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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'
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.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)

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'

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.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)

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