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lndn1866_01-1.tab Feb 28, 2016 - Mooney_1866_London_occupational_codes Tabular Data - 58.6 KB - 5 Variables, 2178 Observations - UNF:6:/up+/6Zv1ma+3m8Qk6bl+A== Data Provenance: Graham Mooney, ‘Diagnostic spaces: workhouse, hospital and home in mid-Victorian London', Social Science History, 30:3 (2009), 357-90.
lndn1866_01.tab Feb 28, 2016 - Mooney_1866_London_occupational_codes Tabular Data - 62.9 KB - 1 Variables, 2178 Observations - UNF:6:5FaJFA/ckntMZWpx6jtOtA== Data Provenance: Graham Mooney, ‘Diagnostic spaces: workhouse, hospital and home in mid-Victorian London', Social Science History, 30:3 (2009), 357-90.
HISCLASS Feb 27, 2016 - HISCO Maas; Van Leeuwen, 2016, "HISCLASS", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/HEFSW2, IISH Data Collection, V1 Class schemes, contemporary as well as historical, always involve something of a mystery. While this book does not claim to have solved that mystery completely, it does shed significant light on it. For the sake of comparability, it is advisable not to develop new class schemes b...
A short note on HISCLASS.doc Feb 27, 2016 - HISCLASS MS Word - 88.0 KB - MD5: 6954cde0595598205476195c9888b7d9 Recently a social class scheme (HISCLASS) based on HISCO has been made by Marco H.D. van Leeuwen and Ineke Maas. You can use the full scheme, with 12 social classes, or the condensed version with 7 classes as e.g. in the 2005 supplement on social homogamy of the International Rev...
Recode job unspecified workers.sps Feb 27, 2016 - HISCLASS SPSS Syntax - 7.3 KB - MD5: 7283ff84dbdf3951cef6ff8648408582 For unspecified workers (HISCO 99900 and 99920), it is unclear whether they should be classified as farm workers or unskilled workers, see part three of the recode job. If unspecified workers are common in your data, you may use our procedure to classify these workers using infor...
SPSS recode job HISCO into HISCLASS.inc Feb 27, 2016 - HISCLASS Unknown - 29.5 KB - MD5: 3f57dafe4c2bc71c0757e8ac9b44be5a All hiscodes except two can be recoded automatically in HISCLASS, using an spss recode job. With the release of their new book HISCLASS, authors Marco van Leeuwen and Ineke Maas provide a new HISCO to HISCLASS file: hisco_hisclass12_book@_numerical. We recommend you use this file...
Files from HISCO database Feb 27, 2016 - HISCO Van Leeuwen, 2016, "Files from HISCO database", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/JA9B8O, IISH Data Collection, V1 This dataset contains all files from the HISCO database as used for the historyofwork.iisg.nl website and HISCO book (see: DOI:10.3200/HMTS.37.4.186-197).
hisco_1.tab Feb 27, 2016 - Files from HISCO database Tabular Data - 4.5 KB - 6 Variables, 10 Observations - UNF:6:KPedWtygkztnbvpLJYBMrw== List of HISCO Major Groups (1-digit)
hisco_2.tab Feb 27, 2016 - Files from HISCO database Tabular Data - 33.2 KB - 7 Variables, 77 Observations - UNF:6:zm93An5vNnMTZIiaK7XF2w== List of HISCO Minor Groups (2-digit)
hisco_3.tab Feb 27, 2016 - Files from HISCO database Tabular Data - 166.6 KB - 8 Variables, 298 Observations - UNF:6:BdgCw5tyX6wl99t5xJjq4A== List of HISCO Unit Groups (3-digit)

lndn1866_01-1.tab

Feb 28, 2016 - Mooney_1866_London_occupational_codes

Tabular Data - 58.6 KB - 5 Variables, 2178 Observations -

Data

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

lndn1866_01.tab

Feb 28, 2016 - Mooney_1866_London_occupational_codes

Tabular Data - 62.9 KB - 1 Variables, 2178 Observations -

Data

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

HISCLASS

Feb 27, 2016 - HISCO

Maas; Van Leeuwen, 2016, "HISCLASS", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/HEFSW2, IISH Data Collection, V1

Class schemes, contemporary as well as historical, always involve something of a mystery. While this book does not claim to have solved that mystery completely, it does shed significant light on it. For the sake of comparability, it is advisable not to develop new class schemes b...

A short note on HISCLASS.doc

Feb 27, 2016 - HISCLASS

MS Word - 88.0 KB -

Recently a social class scheme (HISCLASS) based on HISCO has been made by Marco H.D. van Leeuwen and Ineke Maas. You can use the full scheme, with 12 social classes, or the condensed version with 7 classes as e.g. in the 2005 supplement on social homogamy of the International Rev...

Recode job unspecified workers.sps

Feb 27, 2016 - HISCLASS

SPSS Syntax - 7.3 KB -

For unspecified workers (HISCO 99900 and 99920), it is unclear whether they should be classified as farm workers or unskilled workers, see part three of the recode job. If unspecified workers are common in your data, you may use our procedure to classify these workers using infor...

SPSS recode job HISCO into HISCLASS.inc

Feb 27, 2016 - HISCLASS

Unknown - 29.5 KB -

All hiscodes except two can be recoded automatically in HISCLASS, using an spss recode job. With the release of their new book HISCLASS, authors Marco van Leeuwen and Ineke Maas provide a new HISCO to HISCLASS file: hisco_hisclass12_book@_numerical. We recommend you use this file...

Files from HISCO database

Feb 27, 2016 - HISCO

Van Leeuwen, 2016, "Files from HISCO database", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/JA9B8O, IISH Data Collection, V1

This dataset contains all files from the HISCO database as used for the historyofwork.iisg.nl website and HISCO book (see: DOI:10.3200/HMTS.37.4.186-197).

hisco_1.tab

Feb 27, 2016 - Files from HISCO database

Tabular Data - 4.5 KB - 6 Variables, 10 Observations -

List of HISCO Major Groups (1-digit)

hisco_2.tab

Feb 27, 2016 - Files from HISCO database

Tabular Data - 33.2 KB - 7 Variables, 77 Observations -

List of HISCO Minor Groups (2-digit)

hisco_3.tab

Feb 27, 2016 - Files from HISCO database

Tabular Data - 166.6 KB - 8 Variables, 298 Observations -

List of HISCO Unit Groups (3-digit)

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