This is a slightly adapted version of the official HSN 2013.01 HISCO release. The original file has no headers and a subsequent version was in Dutch csv standard (i.e. ';' as seperator and ',' as decimal indicator). This dataset contains that Dutch file, an R-script to transpose it to the international csv-format, and the resulting file.

When using these data in any form (presentations, books, articles etc.) the HSN dataset should be cited as Kees Mandemakers, Sanne Muurling, Ineke Maas, Bart Van de Putte, Richard L. Zijdeman, Paul Lambert, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, Frans van Poppel and Andrew Miles, HSN standardized, HISCO-coded and classified occupational titles, release 2013.01 (IISG Amsterdam 2013). And off course further citations are needed to HISCO: Marco H. D. van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas and Andrew Miles, HISCO. Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations (Leuven University Press 2002) and to the subsequent sources of used classifications.

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