Miscoding-correction of occupational flows
In U.S. surveys, occupational codes are frequently miscoded. In many circumstances, this leads to spurious flows:
workers are coded to change occupations whereas in reality, no transition occured. In
Confused about Careers, we use design changes in the PSID and CPS to estimate these miscoding probabilities
and show how these can be used to correct occupational flows.
Data
This zip file contains
miscoding probabilities for slightly modified version of the occ1990 standard. The contents are
- _rename_occ.do: aggregates several minor occupation codes
- _prog_aggregate_2d.do: aggregates occupation codes to two digits
- _prog_aggregate_1d.do: aggregates occupation codes to single digit
- gamma_xx.dta: the Gamma matrix containing the miscoding probabilities, at one digit (xx=1d), two digits (xx=2d),
or three digits (xx=3d).