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Identifying and Definitional Attributes
QH 040812 v1
Data Element
Data Element
Current
01-Jul-2000
Superseded
20-Dec-2011
Standard
01-Jul-2000
30-Jun-2004
The job or duties in which the person is principally engaged.
Injury surveillance: There is considerable user demand for data on occupation-related injury and illness, including from Worksafe Australia and from industry, where unnecessary production costs are known in some areas and suspected to be related to others in work-related illness, injury and disability.
Occupation of person
Representational Attributes
Numeric
Code
N(2)
2
2
Permissible Values

Permissible_values

Australian Standard Classification of Occupations, Second edition (ABS 1997, Catalogue No. 1220.0 2 digit code level (sub major group))
Supplementary Values

Supplemenary_values

-
Collection and Usage Attributes
The structure of the Australian Standard Classification of Occupations has five levels: 9 Major Groups - 1 digit codes 35 Sub-major groups - 2 digit codes 81 Minor groups - 3 digit codes 340 Unit groups - 4 digit codes 986 Occupations - 5 digit codes For example: Level Code Title Major Group 2 Professionals Sub-major group 23 Health Professionals Minor group 231 Medical Practitioners Unit group 2311 Generalist Medical Practitioners Occupation 2311-11 General Medical Practitioner A Computer Assisted Coding system is available from the Australian Bureau of Statistics to assist in coding occupational data to Australian Standard Classification of Occupations codes.
Relational Attributes
Related Metadata References

Related Metadata References_IR

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Has been superseded byData ElementData ElementPerson-occupation (ANZSCO 2009)QH 040812 Version 3Superseded
Relates toData ElementData ElementOccupation of personQH 040812 Version 2Superseded
Implementation in Metadata Sets

Implemented

No Metadata Items
Source and Reference Attributes
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Australian Standard Offence Classification of Occupations, Second Edition, 1997, Catalogue No. 1220.0