Evaluation of the updated SOCcer v2 algorithm for coding free-text job descriptions in three epidemiologic studies.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Computer-assisted coding of job descriptions to standardized occupational classification codes facilitates evaluating occupational risk factors in epidemiologic studies by reducing the number of jobs needing expert coding. We evaluated the performance of the 2nd version of SOCcer, a computerized algorithm designed to code free-text job descriptions to US SOC-2010 system based on free-text job titles and work tasks, to evaluate its accuracy.

Methods

SOCcer v2 was updated by expanding the training data to include jobs from several epidemiologic studies and revising the algorithm to account for nonlinearity and incorporate interactions. We evaluated the agreement between codes assigned by experts and the highest scoring code (a measure of confidence in the algorithm-

SUBMITTER: Russ DE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10324641 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature