For instance, while the ability to use hand function greatly determines whether a person can perform his/her job adequately, hand function is not taken into account in the descriptions of occupations in the DOT and in ranking the physical demands.
Secondly, for those of working age, who are not employed or those who have retired, a description of occupation, if available, will not necessarily be an accurate measure of their income.
3-digit occupational codes correspond to a high level of disaggregation and constitute the finest description of occupations available for a long representative panel of US workers.
He filled out the form for new patients, including a description of his occupation.
Socio Economic Status (SES) in 2002 was assessed using a full description of the occupation of the twins according to the descriptions provided by the Central Office for Statistics in the Netherlands.
The system classifies workers in a four-tiered pyramid fashion, starting with broad major groups and ending with a detailed description of the occupation [ 16].
For the twin sample, SES was either obtained from a full description of the occupation of the parents and subsequently coded [ 8], or obtained by a nine-category classification scheme for occupations [ 13], combined with information on parental education.
Mr. Chalabi in recent months has veered between tepid defenses of the case he made against Mr. Hussein and increasingly vitriolic descriptions of the American occupation.
However, if you are investigating a possible career choice, you should not be satisfied with a stereotypical description of the occupations involved you want to know exactly what it really means to be a police officer, brain surgeon, or financial analyst.
We had no objective records of time at work or time off work on which to base our analysis; nor did we have a detailed description of the type of occupation.
