Types of work categories

a - Marketing, sales, PR & advertising occupations

Includes marketing managers; sales managers; market research managers & analysts; sales advisers, consultants & planners; export managers; advertising managers; agency managers; account executives; media planners; advertisement managers; publicity & public relations agents, managers & officers; and appeals organisers.

b - Commercial, industrial & public sector managers

Includes general managers & administrators in national & local government, large companies & organisations; production managers in manufacturing, construction, mining & energy industries; specialist managers; financial institution & office managers, & civil service executive officers; managers in transport & storing; protective service officers; managers in farming, horticulture, forestry & fishing; managers & proprietors in service industries; and other managers & administrators.

c - Scientific research, analysis & development occupations

Includes chemists; biological scientists & biochemists; physicists, geologists & meteorologists; and other natural scientists.

d - Engineering professionals

Includes civil, structural, municipal, mining & quarrying engineers; mechanical engineers; electrical engineers; electronic engineers; chemical engineers; design & development engineers; process & production engineers; planning & quality control engineers; and other engineers & technologists.

e - Health professionals

Includes medical practitioners; pharmacists & pharmacologists; ophthalmic opticians; dental practitioners; and veterinarians.

f - Teaching professionals

Includes university teaching professionals; further education teaching professionals; education officers, school inspectors; secondary (& middle school deemed secondary) education teaching professionals; primary (& middle school deemed primary) & nursery education teaching professionals; special education teaching professionals; and other teaching professionals.

g - Business & finance professionals

Includes chartered & certified accountants; management accountants; actuaries, economists & statisticians; and management consultants & business analysts.

h - Information technology professionals

Includes computer systems & data processing managers; software engineers; computer analysts & programmers; and computer & IT consultants.

i - Nursing & health associate professionals

Includes nurses; midwives; medical radiographers; physiotherapists; chiropodists; dispensing opticians; medical technicians & dental auxiliaries; occupational & speech therapists, psychotherapists & other therapists; environmental health officers; and other health associate professionals.

j - Business & financial associate professionals

Includes estimators & valuers; underwriters, claims assessors, brokers & investment analysts; taxation experts; personnel & industrial relations officers; organisation & methods & work study officers.

k - Media, literary, design & sports professionals

Includes authors, writers & journalists; artists, commercial artists & graphic designers; industrial designers & textile designers; clothing designers; actors, entertainers, stage managers, producers & directors; musicians; photographers, camera, sound & video equipment operators; and professional athletes & sports officials.

l - Other professional, associate professional & technical occupations

Includes legal professionals; architects, town planners & surveyors; librarians & related professionals; scientific technicians; draughtspersons, quantity & other surveyors; ship & aircraft officers, air traffic planners & controllers; legal associate professionals; social welfare associate professionals; and other professional, associate professional & technical occupations.

m - Numerical clerks & cashiers

Includes accounts & wages clerks, book-keepers, & other financial clerks; counter clerks & cashiers; and debt, rent & other cash collectors.

n - Other clerical & secretarial occupations

Includes administrative & clerical officers & assistants in civil service & local government; filing & records clerks; other clerks; stores & despatch clerks & storekeepers; secretaries, personal assistants, typists, word processor operators; receptionists, telephonists & related occupations; and other clerical & secretarial occupations.

o - Retail assistants, catering, waiting & bar staff

Includes chefs & cooks, waiters & waitresses & bar staff; and sales assistants & check-out operators.

p - Health & childcare related occupations

Includes assistant nurses & nursing auxiliaries; hospital ward assistants; ambulance staff; dental nurses; care assistants & attendants; nursery nurses; playgroup leaders; educational assistants; and other childcare & related occupations.

q - Armed forces & public protection service occupations

Includes ncos and other ranks, armed forces; police officers (sergeant & below); fire service officers; (leading fire officer & below); prison service officers; customs & excise officers & immigration officers; traffic wardens; security guards & related occupations; and other security & protective service occupations.

r - Other occupations

Includes craft & related occupations; other personal & protective occupations; other sales occupations; plant & machine operatives; and other occupations.

s - Unknown occupations