1 Managers and Administrators
1a Corporate managers (10,11,12,13,14,15,19)
1b Managers/proprietors in agriculture and services (16,17)
2 Professional Occupations
2a Science and engineering professionals (20,21)
2b Health professionals (22)
2c Teaching professionals (23)
2d Other professional occupations (24,25,26,27,29)
3 Associate Professional and Technical Occupations
3a Science/engineering associate professionals (30,31,32,33)
3b Health associate professionals (34)
3c Other associate professional occupations (35,36,37,38,39)
4 Clerical and Secretarial Occupations
4a Clerical occupations (40,41,42,43,44,49)
4b Secretarial occupations (45,46)
5 Craft and Related Occupations
5a Skilled construction trades (50)
5b Skilled engineering trades (51,52,53,54
5c Other skilled trades (55,56,57,58,59)
6 Personal and Protective Service Occupations
6a Protective service occupations (60,61)
6b Personal service occupations (62,63,64,65,66,67,69)
7 Sales Occupations
7a Buyers, brokers and sales representatives (70,71)
7b Other sales occupations (72,73,79)
8 Plant and Machine Operatives
8a Industrial operatives/assemblers (80,81,82,83,84,85,86,89
8b Drivers and mobile machine operatives (87,88)
9 Other Occupations
9a Other occupations in agriculture, forestry & fishing (90)
9b Other elementary occupations (91,92,93,94,95,99)
