Occupation

Description

The term "occupation" ("yrke" in Swedish) is often used to arbitrarily refer to a person's role within the labour market. Although the term is not used distinctly within the Taxonomy database, it can be used as a high level notion to reason about concepts within it.

The SSYK structure, for instance, is a classification describing occupation on four hiearchical, rather broad, levels, whereas a occupation-name concept aims to describe occupation on a more detailed level.

The term "occupation" can be a reference to any of these hierarchical levels (and more).

Occupation and skill structure

The graph below explains how the Taxonomy has structured occupation related concepts.

flowchart BT
    subgraph SSYK
        direction BT
        SSYK2(ssyk-level-4) -->|broader| SSYK1(ssyk-level-1)
        SSYK3(ssyk-level-3) -->|broader| SSYK2
        SSYK4(ssyk-level-4/yrkesgrupp) -->|broader| SSYK3
    end
    subgraph Occupation specifics
        direction LR
        ON(occupation-name/ykesbenämning) -->|broader| SSYK4
        ON -->|related| JT(job-title/jobbtitel)
        SSYK4 -->|broader|OF(occupation-field/yrkesområde)
        ON -->|**related|OF
        ON -->|related|OC(occupation-collection/yrkessamling)
        ON -->|related|BO(barometer-occupation/barometeryrke)
        ON -->|substitutability|ON
    end
    subgraph Skill
        direction LR
        S(skill/kompetensbegrepp) -->|related| SSYK4
        S -->|broader| SH(skill-headline/kompetensgrupp)
        ON-->|related| S
    end
    ON -->|related|KW(keyword/sökbegrepp)
    subgraph ESCO
        direction LR
        ON-->|mapping relation*| EO(esco-occupation)
        S-->|mapping relation*| ES(esco-skill)
    end
    ON -->|related|KW(keyword/sökbegrepp)

*Mapping relation refers to one of either relation types: exact-match, broad-match, narrow-match, close-match.

**Regarding relations between occupation-name and occupation-field concepts, see the article on occupation fields.

The graph may also be viewed via mermaid.