Classifications, Inventories – Swiss Standard Classification of Occupations 2000 (SSCO 2000)Overview
| Brief description | The SSCO 2000 groups together individual occupations (the occupational database of the Federal Statistical Office currently contains 19,000 individual occupations) and its structure is oriented in a manner similar to that of economic branches (e.g. construction professions, health care professions, etc.). Statistics on learnt or practised professions gathered from various surveys are presented on the basis of the SSCO 2000. |
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| Office responsible | Federal Statistical Office (FSO) |
| Unit responsible | Labour Force Section (AES) |
| Information | Urs Meier; Tel.: 032 713 62 69; Email: urs.meier@bfs.admin.ch |
| Implementation | FSO |
| Legal basis | Federal Statistics Act of 9.10.1992 |
| Structure | Division (one digit), Class (two digits), Group (three digits), and Type (five digits). |
| Available languages | German, French and Italian versions |
| Version | Current version being used: Swiss Standard Classification of Occupations 2000. |
| Revision | Main changes between SSCO 1990 and SSCO 2000: There are now 9 Divisions of professions, which allows for a higher degree of aggregation of mini-census data. SSCO classification also takes into account new professions in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) field. |
Last updated: 26.04.2011