Collecting and Using Industry and Occupation Data
Resources
The following resources provide greater detail for collecting industry and occupation data for those working in healthcare, on death certificates, or with cancer registries.
- Examples of Adequate and Inadequate Information for Occupation and Industrypdf icon
Provides examples of various occupations that are not descriptive enough and suggests alternatives that are adequate. - Guidelines for Reporting Occupation and Industry on Death Certificates
This document updates the guidelines written in 1988 by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) (DHHS Publication No. 88-1149). It is designed to help funeral directors complete the Decedent’s Usual Occupation and Kind of Business/Industry items on electronic and paper death certificates. - A Cancer Registrar’s Guide to Collecting Industry and Occupation
The usual (longest-held) occupation and industry of workers can reveal the national cancer burden by industry and occupation. Such information can also be used to help discover jobs that may have a high risk for cancer or other diseases and for which prevention efforts can be concentrated (or targeted). - Collection of I&O Data for Cancer Registry Professionals (Including Online Training)
The goal of this training module is to improve both the quality and the quantity of industry and occupation information captured from hospital and clinic records in order to increase the value of using this information for public health surveillance and research with the ultimate goal of decreasing the incidence of cancers related to workplace exposures. The module contains three parts:- Background on the importance of collecting information on the usual (or longest-held) industry and occupation of cancer patients,
- Guidelines for collecting industry and occupation (or I & O), and
- Examples of adequate and inadequate I & O entries.
There is a test at the end. All of those who complete this activity and pass the test (70% or higher) are eligible for 1.5 CEU from NCRA.
- Collection and Use of Industry and Occupation (I&O) Data for Cancer Registry Professionalspdf icon
Powerpoint presentation given at the Los Angeles Cancer Surveillance Program Annual Symposium - Collecting Industry and Occupation Data: A Training Guide for Healthcare Staffexternal icon
The New Hampshire (NH) Occupational Health Surveillance Program offers a training to help hospital staff improve their collection of patients’ industry and occupation information. This online training includes a quiz at the end. If scored at 80% or higher, the trainee will receive a certificate of completion. The training meets the National Cancer Registry Association requirements for 1 credit education unit. - Industry and Occupation Data Collection Tips for Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System (BRFSS) Interviewers
These materials were developed to provide guidance to BRFSS interviewers when collecting industry and occupation data. - Blogs on Industry and Occupation Data
Related Links
- Frequently Asked Questions: Industry and Occupationexternal icon
- Bureau of the Census – Industry and Occupationexternal icon
- North American Industry Classification System ( NAICS)external icon
- Standard Occupational Classification ( SOC)external icon
- I&O Classification systems used in the BLS Current Population Surveyexternal icon
- O*Net Onlineexternal icon
- Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System (OIICS)
Publications
- Efficiency of autocoding programs for converting job descriptors into standard occupational classification (SOC) codes.external icon
Buckner-Petty S, Dale AM, Evanoff BA.
Am J Ind Med. 2019; 62:59-68. - Capture and coding of industry and occupation measures: Findings from eight National Program of Cancer Registries statesexternal icon
Freeman-MB, Pollack-LA, Rees-JR, Johnson-CJ, Rycroft-RK, Rousseau-DL, Hsieh-MC
Am J Ind Med. 2017 Aug; 60(8): 689-695 - Health-related quality of life among US workers: Variability across occupation groupsexternal icon
Shockey-TM, Zack-M, Sussell-A
Am J Public Health 2017 Aug; 107(8): 1316-1323 - Occupational self-coding and automatic recording (OSCAR): a novel web-based tool to collect and code lifetime job histories in large population-based studiesexternal icon
De Matteis S, Jarvis D, Young H, Young A, Allen N, Potts J , Darnton A, Rushton L , Cullinan P
Scand J Work Environ Health. 2017 Mar 1;43(2):181-186 - Computer-based coding of free-text job descriptions to efficiently identify occupations in epidemiological studies.external icon
Russ DE, Ho KY, Colt JS, Armenti KR, Baris D, Chow WH, Davis F , Johnson A, Purdue MP, Karagas MR, Schwartz K, Schwenn M, Silverman DT, Johnson CA, Friesen MC.Occup Environ Med. 2016 Jun;73(6):417-24 - Industry and occupation in the electronic health record: An investigation of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Industry and Occupation Computerized Coding Systemexternal icon
Schmitz-M, Forst-L
JMIR Med Inform. 2016 Feb; 4(1);e5 - Suicide Rates by Occupational Group — 17 States, 2012
McIntosh, Spies, Stone, Lokey, Trudeau, Bartholow
MMWR 2016 July; 65(25);641-645 - Coding of central cancer registry industry and occupation information: The Texas and Louisiana experiencesexternal icon
Weiss-NS, Cooper-SP, Socias-C, Weiss-RA, Chen-VW
J Registry Manag. 2015 Fall; 42(3): 103-10 - Computer-based coding of occupation codes for epidemiological analysesexternal icon
Russ-DE, Ho-KY, Johnson-CA, Friesen-MC.
