SocialPosition-package: Social Position Indicators Construction Toolbox

Description

Provides to sociologists (and related scientists) a toolbox to facilitate the construction of social position indicators from survey data. Social position indicators refer to what is commonly known as social class and social status. There exists in the sociological literature many theoretical conceptualisation and empirical operationalization of social class and social status. This first version of the package offers tools to construct the International Socio-Economic Index of Occupational Status (ISEI) and the Oesch social class schema. It also provides tools to convert several occupational classifications (PCS82, PCS03, and ISCO08) into a common one (ISCO88) to facilitate data harmonisation work, and tools to collapse (i.e. group) modalities of social position indicators.

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Details

Package:

SocialPosition

Type:

Package

Version:

1.0.1

Date:

2015-07-07

License:

GPL-2 | GPL-3

Three main types of functions are available in the package:

The "collapse"functions:: These functions collapse (i.e. group) different modalities of an occupational grid together

The "convert" functions:

These functions convert different occupational classifications into another one. This can be very useful when you want to harmonize different datasets.

The "recode" functions:

These functions are specifically the ones which enable you to construct social position indicators

For the moment, we have developed conversion tools mostly on:

The French Professions et Categories Socioprofessionnelles 1982 and 2003 (PCS)
The International Standard Classification of Occupations 1988 and 2008 (ISCO)

The following conversions are possible:

From...To...	PCS1982	PCS2003	ISCO1988
ISCO2008	PCS1982	X	Yes
in two steps	No	PCS2003	No
X	Yes	No	ISCO1988
No	No	X	No
ISCO2008	No	No	Yes
X	From...To...	PCS1982	PCS2003

The following social position indicators constructed from ISCO1988 are at the moment available for recoding:

The International Socio-Economic Index of Occupational Status (ISEI)
The Oesch class schema

In the future, we will implement more conversion and recoding tools. If you would like to see some of your tools implemented in the package, please get in touch!