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    ISCO has been created to serve three main objectives:

    • To facilitate international communication about jobs by supplying national statisticians with a tool to make national occupational statistics available and reasonably comparable internationally.


    • To make it possible for international occupational information to be produced in a form which can be useful for research as well as for specific decision making and action oriented activities, such as those connected with international worker migration or job placement.


    • To serve as a model for countries developing or revising their national occupational classifications.


   
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 Updated 8 December 2004, by VA.