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