10 General managers and administrators in national and local
11 Production managers in manufacturing, construction, minin
12 Specialist managers
13 Financial institution and office managers, civil service
14 Managers in transport and storing
15 Protective service officers
16 Managers in farming, horticulture, forestry and fishing
17 Manager, and proprietors in service industries
19 Managers and administrators nec
20 Natural scientists
21 Engineers and technologists
22 Health professional
23 Teaching professionals
24 Legal professionals
25 Business and financial professionals
26 Architects and surveyors
27 Librarians and related professionals
29 Professional occupations nec
30 Scientific technicians
31 Draughtspersons, quantity surveyors and other surveyors
32 Computer analysts /programmers
33 Ship and aircraft officers, air traffic planners and cont
34 Health associate professionals
35 Legal associate professionals
36 Business and financial associate professionals
37 Social welfare associate professionals
38 Literary, artistic and sports professional
39 Associate professional occupations nec
40 Administrative /clerical officers and assistants in civil
41 Numerical clerks and cashiers
42 Filing and record clerks
43 Clerks (not otherwise specified)
44 Stores and despatch clerks, storekeepers
45 Secretaries, personal assistants, typists, word processor
46 Receptionists, telephonists and related occupations
49 Clerical and secretarial occupations nec
50 Construction trades
51 Metal machining, fitting and instrument making trades
52 Electrical/electronic trades
53 Metal farming, welding and related trades
54 Travel and transport vechiles
55 Textiles, garments and related trades
56 Printing and related trades
57 Woodworking tradcs
58 Food preparation trades
59 Other craft and related occupations nec
60 NCOs and other ranks, armed forces
61 Security and protected service occupations
62 Catering occupations
63 Travel attendants and related occupation
64 Health and related occupations
65 Childcare and related occupations
66 Hairdressers, beauticians and related occupation
67 Domestic staff and related occupations
69 Personal and protect service occupation nec
70 Buyers brokers and related agents
71 Sales representatives
72 Sales assistants and check-our operators
73 Mobile, market and door-to-door salespersons
79 Sales nec
80 Food drink and tobacco process operatives
81 Textiles and tannery process operatives
82 Chemicals, paper, plastics and related process operatives
83 Metal making and treating process opeeratives
84 Metal working process operatives
85 Assemblers/lineworkers
86 Other routine process operatives
87 Road transport operatives
88 Other transport and machinery operatives
89 Machne and plant operatives nec
90 Other occupations m agriculture, forestry and fishing
91 Other occupations in mining and manufacturing
92 Other occupations in construction
93 Other occupations in transport
94 Other occpations in communication
95 Other occupations in sales and service
99 Other occupations nec
100 General administrators; national government (Assistant S
101 General Managers; large companies and organisations
102 Local government officers (administrative and executive
103 General administrators; national government (HEO to Seni
110 Production, works and maintenance managers
111 Managers in building contracting
112 Clerks of works
113 Managers in mining and energy industries
120 Treasurers and company financial managers
121 Marketing and sales managers
122 Purchasing managers
123 Advertising and public relations managers
124 Personnel, training and industrial relations managers
125 Organisation and methods and work study managers
126 Computer systems and data processing managers
127 Company secretaries
130 Credit controllers
131 Bank, Building Society and Post Office managers (except
132 Civil service executive officers government
139 Other financial institutions and office managers n.e.c.
140 Transport managers n.e.c.
141 Stores controllers
142 Managers in warehousing and other materials handling
150 Officers in UK armed forces
151 Officers in foreign and Commonwealth armed forces
152 Police officer (inspector and above)
153 Fire service officers (station officer and above)
154 Prison officers (principal officer and above)
155 Customs and excise, immigration service officers (custom
160 Farm owners and managers, horticulturists
169 Other managers in farming, forestry and fishing n.e.c.
170 Property and estate managers
171 Garage managers and proprietors
172 Hairdressers' and barbers' managers and proprietors
173 Hotel and accommodation managers
174 Restaurant and catering managers
175 Publicans, innkeepers and club stewards
176 Entertainment and sports managers
177 Travel and tour agency managers
178 Managers and proprietors of butchers and fishmongers
179 Managers and proprietors in service industries n.e.c.
190 Officials of trade associations, trade unions, professio
191 Registrars and administrators of educational establishme
199 Other managers and administrators n.e.c.
200 Chemists research
201 Biological scientists and biochemists
202 Physicists, geologists and meteorologists
209 Other natural scientists n.e.c.
210 Civil, structural, municipal, mining and quarrying engin
