27 March, 2019

We are delighted to inform you that OSCAR (Occupational Self-Coding Automatic Recording), our new online tool to collect and code life-time job histories, is now LIVE!

Main features include the following options:

• code jobs both in UK SOC-2000 and ISCO-88
• link individual OSCAR responses to any existing study dataset (NB: in your e-mail invitation to your study participants, you just need to assign them a unique ID number, and instruct them to input it in OSCAR when they first access it)
• retrieve both complete and incomplete responses as Excel .csv  files
• skip to specific questions on lung health or night shifts

Other features:

• GDPR compliance
• Smartphone/tablet compatibility

To access OSCAR, you just need to register your research study using the following weblink https://www.oscar-job-history.com/?action=newstudyowner, and you will receive an automated e-mail including:

1. weblink to invite your study participants to access OSCAR
2. weblink to download your OSCAR responses data and the OSCAR data dictionary

OSCAR is FREE; we just ask you to cite our methodological article https://www.oscar-job-history.com/docs/DeMatteisSJWEH2017.pdf in any published work where you have used OSCAR.

If you have any additional queries, please e-mail: webmaster@oscar-job-history.com

 

We hope that you will find OSCAR useful!

Sara De Matteis MD, MPH, PhD
Imperial College London

 

• See also OSCAR's research page - further information to be added in due course
• Images: OSCAR logo; AdobeStock image