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

2. ESeC prototype 6th Framework Programme project on ESeC
Follows a task force on harmonisation of social statistics in
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).
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3. 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
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4. ESeC
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5. 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
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6. 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
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7. 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
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8. 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.
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9. ESeC tests: dimensions
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10. ESeC tests: other issues
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11. ESeC tests: NSI projects
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12. 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
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13. 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
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