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2021

Job

The Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO), Version 1.3 defines a job as a set of tasks performed by one individual. An occupation is a collection of jobs that are sufficiently similar in their main tasks to be grouped together for the classification.

See also Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO), Labour force status (LFSP) and Occupation (OCCP).