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Occupation
Refers to the unique set of tasks, skills, and abilities associated with a worker performing a job.
NHetwork: Occupations

Occupational Employment Statistics (OES)
A program which produces occupational data describing patterns in major industries. Products of these data include projections of employment for use by educators and other planners, and occupational wages. The OES code is a taxonomy for classifying occupations.
Reports: Occupational Employment and Wages
NHetwork: Occupational Wages, Occupational Employment & Projections

Occupational Staffing Patterns
Describes an industry in terms of its occupational distribution. For example, an occupational staffing pattern for the electrical machinery industry would indicate how many of the workers in the industry were employed as electrical engineers, electronics technicians, assemblers, etc.
NHetwork: Occupational Employment by Industry

Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Located in the Executive Office of the President, this agency prepares the President's budget with the Council of Economic Advisors and the Treasury Department. OMB also oversees all Federal data collection. Among other duties, this federal agency is responsible for enforcing the Paperwork Reduction Act and, in so doing, must approve all surveys and data collection forms that represent a reporting burden on employers.

Ownership
A numerical code that specifies the several layers of government and the private sector of the economy, designated as Federal government, State government, Local government, International or foreign government, or Private Sector.
NHetwork: Covered Employment & Wages (ES-202)

O*Net
A comprehensive database of worker attributes and job characteristics, providing a common language for defining and describing occupations. This classification system is the replacement for the now outdated Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT).