ISCO88, ISCO08 and E SeC

1. ISCO88, ISCO08 and ESeC Regional Meeting, 9 December 2005 Presentation of Hungary

2. Main topics of the presentation • Characteristics of corporate and general managers • Definition treatment and of supervisors • Nurses and teachers, distinguishing of major group 2 and 3 • Definition of technicians Problem of classification of technical occupations (engineers, technicians) • Updating of Hungarian Standard Classification of Occupations • Hungarian Socio-economic Classification

3. Characteristics of Managers Corporate managers: • Managers of business and budgetary institutions • Size of enterprise: 20 or more employees General managers: • General managers of small enterprises and budgetary institutions • Size of enterprise: 3-19 employees • Managers of small units, shops employing 1 or 2 people are not classified in major group 1!

4. Corporate managers 13 MANAGERS OF BUSINESSES AND BUDGETARY INSTITUTIONS 131 General managers of business organisations and budgetary institutions 1311General managers of business organisations (directors, executive managers) 1312General managers of budgetary institutions 132-133 Department managers of business organisations and budgetary institutions 1321Department managers in agriculture and forestry 1322Department managers in manufacturing . . 1334Department managers in education 1335Department managers in cultural services 1339Department managers in production and services n.e.c.

5. Corporate managers 134 Managers of functional units in business organisations and budgetaryinstitutions 1341Marketing managers 1342Accountancy and finance managers 1343Human resources (personnel) managers 1344Advertising and other public relations managers 1345Supply and distribution managers 1346Technical managers 1347Computing services managers 1348Research and development managers 1349Functional unit managers n.e.c.

6. Corporate managers 135 Production supervisors of business organisations and budgetary institutions 1351Supervisors in agriculture and forestry 1352Supervisors in manufacturing 1353Supervisors in construction 1354Supervisors in wholesale and retail trade, restaurants and hotels 1355Supervisors in transport, forwarding and storage 1356Supervisors in communications and postal services 1357Supervisors in water supply and communal services 1358Supervisors in services 1359Production supervisors n.e.c.

7. Characteristics of supervisors • Manage the production and the daily activity of workers of a certain field within the enterprise • Estimate workloads, amount of inputs for given tasks • Assign tasks to workers • Coordinate the tasks • Control the quality of work • Control the security rules

8. General managers 14 GENERAL MANAGERS OF SMALL ENTERPRISES AND BUDGETARY INSTITUTIONS 141-142 General managers of small business undertakings (directors, chairpersons,managingdirectors, managers) 1411General managers of small undertakings in agriculture and forestry 1412General managers of small undertakings in manufacturing 1413General managers of small undertakings in construction . . . 1424General managers of small undertakings in educational services 1425General managers of small undertakings in cultural services 1429General managers of small undertakings n.e.c.

9. Nurses Classifying according to skill level, tasks are the same in major group 2 and 3 • Professional nurses in major group 2 • Nurses in major group 3 • Assistant nurses in major group 5 Possible classifying criterion, according to the character of tasks performed: • Nurses „helping physicians” • Nurses „working at the bed”

10. Teachers Classifying according to skill level • Teaching professionals in major group 2 • Teaching associate professionals in major group 3 Classifying teachers outside the educational system is problematic: • Vocational trainers in a company • Language teachers not in the educational system

11. Technicians • Working under engineer’s direction • Lower skill level • Lower independence in work Classification of technical occupations (engineers, technicians) is problematic, because the breaking down of these groups are not by tasks, but by branches (of study)! Possible dimension of classification Planning – manufacturing

12. Updating of Hungarian Standard Classification of Occupations • To enlarge the list of jobs • To remove obsolete occupations • To add new occupations • To change the place of certain occupations in the system • To actualize the content description of occupations

13. Enlarging of list of jobs Sources: • Occupational entries captured by the 2001 Census in electronic forms; collecting and classifying job titles • Vacancy advertisement • Job lists of big employers • Proposals of experts, ministries etc.

14. Experience of 2001 Census • Classification method of managers is too complicated • Distinction between major group 2 and 3 is problematic • Improving and actualizing of descriptions are needed • Creation of new occupations are needed in • IT occupations • Business and finance occupations • Occupations in public administration • Occupations in media • Quality assurance

15. Hungarian socio-economic classification • ESeC-based • Position on the labour market • economic activity • occupation • status in employment • enterprise size and industry • number of workers supervised • Four-level, nested classification, with 7, 11, 15 and 35 categories • Individual level (current or previous occupation and employment characteristics) • Household level • Head of the household • Household reference person

16. Version of 11 categories • Large employers, higher managerial occupations • Higher professionals, experts • Lower managerial, professional and higher technical, supervisory occupations • Intermediate technical, clerical and skilled sales, service occupations • Small employers and self-employed • Small employers and self-employed in agriculture • Lower supervisors and skilled industrial occupations • Semi-routine occupations • Basic occupations • Population exposed to labour market exclusion • Inactive population never worked