---
id: "isco08"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["industry"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 85
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/isco08"
---

# ISCO-08 occupation code (`isco08`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Code of an occupation group in the International Standard Classification of Occupations 2008 (ISCO-08) of the International Labour Organization. There are four levels: major group (one digit), sub-major group (two digits), minor group (three digits) and unit group (four digits), and each code begins with the code of the group above it. Major group 0 is the armed forces. ESCO occupations (esco_occupation) sit under ISCO-08 unit groups; the US SOC (ensoc) is a separate national classification.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Industry (industry)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: categorical

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^\d{1,4}$
```

## Examples

- `2512` — Unit group: software developers
- `251` — Minor group: software and applications developers and analysts
- `25` — Sub-major group: information and communications technology professionals
- `2` — Major group: professionals
- `0110` — Unit group: commissioned armed forces officers
- `25121` (invalid example) — Five digits

## Mappings

- wikidata: `P8283`

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Classification_of_Occupations>
- doc: <https://esco.ec.europa.eu/en/classification/occupation_main>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8283>

## Quality

Score 85/100. Missing: translation, detector coverage.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/isco08.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/industry/isco08.yaml>