International Standard Classification of Occupations

The professional system International Standard Classification of Occupations is ( English for " International Standard Classification of Occupations " ) a of the International Labour Organisation ( ILO) compiled, internationally valid mono hierarchical classification scheme for groups of professions. Since 1957, four versions of the classification have been published, abbreviated ISCO -58, ISCO -68, ISCO- 88 and ISCO- 08th

The ISCO is used, among others, the European Community and within these by individual states as a basis for creating your own job classifications.

Basics

The standardized classification system should make it possible to make population and especially labor market statistics internationally comparable. In addition, it should serve as a model for creating your own countries national occupational classifications. Predecessors are the ISCO- 58 and ISCO- 68th The announced for the year 2008 successor ISCO -08 is in the design phase (August 2008).

Closely related occupations are combined to form a professional group, grouped according to the respective duties and obligations of a person and arranged in a four-stage, marked each with one to four digit number sequences hierarchy. Since these professional groups and genres not easily be transferred to any country, create the individual countries in this basic concept ISCO their national lists.

Europe: ISCO (COM)

With the ISCO -88 ( COM) (of English commons, " in common (sam ) " ) established by the Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat ) has its own, designed to meet the requirements within the European Community occupational classification based on ISCO -88. It is intended primarily as a common basis for cross-national statistical purposes in order to make the well-established in some European countries, national, hard by the ISCO classifications replaceable comparable.

The ISCO -88 ( COM) is divided into:

Austria: E - ISCO

The occupation classification ISCO - east used in Austria was created based on the ISCO -88 ( COM) of the Statistics Austria. It replaced the 1961 used until 2001 Austrian Occupation Classification ( ÖBS ). In the east - ISCO four additional features are specified, in which the company size, industry, education, and position are specified within the enterprise. At the lowest level, it includes 372 professional groups.

Germany: KldB instead of ISCO

In Germany the ISCO (COM) is mainly used by private companies to ensure comparability across the EU statistical surveys. Established remains the Classification of Occupations ( KldB 92) of the Federal Statistical Office.