CASCOT AND THE CODING OF OCCUPATIONS IN EUROPEAN SURVEYS Demonstration of CASCOT Presentation for the InGRID Workshop Amsterdam, February 2014 Ritva Ellison Institute for Employment Research

Computer Assisted Structured Coding Tool CASCOT Software tool for coding text automatically or manually Developed at the Institute for Employment Research Used by over 100 organisations in the UK and abroad

Coding with Cascot Enter text (could be from a file) Cascot provides a recommendation for code but user can change it Output can be directed to a file Selected classification

International Cascot 7 languages available: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Slovak and Spanish Plans for 3: Finnish, Norwegian and Portuguese Cascot detects language automatically but it can be changed from menu: ISCO-08 classification files have been prepared for each country, most contain also the national code

Quick flick through…Dutch

French

German * * The index is © Federal Employment Agency

Italian

Slovak

Spanish

Testing International Cascot Comparison of European Social Survey round 6 code and automatic Cascot code Data available from DE, ES, GB and NL ISCO-08

Cascot Performance Tool Shows code comparison in a graph In this example: Spanish ESS6 data

ESS6 data for GB – some examples

Cascot Editor Classification files for Cascot are created and modified with the Editor Each classification has Structure, Index, Rules for coding

New rules for GB - 1 Add a new Default Coding rule to improve performance The result: The problem: Need to test the effect of the rule thoroughly

New rules for GB - 2 Add a new Replacement Words rule: The result: The problem:

New rules for GB - 3 Add a new Abbreviations rule which has to precede the rule for ‘sec’: The result: The problem:

The versions in different languages could be improved by developing coding rules Contribution needed from experts who know the language Venice Workshop Cascot available for testing Developing International Cascot

CASCOT DASISH European Social Survey Warwick Institute for Employment Research Further information