi-country data-collection, through the Internet or otherwise. It covered eight EU countries, notably Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and United Kingdom. The database includes a source list of 1,594 distinct occupational titles within the ISCO-08 classification, country-specific translations and a search tree to navigate through the database.

An updated occupational database is downloadable here: https://www.surveycodings.org/occupation-measurement

See for information about the project: https://wageindicator.org/Wageindicatorfoundation/projects/euroccp

See publications: 

Tijdens K.G., De Ruijter, E., De Ruijter, J. (2014) Comparing work tasks of 160 occupations across eight European countries, Employee Relations, 36 (2), pp.110 – 127 (EN) LINK = http://www.emeraldinsight.com/toc/er/36/2

Tijdens, K.G., De Ruijter, J. and De Ruijter, E. (2012), "Measuring work activities and skill requirements of occupations: Experiences from a European pilot study with a web‐survey", European Journal of Training and Development, Vol. 36 No. 7, pp. 751-763. https://doi.org/10.1108/03090591211255575