Labour Market Trends July 2001
Labour Market Trends July 2001
Key takeaways
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Bibliography: Mackinnon, N., 2001. Labour Market Trends July 2001. Labour Market Trends.
Authors:: Neil Mackinnon
Collections:: SOC Codes
First-page: 357
Abstract
Employment rate was 74.8 per cent among people of working age in the February-April 2001 period, up 0.1 percentage point from November 2000-January 2001 and up 0.3 percentage points on the same period a year earlier (Figure 1, Table A.1).
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- & For example, users found it difficult to classify job titles to SOC90; and the broad nature of certain occupational categories meant that the Employment (p. 357)
- & One problem under SOC90 was that the reported number of managers in the UK was greater than that of other EU countries. Therefore, major group 1 (managers and senior officials) is now more narrowly defined than under SOC90, and a number of the job titles once classified to this group were moved elsewhere, for example, high level clerical jobs have been moved to major group 4 (administrative and secretarial occupations). (p. 358)
- & Service experienced problems matching job seekers with job vacancies. Added to this was the need to keep the classification up to date by taking account of technological change, which introduced new occupations while making older ones redundant. These reasons prompted the extensive revision of the classification and the publication in June 2000 of SOC2000.1 (p. 358)
- & Table 1 shows the sub-major group structure of the SOC2000, comparing it with SOC90 (p. 358)
- & Many job titles have been moved between major groups 5 (craft and related occupations) and 8 (plant and machine operatives). There has been a change in the treatment of protective service personnel, leading to changes to major groups 3 (associate professional and technical occupations), 6 (personal and protective service occupations) and 9 (other occupations). Major group 6 under SOC90 has been redefined as personal service occupations. Armed forces, and most of the emergency services occupations previously classified to major group 6, have been repositioned in major groups 3 or 9, depending upon the skill levels required. A new minor group was created in major group 5 (skilled trades occupations) to place farmers from major group 1 and skilled farm workers from major group 9 (p. 359)
- & New unit groups have been introduced in major group 2 (professional occupations) including ‘ICT-professionals’. Further, software and programming occupations (which were previously classified to major group 3) have been moved to major group 2, reflecting the high level of knowledge involved in these occupations. (p. 359)
- & To reflect the growth in this area, new minor and unit groups have been introduced in major group 3 (associate professional and technical occupations) and in major group 6 (personal service occupations). (p. 359)
- & Changing consumer demand has led to a growth in the after-sales and customer care sectors, which was not covered by SOC90. A new minor group has been added into major group 7 (Sales and customer service occupations). All of these changes necessarily introduce some discontinuity between SOC90 and SOC2000. Most of the nine major groups have been renamed and all have a different composition in SOC2000 compared with SOC90. The summer 2000 quarter of the LFS was dual coded to both SOC90 and SOC2000, with the aim of investigating the possibility of a bridge between the classifications and to provide up-todate information on the impact of the revision. (p. 359)