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ENCODING TOOL

ENCODING TOOL. DEVELOPED BY HUNGARY Márta Záhonyi Hungarian Central Statistical Office. Hungarian Central Statistical Office. The past. Previous practice of encoding of occupation Encoding by interviewers and encoders after interviewing

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ENCODING TOOL

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  1. ENCODING TOOL DEVELOPED BY HUNGARY Márta Záhonyi Hungarian Central Statistical Office Hungarian Central Statistical Office

  2. The past • Previous practice of encoding of occupation • Encoding by interviewers and encoders after interviewing • Recording by data entry operators from the paper questionnaire • Encoding materials used: • 4-digit system of the classification of occupations • Correspondence table between HSCO and ISCO Hungarian Central Statistical Office

  3. The present • The reasons for changing method • Introduction of new classification • To improve the quality • The elements of the new method • Centralized group of encoders • Encoding programme for occupation Hungarian Central Statistical Office

  4. The present • Data processing • Paper and pencil survey • Encoding and recording of the LFS information except for occupation are carried out in county offices according to procedure formerly used • Export of occupational and some related variables from the closed data set to the encoding programme developed for encoding occupational entries • Coding and recording occupation by the centralized group of encoders • Consistency, coherency and plausibility analysis of the recorded data, corrections if needed • Occupational variables are put back into the data base Hungarian Central Statistical Office

  5. Centralized encodingstarted in 2011 • 4 encoders practiced in encoding and LFS • Special 1 day consultation besides the general training • Direct communication with the experts of the occupational classification and of LFS • Coding materials available: • Classification system, definitions and methodology guide of HSCO-08 and ISCO-08 • Correspondence table between HSCO-08 and ISCO-08 • Searching programme for job titles built in the encoding programme • Searching programme on the web containing definitions as well Hungarian Central Statistical Office

  6. Development of the encoding programme • Developed by the IT Department of the HCSO in Blaise 4.5 • Taking into account • the professional aspects of the LFS • the needs of encoders • and the IT options, feasibility Hungarian Central Statistical Office

  7. How does it work? • In the first application window can be seen the records to be coded • The records can be sorted by different variables, e.g. by occupations in alphabetical order Hungarian Central Statistical Office

  8. How does it work? • The next application window is the encoding interface itself with the following information: • Occupation title • Description of tasks and duties • Other additional information (educational attainment, activity and size of the employer and local unit, rank, status in employment,supervisory responsibilities etc.) Hungarian Central Statistical Office

  9. How does it work? • Searching by text (job title) • By default, the recorded occupational title appears in the searching field • By pressing any key the searching window appears • It contains 7 000 job titles Hungarian Central Statistical Office

  10. How does it work? • Searching by code • Entering the code • If the code has direct equivalent in ISCO-08, it is automatically recorded • If it is not the case, the appropriate ISCO-08 code can be selected on the searching interface Hungarian Central Statistical Office

  11. Warnings on screen • Controlling at record level • In-built consistency tests regarding relations between certain information • Occupation and industry • Occupation and size of the employer • Occupation and supervisory responsibilities Hungarian Central Statistical Office

  12. Comment field • A text field where notes can be made by the encoders in connection with • warnings • revealed mistakes or inconsistency • insufficient information (job titles) • Analysis of the comments • Provides useful information on interviewing, encoding and recording mistakes in the previous phase • Feedback to the group of encoders (continuously) and to interviewers (periodically) Hungarian Central Statistical Office

  13. Future • Future plans and tasks • Adaption of this encoding method for computer-aided data collection (CAPI) • Improving the quality of • occupational entries (interviewer) • encoding (encoders) by monitoringand communication • Completion of the list of job titles with further 7 thousand items (15 thousand) Hungarian Central Statistical Office

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