Sylvain Jouhette (sylvain.jouhette@ec.europa.eu) WORKSHOP ON THE DATA COLLECTION OF OCCUPATIONAL DATA Luxembourg, 28 November 2008 ESeC: European Socio-economic classification Sylvain Jouhette (sylvain.jouhette@ec.europa.eu)

ESeC prototype 6th Framework Programme project on ESeC Follows a task force on harmonisation of social statistics in 1997-2000. Project aim: use in the field of EU comparative research in human sciences EU wide analyses health, living conditions, labour market situation of men and women, economic situation of citizens among Member States, along with intergenerational social mobility and intergenerational inheritance of inequalities. Consortium: universities, research centres, one NSI from the UK, Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden, from end 2004 to Summer 2006, several workshops. And conferences, including on for NSIs in Slovenia. Some national socio-economic classifications Normative/deductive matrix (mostly Anglo-Saxon countries: the Erikson-Goldthorpe-Portocarero schema) or Theoretical/inductive classification (French 'nomenclature des Professions et Catégories Socioprofessionnelles' PCS). ESeC WORKSHOP ON THE DATA COLLECTION OF OCCUPATIONAL DATA Luxembourg, 28 November 2008

ESeC prototype information requirements : Status in employment employers, self employed, employees OCCUPATION: - service relationship (higher professional, senior administrative and senior management positions) - labour contract (‘working class occupations’) - intermediate (clerical occupations, as well as for some technical, sales and service occupations) Supervisory status Establishment size Proposed ESeC ‘Classes’ (full or reduced version) For all: Categorised as Employer Own account/self-employed without employees Employee For employers: With 10+ employees With <10 employees For employees: (Categorised as) Supervisor Other employee ESeC WORKSHOP ON THE DATA COLLECTION OF OCCUPATIONAL DATA Luxembourg, 28 November 2008

ESeC WORKSHOP ON THE DATA COLLECTION OF OCCUPATIONAL DATA Luxembourg, 28 November 2008

ESeC prototype Proposed ESeC ‘Classes’ (Level 1) Large employers, higher managerial and professional occupations Lower managerial and professional occupations Intermediate occupations Small employers and own account workers Employers and self-employed in agriculture Lower supervisory and lower technician occupations Lower services etc occupations Lower technical occupations Routine occupations Never worked and long term unemployed ESeC WORKSHOP ON THE DATA COLLECTION OF OCCUPATIONAL DATA Luxembourg, 28 November 2008

ESeC prototype Example - Distribution of employed persons in three social surveys by ESeC, Belgium Source: European Community Household Panel (ECHP), European Social Survey (ESS), EU Labour Force Survey (EULFS). ESeC Consortium, Statistical compendium ESeC WORKSHOP ON THE DATA COLLECTION OF OCCUPATIONAL DATA Luxembourg, 28 November 2008

ESeC prototype Issues and tests: ESeC is a deductive matrix based on existing variables (a priori easy to implement at EU level) but 1. More validation studies required 2. Quality issues already recognised by NSIs 3. Involvement of the European Statistical System in further steps, of which improvement of ISCO ESeC WORKSHOP ON THE DATA COLLECTION OF OCCUPATIONAL DATA Luxembourg, 28 November 2008

ESeC: 2007 grants Call for proposal for grants launched in 2007 3 sets of items, standard list of questions: - set A (ISCO), - sets A and B (ISCO and improvements), - sets A, B and C (ISCO, improvements and quality issues). 4 countries applied: BG, FR, IT and HU. Tests started in January 2008. Final reports expected by June 2009. ESeC WORKSHOP ON THE DATA COLLECTION OF OCCUPATIONAL DATA Luxembourg, 28 November 2008

ESeC tests: dimensions WORKSHOP ON THE DATA COLLECTION OF OCCUPATIONAL DATA Luxembourg, 28 November 2008

ESeC tests: other issues WORKSHOP ON THE DATA COLLECTION OF OCCUPATIONAL DATA Luxembourg, 28 November 2008

ESeC tests: NSI projects WORKSHOP ON THE DATA COLLECTION OF OCCUPATIONAL DATA Luxembourg, 28 November 2008

ESeC: Circa domain Other document on the ESeC webpage on Circa: Objectives of the classification User guide (current prototype) National classifications, developments since 2000 Validation procedures proposed Access to EU data (e.g. EU LFS) Intermediate reports of the 4 NSIs ESeC WORKSHOP ON THE DATA COLLECTION OF OCCUPATIONAL DATA Luxembourg, 28 November 2008

ESeC: next steps Results of tests expected by June 2009 Intermediate reports available on Circa EU-LFS results available upon request Discussion of the follow-up of the project will take place in the Working Group on core variables in 2009 ESeC WORKSHOP ON THE DATA COLLECTION OF OCCUPATIONAL DATA Luxembourg, 28 November 2008