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HISCO_Italian_Formasin_Marzona_2006.tab Nov 4, 2016 - HISCO_Italian_Formasin_Marzona_2006 Tabular Data - 13.6 KB - 5 Variables, 425 Observations - UNF:6:fUt1c768wtTbCN7L0OspLA== This file contains 5 variables: occupation, hisco, status, relation, product. It contains 425 occupational titles in Italian and their HISCO equivalents. Any provenance on the file (other than the names and year mentioned in the title) is unknown to me. The file was first publish...
CEDAR HISCO.txt Mar 22, 2016 - Swedish Occupational Titles from CEDAR Plain Text - 92.5 KB - MD5: 3c2ac8904aeedcfbd7fe04ab4ad1f857 Swedish occupational titles from CEDAR
CodedocOcc.pdf Mar 5, 2016 - Occupational titles from Norwegian censuses Adobe PDF - 145.5 KB - MD5: 6b1b2d812a55a29aad888c9e845d2fa1 Documentation Codebook for Norwegian occupational census titles coded in Hierark, Naering and OCCHISCO
NorwayOccs.txt Mar 5, 2016 - Occupational titles from Norwegian censuses Plain Text - 51.7 MB - MD5: 7d5b203485242f26ca761ac02b95a3d0 Data Coded occupational titles from the 1865, 1875, 1900 and 1910 censuses
hsn2013a_hisco_comma.csv Feb 29, 2016 - Release_HSN_HISCO_2013_01_adapted Comma Separated Values - 9.9 MB - MD5: 86c99168e57246882476b029a9ecde9f This is the HSN 2013.01 release in international csv-format with headers.
hsn_2013a_hisco.R Feb 29, 2016 - Release_HSN_HISCO_2013_01_adapted R Syntax - 580 B - MD5: 42a8a760f93791e0d26a2b3632d5469b Code This file reads in the HSN official release hsn_2013a and transposed the format to an international format (e.g. not seperated by colons, but by comma's.)
Release_HSN_HISCO_2013_01a.csv Feb 29, 2016 - Release_HSN_HISCO_2013_01_adapted Comma Separated Values - 10.0 MB - MD5: f99a0a1a58327ae2b2ab51b201aca8d3 HSN 2013 01a version received from Kees Mandemakers (with headers and in Dutch csv-format)
bstn_01.tab Feb 28, 2016 - Basten_Northern_English_Parishes_1777_1812 Tabular Data - 2.1 KB - 5 Variables, 94 Observations - UNF:6:D1LukF5VLGp1EbwmKjsDag== Data
correspondence_Basten_UJ_HISCO_abridged.txt Feb 28, 2016 - Basten_Northern_English_Parishes_1777_1812 Plain Text - 1.4 KB - MD5: 87dad2f56d19c3858605b3b5039c5b51 Documentation Email correspondence
emailGrahamMooney.txt Feb 28, 2016 - Mooney_1866_London_occupational_codes Plain Text - 1.8 KB - MD5: 3578a32421c5c1c098eb7aa852ba63cb Documentation Provenance: Graham Mooney, ‘Diagnostic spaces: workhouse, hospital and home in mid-Victorian London', Social Science History, 30:3 (2009), 357-90.

HISCO_Italian_Formasin_Marzona_2006.tab

Nov 4, 2016 - HISCO_Italian_Formasin_Marzona_2006

Tabular Data - 13.6 KB - 5 Variables, 425 Observations -

This file contains 5 variables: occupation, hisco, status, relation, product. It contains 425 occupational titles in Italian and their HISCO equivalents. Any provenance on the file (other than the names and year mentioned in the title) is unknown to me. The file was first publish...

CEDAR HISCO.txt

Mar 22, 2016 - Swedish Occupational Titles from CEDAR

Plain Text - 92.5 KB -

Swedish occupational titles from CEDAR

CodedocOcc.pdf

Mar 5, 2016 - Occupational titles from Norwegian censuses

Adobe PDF - 145.5 KB -

Documentation

Codebook for Norwegian occupational census titles coded in Hierark, Naering and OCCHISCO

NorwayOccs.txt

Mar 5, 2016 - Occupational titles from Norwegian censuses

Plain Text - 51.7 MB -

Data

Coded occupational titles from the 1865, 1875, 1900 and 1910 censuses

hsn2013a_hisco_comma.csv

Feb 29, 2016 - Release_HSN_HISCO_2013_01_adapted

Comma Separated Values - 9.9 MB -

This is the HSN 2013.01 release in international csv-format with headers.

hsn_2013a_hisco.R

Feb 29, 2016 - Release_HSN_HISCO_2013_01_adapted

R Syntax - 580 B -

Code

This file reads in the HSN official release hsn_2013a and transposed the format to an international format (e.g. not seperated by colons, but by comma's.)

Release_HSN_HISCO_2013_01a.csv

Feb 29, 2016 - Release_HSN_HISCO_2013_01_adapted

Comma Separated Values - 10.0 MB -

HSN 2013 01a version received from Kees Mandemakers (with headers and in Dutch csv-format)

bstn_01.tab

Feb 28, 2016 - Basten_Northern_English_Parishes_1777_1812

Tabular Data - 2.1 KB - 5 Variables, 94 Observations -

Data

correspondence_Basten_UJ_HISCO_abridged.txt

Feb 28, 2016 - Basten_Northern_English_Parishes_1777_1812

Plain Text - 1.4 KB -

Documentation

Email correspondence

emailGrahamMooney.txt

Feb 28, 2016 - Mooney_1866_London_occupational_codes

Plain Text - 1.8 KB -

Documentation

Provenance: Graham Mooney, ‘Diagnostic spaces: workhouse, hospital and home in mid-Victorian London', Social Science History, 30:3 (2009), 357-90.

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