Two studies (N = 691 total) were conducted to assess reliability and validity of a measure of STEM Interest Complexity assessing the level of interests for STEM, which was developed based on the information obtained from these occupation databases.
Occupation: Collections Database Manager, Israel Museum.
The usefulness of integrating a dimension of level and consulting occupation information databases in developing vocational interest assessments are discussed.
Respondents self-identify their occupation from a database of 1,700 occupational titles, which is sufficiently large for the vast majority of respondents, through text string matching and through a search tree.
The health sector occupations in the database were selected and subsequently clustered into 20 health sector occupational groups (hereafter called HRH occupations), following the classifications in the Communicable Disease Global Atlas for Human Resources for Health of the WHO [ 25] and the ILO's definition of health sector occupational units [ 26].
The paper focuses on labour market changes over the period 1997 2012 (ten years of expansion and five years of recession) instead of 1994 2012, which would delimit the whole business cycle better because it is only since 1997 that we have access to 3-digit level data on occupations in our database, which is highly recommended in order to perform the matching of tasks to occupations.
Paternal occupations in the database are coded to the two-digit Nordic Classification of Occupations, comprising 54 occupational groups (Andersen et al, 1999).
Some previous studies were based on cohorts in certain high exposure industries or occupations, whereas our database included workers across the entire spectrum of occupations and industries.
Internal comparisons for all 25 factors in the COPSOQ were performed between the group of works councils, employees working in similar jobs (administration) and also the mean value of all occupations of COPSOQ database (all professions, weighted mean according to the distribution of occupations in Germany N= 35,000 employees, available on http://www.copsoq.de, mostly in German).
We extracted three main classes of ground covers from a GIS of the Soil Occupation Model classification database [22]: artificial urban cover (including 54 habitat classes such as buildings, parking or roads), open urban cover (including 14 habitat classes such as gardens) and rural cover (including 15 habitat classes like forest and crop fields).
