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410 |
Working Proprietors (Wholesale and Retail Trade) | Workers in this unit group conduct businesses in wholesale and retail trade on their own behalf or in partnership. Their functions include: purchasing goods of the types, qualities and quantities required; selling goods to retailers, industrial, commercial or other establishments or to individual customers; acting as intermediaries between buyers and sellers of goods. Producer-vendors, such as bakers or butchers are coded as producers (Major Groups 7, 8, 9). Retailer and Wholesalers can be additionally coded by PRODUCT. |
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431 |
Technical Salesmen and Service Advisers | Workers in this unit group sell, and perform specialised information duties in selling, technical products or services. Their functions include: selling technical equipment, supplies or services using their specialised knowledge of the technology of the composition, utilisation and maintenance of the goods or equipment sold; advising customers on the application, installation and operation of technical equipment and other products bought. |
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441 |
Insurance, Real Estate and Securities Salesmen | Workers in this unit group sell insurance, real estate and securities or are associated with these activities. Their functions include: selling life, endowment, fire, accident and other types of insurance; selling and leasing property such as building lots, houses, apartments and estates, on a commission basis; purchasing and selling stocks and bonds of public or private organisations for customers on a commission basis; performing other tasks directly related to the foregoing. |
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451 |
Salesmen, Shop Assistants and Demonstrators | Workers in this unit group sell and demonstrate goods in wholesale and retail establishments. Their functions include: selling goods in a wholesale establishment to retailers or large-scale consumers; selling goods to customers of a retail establishment; dressing in clothes for sale to display them for customers in manufacturers, wholesalers or retailers showrooms; demonstrating and explaining qualities and functions of goods; performing other tasks related to the forgoing. Salesmen, shop assistants and demonstrators can additionally be coded by PRODUCT. |
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510 |
Working Proprietors (Catering, Lodging and Leisure Services) | Workers in this unit group conduct catering, lodging and leisure services on their own behalf or in partnership and provide accommodation and meals for guests. Their functions include: maintaining records and keeping accounts of the undertaking; ordering supplies; receiving guests and allocating accommodation; supervising employees engaged in the provision of food, personal and leisure services or personally performing equivalent duties. |
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531 |
Cooks | Workers in this group prepare and cook foodstuffs in hotels, restaurants, other public eating places, aboard ships, on railway trains and in private households. Their functions include: planning meals, preparing and cooking foodstuffs; performing various other tasks related to the preparation and cooking of food. |
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551 |
Building Caretakers | Workers in this unit group take care of apartment houses, office buildings, churches and other buildings and maintain them in an orderly and clean condition. Their functions include: attending to the operation of an apartment house as representative of owner or managing agent; keeping apartment house, office or similar building in clean and orderly condition and operating furnaces or boilers to provide heat and hot water for tenants; taking care of interior and furnishings of churches; performing similar tasks in other establishment. |
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581 |
Fire-Fighters | Workers in this unit group extinguish fires, eliminate fire hazards and protect property at fire sites. Their functions include: fighting fires as members of a public or private fire-fighting force; detecting and eliminating or reducing fire hazards in industrial plants or other establishments; protecting and salvaging goods during and after fires; preventing or extinguishing fires in crashed or damaged aircraft and rescuing crew and passengers; performing other related duties. Forest fire-fighters are classified in unit group 6-32. |
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591 |
Guides | Workers in this unit group escort individuals and groups on travel tours, sightseeing visits and excursions. Their functions include: escorting groups of tourists and looking after their comfort; accompanying tourists on sightseeing tours and describing points of interest; providing other guide services to visitors and travellers, such as organising and conducting mountain-climbing, hunting or fishing excursions. |
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611 |
General Farmers | Workers in this unit group conduct mixed farms, on their own behalf, or in partnership, to produce a variety of agricultural and animal husbandry products. Their functions include: directing or performing two or more types of the specialised farming operations described in unit group 6-12. |
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621 |
General Farm Workers | Workers in this unit group perform a variety of tasks in breeding and raising livestock, growing crops and maintaining farm structures and equipment, and assist generally on farms by performing simple farming tasks. |
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631 |
