Dictionary of Occupational Titles Coverage

The Dictionary of Occupational Titles (D.O.T.) was designed to provide standardized occupational titles to help public employment service offices classify and place job seekers. Its coding structure also is used to help bridge or relate to other occupational classification systems used in the collection of employment data. Nearly all occupational statements in the Handbook list the D.O.T. numbers that relate to or match the definitions used in the Bureau's Occupational Employment Statistics Survey (OES)—the source of occupational employment data in the Handbook. However, Handbook does not list the D.O.T. code numbers for the following occupations:

• Apparel workers
• Blue-collar worker supervisors
• Clerical supervisors and managers
• General managers and top executives
• Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers
• Industrial machinery repairers
• Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction
• Inspectors, testers, and graders
• Manufacturers'and wholesale sales representatives
• Material moving equipment operators
• Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing occupations (except for dispatchers, stock clerks, and traffic, shipping, and receiving clerks)
• Metalworking and plastics-working machine operators
• Painting and coating machine operators
• Precision assemblers
• Prepress workers
• Printing press operators
• Retail sales workers
• Science technicians
• Textile machinery operators
• Woodworking occupations
  
  Although not listed in the Handbook, the D.O.T. code numbers are available on request from the Chief, Division of Occupational Outlook, Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, DC 20212.

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  Douglas Braddock
  Bureau of Labor Statistics
  Braddock_D@bls.gov
  Last modified: March 5, 1998
  URL: http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocodict.htm