Crosswalks to Convert US Census Bureau Industry and Occupation Codes, 1980–2018

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• Personal Author:
  Beard JD ; Bonsrah DA ; Schubauer-Berigan, Mary K. ; Steege, Andrea L. ; Verdeja MA ; Westfall SD
• Description:
  Occupation is reflective of workers' socioeconomic status (SES) and occupational exposures and experiences. Therefore, occupation has been used as a measure of SES, much like education and income, or to derive occupation-based indices of SES in many epidemiologic studies. Moreover, industry and occupation can be used to generate hypotheses regarding occupational exposures and experiences associated with particular health outcomes, identify groups of workers with high burdens of particular health outcomes, and target programs, interventions, and policies to workers in industries and occupations with high disease burdens to reduce occupational illness and injury. Industry and occupation information can be used to link epidemiologic studies and datasets to other datasets, such as job exposure matrices, to assign quantitative or semiquantitative estimates of occupational exposures. Industry and occupation (and occupation-based SES) can be considered a(n) exposure, potential confounder, effect measure modifier, or mediator depending on the research question of interest. ... The US Census Bureau makes publicly available their updated industry and occupation codes and instructions for using them (eAppendix, p. 6; https://links.lww.com/EDE/B874). However, they do not compile this information into files or formats that can be conveniently used for epidemiologic analyses. Therefore, we have used US Census Bureau information and followed US Census Bureau instructions to create crosswalks to convert industry codes from 1980 to 1990, 1990 to 2000, 2000 to 2002, 2002 to 2007, 2007 to 2012, and 2012 to 2017 codes. We have also created crosswalks to convert occupation codes from 1980 to 1990, 1990 to 2000, 2000 to 2002, 2002 to 2010, and 2010 to 2018 codes. Our crosswalks include industry and occupation codes for the general population of workers, military personnel, and nonpaid workers. Our crosswalks can be used to convert older industry and occupation codes to newer codes (e.g., from 1980 to 1990), but they cannot be used to convert newer industry and occupation codes to older codes (e.g., from 1990 to 1980). We are making available our crosswalks, an explanation of conversion factors, instructions for using the crosswalks, our rationale for providing two versions of each crosswalk, and notes about and descriptions of our sources (eAppendix; https://links.lww.com/EDE/B874). We hope our crosswalks will enable updated analyses of industry and occupation data within the broad spectrum of epidemiologic studies in which industry and occupation data are used. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Epidemiology Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Data Processing Occupational Exposure Occupations Socioeconomics Statistical Analysis
• ISSN:
  1044-3983
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 8 ; Utah
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DFSE - Division of Field Studies and Engineering
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  33
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20066161
• Citation:
  Epidemiology 2022 Mar; 33(2):e8-e9
• Contact Point Address:
  John D. Beard, Department of Public Health, College of Life Sciences, Brigham Young University, 4103 Life Sciences Building, Provo, UT 84602
• Email:
  john_beard@byu.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2022
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Epidemiology
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:77feab210dadcc4e2a43b01e9b26708286e5f5958c1c628bdf51d93154a2356d829fb9b42ca6140d6fe3a57a09b3189068f66a1a65464e2db1759010e297d7b4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/212666/cdc_212666_DS1.pdf
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