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OCC reports the person's primary occupation, coded into a contemporary census classification scheme (some non-occupational activities are also recorded in the pre-1940 samples). Generally, the primary occupation is the one from which the person earns the most money; if respondents were not sure about this, they were to report the one at which they spent the most time. Unemployed persons were to give their most recent occupation. For persons listing more than one occupation, the samples use the first one listed.

Universe Note: "New Workers" are persons seeking employment for the first time, who had not yet secured their first job.

Note Regarding Multi-Year Samples: In Multi-Year ACS files, OCC codes are based on the year that the file was publicly released (see YEAR). For example, in the 2011-2015 5-year ACS sample, the OCC codes for respondents in 2011 were crosswalked by the Census Bureau to the set of OCC codes used in 2015 to create a single vintage of the occupation variable. See the Industry and Occupation Code Lists and Crosswalks page on the Census Bureau's website for more guidance on how codes are matched across years.