The International Socio-Economic Index of Occupational Status (ISEI)
The Microcensus Scientific Use Files from 1996 onwards contain occupational data coded according to the International Standard Classification of Occupations for use within the European Community (1996-2012 ISCO-88 COM; since 2011 ISCO-08). The following information shows how the International Socio-Economic Index of Occupational Status (ISEI) can be implemented on the basis of this occupational data. For the survey year 2020, no syntaxes for the implementation of ISEI are offered, as the official statistics have refrained from publishing the ISCO variables in the MZ-SUF 2020 due to quality concerns.
Download the programs for the application of ISEI
Please note:
The setups should be downloaded and used with statistics programs. The browser view provides only an overview. Characters with an Umlaut and line breaks are sometimes displayed incorrectly.
Further information (available only in German)
| Schimpl-Neimanns, Bernhard (2004): Zur Umsetzung des Internationalen Sozioökonomischen Index des beruflichen Status (ISEI), ZUMA-Nachrichten (54): 154-170. | [.pdf] |
| Conversion key from ISCO-88 (COM) to ISEI | [.pdf] |
| Conversion key from ISCO-08 to ISEI (File "isqoisei08.sps") | [.zip] |