Survey Assist

The scope of the tool is limited to: determining whether supplementary questions are needed for a given survey response; compiling the most likely useful supplementary questions; presenting those questions to the respondent in the computerised survey collection system; assessing the responses to assign the most appropriate SIC and SOC codes; and presenting the results to the analyst. The tool will initially be used with a test sample of people but if successful it will be rolled out as part of the standard surve...

The publicly available datasets are the descriptions and known examples of activities coded to standard industrial classification (SIC). Internal datasets are free-text answers to follow up questions about people's occupations and job industries. In addition, we numerically coded categorical variables that assign every job and industry to a 4 or 5 digit code.