Proc IEEE Int Symp Comput Based Med Syst. 2014 May;2014:347-350 - Beyond crosswalks: reliability of exposure assessment following automated coding of free-text job descriptions for occupational epidemiologyexternal icon
Burstyn, Slutsky, Lee, Singer, An, Michael
Ann Occup Hyg 2014 May; 58(4): 482-92 - Methods and feasibility of collecting occupational data for a large population-based cohort study in the United States: the reasons for geographic and racial differences in stroke studyexternal icon
MacDonald LA; Pulley L; Hein MJ; Howard VJ.
BMC Public Health. 2014 Feb; 14: 142. - Occupation and Industry Coding in HRS/AHEADpdf iconexternal icon
(Health and Retirement Study Documentation Report DR-021)
Nolte-M, Servais-M, Megan-T
Health and Retirement Study, March 2013 - Improving the quality of industry and occupation data at a central cancer registry
Armenti-KR; Celaya-MO; Cherala-S; Riddle-B; Schumacher-PK; Rees-JR
American Journal of Industrial Medicine 2010 Oct; 53(10):995-1001 - Attributable risk of carpal tunnel syndrome according to industry and occupation in a general populationexternal icon
Roquelaure-Y; Ha-C; Nicolas-G; Pelier-Cady-MC; Mariot-C; Descatha-A; Leclerc-A; Raimbeau-G; Goldberg-M; Imbernon-E
American College of Rheumatology 2008; 59:1341-1348 - Getting to Know U.S. Taxpayers: Selected Tax Data by Occupation and Industry, Tax Year 2005pdf iconexternal icon
Nuriddin_T, Jezek-M, Fernandez-M,
S. Internal Revenue Service 2006 - The use of occupation and industry classifications in general population studiesexternal icon
Mannetje-A, Kromhout-H
International Journal of Epidemiology 2003; 32:419-428 - Commentary: Standardized coding of occupational data in epidemiological studiesexternal icon
Kogevinas-M
International Journal of Epidemiology 2003; 32:428-429 - Preliminary Results from the Census 2000 Industry and Occupation Codingexternal icon
Kirk-M, Buckles-E, Mims-W, Appel-M, Johnson-P
S. Census Bureau
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association, August 2001 - Analyses of public use decennial census data with multiply imputed industry and occupation codesexternal icon
N Schenker, DJ Treiman, L Weidman
Journal of the Royal Statistics Society 1993; 42(3); 545-556 - Occupation and Industry Data from Tax Year 1993 Individual Tax Returnspdf iconexternal icon
Sailer-P, Nuriddin-T
United States Internal Revenue Service 1999 - Multiple imputation of industry and occupation codes in census public-use samples using Bayesian logistic regressionexternal icon
CC Clogg, DB Rubin, N Schenker, B Schultz, L
Journal of the American Statistical Association 1991 Mar;80(413):68-78 - Summary measures of occupational history: a comparison of latest occupation and industry with usual occupation and industry
Illis-WR; Swanson-GM; Satariano-ER; Schwartz-AG
American Journal of Public Health 1987 Dec; 77(12):1532-1534 - Using the Census Bureau’s occupation and industry coding system for coding death certificates
Crouse-W; Schuster-L; Rosenberg-H; Kametani-D; Sestito-J
Proceedings of the Survey Research Methods Section of the American Statistical Association 1983 - Adding industry and occupation questions to the behavioral risk factor surveillance system: new opportunities in public health surveillanceexternal icon
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Page last reviewed: July 17, 2020
Content source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health