Ie Contents Synthetic Description Systems for Accurate Data Identification and Selection. Principles and Methods of Nutritional Data nanks Classification Practice in the USSR. Currellt Status and Development'IJends TheSwedish Socio· Economic Classification: Rationale and Fields of Application Unified Medical Language System: Progress Report International Classification Vol. 15 (1988) Nr. 2 UDC 025.4 + 168 + 001.4 (05) INTERNATIONAL Contents CLASSIFICATION Devoted to Concept Theory, Systematic Ter­ minology and Organization of Knowledge Editors Editorial Dr. phil. Ingetraut Dahlberg, 0-6000 Frankfurt Classification and its Practice 63 50, Wo ogstr. 36a, Editor-in-chief Articles Prof. Francis Miksa, Graduate School of Lib­ Haendlcr, H.: Synthetic description systems for accurate data identification rary and Information Science, University of and selection. 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Guntrum II KG, Postfach 180, 0-6407 Schlitz Vol. 15 (1988) No.2 Contents page I.e. Harald Haendler: Synthetic description systems for accurate data Gouicdo, L.: The Swedish Socio-Economic Classification: identification and selection. Principles and methods of nutritional Rationale and fields of application. lnt. Classif. 15 (1988) No. 2, data banks. In: Int. Classif. 15 (1988) No.2, p. 64-68, 14 refs. p. 73-84, 6 refs. The peculiarities of numerical data as stored in and retrieved from In social and demographic studies it is almost mandatory to use nutritional data banks require highly efficient systems for data classifications by socio-cconomic charactcristics to describe differ­ identification. The principles which have to be considered for ent population groups. Such characteristics can provide key link­ establishing such systems are demonstrated by the methods ages between different statistical systems for studies of various applied in the International Network of Feed Information sub-groups. Indicators of this kind have proved to be of value in Centres. Most important is the principle of (systematic) synthesis, predicting behaviours, attitudes, motives etc., ego regarding which has been used at two levels: (1) to synthesize the entire in­ socialization process, educational selection and achievement pro­ formeme/data unit by its constituents which arc the object, the cesses, and occupational role performances. property, and the conditions; and (2) by using a faceted descrip­ In Sweden several socio-economic classifications havc been used. tion system (thesaurus) for the identification of feeds as the ob­ This paper has as its prime purpose to disscminate the achieve­ ject. The last one is based on semantic factoring of feed denomina­ ments made by Statistics Sweden in developing a new classifica­ tions, whereby the analysis/synthcsis follows