211 Mechanical engineers general naval
212 Electrical engineers professional meter
213 Electronic engineers professional
214 Software engineers professional
215 Chemical engineers
216 Design and development engineers
217 Process and production engineers
218 Planning and quality control engineers
219 Other engineers and technologists n.e.c.
220 Medical practitioners
221 Pharmacists/pharmacologists
222 Ophthalmic opticians
223 Dental practitioners
224 Veterinarians
230 University and polytechnic teaching professionals
231 Higher and Further education teaching professionals
232 Education school inspectors advisor
233 Secondary (and middle school deemed secondary) education
234 Primary (and middle school deemed primary) and nursery e
235 Special education teaching professionals
239 Other teaching professionals n.e.c. teacher dancing
240 Judges and officers of the court
241 Barristers and advocates
242 Solicitors public
250 Chartered and certified accountants
251 Management accountants
252 Actuaries, economists and statisticians
253 Management consultants, business analysts
260 Architects landscape
261 Town planners control
262 Building, land, mining and 'general practice' surveyors
270 Librarians qualified
271 Archivists and curators
290 Psychologists
291 Other social and behavioural scientists
292 Clergy
293 Social workers, probation officers
300 Laboratory technicians
301 Engineering technicians
302 Electrical/electronic technicians
303 Architectural and town planning technicians
304 Building and civil engineering technicians
309 Other scientific technicians n.e.c.
310 Draughtspersons
311 Building inspectors
312 Quantity surveyors
313 Marine, insurance and other surveyors
320 Computer analyst/programmers
330 Air traffic planners and controllers
331 Aircraft flight deck officers
332 Ship and hovercraft officers
340 Nurses
341 Midwives
342 Medical radiographers
343 Physiotherapists
344 Chiropodists
345 Dispensing opticians
346 Medical technicians, dental auxiliaries
347 Occupational and speech therapists, psychotherapists, th
348 Environmental health officers
349 Other health associate professionals animals
350 Legal service and related occupations
360 Estimators, valuers
361 Underwriters, claims assessors, brokers, investment anal
362 Taxation experts
363 Personnel and industrial relations officers
364 Organisation and methods and work study officers
370 Matrons, houseparents
371 Welfare, community and youth workers
380 Authors, writers, journalists
381 Artists, commercial artists, graphic designers
382 Industrial designers and textile designers
383 Clothing designers
384 Actors, entertainers, stage managers, producers and dire
385 Musicians
386 Photographers, camera, sound and video equipment operato
387 Professional athletes, sports officials
390 Information officers and technical librarians
391 Vocational and industrial trainers
392 Careers advisers and vocational guidance specialists
393 Driving instructors (not hgv)
394 Inspectors of factories, utilities and trading standards
395 Other statutory similar inspectors driving
396 Occupational hygienists and safety officers (health and
399 Other associate professional and technical occupations n
400 Civil administrative assistants taxation
401 Local government clerical officers assistants health
410 Accounts and wages clerks, book-keepers, other financial
411 Counter clerks and cashiers
412 Debt, rent and other cash collectors
420 Filing, computer and other records clerks (inc. legal co
421 Library assistants/clerks press
430 Clerks (n.o.s.)
440 Stores despatch production control clerks warehouse
441 Storekeepers, warehousemen/women
450 Medical secretaries
451 Legal secretaries
452 Typists and word processor operators
459 Other secretaries, personal assistants, typists, word pr
460 Receptionists general office dental
461 Receptionists/telephonist
462 Telephone operators exchange
463 Radio and telegraph operators, other office communicatio
490 Computer operators, data processing operators, other off
491 Tracers, drawing officer assistants
500 Bricklayers, masons fixer
501 Roofers, slaters, tilers, sheeters, cladders
502 Plasterers fibrous foreman
503 Glaziers firm
504 Builders, building contractors
505 Scaffolders, stagers, steeplejacks, riggers
506 Floorers, floor coverers, carpet fitters and planners, f
507 Painters and decorators
509 Other construction trades n.e.c. building
510 Centre, capstan, turret and other lathe setters and sett
511 Boring and drilling machine setters and setter-operators
512 Grinding machine setters and setter-operators
513 Milling machine setters and setter-operators
514 Press setters and setter-operators
515 Tool makers tool fitters markers out metal foreman
516 Metal working production and maintenance fitters
517 Precision instrument makers and repairers
518 Goldsmiths, silversmiths, precious stone workers
519 Other tool setters operators shaper foreman auto
520 Production fitters (electrical/electronic)
521 Electricians, electrical maintenance fitters
522 Electrical engineers (not professional)
523 Telephone fitters
524 Cable jointers, lines repairers supervisor
525 Radio, TV and video engineers
526 Computer engineers, installation and maintenance
