NATIONAL PATTERNS OF SOCIAL MOBILITY 1970-95: CONVERGENCE OR DIVERGENCE?

CODEBOOK FOR CROSS-NATIONAL DATA SET

The following comprises the codebook for the set of variables on which we agreed at our Florence meeting last December. As we noted then, not everyone will be able to provide all the data. -9 is the general code for missing data but any completely missing variable should be indicated with a column of zeroes.

There are 25 specified variables: country specific variables should be added after these.

Please send the data to me either as an SPSS or a STATA file or as a simple ASCII file. It would be most convenient if you could put your data for different years into a single file and send this to me. But if you prefer to send year- or survey-specific data sets that's fine.

I will also need to know:

Data type (SPSS/ STATA/ ASCII)

Data format

Number of observations

Which variables you have been able or unable to include

Complete information on additional country-specific variables

 

Richard Breen

March 3, 2000

 

 

 

Variable name

Description

Value labels (codes)

1. COUNTRY

Country from which data come

  1. Germany

  2. France

  3. Italy

  4. Ireland

  5. Great Britain

  6. Sweden

  7. Norway

  8. Poland

  9. Hungary

  10. Israel

  11. USA

  12. Netherlands

2. PERSONID

Number (unique within country) by which to identify respondent

 

3. WEIGHT

Weighting variable

 

4. YEAR

Year in which the data were collected

Years after 1900 (two digits)

5. FACLASS

Father's class (when respondent was aged around 14 if different measures are available)

Coding according to the EGP 11 class schema (see Table 2.1 of The Constant Flux) or as close as possible

  1. I Higher grade professionals etc.

  2. II Lower grade professionals etc.

  3. IIIa Routine non-manual, higher grade

  4. IIIb Routine non-manual, lower grade

  5. IVa Small proprietors with employees

  6. IVb Small proprietors without employees

  7. IVc Farmers

  8. V Lower grade technicians

  9. VI Skilled manual workers

  10. VIIa Semi- and unskilled manual, non-agricultural

  11. VIIb Semi- and unskilled manual, agricultural

  12. Father not present

-9 Missing (any other reason)

6. MOCLASS

Mother's class (when respondent was aged around 14 if different measures are available)

Coding according to the EGP 11 class schema (see Table 2.1 of The Constant Flux) or as close as possible

1. I Higher grade professionals etc.

2. II Lower grade professionals etc.

3. IIIa Routine non-manual, higher grade

4. IIIb Routine non-manual, lower grade

5. IVa Small proprietors with employees

6. IVb Small proprietors without employees

7. IVc Farmers

8. V Lower grade technicians

9. VI Skilled manual workers

10. VIIa Semi- and unskilled manual, non-agricultural

11. VIIb Semi- and unskilled manual, agricultural

12. Mother not present

-9 Missing (any other reason)

7. RECLASS

Respondent's current or most recent class

Coding according to the EGP 11 class schema (see Table 2.1 of The Constant Flux) or as close as possible
  1. I Higher grade professionals etc

  2. II Lower grade professionals etc.

  3. IIIa Routine non-manual, higher grade

  4. IIIb Routine non-manual, lower grade
  5. IVa Small proprietors with employees
  6. IVb Small proprietors without employees
  7. IVc Farmers
  8. V Lower grade technicians
  9. VI Skilled manual workers
  10. VIIa Semi- and unskilled manual, non-agricultural
  11. VIIb Semi- and unskilled manual, agricultural
  12. Never had job

-9 Missing (any other reason)

8. SPCLASS

Current or most recent class of respondent's current spouse or cohabiting partner.

Coding according to the EGP 11 class schema (see Table 2.1 of The Constant Flux) or as close as possible
  1. I Higher grade professionals etc.
  2. II Lower grade professionals etc.
  3. IIIa Routine non-manual, higher grade
  4. IIIb Routine non-manual, lower grade
  5. IVa Small proprietors with employees
  6. IVb Small proprietors without employees
  7. IVc Farmers
  8. V Lower grade technicians
  9. VI Skilled manual workers
  10. VIIa Semi- and unskilled manual, non-agricultural
  11. VIIb Semi- and unskilled manual, agricultural
  12. Never had job

-9 Missing (any other reason)

9. FATHED

Highest level of education of respondent's father

Coded according to extended CASMIN educational classification (see attached note by Walter Müller)
  1. 1a Inadequately completed elementary education
  2. 1b Completed compulsory elementary education
  3. 1c Compulsory elementary education and basic vocational qualification
  4. 2a Secondary, intermediate vocational qualification or intermediate general qualification and vocational qualification
  5. 2b Secondary, intermediate general qualification
  6. 2c_gen Full general maturity (end of secondary education) certificates
  7. 2c_voc Full vocational maturity certificate or general maturity certificate and vocational qualification
  8. 3a Lower tertiary education
  9. 3b Higher tertiary education

