Converting ISCO88 codes into the International Socioeconomic Index of occupational status

[Sherine Maui]

Hi,

I am using individual level data and I currently have a variable coded following the ISCO88 4 digit codes ( The International Standard Classification of occupations). I will be using this variable as a proxy for socioeconomic status and so I would like to assign ISEI (International Socio-economic Index of Occupational Status) scores to the ISCO88 codes. I can't seem to find the stata syntax to do this, I have checked the Harry Ganzeboom website and it appears to only have the SPSS syntax. Any help with this would be greatly appreicated.

Thank you.
Sherine

[William Lisowski]

Based on previous advice given here, you will want to use the user-written iskoisei command, part of the isko package from SSC. See

net describe isko, from(http://fmwww.bc.edu/RePEc/bocode/i)

for details.

With that said, there is a problem in the iskoisei.ado file. There is an extra line at the end of the file as shown below.

        quietly replace `varlist'=22 if (`isko' == 9332)
        quietly replace `varlist'=30 if (`isko' == 9333)
end
B

You can open iskoisei.ado in the do-file editor using

doedit "`c(sysdir_plus)'i/iskoisei.ado"

and then delete the final line (with the "B") and save the edit ado file before closing the do-file editor window. Then the command should work as documented.

[Sherine Maui]

Thank you very much William.

[William Lisowski]

To anyone who finds this topic through searching, the iscogen package, written by Ben Jann and released today through SSC, has the capabilities provided by the isco and isko packages, and much more, without the flaw discussed in post #2 above. For more detalis, see the output of

ssc describe iscogen

[Sarah Weissmann]

I installed the iscogen package sucessfully but isko is not converting into isei. What steps do i need to take after i installed it?

[William Lisowski]

Welcome to Statalist.

Have you read the documentation provided in the output of the help iscogen command? It suggests to me that the necessary command is something like

iscogen iseicodes = isei(iscocodes), from(isco88)

assuming your variable iscocodes contains ISCO88 codes and you want to create a variable named iseicode to contain the corresponding ISEI codes.

[Sarah Weissmann]

Yes but I didnt use the right command. Now it works, thank you for your help!