Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupation
Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO) is a skill-based classification of occupations, developed as the national standard for organising occupation-related information for purposes such as policy development and review, human resource management, and labour market and social research. The classification includes all jobs in the Australian workforce.
ASCO should be used in the collection and dissemination of all official statistics on occupation. For example, the classification should be used when collecting, aggregating and disseminating data relating to affirmative action issues, the incidence and prevalence of accidents, wage rises, occupation-related morbidity rates, job vacancies and careers counselling.
ANZSCO is in its First Edition (2006) and replaces the Australian Standard Calssification of OCcupations (ASCO) Second Edition. The 2006 ANZSCO provides a more contemporary and internationally comparable occupation classification system.
The full classification can be ordered or downloaded from the Australian Bureau of Statistics website: ANZSCO (First Edition, 2006) ABS Cat. no. 1220.0.
The previous occupaton classification, ASCO, can be ordered or downloaded from the Australian Bureau of Statistics website: ASCO (Second edition) ABS Cat. no. 1220.0.
Last reviewed: Jun 3, 2008, Last modified: May 28, 2008
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