Notice of release of a new Variant of the National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2021 Version 1.0 with Aggregates for Analysis of Labour force

Release date: October 25, 2023

This is an information notice.

This regrouping variant was approved as a recommended standard on October 10th, 2023.

The Variant of the National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2021 Version 1.0 with Aggregates for Analysis of Labour force is designed to provide a context-specific alternative to the standard classification structure. The variant regroups occupations by similar characteristics such as wages, tenure, hours worked, union status, management responsibilities.

The first level of the variant replaces the broad occupational categories by regrouping for labour force categories and a new level has been added above major groupings to aggregate selected major groups.

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For more information, please contact NOC team.

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