Wikidata:Property proposal/ISCO-08 occupation code

ISCO-08 occupation code edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

DescriptionInternational Standard Classification of Occupations code according to the International Labour Organization (ILO) classification structure as of 2008
Data typeString
Domainoccupation (Q12737077)
Allowed values[0-9]{4}
Example 1playwright (Q214917) → 2641 (2451 in ISCO-88)
Example 2stonemason (Q328325) → 7113 (7122 in ISCO-88)
Example 3lumberjack (Q1124183) → 6210 (6141 in ISCO-88)
Example 4goatherd (Q5575361) → 6121 (6121 in ISCO-88)
Format and edit filter validation[0-9]{4}
Sourcehttp://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/stat/isco/isco08/
Planned useFilter down occupation (P106)
Number of IDs in source7017
Expected completenesseventually complete (Q21873974)
Robot and gadget jobsIt should be possible to bot-match 1–2k of the entries, depending on the amount of manual work
See alsoISCO-88 occupation class (P952)

Motivation edit

It is necessary to somehow filter occupation (P106) to find the real occupations, as a subset of human activity, and this property makes it possible. Occupations now contain a lot of human activity that has nothing to do with an occupation in the sense of work, and it seems impossible to clean it up.[1][2] For example this leads to serial killer (Q484188) being an “occupation”.[3] Check also the thread Wikidata:Project chat/Archive/2020/05#ISCO occupation code.

Note that ISCO-88 occupation class (P952) should be changed to cover ISCO-88 when this property has been created, as almost all entries follow that standard. Not all though, so each entry must be checked. Jeblad (talk) 12:46, 26 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note also that for some activities the actual work might be slightly different from the thing described at Wikipedia, thus the work is only related to the item. Jeblad (talk) 13:20, 26 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion edit