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CASCOT for EurOccupations • Demonstration of the software • English, Dutch, French • Manual coding • Linking to EurOccupations database • Automated coding • Specific issues
CASCOT for EurOccupations
• Demonstration of the software
• English, Dutch, French
• Manual coding
• Linking to EurOccupations database
• Automated coding
• Specific issues
CASCOT for EurOccupations
Select the language
EurOccupations (English)
Manual coding (English)
Enter manually the occupational text
‘Hairdresser’
Manual coding (English)
After pressing ‘Enter’ CASCOT shows
• the best matching ISCO’08 code
• within the ISCO group, the best matching EurOccupations title
Manual coding (English)
It is possible to add more information about the occupation to the output
Manual coding (English)
Select additional output items:
• Score
• Key occupation information
• Link to EurOccupations documents
Linking to EurOccupations database
Link to the related EurOccupations document is now available through browser software
Linking to EurOccupations database
Further information is available for this occupation - the data analysis tables can be accessed
Manual coding (English)
Enter another occupational text
‘Financial manager’
Linking to EurOccupations database
‘Financial manager’ is not a key occupation but some information is available, e.g. the occupational titles in all EurOccupations languages
Manual coding (English)
People do not always give their job title
Enter another occupational text
‘I am transporting oranges from Spain to the UK’
Manual coding (English)
The resulting ISCO code is not correct
The relevant code can be found manually from the ISCO structure
Manual coding (Dutch)
Change to the Dutch classification
Enter the occupational text
‘Hovenier’
Manual coding (Dutch)
Enter the text
‘schoonheid’
Linking to EurOccupations database
Again, links to the EurOccupations (English language) documents work
Manual coding (French)
Change to the French version and input ‘cuisine’
Manual coding (French)
Enter the text
‘Secrétaire’
Manual coding (French)
CASCOT does not find the occupation
and has changed ‘é’ into ‘e’
Try again, leave ‘é’ completely out
Manual coding (French)
Correct match this time
The special characters need adjusting
Automated coding
An experienced person can code manually about 100 occupations/hour
What if they are given 40,000 occupational texts to go through?
Use the automated coding
An example of coding 20 rows with EurOccupations English classification
Automated coding
Open the English input file
The fields in the file should be separated, e.g. by comma or Tab
Automated coding
Open the English output file
It will be Tab-separated text file which can be later imported e.g. to Excel
Automated coding
Select the level of automation
• fully manual
• semi-automatic, the certainty level can be selected (score 0-100)
• fully automatic
Automated coding
Click ‘Accept’
CASCOT will go through the file assigning ISCO codes to all rows
Automated coding
An input file of 20 Dutch job titles from Wageindicator data
Further development• Special characters: à â ä ą æ ć ç é è ê ë ę
í î ï ł ń ñ ó ô ö œ ś ß ú û ù ü ÿ ź ż
• Synonyms from EurOccupations database
• Extension to ISCO’08 descriptions
• Language-specific adjustments– Downgraded words: deputy, junior, staff, …– Equivalent word ends: man, person, woman– Abbreviations: asst – assistant– Replacement words: secetary – secretary– Word alternatives: IT - computing
Further information about CASCOT
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ier/
publications/software/cascot
