European Socioeconomic Groups (ESeG)

The European Socioeconomic Groups are a further development of the European Socio-economic Classification (ESeC) and measure the socio-economic status in categories.
The classification serves to measure the socio-economic status at the European level. ESeG is an update of the European Socio-economic Classification ESeC initiated by Eurostat. The revision of the ISCO occupational classification in 2008 made the update necessary. The ESeG mainly builds on the ISCO-08 and the employment status.

Origin/Creator:	Eurostat
Method/Structure:	Method/Structure: The ESeG classification consists of nine main groups, each of which is subdivided into a total of 42 subgroups. The main groups 1 to 7 cover persons in employment (1 'managers', 2 'professionals', 3 'technicians and associated professionals', 4 'small entrepreneurs', 5 'clerical and professional service workers', 6 'industrial professionals', 7 'low-skilled workers'). The subgroups comprise a combination of the first two digits of the ISCO-08 and the status of employment (employed or self-employed) (cf. Bohr 2018). Main groups 8 and 9 include inactive persons, with pensioners assigned to category 8, but other inactive persons to category 9. For the formation of categories 8 and 9 information on inactivity status is required. For the formation of the subcategories of category 8 information of the ISCO-08 of the last occupation and the employment status at that time is needed (cf. Bohr 2018).
Development/implementation for Germany:	-

Keywords

socio-economic classification, employment status

European Socioeconomic Groups (ESeG)

Fundamental literature: Meron Monique and ESSnet members (2014): ESSnet ESeG Final Report. Paris, INSEE, Direction des Statistiques Démographiques et Sociales ESSnet project. (31.10.2019)
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Further literature:: Bohr, J. (2018). EU-AES Tools: Implementation of the European Socioeconomic Groups Classification (ESeG) using Adult Education Survey Microdata. (GESIS Papers, 2018/14). Köln: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21241/ssoar.57622