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ESeC - European Socioeconomic Classification

ESeC offers a classification of socioeconomic positions for both European comparisons and for analyses on the country level. In the ESeC project, harmonised operationalisations and validations were implemented for Europe based on the theoretical model of the Erikson-Goldthorpe class scheme (EGP). For the classifications, the occupational codes according to the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-08, occupational subgroups (3-digits)), the employment status, and the type of employment relations are used. The recoding essentially follows the SPSS syntax of Eric Harrison. The syntaxes for implementing ESeC are available for the Microcensus Scientific Use Files from 2012 onwards. For the survey year 2020, no syntaxes for the implementation of ESeC are offered, as the official statistics have refrained from publishing the ISCO variables in the MZ-SUF 2020 due to quality concerns.

Further information:

  • Website of Eric Harrison about ESeC
  • Müller, Walter, Heike Wirth, Gerrit Bauer, Reinhard Pollak und Felix Weiss (2006): ESeC - Kurzbericht zur Validierung und Operationalisierung einer europäischen sozioökonomischen Klassifikation. ZUMA-Nachrichten 30 (59): 111-119 [.pdf].
  • Pollak, Reinhard, Heike Wirth, Felix Weiss, Gerrit Bauer und Walter Müller (2009): On the Comparative Measurement of Supervisory Status using the Examples of the ESS and the EU-LFS. In: Birgit Pfau-Effinger, Sladana Sakac Magdalenic und Christof Wolf (Hg.): International vergleichende Sozialforschung. Ansätze und Messkonzepte unter den Bedingungen der Globalisierung: 173-206. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag.

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SPSS Stata R
Microcensus 2022 [.sps] [.do] [.R]
Microcensus 2021 [.sps] [.do] [.R]
Microcensus 2019 [.sps] [.do] [.R]
Microcensus 2018 [.sps] [.do] [.R]
Microcensus 2017 [.sps] [.do] [.R]
Microcensus 2016 [.sps] [.do] [.R]
Microcensus 2015 [.sps] [.do] [.R]
Microcensus 2014 [.sps] [.do] [.R]
Microcensus 2013 [.sps] [.do] [.R]
Microcensus 2012 [.sps] [.do] [.R]