Practical experience Occupational coding exercise

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Practical experience Occupational coding exercise

• Statistics Netherlands
• Mies Bernelot Moens
• project manager Classifications of Education and
  Occupations

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Remarks on my experiences

• Method of coding
• Necessary update of provisional codes and
  classifications in the Netherlands
• Language problems
• Other problems

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Method of coding

• Coder myself our professional coders had
  neighter time nor experience not to work with
  their computer-assisted coding system
• Method
• - coding of a provisional code,
• - conversion provisional code into
  classification code in batch using other
  variables

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Information normally used to code the provisional
code of a job description

• Title of the job
• Description of the main tasks
• Description of the executive activities (if any)
• Economic activity of company/firm

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Short versus long job descriptions

• 10 of the short descriptions could not be coded
• 60 differ from the long descriptions
• more rest group codes

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Problems in coding e-commerce occupations

• Needed update of provisional codes and national
  and ISCO classification
• Language
• Other

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Language problems

• Differences in language between Flemmish Belgium
  and the Netherlands
• English words with gt 1 meaning (i.e. inventory)
• Unfamiliar abreviations of names of software
  packages
• New terms in English shared services centre,
  language localisation, QA

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Level of e-commerce occupations

• Often the level of the job was not clear
• Especially of those at help desks and call centres

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Two-sided jobs

• The coder often has to make a choice between
  coding the subject matter and the ict side of a
  job
• If any, I have chosen for the subject matter side