529 Other electrical/electronic trades n.e.c.
530 Smiths and forge workers farrier
531 Moulders, core makers, die casters
532 Plumbers, heating and ventilating engineers and related
533 Sheet metal workers
534 Metal plate workers, shipwrights, riveters
535 Steel erectors
536 Barbenders, steel fixers
537 Welding trades
540 Motor mechanics, auto engineers (inc. road patrol engine
541 Coach and vehicle body builders
542 Vehicle body repairers, panel beaters
543 Auto electricians
544 Tyre and exhaust fitters
550 Weavers
551 Knitters
552 Warp preparers, bleachers, dyers and finishers
553 Sewing machinists, menders, darners and embroiderers
554 Coach trimmers, upholsterers and mattress makers
555 Shoe repairers, leather cutters and sewers, footwear las
556 Tailors, dressmakers
557 Clothing cutters, milliners, furriers
559 Other textiles, garments and related trades n.e.c.
560 Originators, compositors and print preparers
561 Printers general
562 Book binders and print finishers specialised
563 Screen printers
569 Other printing and related trades n.e.c.
570 Carpenters and joiners
571 Cabinet makers wood
572 Case and box makers churn foreman
573 Pattern makers moulds shop foreman
579 Other woodworking trades n.e.c.
580 Bakers, flour confectioners
581 Butchers, meat cutters
582 Fishmongers, poultry dressers
590 Glass product and ceramics makers
591 Glass product and ceramics finishers and decorators
592 Dental technicians denture foreman
593 Musical instrument makers, piano tuners
594 Gardeners, groundsmen/women
595 Horticultural trades
596 Coach painters, other spray painters
597 Face trained coalmining workers, shotfirers and deputies
598 Office machinery mechanics dictaphone
599 Other craft and related occupations n.e.c.
600 NCOs and other ranks, UK armed forces
601 NCOs and other ranks, foreign and commonwealth armed for
610 Police officers (sergeant and below)
611 Fire service officers (leading fire officer and below)
612 Prison service officers borstal
613 Customs and excise officers, immigration officers (custo
614 Traffic wardens
615 Security guards and related occupations
619 Other security protective service occupations life
620 Chefs, cooks hotel supervisor
621 Waiters, waitresses
622 Bar staff
630 Travel and flight attendants
631 Railway station staff
640 Assistant nurses, nursing auxiliaries
641 Hospital ward assistants
642 Ambulance staff
643 Dental nurses
644 Care assistants and attendants old
650 Nursery nurses creche
651 Playgroup leaders
652 Educational assistants
659 Other childcare and related occupations n.e.c.
660 Hairdressers, barbers coiffeur
661 Beauticians and related occupations
670 Domestic housekeepers and related occupations
671 Housekeepers (non-domestic)
672 Caretakers school
673 Launderers, dry cleaners, pressers
690 Undertakers funeral director
691 Bookmakers manager
699 Other personal and protective service occupations model
700 Buyers (retail trade)
701 Buyers and purchasing officers (not retail)
702 Importers and exporters
703 Air, commodity and ship brokers
710 Technical and wholesale sales representatives
719 Other sales representatives n.e.c.
720 Sales assistants merchants car
721 Retail cash desk and check-out operators
722 Petrol pump forecourt attendants
730 Collectors salespersons and credit agents
731 Roundsmen/women and van salespersons
732 Market and street traders and assistants
733 Scrap dealers, scrap metal merchants
790 Merchandisers
791 Window dressers, floral arrangers
792 Telephone salespersons
800 Bakery confectionery process hand foreman
801 Brewery and vinery process operatives
802 Tobacco cutter foreman
809 Other food, drink and tobacco process operatives n.e.c.
810 Tannery production operatives foreman sueder
811 Preparatory fibre processors
812 Spinners, doublers, twisters fly
813 Winders, reelers
814 Other textiles processing operatives hydro
820 Chemical, gas and petroleum process plant operatives
821 Paper wood and related process plant operatives
822 Cutting and slitting machine operatives (paper products
823 Glass and ceramics furnace operatives, kilnsetters
824 Rubber process operatives, moulding machine operatives,
825 Plastic process operatives, moulders extruders goods
826 Synthetic fibre makers
829 Other chemicals, paper, plastics and related operatives
830 Furnace operatives (metal)
831 Metal drawers
832 Rollers
833 Annealers, hardeners, temperers (metal)
834 Electroplaters, galvanisers, colour coaters
839 Other metal making treating process operatives steel
840 Machine tool operatives (inc. CNC machine tool operative
841 Press stamping and automatic machine operatives
842 Metal polishers
843 Metal dressing operatives
844 Shot blasters
850 Assemblers/lineworkers (electrical/electronic goods)
851 Assemblers/lineworkers vehicles metal nutter
859 Other assemblers/lineworkers poppy
860 Inspectors, viewers testers examiners insulation
861 Inspectors viewers testers examiners other manufactured
862 Packers, bottlers, canners, fillers
863 Weighers, graders, sorters
864 Routine laboratory testers paint soil
869 Other routine process operatives n.e.c. painter
870 Bus inspectors
871 Road transport depot inspectors and related occupations
872 Drivers of road goods vehicles
