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| Users of occupational statistics |
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- Statistical services sort/classify jobs and persons into occupations to produce statistics on the occupational distribution of employed and unemployed persons, wages, working conditions, occupational injuries, etc, and statistics on the employed and unemployed persons, wages, working conditions, occupational injuries etc of particular occupations.
- Migration authorities sort persons to make decisions about work permits or visas.
- Employment services sort persons and jobs to match jobs seekers and vacancies.
- Managers of enterprises/organisations sort jobs and persons to plan and decide on wage and other personnel policies, and monitor working conditions at the enterprise and in the context of the industry and relevant labour markets.
- Vocational counsellors use occupational information to guide school leavers and job seekers about types of work, training requirements, career prospects, working conditions, etc of different types of jobs.
- Vocational training specialists use occupational information as basis for planning and designing vocational training programmes.
- Legislators and public sector administrators use occupational statistics in support of the formulation and implementation of economic and social policies and to monitor progress with respect to their application, including those covering manpower planning and the planning of education and vocational training.
- Managers of enterprises/organisations use occupational statistics to sort jobs and persons to plan and decide on wage and other personnel policies, and monitor working conditions at the enterprise and in the context the industry and relevant labour markets.
- Psychologists study the relationship between occupations and the personalities and interests of workers.
- Epidemiologists use occupations in their study of work related differences in morbidity and mortality.
- Sociologists use occupations as an important variable in the study of differences in life styles, behaviour and social positions.
- Economists use occupation in the analysis of differences in the distribution of earnings and incomes over time and between groups, as well as in the analysis of imbalances of supply and demand in different labour markets.
- The general public use occupational statistics to analyse, describe and learn about what is happening in their countries.
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