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We offer information on occupations in the past:

Tens of thousands of occupational titles from countries and languages around the world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century
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a bibliography on the world of work and links to related websites
information on social class schemes and occupational stratification scales such as respectively HISCLASS and HISCAM

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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
Release_HSN_HISCO_2013_01_adapted Feb 29, 2016 - HISCO Zijdeman, Richard, 2016, "Release_HSN_HISCO_2013_01_adapted", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/UQJZKJ, IISH Data Collection, V1 This is a slightly adapted version of the official HSN 2013.01 HISCO release. The original file has no headers and a subsequent version was in Dutch csv standard (i.e. ';' as seperator and ',' as decimal indicator). This dataset contains that Dutch file, an R-script to transpose...
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)
Basten_Northern_English_Parishes_1777_1812 Feb 28, 2016 - HISCO Basten, Stuart, 2016, "Basten_Northern_English_Parishes_1777_1812", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/YK84PG, IISH Data Collection, V2 The occupations in this dataset are deposited by Stuart Basten. He gathered the data when at the Jaugeillonian University and are derived from Northern English parish registers between 1777-1812.
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
Mooney_1866_London_occupational_codes Feb 28, 2016 - HISCO Mooney, Graham, 2016, "Mooney_1866_London_occupational_codes", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/ERGY0V, IISH Data Collection, V1, UNF:6:+wMiF+S0BuzIBIXW3zrclA== [fileUNF] Files with the HISCO codes that attributed to the occupational titles that were on the transcribed death certificates of 13,688 deaths recorded in London during the 1866 cholera epidemic. Provenance: Graham Mooney, ‘Diagnostic spaces: workhouse, hospital and home in mid-Victorian...
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.

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

Release_HSN_HISCO_2013_01_adapted

Feb 29, 2016 - HISCO

Zijdeman, Richard, 2016, "Release_HSN_HISCO_2013_01_adapted", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/UQJZKJ, IISH Data Collection, V1

This is a slightly adapted version of the official HSN 2013.01 HISCO release. The original file has no headers and a subsequent version was in Dutch csv standard (i.e. ';' as seperator and ',' as decimal indicator). This dataset contains that Dutch file, an R-script to transpose...

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)

Basten_Northern_English_Parishes_1777_1812

Feb 28, 2016 - HISCO

Basten, Stuart, 2016, "Basten_Northern_English_Parishes_1777_1812", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/YK84PG, IISH Data Collection, V2

The occupations in this dataset are deposited by Stuart Basten. He gathered the data when at the Jaugeillonian University and are derived from Northern English parish registers between 1777-1812.

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

Mooney_1866_London_occupational_codes

Feb 28, 2016 - HISCO

Mooney, Graham, 2016, "Mooney_1866_London_occupational_codes", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/ERGY0V, IISH Data Collection, V1, UNF:6:+wMiF+S0BuzIBIXW3zrclA== [fileUNF]

Files with the HISCO codes that attributed to the occupational titles that were on the transcribed death certificates of 13,688 deaths recorded in London during the 1866 cholera epidemic. Provenance: Graham Mooney, ‘Diagnostic spaces: workhouse, hospital and home in mid-Victorian...

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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