The Quality of Occupational Coding in the United Kingdom

Campanelli, Pamela; Thomson, Katarina; Moon, Nick; Staples, Tessa

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“…There could be a variation in outcome at any one of these three stages, even when the respondent is describing the same job. Campanelli et al (1997) show reliability of between 0.78 and 0.82 across five studies of office occupation coding in the UK (including their own two studies). It therefore seems a priori likely that measurement error would lead to spurious apparent change when using INDI.…”

Section: Characteristics Of Respondent's Occupationmentioning

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Measuring Change in Employment Characteristics: The Effects of Dependent Interviewing

Lynn¹,

Sala

2005

International Journal of Public Opinion Research

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• ESRC Research Centre on Micro-social Change. Established in 1989 to identify, explain, model and forecast social change in Britain at the individual and household level, the Centre specialises in research using longitudinal data.• ESRC UK Longitudinal Studies Centre. This national resource centre was established in October 1999 to promote the use of longitudinal data and to develop a strategy for the future of large-scale longitudinal surveys. It is responsible for the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and for the ESRC's interest in the National Child Development Study and the 1970 British Cohort Study• European Centre for Analysis in the Social Sciences. ECASS is an interdisciplinary research centre which hosts major research programmes and helps researchers from the EU gain access to longitudinal data and cross-national data sets from all over Europe.The British Household Panel Survey is one of the main instruments for measuring social change in Britain. The BHPS comprises a nationally representative sample of around 5,500 households and over 10,000 individuals who are reinterviewed each year. The questionnaire includes a constant core of items accompanied by a variable component in order to provide for the collection of initial conditions data and to allow for the subsequent inclusion of emerging research and policy concerns.Among the main projects in ISER's research programme are: the labour market and the division of domestic responsibilities; changes in families and households; modelling households' labour force behaviour; wealth, well-being and socio-economic structure; resource distribution in the household; and modelling techniques and survey methodology.BHPS data provide the academic community, policymakers and private sector with a unique national resource and allow for comparative research with similar studies in Europe, the United States and Canada.BHPS data are available from the Data Archive at the University of Essex http://www.data-archive.ac.ukFurther information about the BHPS and other longitudinal surveys can be obtained by telephoning +44 (0) 1206 873543. ABSTRACTSurveys that take repeat measurements on the same individuals (panel or follow-up surveys) are often used to measure change in employment characteristics. This article is concerned with measurement error in such estimates of change and, specifically, how the error might be reduced by the use of dependent interviewing (DI) techniques. We use data from a large-scale experiment that involved two interviews at an interval of around 17 months and compare estimates of change that are obtained using three different interviewing techniques: traditional independent interviewing (INDI), proactive dependent interviewing (PDI) and reactive dependent interviewing (RDI). We examine three characteristics of the respondent's employment (occupation, employed status, and whether or not the respondent has managerial or supervisory responsibilities) and three characteristics of the employing organisation (industry, type of organisation, number ...

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Section: Characteristics Of Respondent's Occupationmentioning

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Measuring Change in Employment Characteristics: The Effects of Dependent Interviewing

Lynn¹,

Sala

2005

International Journal of Public Opinion Research

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“…ii Inter-coder reliability rates vary substantially with the complexity of the occupational classification used, especially with the number of occupational units (Campanelli, Thomson, Moon & Staples, 1997). As a result, there is not a widely accepted threshold of what constitutes an acceptable inter-coder reliability rate.…”

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“…For the latter, a common method of quality control is to calculate the degree to which different coders agree on the proper classification of respondents' descriptions of their occupation, also known as the inter-coder reliability (Groves, 1989). Research suggests that agreement rates for occupational data between two separate coders are far from optimal, and as low as 50% in some social surveys (Elias, 1997;Campanelli, Thomson, Moon & Staples, 1997;Laurie & Moon, 2003).…”

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“…Furthermore, even at an acceptable rate of coding reliability of 80%, coder variance means that in a panel dataset, one would expect to observe spurious mobility episodes for a shocking 20% of cases in a sample of occupational 'stayers' who give the exact same occupational description in two consecutive survey waves (Campanelli et al, 1997;Lynn and Sala, 2006). As a result, when researchers use changes in occupational codes across panel survey waves as evidence of individuals changing occupations, the likelihood of identifying spurious change can be alarmingly high.…”

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How wrong were we? Dependent interviewing, self-reports and measurement error in occupational mobility in panel surveys

Perales

2014

LLCS

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“…The sample comprised 1047 parents contributing 4542 occupations; the level of agreement was 75% (range by region 66-79%), which is in line with other studies that have attempted to quantify the reliability of different coders. 9 Measures of exposure ''Occupational groups'' were constructed by combining job titles considered to be homogeneous for specific exposures. This classification is based on a scheme developed for use with the 1970 occupational classification, 10-14 which has subsequently been updated for use with the 1990 classification.…”

Section: Occupational Codingmentioning

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Parental occupation at periconception: findings from the United Kingdom Childhood Cancer Study

McKinney

Fear²,

Stockton³

2003

Occup Environ Med

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Aims:To study the risk of childhood cancer in relation to parental occupation and related exposures.Methods:Self reported occupational data from mothers and fathers of 3838 children with cancer and 7629 control children were analysed. Odds ratios were calculated for 31 “occupational groups” by parent, diagnostic group (leukaemia, acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), central nervous system tumours, and other cancers) and time of exposure (periconception, birth, and diagnosis).Results:Findings did not support the hypothesis that occupational exposure of fathers to ionising radiation increases the risk of childhood cancer in their offspring. Specific examination of periconceptual chemical exposures showed small but statistically significant increased risks for leukaemia and ALL among children whose fathers were exposed to exhaust fumes, driving, and/or inhaled particulate hydrocarbons. In the remaining analyses, a fourfold increase in the risk of other cancers was observed among the children of fathers working with leather but based on small numbers. Both maternal and paternal exposure to textile dust was related to an increased risk of other cancers.Conclusion:Results failed to produce any strong evidence to link parental occupational exposures with an increased risk of childhood cancer. No relation was found for paternal periconceptual exposure to ionising radiation. The consistency of the associations observed between childhood leukaemia and paternal occupational exposure to exhaust fumes, driving, and/or inhaled particulate hydrocarbons at periconception suggest a small risk for vehicle related exhaust. However, other explanations cannot be excluded and further research into the nature of the associations is required.

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The Quality of Occupational Coding in the United Kingdom

Cited by 17 publications

References 8 publications

Measuring Change in Employment Characteristics: The Effects of Dependent Interviewing

Measuring Change in Employment Characteristics: The Effects of Dependent Interviewing

How wrong were we? Dependent interviewing, self-reports and measurement error in occupational mobility in panel surveys

Parental occupation at periconception: findings from the United Kingdom Childhood Cancer Study

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