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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 5.
Published in final edited form as: Stud Health Technol Inform. 2017;245:486–490.

Table 2.

Distribution of values for Occupation Description element with grouping based on the 2010 Standard Occupation Classification groups [16]

Occupation Description
2010 SOC Classification Group (n=23) Number of Total
Values (n=354)
Number of Unique
Values (n=267)
Frequency (%)
Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations 73 51 20.6
Business and Financial Operations Occupations 40 39 11.3
Education, Training, and Library Occupations 36 31 10.2
Construction 22 18 6.2
Management Occupations 21 15 5.9
Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations 20 11 5.6
Office and Administrative Support Occupations 19 16 5.4
Architecture and Engineering Occupations 17 7 4.8
Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations 15 11 4.2
Sales and Related Occupations 11 10 3.1
Transportation and Material Moving Occupations 11 2 3.1
Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations 9 5 2.5
Personal Care and Service Occupations 8 6 2.3
Community and Social Service Occupations 8 6 2.3
Computer and Mathematical Occupations 7 7 2.0
Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations 7 6 2.0
Legal Occupations 7 3 2.0
Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations 6 6 1.7
Protective Service Occupations 6 6 1.7
Healthcare Support Occupations 5 5 1.4
Production Occupations 4 4 1.1
Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations 1 1 0.3
Unclassified 1 1 0.3