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5.3 Conversion table to ISCO-88
A conversion table is available from the French PCS 1982 to ISCO-88 (See Appendix 55c
for
the conversion table PCS-1982 1982 to ISCO ISCO-88). . Unfortunately, there is no conversion table available
for the public from PCS 2003 to ISCO-88. The conversion table PCS 1982 – ISCO ISCO-88 converts from
the most detailed level of PCS 2003 to 33-digit
ISCO-88 code. There are a couple of problems with
this conversion table. First, the conversion table is based on an older version of the French
classification. Therefore not all occupati occupational groups in PCS 2003 can be assigned an ISCO-88 code
based on the conversion table. Second, because of the different nature of the PCS classification
compared to the ISCO classification, for some occupational groups the French industry information
(NAF-93 or NAP-73) is needed to assign the right ISCO-88 code and for some occupational group
no ISCO code can be assigned or only a major group code.
5.4 Overall judgement of the French NOC
The difference in specificity between the PCS 2003 and ISCO, together r with the
unavailability of a recent conversion table and a not one one-to-one matching out-dated dated conversion
table makes it difficult to understand which French occupations corresponds with which minor ISCO
groups. Although it would probably be better for cross-national national comparative (sociological) research
to use a different occupational classification 3 , the PCS classification is used in the French Labour
Force Survey and these results are communicated with the European Statistical Office (Eurostat)
(Eurostat).
6. The National tional Occupational Classification in Spain
The Spanish Statistical Institute (INE) is responsible for the Spanish National Occupational
Classification called CNO. INE has produced in 1979 the first CNO classification and the most recent
version of CNO (CNO-94) was compiled in 1994.
6.1 Description of the Spanish NOC
The Spanish CNO lies within the ISCO-88 classification (see Table 1). Both CNO CNO-94 and
ISCO-88 use the concept of skill level and skill specialisation as criteria for building the
occupational classification. CNO-94
however is more broken down than ISCO-88 88 (See Appendix 6a
for the structure of CNO-94 94 and Appendix 66b
b for the correspondence with ISCO ISCO-88). CNO-94
introduced an alternative for the major groups of ISCO-88 by adding an intermediate level between
the major and sub-major major groups (see Table 7). . This is done to soften the structure of ISCO-88
(INE, 1994). For example, the second large group ‘Legislators, senior officals and managers’ are
broken down by number of paid workers (10 or more, less than 10, none). The ‘Professional’ group
3
For instance the ROME classification from the French Employment Agency (ANPE), which is designed
especially for the needs of job placements, paying special attention to how the experience from one occupation
may be relevant for recruitment to jobs in other occupations (Embury et al., 1997) which basic principles reflect
more the basic principles of the ISCO than the PCS does. Unfortunately, data from this classification is not used
for communication with Eurostat stat and therefore are more difficult to assess for research purposes.
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