Harmonisation

Schneider, S. L., Joye, D., Wolf, C., & Surveys, C. (2016). When Translation is not Enough: Background Variables in Comparative Surveys. In C. Wolf, D. Joye, T. W. Smith, & Y.-C. Fu (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Survey Methodology (pp. 288–307). Los Angeles, CA: Sage. 

Education

Bradley, K., & Charles, M. (2009). Indulging Our Gendered Selves? Sex Segregation by Field of Study in 44 Countries. American Journal of Sociology, 114(4), 924–976. https://doi.org/10.1086/595942

Braun, M., & Müller, W. (1997). Measurement of education in comparative research. Comparative Social Research, 16, 163–201.

Eurostat. (1999). Fields of Education and Training - Manual. Retrieved from https://ico.metu.edu.tr/system/files/fields_of_education_and_training_eurostat1999.pdf

Gerber, T. P., & Cheung, S. Y. (2008). Horizontal Stratification in Postsecondary Education: Forms, Explanations, and Implications. Annual Review of Sociology, 34, 299–318. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.34.040507.134604

Jackson, M., Luijkx, R., & Pollak, R. (2008). Educational Fields of Study and the Intergenerational Mobility Process in Comparative Perspective. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 49(4–5),  369–388.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0020715208093082

Ortmanns, V. (2020).Explaining Inconsistencies in the Education Distributions of Ten Cross-National Surveys - The Role of Methodological Survey Characteristics. Journal of Official Statistics , 36(2), 379–409. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/JOS-2020-0020

Ortmanns, V., & Schneider, S. L. (2016a). Can we assess survey representativeness of cross-national surveys using the education variable? Survey Research Methods, 10(3), 189–210. https://doi.org/10.18148/srm/2016.v10i3.6608 

Ortmanns, V., & Schneider, S. L. (2016b). Harmonization still failing? Inconsistency of education variables in cross-national public opinion surveys. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 28(4), 562–582. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edv025

Reimer, D., & Pollak, R. (2010). Educational Expansion and Its Consequences for Vertical and Horizontal Inequalities in Access to Higher Education in West Germany. European Sociological Review, 26(4), 415–430. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcp029

Schneider, S. L. (Ed.). (2008). The International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED-97). An evaluation of content and criterion validity for 15 European countries. Mannheim: MZES. Download chapters.

Schneider, S. L. (2009). Confusing Credentials: The Cross-Nationally Comparable Measurement of Educational Attainment (Doctoral dissertation, University of Oxford, UK).

Schneider, S. L. (2013). The International Standard Classification of Education 2011. In G. E. Birkelund (Ed.), Class and Stratification Analysis (Comparative Social Research, Volume 30) (Vol. 30, pp. 365–379). Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing.

Schneider, S. L. (2016). The Conceptualisation, Measurement, and Coding of Education in German and Cross-National Surveys. GESIS Survey Guidelines. Mannheim, Germany: GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. doi: 10.15465/gesis-sg_en_020

Schneider, S. L. et al. (2018). Measuring migrants’ educational attainment: the CAMCES tool in the IAB-SOEP Migration Sample. In Behr, D. (Ed.), Surveying the migrant population: Consideration of linguistic and cultural issues (pp. 43–74). Mannheim: GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS Schriftenreihe). https://doi.org/10.21241/ssoar.58074

Smith, T. W. (1995). Some aspects of measuring education. Social Science Research, 24(3), 215–242. https://doi.org/10.1006/ssre.1995.1008

Smyth, E., & Steinmetz, S. (2008). Field of Study and Gender Segregation in European Labour Markets. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 49(4–5), 257–281. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020715208093077

UNESCO. (2006). International Standard Classification of Education ISCED 1997. Retrieved from https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000146967?posInSet=1&queryId=a8d996ff-eddd-4153-9468-5d7f9e8f7199

UNESCO-UIS. (2014). ISCED Fields of Education and Training 2013 (ISCED-F 2013). Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Retrieved from http://uis.unesco.org/sites/default/files/documents/isced-fields-of-education-and-training-2013-en.pdf

UNESCO-UIS. (2015). International Standard Classification of Education. Fields of education and training 2013 (ISCED-F 2013) - Detailed field description. Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Retrieved from http://uis.unesco.org/sites/default/files/documents/international-standard-classification-of-education-fields-of-education-and-training-2013-detailed-field-descriptions-2015-en.pdf

Van de Werfhorst, H. G., & Luijkx, R. (2010). Educational Field of Study and Social Mobility: Disaggregating Social Origin and Education. Sociology, 44(4), 695–715. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038510369362

Verhaest, D., & Sellami, S. (2017). Differences in Horizontal and Vertical Mismatches Across Countries and Fields of Study. International Labour Review, 156(1), 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1564-913X.2015.00031.

 

Occupation

Belloni, M., Brugiavini, A., Meschi, E., & Tijdens, K. (2016). Measurement error in occupational coding: an analysis on SHARE data. Journal of Official Statistics, 32(4), 917–945.

Belloni, M., & Tijdens, K. G. (2017). Occupation > industry predictions for measuring industry in surveys. Deliverable 8.11 of the SERISS project funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme GA No: 654221.

Castiglioni, G., & Tijdens, K. G. (2014). Skills and occupational needs: labour market forecasting systems in Italy. University of Amsterdam, AIAS Working Paper 142.

Hunter, D. (2014). The design principles of ISCO-08: challenges for coding occupations globally. ILO Geneva. Presentation given at Amsterdam, Ingrid Workshop, February 10 2014.

ILO. (2012). International Standard Classification of Occupations ISCO-08 Volume 1 Structure, Group Definitions And Correspondence Tables. Geneva: International Labour Office.

Mihaylov, E, & Tijdens, K. G. (2019). Measuring the Routine and Non-Routine Task Content of 427 Four-Digit ISCO-08 Occupations. Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper, TI 2019-035/V, Amsterdam.

Tijdens, K. G. (2010). Measuring occupations in web-surveys: the WISCO database of occupations. University of Amsterdam, AIAS Working Paper 10-86.

Tijdens, K. G.  (2014a). Drop-out rates during completion of an occupation search tree in web-surveys. Journal of Official Statistics, 30 (1), 23–43. https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2014-0002

Tijdens, K. G. (2014b). Reviewing the measurement and comparison of occupations across Europe. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam, AIAS Working Paper 149.

Tijdens, K. G. (2015a). The design of a tool for the measurement of occupations in web surveys using a global index of occupations. Working Paper, Leuven, InGRID project, M21.2.

Tijdens, K. G. (2015b). Self-identification of occupation in web surveys: requirements for search trees and look-up tables. Survey Methods: Insights from the Field, 1-11. doi:10.13094/SMIF-2015-00008

Tijdens, K.G. (2019) Measuring job tasks by ISCO-08 occupational group. Deliverable 8.6 of the SERISS project funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme GA No: 654221. Available at: www.seriss.eu/resources/deliverables

Tijdens, K. G., De Ruijter, E., & De Ruijter, J. (2012). Measuring work activities and skill requirements of occupations: experiences from a European pilot study with a web-survey. European Journal of Training and Development, 36(7), 751-763.

Tijdens, K. G., De Ruijter, E., & De Ruijter, J. (2014). Comparing work tasks of 160 occupations across eight European countries. Employee Relations, 36 (2), 110 – 127. https://doi.org/10.1108/ER-05-2013-0046

Tijdens, K. G., Vries, D., & Steinmetz, S. (2013). Health workforce remuneration: comparing wage levels, ranking and dispersion of 16 occupational groups in 20 countries using survey data. Human Resources for Health, 11(11), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-4491-11-11