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Occupational coding in multi-country surveys is mostly a black box: have national survey agencies classified the same occupational titles into the same category across countries? This paper attempts to validate the coding from 5-digit occupational titles into the 4-digit occupational units of the international ISCO-08 classification, based on a comparison of coding indexes from national statistical offices. Two research objectives are central. To what extent are occupational titles in the coding indexes similar, when comparing their English translations? What percentage of similar occupational titles is coded similarly across countries? To answer these questions, we merged titles from 20 coding indexes (18 non-English), resulting in 70,489 records. We translated the titles in English, using online dictionaries and Google translate (4.2% could not be translated). We checked for existent codes of the titles, using ILO's ISCO-08 coding index (10.3% non-existent). The remaining database had 60,559 records, of which 32% had at least one duplicate title (19,044 records). These duplicate records could be aggregated into 5,350 occupational titles. Only 64% of these titles had the same ISCO-08 4-digit code, 70% at 3-digit, 74% at 2 digit, and 80% at 1-digit. Users of multi-country surveys should be cautious when using the 4-digit ISCO-08 codes.

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Despite great concern over declining rates of survey cooperation, few polling organizations collect trend data on possible causes of its decline. We gather these data in order to examine the causes of declining survey cooperation, such as confidentiality and privacy concerns, the rise of telemarketers, popular understanding of survey accuracy, biases of polling organizations, and attitudes toward the societal benefits of survey research. Although the proportion of people who have participated in at least one survey has increased, knowledge of sampling procedures has not. Meanwhile, a wide variety of attitudes toward polling have grown more negative. In 2006, pollsters fell in measures of trust in occupational categories to levels similar to members of Congress and union leaders. Overall, there has been a markedly negative shift in attitudes toward public opinion researchers and polis across several dimensions between the mid-1990s and the first decade of the 2000s. Adapted from the source document.

This working paper was written for the InGRID project (Inclusive Growth Research Infrastructure Diffusion), which is coordinated by HIVA-KU Leuven. The InGRID project has received funding under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration (under Grant Agreement No 312691. This working paper addresses Work package 21 'Innovative tools and protocols for working conditions and vulnerability research' and the milestone M21.9 'Inventory of Working Conditions and Occupational Safety and Health survey'.