873 Bus and coach drivers
874 Taxi, cab drivers and chauffeurs
875 Bus conductors
880 Seafarers (merchant navy); barge, lighter and boat opera
881 Rail transport inspectors, supervisors and guards
882 Rail drivers railways second
883 Rail signal operatives and crossing keepers
884 Shunters and point operatives railways
885 Mechanical plant drivers and operatives (earth moving an
886 Crane drivers
887 Fork lift and mechanical truck drivers
889 Other transport machinery operatives horse
890 Washers, screeners and crushers in mines and quarries
891 Printing machine minders and assistants
892 Water sewerage plant attendants sewage foreman
893 Electrical energy, boiler and related plant operatives a
894 Oilers, greasers, lubricators
895 Mains and service pipe layers, pipe joiners
896 Construction and related operatives insulator foreman
897 Woodworking machine operatives
898 Mine (excluding coal) and quarry workers
899 Other plant and machine operatives n.e.c.
900 Farm workers livestock hand
901 Agricultural machinery drivers and operatives
902 All other occupations in farming and related
903 Fishing and related workers
904 Forestry workers
910 Coal mine labourers
911 Labourers in foundries
912 Labourers in engineering and allied trades
913 Mates to metal/electrical and related fitters
919 Other labourers in making and processing industries n.e.
920 Mates to woodworking trades workers
921 Mates to building trades workers
922 Rail construction maintenance track lengthmen
923 Road construction and maintenance workers
924 Paviors, kerb layers
929 Other building and civil engineering labourers n.e.c.
930 Stevedores, dockers
931 Goods porters
932 Slingers
933 Refuse and salvage collectors
934 Driver's mates scammel
940 Postal workers, mail sorters
941 Messengers, couriers
950 Hospital porters
951 Hotel porters
952 Kitchen porters, hands
953 Counterhands, catering assistants help
954 Shelf fillers
955 Lift and car park attendants
956 Window cleaners
957 Road sweepers
958 Cleaners, domestics
959 Other occupations in sales and services n.e.c.
990 All other labourers and related workers
999 All others in miscellaneous occupations n.e.c.
Status unknown (UKEMPST 1 - 7)
Self-employed (all) (not available for UK; =2)
Self-employed (principals) (UKEMPST 1 - 3)
Own account (ICSE-93 3) (UKEMPST 3)
Employer (ICSE-93 2) (UKEMPST 1 & 2)
Family assistant (ICSE-93 5) (not available for UK)
Employee (ICSE-93 1) (UKEMPST 4 - 7)
Missing
Self-employed with 25 or more employees
Self-employed with fewer than 25 employees
Self-employed without employees
Manager (large establishment) (4 & 5 not distinguished)
Manager (small establishment) (4 & 5 not distinguished)
Supervisor
Employee
Employers: large establishments
Managers: large establishments
Employers: small establishments
Managers: small establishments
Professionals: self-employed
Professionals: employees
Ancillary workers, artists
Non-manual foremen, supervisors
Junior non-manual
Personal service
Manual foremen, supervisors
Skilled manual
Semi-skilled manual
Unskilled manual
Own account (not professional)
Farmers: employers, managers
Farmers: own account
Agricultural
Armed forces
I Professional etc
II Managerial and technical
III N-M Skilled non-manual
IIIM Skilled manual
IV Partly skilled
V Unskilled
I Higher grade service class
II Lower grade service class
IIIa Routine non-manual
IIIb Personal service
IVa Small proprietors, with employees
IVb Small proprietors, no employees
IVc Farmers etc
V Technicians, supervisors
VI Skilled manual
VIIa Semi-skilled and unskilled
VIIb Agricultural
1.1 Large employers and higher managerial occupations
1.2 Higher professional occupations
2 Lower managerial and professional occupations
3 Intermediate occupations
4 Small employers and own account workers
5 Lower supervisory and technical occupations
6 Semi-routine occupations
7 Routine occupations
L1 Employers in large organisations
L2 Higher managerial occupations
L3.1 'Traditional' higher professional employees
L3.2 'New' higher professional employees
L3.3 'Traditional' higher professional self-employed
L3.4 'New' higher professional self-employed
L4.1 'Traditional' lower professional and higher technical e
L4.2 'New' lower professional and higher technical employees
L4.3 'Traditional' lower professional and higher technical s
L4.4 'New' lower professional and higher technical self-empl
L5 Lower managerial occupations
L6 Higher supervisory occupations
L7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative
L7.2 Intermediate sales and service
L7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary
L7.4 Intermediate engineering
L8.1 Employers in small organisations (non-professional)
L8.2 Employers in small organisations (agriculture)
L9.1 Own account workers (non-professional)
L9.2 Own account workers (agriculture)
L10 Lower supervisory occupations
L11.1 Lower technical craft
L11.2 Lower technical process operative
L12.1 Semi-routine sales
L12.2 Semi-routine service
L12.3 Semi-routine technical
L12.4 Semi-routine operative
L12.5 Semi-routine agricultural
L12.6 Semi-routine clerical
L12.7 Semi-routine childcare
L13.1 Routine sales and service
L13.2 Routine production
L13.3 Routine technical
L13.4 Routine operative
L13.5 Routine agricultural