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Occupations and Industries
Industries describe groups of businesses that perform similar activities and use similar resources and processes to produce their goods and services.
Occupations describe jobs where the nature of the work carried out by individuals is similar and that require similar qualifications, education and skills.
Occupational Information
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How can occupational and industry information help you?
Information about occupations and industries is essential to assist people in making more informed career, employment, human resources and investment decisions. For example, this type of information can:
help individuals identify what type of jobs they would like to work in, the training they will need and where they may find successful employment opportunities;
provide a good indicator of the drivers in the local economy and the changing nature of work;
help point arising job opportunities or, conversely, where there is likely to be a surplus of jobs and higher levels of unemployment;
point to jobs that are likely to be in higher demand elsewhere and likely to pose competitive challenges for accessing workers in the future.
Occupational Classification
Individuals in Newfoundland and Labrador work in wide variety of occupations. These are classified according to a national system called the National Occupational Classification (NOC) which includes formal descriptions and categories for hundreds of occupations in Canada.
Occupations in the NOC are classified according to an hierarchical 4-digit system and by skill level and skill type. There are 10 broad occupational categories. Each of these categories includes occupations classified to a more detailed level.
The ten broad occupational categories are described below (Source:NOC 2001 Training Tutorial, HRSDC Canada).
Please click on a category to go to the NOC website for further information and more detailed occupational categories.
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0. Management Occupations
This skill type category contains legislators, senior management occupations and middle and other management occupations. These occupations span all skill type categories.
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1. Business, Finance and Administration Occupations
This category contains occupations that are concerned with providing financial and business services, administrative and regulatory services and clerical supervision and support services. Some occupations in this category are unique to the financial and business service sectors; however, most are found in all industries.
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2. Natural and Applied Sciences and Related Occupations
This category contains professional and technical occupations in the sciences, including physical and life sciences, engineering, architecture and information technology.
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3. Health Occupations
This category includes occupations concerned with providing health care services directly to patients and occupations that provide support to professional and technical health care staff.
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4. Occupations in Social Science, Education, Government Service and Religion
This skill type category includes occupations that are concerned with law, teaching, counselling, conducting social science research, developing government policy, and administering government and other programs.
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5. Occupations in Art, Culture, Recreation and Sport
This skill type category includes professional and technical occupations related to art and culture, including the performing arts, film and video, broadcasting, journalism, writing, creative design, libraries and museums. It also includes occupations in recreation and sport.
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6. Sales and Service Occupations
This skill type category contains sales occupations, personal and protective service occupations and occupations related to the hospitality and tourism industries.
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7. Trades, Transport and Equipment Operators and Related Occupations
This skill type category includes construction and mechanical trades, trades supervisors and contractors and operators of transportation and heavy equipment. These occupations are found in a wide range of industrial sectors, with many occurring in the construction and transportation industries.
This category includes most of the apprenticeable trades, including all of those related to the construction industry. Other occupations in this category usually require completion of college or other programs combined with on-the-job training. Progression to supervisory or self-employed contractor status is possible with experience. There is limited mobility or transferability of skills among occupations in this category due to specific apprenticeship, training and licensing requirements for most occupations.
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8. Occupations Unique to Primary Industry
This category contains supervisory and equipment operation occupations in the natural resource-based sectors of mining, oil and gas production, forestry and logging, agriculture, horticulture and fishing. Most occupations in this category are industry specific and do not occur outside of the primary industries.
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9. Occupations Unique to Processing, Manufacturing and Utilities
This category contains supervisory and production occupations in manufacturing, processing and utilities.
Occupational Indicators and Trends
Labour Market Trends summary tables for occupational indicators and trends in Newfoundland and Labrador.
The LMI Data Works tool allows users to create user-defined tables and charts for occupational indicators by geography, age, year and gender. Please note that this tool is for more experienced data users and researchers.
Occupational Profiles and Resources
Occupational Works is a search tool on LMIworks.nl.ca that allows users to search for occupational information by occupational titles and NOC codes. Links to occupational profiles, associations, labour organizations and related educational institutions and training programs in the province and Canada can be accessed through this search directory.
Other sources of occupational information include:
Industry Classification
There are a wide variety of businesses in Newfoundland and Labrador that produce a broad range of goods and services. These businesses are classified according to the economic activities they undertake to produce their goods and services through the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).
NAICS is a comprehensive system encompassing all economic activities. It has a hierarchical classification structure which divides the economy into 20 sectors at the highest level. These are further refined to 102 sub-sectors, 324 industry groups, 718 industries and 928 national industries. (Source: NAICS 2007, Statistics Canada)
The highest level industrial sectors in NAICS are listed below. Please click on a category to go to Statistics Canada’s NAICS webpage for descriptions and more detailed industry categories. (Source: NAICS 2007, Statistics Canada)
Prior to adopting the NAICS classification system, businesses in Canada and were classified according the Standard Industrial Classification System (SIC) (1980). This system classified establishments according to their primary activity. The SIC has been replaced by NAICS Canada. However, depending on the time period, some of the industry data in LMIworks.nl.ca is presented according to the SIC classification system as NAICS was not in use prior to the mid-1990’s.
The Industry Classification Concordance Tables produced by Statistics Canada can assist users in matching SIC industries to NAICS industries.
Industry Employment Indicators and Trends
Labour Market Trends includes summary tables for industry labour market indicators and trends in Newfoundland and Labrador.
The LMI Data Works tool allows users to create user-defined tables and charts for occupational indicators by geography, age, year and gender. Please note that this tool is for more experienced data users and researchers.
Other Industry Data Sources:
Research and Publications Directory
Use the Research and Publications Directory to search through over 1000 labour market and career-related research articles and publications for the province, Canada and other countries.