-9 Missing

10. MOTHED

Highest level of education of respondent's mother

Coded according to extended CASMIN educational classification (see attached note by Walter Müller)

1 1a Inadequately completed elementary education

2. 1b Completed compulsory elementary education

3. 1c Compulsory elementary education and basic vocational qualification

4. 2a Secondary, intermediate vocational qualification or intermediate general qualification and vocational qualification

5. 2b Secondary, intermediate general qualification

6. 2c_gen Full general maturity (end of secondary education) certificates

7. 2c_voc Full vocational maturity certificate or general maturity certificate and vocational qualification

8. 3a Lower tertiary education

9. 3b Higher tertiary education

-9 Missing

11 . RESPED

Respondent's highest level of education

Coded according to extended CASMIN educational classification (see attached note by Walter Müller)
  1. 1a Inadequately completed elementary education
  2. 1b Completed compulsory elementary education
  3. 1c Compulsory elementary education and basic vocational qualification
  4. 2a Secondary, intermediate vocational qualification or intermediate general qualification and vocational qualification
  5. 2b Secondary, intermediate general qualification
  6. 2c_gen Full general maturity (end of secondary education) certificates
  7. 2c_voc Full vocational maturity certificate or general maturity certificate and vocational qualification
  8. 3a Lower tertiary education
  9. 3b Higher tertiary education

-9 Missing

12 . SPED

Highest level of education of respondent's current spouse or cohabiting partner.

Coded according to extended CASMIN educational classification (see attached note by Walter Müller)
  1. 1a Inadequately completed elementary education
  2. 1b Completed compulsory elementary education
  3. 1c Compulsory elementary education and basic vocational qualification
  4. 2a Secondary, intermediate vocational qualification or intermediate general qualification and vocational qualification
  5. 2b Secondary, intermediate general qualification
  6. 2c_gen Full general maturity (end of secondary education) certificates
  7. 2c_voc Full vocational maturity certificate or general maturity certificate and vocational qualification
  8. 3a Lower tertiary education
  9. 3b Higher tertiary education

-9 Missing

13 . FAYED

Respondent's father's years of education

If years of education are not measured directly impute years using the average number of years in education required to obtain highest educational qualification possessed

Code in full years

-9 Missing

14 . MOYED

Respondent's mother's years of education

If years of education are not measured directly impute years using the average number of years in education required to obtain highest educational qualification possessed

Code in full years

-9 Missing

15 . RESYED

Respondent's years of education

If years of education are not measured directly impute years using the average number of years in education required to obtain highest educational qualification possessed

Code in full years

-9 Missing

16 . SPOYED

Years of education of respondent's current spouse or cohabiting partner

If years of education are not measured directly impute years using the average number of years in education required to obtain highest educational qualification possessed

Code in full years

-9 Missing

17 . RESPES

Respondent's current employment status

Code according to main current status
  1. Working full time
  2. Working part time
  3. Unemployed (use ILO definition) having had a job
  4. Looking for first job
  5. Full time student
  6. Military service
  7. Unpaid work in the home
  8. Retired
  9. Permanently sick/ disabled
  10. Otherwise not in labour force

-9 Missing

18. MINCES

Length of time in months respondent has occupied current employment status (as defined in RESPES)

Code in full months

-9 Missing

19. MENDJOB

Length of time in months since the end of respondent's last job

Code in full months

0 Respondent is in a job

-9 Missing

20. SPRES

Respondent's spouse or cohabiting partner's employment status

Code according to main current status
  1. Working full time
  2. Working part time
  3. Otherwise not in labour force

-9 Missing

21. RESAGE

Respondent's age in years at the time of the survey.

Full years after 1900 (two digits)

-9 missing

22. SEX

Respondent's sex
  1. Male
  2. Female

23. PSEX

Respondent's partner's sex
  1. Male
  2. Female

-9 Missing (including respondent has no partner)

24. MARSTAT

Respondent's current marital status

(code according to main status)
  1. Married
  2. Cohabiting
  3. Never married
  4. Divorced or widowed and currently not married
  5. Separated (i.e. married but permanently living apart from spouse)

-9 Missing

25. AGEYCC

Age of youngest child coresident with respondent

Full years

-9 Missing or no co-resident children

26. (and successive)

Country - specific additional variables where these are required (e.g. race; region; etc). Please supply full details.

 

 

 

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