Appendix IV: Occupational classification
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In this paper, occupations are aggregated into the following five categories based on the National Occupational Classification for Statistics (NOC-S) 2001 codes: 1) Management; 2) Professionals; 3) Semi-professionals and technicians; 4) Clerical, sales, and service personnel; 5) Manual workers and trades personnel.
"Management" includes: senior managers (A0); specialist managers (A1); managers in retail trade, food, and accommodation services (A2); and other managers (A3).
"Professionals" includes: professional occupations in business and finance (B0); professional occupations in natural and applied sciences (C0); professional occupations in health (D0); nurse supervisors and registered nurses (D1); judges, lawyers, psychologists, social workers, ministers of religion, policy and program officers (E0); teachers and professors (E1); and professional occupations in art and culture (F0).
"Semi-professionals and technicians" includes: technical occupations related to natural and applied sciences (C1); technical and related occupations in health (D2); paralegals, social services workers, and occupations in education and religion (E2); and technical occupations in art, culture, recreation, and sport (F1).
"Clerical, sales, and service personnel" includes: finance and insurance administrative occupations (B1); secretaries (B2); administrative and regulatory occupations (B3); clerical supervisors (B4); clerical occupations (B5); assisting occupations in support of health services (D3); sales and service supervisors (G0); wholesale, technical, insurance, real estate sales specialists, and retail, wholesale, and grain buyers (G1); retail salespersons and sales clerks (G2); cashiers (G3); chefs and cooks (G4); occupations in food and beverage service (G5); occupations in protective services (G6); occupations in travel and accommodation including attendants in recreation and sport (G7); childcare and home support workers (G8); and other sales and service occupations (G9).
"Manual workers and trades personnel" includes: contractors and supervisors in trades and transportation (H0); construction trades (H1); stationary engineers, power station operators, and electrical trades and telecommunications occupations (H2); machinists, metal forming, shaping, and erecting occupations (H3); mechanics (H4); other trades (H5); heavy equipment and crane operators including drillers (H6); transportation equipment operators and related workers, excluding labourers (H7); trades helpers, construction and transportation labourers, and related occupations (H8); occupations unique to agriculture excluding labourers (I0); occupations unique to forestry operations, mining, oil and gas extraction, and fishing, excluding labourers (I1); primary production labourers (I2); supervisors in manufacturing (J0); machine operators in manufacturing (J1); assemblers in manufacturing (J2); and labourers in processing, manufacturing, and utilities (J3).
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