The purpose of this list is to allow for recording relevant occupations that do not occur in Micro-thesaurus 10. Occupations (ILO Classification).

This Micro-thesaurus is used for field 923 Local Term for Occupation in the Person format.

Example

Organisations working on child labour may want to have a list of hazardous occupations in which children should never work (1).

 
CODE TERM
01  Agriculture
01 01  Agriculture - working with machinery
01 02  Agriculture - working with agrochemicals
01 03  Agriculture - working with animals
01 04  Agriculture - picking crops
01 05  Agriculture - loading
02  Brickmaking
03  Carpet weaving
04  Construction work
04 01  Construction work - digging earth
04 02  Construction work -carrying loads
04 03  Construction work - breaking stones or rocks
04 04  Construction work - shovelling sand and cement
04 05  Construction work - metal work
05  Glass factory
 
05 01  Glass factory - drawing molten glass
05 02  Glass factory - carrying molten loams
06  Mining
06 01  Mining - underground digging
06 02  Mining - carrying heavy loads

(1) The terms are extracted from: International Labour Organization. Child Labour in Hazardous Occupations and Sectors. International Labour Organization. Washington Branch Office. 13 Oct. 2003. http://www.ilo.org/public/english/comp/child/download/pdf/hazardous.pdf