USE OF LITHUANIAN CLASSIFICATION OF OCCUPATIONS ISCO 88, ISCO 2008 and the Development of the ESeC Regional Meeting, Oslo, 7 June 2005 Violeta Skamarociene Chief specialist, Employment Statistics Statistics Lithuania

Lithuanian Classification of Occupations  Since 1999  Created on the basis of ISCO 88  The code consists of 6–digits. The first 4–digits correspond to the ISCO 88, the last 2–digits together with the 4 mean a specific occupation in a separate group of the classification of occupations  The Labour Market Training Authority at the Ministry of Social Security and Labour– responsible organization 7 June 2005 Use of Lithuanian Classification of Occupation

Responsibilities of Labour Market Training Authority  Management  Regular data updating  Acceptance of occupational registration documents  Providing information for users  Consulting companies, juridical and physical persons 7 June 2005 Use of Lithuanian Classification of Occupation

Responsibilities of Labour Market Training Authority (continuation)  Organizing the work performed by experts commission  Giving suggestions and recommendations of professional qualifications  Preparing the occupational descriptions  Collecting information on existing occupations 7 June 2005 Use of Lithuanian Classification of Occupation

Development of Lithuanian Classification of Occupations  Internet website of Labour Market Training Authority:  Publication “Manual on Analysis of Qualifications“  Bilingual explanatory dictionary “Managers“  Trilingual explanatory dictionary “Engineers, Technicians and Technologists“ draft 7 June 2005 Use of Lithuanian Classification of Occupation

Updating of Lithuanian Classification of Occupations  Health care and pharmacy occupations revision (Ministry of Health)  Revision of Teaching occupations according to the classification of the fields of education (Ministry of Education and Science)  A new unit group 2470 – Public service administrative professionals was created 7 June 2005 Use of Lithuanian Classification of Occupation

Lithuanian Classification of Occupations on 1 January June 2005 Use of Lithuanian Classification of Occupation Major groups Sub–major groups Minor groups Unit groups Occupa- tions 1. Legislators, senior officials and managers Professionals Technicians and associate professionals Clerks Service workers and shop and market sales workers Skilled agricultural and fishery workers Craft and related trades workers Plant and machine operators and assemblers Elementary occupation Armed forces1110 Total

The main users of the Lithuanian Classification of Occupations  Statistics Lithuania: - Labour Force Survey; - Surveys on Earnings; - Households Surveys; - Population Census.  Lithuanian Labour Exchange: - Unemployed; - Job vacancies.  Ministry of Education and Science  Other institutions and organizations 7 June 2005 Use of Lithuanian Classification of Occupation

Managers  Additional information – occupation, work performed or position; short description of job performed; main economic activity of workplace; education; employment status in the workplace  Occupations which are primarily management are classified in the major group 1  The small enterprises managers are classified into the sub-major group 13  Bilingual explanatory dictionary “Managers“ 7 June 2005 Use of Lithuanian Classification of Occupation

Supervisors  Supervisors – persons, whose responsibilities include formal responsibility for supervising other employees, whom he/she supervises directly, sometimes doing some of the work they supervise, excluding quality control and constancy  Supervise the work of at least one person  Members of group with collective responsibility considered as supervisors  Supervisors are classified with the workers they supervise and the work they are doing 7 June 2005 Use of Lithuanian Classification of Occupation

Nurses  Nurses are classified in the Major Group 2 and Major Group 3 according to the educational level, duties and tasks performed Teachers  Teaching occupations revised by the initiative of the Ministry of Education and Science 7 June 2005 Use of Lithuanian Classification of Occupation

Technicians  Definition of technician: – a person, who uses tools and methods, based on technical principles, helping to enlarge knowledge and experience in a certain area of manufacture or economy; – a person, working in a certain technical area; – a technical specialist of a medium link.  Technicians are classified in the Major group 3  The draft of trilingual explanatory dictionary “Engineers, Technicians and Technologists“ is prepared 7 June 2005 Use of Lithuanian Classification of Occupation

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