Loggers | Workers in this unit group perform logging tasks. Their functions include: felling trees and sawing them into logs; trimming and topping trees selected for log-hauling operations: launching logs into river and guiding them downstream to mill or into rafts or booms for further transport; operating wood-harvesting machines; loading logs into chutes or stacking them; shaping rough products from logs at felling site; grading logs according to quality; determining volume of marketable timber in logs. Logging rigger is classified in 9-72.90, Timber-carrier driver in 9-79.50, winch and hoist operators are classified in unit group 9-73, operators of bulldozers, road-making and related equipment in unit group 9-74 and Animal and animal-drawn vehicle drivers in unit group 9-86. |
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641 |
Fishermen | Workers in this unit group catch fish. Their functions include: working as fishing-vessel crew members and performing a variety of tasks in the catching of deep-sea fish; performing a variety of tasks in the catching of fish in inland or coastal waters. |
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711 |
Miners and Quarrymen | Workers in this unit group extract solid minerals from underground or surface mines and quarries. Their functions include: extracting coal, ores and other solid minerals from underground or surface mines; extracting granite, limestone, slate, flint or other kinds of stone from quarries; setting and operating machines which cut channels in mine workface, drill holes into mine or quarry workface for blasting or extract coal automatically from coal seam; determining positions and force of explosions required, and charging and firing explosives, to dislodge solid mineral from mine or quarry workface; cutting, fitting and installing wood or steel props, pillars and arches to support walls and roofs of underground workings; collecting samples of coal or ore for laboratory analysis; extracting chalk, clay, gravel or sand from open pits; performing other tasks related to the foregoing. |
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712 |
Mineral and Stone Treaters | Workers in this unit group prepare ores, stone and other minerals for distribution or further processing. Their functions include: drilling holes and driving wedges into quarried stone to break it into slabs or blocks; operating machines which crush and break lumps of mineral (except chemicals) to required size; operating grinding mill to pulverise stone and mineral-bearing ores; operating batteries of jigs or flotation machines to separate mineral from gangue; tending equipment which precipitates gold or silver from cyanide solution onto zinc; tending gravity device to separate slate and rock from coal; performing related tasks. |
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713 |
Well-Drillers, Borers and Related Workers | Workers in this unit group erect and operate drilling plant and perform related tasks in the sinking and operation of wells. Their functions include: preparing and operating derrick pipe-handling devices and slush pumps; operating rotary or percussion drilling plant to drill oil or gas wells; cementing openings in walls or casings of oil or gas wells; cleaning and servicing oil or gas wells and repairing and replacing pumping rods, casings and tubings; treating oil and gas wells with acid to increase their production; setting up and operating drilling plant to drill wells or bores other than for oil or gas; performing related tasks. |
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721 |
Metal Smelting, Converting and Refining Furnacemen | Workers in this unit group operate metal smelting, converting and refining furnaces. Their functions include: operating blast furnaces to smelt ores for production of ferrous or non-ferrous metals; operating furnaces to convert or refine pigiron or scrap-metal to produce steel; operating furnaces to convert or refine non-ferrous metals; performing related tasks. Workers who operate furnaces to melt metal for casting or reheat metal for forging, pressing or rolling are classified in unit group 7-23. |
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731 |
Wood Treaters | Workers in this unit group season and preserve wood. Their functions include operating steam-heated kilns to season wood; treating wood with chemicals to protect it against decay or parasites; performing related tasks. |
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741 |
Crushers, Grinders and Mixers | Workers in this unit group crush, grind, mix and blend chemicals and other materials employed in chemical and related processes. Their functions include: reducing solid chemicals and related materials to suitable size for further processing; grinding and pulverising solid chemicals and related materials; mixing or blending solids or liquids used in chemical and related processes; performing related tasks.Operators of crushing machines employed in ore-treating are classified in 7-12.30. |
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751 |
Fibre Preparers | Workers in this unit group prepare wool, cotton, flax, jute, hemp and other natural textile fibres for spinning and winding. Their functions include: grading and classifying natural textile fibres; washing wool fibres; tending machines which mix textile fibres into uniform blends; operating machines which clean and fluff textile fibres, transform them into sliver, comb them into sliver for first drawing, combine slivers into sliver lap or sliver laps into ribbon lap,combine several slivers into one attenuated strand of regular quality and weight, or transform sliver into roving; performing related fibre-preparing tasks. |
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