Revising the standard occupational classification system for 2010

Monthly Labor Review

Volumn 133, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 32-41

  Cosca, Theresa ^a   Emmel, Alissa ^a  

^a BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS   (United States)

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1. The SOCRPC included representatives from the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Defense Manpower Data Center, the Employment and Training Administration, the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee, the National Science Foundation, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Office of Personnel Management. Though not official members of the SOCRPC, representatives from the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Employment Standards Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, and a number of State employment security agencies participated in the development of the 2000 SOC system.
2. See Chester Levine, Laurie Salmon, and Daniel Weinberg, "Revising the Standard Occupational Classification system," Monthly Labor Review, May 1999, pp. 36-45.
3. All comments received are available to the public by visiting BLS. Please call BLS at (202) 691-6500 to make an appointment if you wish to view the comments received in response to the Federal Register notices.
4. Federal Register, Vol. 74, No. 12 (Office of Management and Budget, Jan. 21, 2009), p. 3923.
5. See "Response to Comment on 2010 SOC: Docket Number 08-0239" (Standard Occupational Classification Policy Committee, Mar. 12, 2009), on the Internet at www.bls.gov/soc/2010_responses/response_08-0239.htm (visited June 3, 2010).
6. See "Response to Comment on 2010 SOC: Docket Number 08-0315" (Standard Occupational Classification Policy Committee, Mar. 12, 2009), on the Internet at www.bls.gov/soc/2010_responses/response_08-0315.htm (visited June 3, 2010).
7. See "Response to Comment on 2010 SOC: Multiple Dockets on Clinical Nurse Specialists" (Standard Occupational Classification Policy Committee, Mar. 12, 2009), on the Internet at www.bls.gov/soc/2010_responses/response_multiple_docket_8.htm (visited June 3, 2010).
8. Only some of these responses were included in the body of the Federal Register notice, but all responses were made available to the public on the Internet at www.bls.gov/soc/2010_responses (visited Aug. 11, 2010).
9. See Alissa Emmel and Theresa Cosca, Occupational Classification Systems: Analyzing the 2010 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) Revision (Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology, 2009), on the Internet at www.fcsm.gov/09papers/Emmel_IV-B.pdf (visited June 3, 2010).
10. For crosswalks between the detailed occupations in the 2000 and 2010 SOC systems, see www.bls.gov/soc/home.htm#materials (visited Aug. 11, 2010).
11. Standard Occupational Classification Manual, 2010 (Office of Management and Budget, 2010), p. xv.
12. Federal Register, Vol. 71, No. 94 (Office of Management and Budget, May 16, 2006), p. 28537.
13. See "Response to Comment on 2010 SOC: Docket Number 08-0314" (Standard Occupational Classification Policy Committee, Mar. 12, 2009), on the Internet at www.bls.gov/soc/2010_responses/response_08-0314.htm (visited June 3, 2010).
14. See "Response to Comment on 2010 SOC: Docket Number 08-0938" (Standard Occupational Classification Policy Committee, Mar. 12, 2009), on the Internet at www.bls.gov/soc/2010_responses/response_08-0938.htm (visited June 3, 2010).
15. See "Response to Comment on 2010 SOC: Docket Number 08-0898" (Standard Occupational Classification Policy Committee, Mar. 12, 2009), on the Internet at www.bls.gov/soc/2010_responses/response_08-0898.htm (visited June 3, 2010).
16. See "Response to Comment on 2010 SOC: Docket Number 08-0292" (Standard Occupational Classification Policy Committee, Mar. 12, 2009), on the Internet at www.bls.gov/soc/2010_responses/response_08-0292.htm (visited June 3, 2010).
17. For a table presenting type of change by detailed 2010 SOC occupation, see www.bls.gov/soc/home.htm#materials.
18. See "Response to Comment on 2010 SOC: Docket Number 08-0012" (Standard Occupational Classification Policy Committee, Mar. 12, 2009), on the Internet at www.bls.gov/soc/2010_responses/response_08-0012.htm (visited June 3, 2010).
19. See "Response to Comment on 2010 SOC: Docket Number 08-0492, 08-0762, and 08-1157" (Standard Occupational Classification Policy Committee, Mar. 12, 2009), on the Internet at www.bls.gov/soc/2010_responses/response_08-0492_08-0762_08-1157.htm (visited June 3, 2010).
20. See www.bls.gov/soc/home.htm#materials to download this file and other related materials.
21. See "2010 SOC Implementation Schedule for BLS Programs" (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Mar. 2, 2010), on the Internet at www.bls.gov/soc/socimp.htm (visited June 3, 2010).
22. For information on suggesting job titles for the direct-match title file, see the SOC section of the BLS Web site, on the Internet at www.bls.gov/soc (visited Aug. 12, 2010).