New crosswalk command for fast and flexible bulk recoding available from SSC

[Ben Jann]

Thanks to Kit Baum, a new package called crosswalk is available from SSC. To install the package, type

. ssc install crosswalk, replace

crosswalk is a data management utility for fast table-based recoding. The command comes with predefined crosswalk tables for common recoding tasks related to occupational classifications. For example, crosswalk can be used to translate ISCO codes (International Standard Classification of Occupations) into ISEI scores (International Socio-economic Index of Occupational Status), OEP scores (Occupational Earning Potential), or ESeC classes (European Socio-economic Classification). However, crosswalk also makes it easy to define, manipulate, and apply custom recoding tables.

crosswalk supersedes command iscogen (see ssc describe iscogen). It is more general, more flexible, and much easier to extend.

ben