There has been very little discussion of the issues in developing an occupational card sort despite the growing interest in this technique. Discusses these issues as they arose in developing an occupational card-sort system, known as Occu-Sort, and describes how card-sort developers have resolved them. (Author)

For use by educational planners desiring to match occupational supply and demand data, this report contains conversion tables intended to provide a bridge between the system used to classify occupations in the Bureau of Labor Statistics' National/State Industry-Occupation Matrix System and the system used by the Office of Education to classify…

The need for more and better manpower information is hampered by the lack of adequate occupational data classification systems. The diversity of interests in occupations probably accounts for the absence of consensus regarding either the general outlines or the specific details of a standardized occupational classification system which would…