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. 2018 Jun 15;62(7):796–807. doi: 10.1093/annweh/wxy052

Table 3.

Relative contribution of the different types of link covered by the crosswalk assistant.

Origin system Target system Proportion of jobs in a database of occupational histories (31,673 jobs) for which crosswalks provide useful information
≤10 codes proposed Direct link to 1 job
All links combinedb By type of link (exclusively)a All links combinedb By type of link (exclusively)a
‘Expert’ ‘Empirical’ ‘Official’ ‘Expert’ ‘Empirical’ ‘Official’
CCDO-1971 ISCO-1968 85.1% 57.9% 25.6% 1.6% 72.7% 57.9% 14.8% 0.0%
CCDO-1971 NOC-2011 99.0% 66.2% 17.5% 15.2% 81.0% 66.2% 12.0% 2.9%
CCDO-1971 US-SOC-2010 89.6% 59.2% 24.0% 6.4% 70.6% 59.2% 10.6% 0.8%
ISCO-1968 CCDO-1971 84.9% 0% 84.8% 0.1% 24.9% 0% 24.9% 0.0%
ISCO-1968 NOC-2011 95.3% 0% 90.3% 5.0% 58.1% 0% 55.6% 2.4%
ISCO-1968 US-SOC-2010 97.7% 0% 91.8% 5.8% 54.6% 0% 51.0% 3.6%
NOC-2011 CCDO-1971 88.5% 0% 88.1% 0.3% 18.1% 0% 18.0% 0.1%
NOC-2011 ISCO-1968 95.1% 0% 94.1% 1.0% 30.8% 0% 29.3% 1.4%
NOC-2011 US-SOC-2010 99.4% 0% 97.9% 1.5% 58.6% 0% 57.2% 1.4%
US-SOC-2010 CCDO-1971 87.3% 0% 87.0% 0.3% 22.5% 0% 22.3% 0.2%
US-SOC-2010 ISCO-1968 97.3% 0% 94.3% 3.0% 35.8% 0% 34.0% 1.8%
US-SOC-2010 NOC-2011 98.9% 0% 95.4% 3.5% 73.8% 0% 68.0% 5.8%

aThe category of links was ranked from the most to the less informative. When a link is available for a starting code, links at the lower levels were not sought.

bThe sum can vary due to rounding.