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Swedish Occupational Titles from CEDAR Nov 13, 2024 Edvinsson, Sören; Westberg, Annika, 2016, "Swedish Occupational Titles from CEDAR", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/KNGX6B, IISH Data Collection, V4, UNF:6:XVrVjQ0SEaOo5bKwLhJH0g== [fileUNF] This file contains Swedish Occupational Titles as encountered by the CEDAR project, that were coded into HISCO (see notes and http://www.cedar.umu.se/english/?languageId=1). The occupations originate from documents from c 1700 – c 1950 for Skellefteå region and C 1700-1900 for Su...
se_CEDAR_HISCO.tab Nov 13, 2024 - Swedish Occupational Titles from CEDAR Tabular Data - 99.9 KB - 2 Variables, 4648 Observations - UNF:6:XVrVjQ0SEaOo5bKwLhJH0g== Updated file ('bokhandelsdr{ng' -> 'bokhandelsdräng') and in UTF-8 format. 2024 replaced: colon separated with comma separated file and removed incorrect comma in 'BEFALLNINGSMAN-JORDBRUK'
Barcelona Historical Marriage Database Feb 7, 2017 Pujades Mora, Joana Maria; Valls, Miquel, 2017, "Barcelona Historical Marriage Database", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/SDZPFE, IISH Data Collection, V1, UNF:6:f3xC63ywNbwbs3jyZbQhMQ== [fileUNF] This file contains the occupations in Catalan from the Barcelona Historical Marriage Database.All the occupations were written originally in Catalan. In case of an individual had two, three occupations they have been codifyied in the same row together. That's the reason why you w...
2014_HISCO_Pujadas_Mora.pdf Feb 7, 2017 - Barcelona Historical Marriage Database Adobe PDF - 293.4 KB - MD5: a5d2a76cc103d6db481b1c6fa9146a0b Paper describing the coding of Catalan occupational titles into HISCO
Occupation Matrix BHMD_3001.tab Feb 7, 2017 - Barcelona Historical Marriage Database Tabular Data - 9.4 MB - 17 Variables, 20923 Observations - UNF:6:f3xC63ywNbwbs3jyZbQhMQ== The HISCO codification of the Barcelona Historical Marriage Database. All the occupations were written originally in Catalan. In case of an individual had two, three occupations they have been codifyied in the same row together. That's the reason why you will find: Standardized...
HISCO_Italian_Formasin_Marzona_2006 Nov 4, 2016 - HISCO A. Fornasin; A. Marzona, 2016, "HISCO_Italian_Formasin_Marzona_2006", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/SRVW6S, IISH Data Collection, V1 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...
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
Occupational titles from Norwegian censuses Mar 5, 2016 Thorvaldsen, Gunnar, 2016, "Occupational titles from Norwegian censuses", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/B8Q6W5, IISH Data Collection, V1 This dataset contains the Norwegian occupational titles from the 1865, 1875, 1900 and 1910 Norwegian censuses. The titles are coded into the Norwegian system of Hierark & Naering as well as in OCCHISCO ('NAPP HISCO').
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

Swedish Occupational Titles from CEDAR

Nov 13, 2024

Edvinsson, Sören; Westberg, Annika, 2016, "Swedish Occupational Titles from CEDAR", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/KNGX6B, IISH Data Collection, V4, UNF:6:XVrVjQ0SEaOo5bKwLhJH0g== [fileUNF]

This file contains Swedish Occupational Titles as encountered by the CEDAR project, that were coded into HISCO (see notes and http://www.cedar.umu.se/english/?languageId=1). The occupations originate from documents from c 1700 – c 1950 for Skellefteå region and C 1700-1900 for Su...

se_CEDAR_HISCO.tab

Nov 13, 2024 - Swedish Occupational Titles from CEDAR

Tabular Data - 99.9 KB - 2 Variables, 4648 Observations -

Updated file ('bokhandelsdr{ng' -> 'bokhandelsdräng') and in UTF-8 format. 2024 replaced: colon separated with comma separated file and removed incorrect comma in 'BEFALLNINGSMAN-JORDBRUK'

Barcelona Historical Marriage Database

Feb 7, 2017

Pujades Mora, Joana Maria; Valls, Miquel, 2017, "Barcelona Historical Marriage Database", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/SDZPFE, IISH Data Collection, V1, UNF:6:f3xC63ywNbwbs3jyZbQhMQ== [fileUNF]

This file contains the occupations in Catalan from the Barcelona Historical Marriage Database.All the occupations were written originally in Catalan. In case of an individual had two, three occupations they have been codifyied in the same row together. That's the reason why you w...

2014_HISCO_Pujadas_Mora.pdf

Feb 7, 2017 - Barcelona Historical Marriage Database

Adobe PDF - 293.4 KB -

Paper describing the coding of Catalan occupational titles into HISCO

Occupation Matrix BHMD_3001.tab

Feb 7, 2017 - Barcelona Historical Marriage Database

Tabular Data - 9.4 MB - 17 Variables, 20923 Observations -

The HISCO codification of the Barcelona Historical Marriage Database. All the occupations were written originally in Catalan. In case of an individual had two, three occupations they have been codifyied in the same row together. That's the reason why you will find: Standardized...

HISCO_Italian_Formasin_Marzona_2006

Nov 4, 2016 - HISCO

A. Fornasin; A. Marzona, 2016, "HISCO_Italian_Formasin_Marzona_2006", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/SRVW6S, IISH Data Collection, V1

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...

HISCO_Italian_Formasin_Marzona_2006.tab

Nov 4, 2016 - HISCO_Italian_Formasin_Marzona_2006

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

CEDAR HISCO.txt

Mar 22, 2016 - Swedish Occupational Titles from CEDAR

Plain Text - 92.5 KB -

Swedish occupational titles from CEDAR

Occupational titles from Norwegian censuses

Mar 5, 2016

Thorvaldsen, Gunnar, 2016, "Occupational titles from Norwegian censuses", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/B8Q6W5, IISH Data Collection, V1

This dataset contains the Norwegian occupational titles from the 1865, 1875, 1900 and 1910 Norwegian censuses. The titles are coded into the Norwegian system of Hierark & Naering as well as in OCCHISCO ('NAPP HISCO').

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

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