Name Steward Organization Suggested Domain Suggested Domain Description Cde Group Classification
23. Participant's primary occupation throughout their working life NACC Social determinants of health
Social determinants of health (e.g., financial, education, and living arrangements), but not environmental data (e.g., weather data, pollutant data)
Other NIA-funded studies
  • NACC
    • Uniform Data Set
      • Form name- A1: Participant Demographics
        • Packet- Initial Visit Packet
          • Variable name- priocc

# Datatype
Value List

# Permissible value Value meaning name
100 100 - Major professionals/ Higher Executives/ Proprietors of Large Concerns
101 101 - Actuaries
102 102 - Architects
103 103 - Bank officers
104 104 - Certified public accountants
105 105 - Chief executives (CEO, CFO, COO)
106 106 - Clergy (professionally trained)
107 107 - Commissioned officers in the military
108 108 - Dentists
109 109 - Economists
110 110 - Engineers (Masters level and above)
111 111 - Financial managers
112 112 - Federal government officials
113 113 - Large business owners
114 114 - Lawyers / judges
115 115 - Mathematicians
116 116 - Major contractors
117 117 - Orthodontists
118 118 - Physicians
119 119 - Professor / University teachers
120 120 - Psychologists
121 121 - Research scientists
122 122 - Urban and regional planners
123 123 - Veterinarians
124 124 - VP of large business
200 200 - Lesser Professionals/ Business Managers of Medium-sized Businesses
201 201 - Accountants
202 202 - Advertising executives
203 203 - Authors
204 204 - Branch managers
205 205 - Building contractors
206 206 - Business managers
207 207 - Chiropractors
208 208 - Computer programmer
209 209 - Computer specialists
210 210 - Database developer
211 211 - Editors
212 212 - Engineers (no advanced degree)
213 213 - Executive managers
214 214 - Industrial farm owners
215 215 - Furniture business owners
216 216 - Jewelers
217 217 - Labor relations consultant
218 218 - Librarians
219 219 - Manufacturing owners
220 220 - Medium business owners
221 221 - Musicians / composers
222 222 - Nurses
223 223 - Office managers
224 224 - Opticians
225 225 - Personnel managers
226 226 - Pharmacists
227 227 - Pilots
228 228 - Police chief / sheriff
229 229 - Postmaster
230 230 - Production managers (TV / Radio)
231 231 - Public administration officials
232 232 - Public health officers
233 233 - Purchasing managers
234 234 - Real estate brokers
235 235 - Research assistants
236 236 - Sales engineers
237 237 - Sales managers
238 238 - Social workers
239 239 - State / Local government officials
240 240 - Teachers (Elementary & high school)
300 300 - Administrative Personnel/Small Business Owners/ Minor Professionals
301 301 - Actors
302 302 - Administrative assistants
303 303 - Advertising agents
304 304 - Artists
305 305 - Bakers
306 306 - Beauty shop owners
307 307 - Chefs
308 308 - Chief clerks
309 309 - Clergy (not professionally trained)
310 310 - Court reporters
311 311 - Credit managers
312 312 - Dental hygienists
313 313 - Department store managers
314 314 - Deputy sheriffs
315 315 - Dietitians / Nutritionists
316 316 - Dispatchers
317 317 - Florists
318 318 - Funeral directors
319 319 - Insurance agents
320 320 - Laboratory assistants
321 321 - Landscape planners
322 322 - Noncommissioned officers in the military (at or above rank of master sergeant / C.P.O.)
323 323 - Morticians
324 324 - Newspaper / TV reporters
325 325 - Photographers
326 326 - Piano teachers
327 327 - Radio / TV announcers
328 328 - Real estate agents
329 329 - Restaurant owners
330 330 - Sales representatives
331 331 - Service managers
332 332 - Small business owners
333 333 - Store managers
334 334 - Surveyors
335 335 - Title searchers
336 336 - Tool designers
337 337 - Traffic managers
338 338 - Travel agents
339 339 - Yard masters (Railroad)
400 400 - Clerical and Sales Workers/Technicians/ Owners of Little Businesses
401 401 - Bank tellers
402 402 - Bill collectors
403 403 - Bookkeepers
404 404 - Claims examiners
405 405 - Drafters
406 406 - Driving teachers
407 407 - Factory supervisors
408 408 - Small farm owners / farmers
409 409 - Flower shop workers
410 410 - Human resources workers
411 411 - Laboratory technicians
412 412 - Newsstand operators
413 413 - Post office clerks
414 414 - Railroad conductors
415 415 - Railroad train engineers
416 416 - Receptionists
417 417 - Route managers
418 418 - Sales clerks
419 419 - Secretaries / stenographers
420 420 - Shipping clerks
421 421 - Tailors
422 422 - Tax clerks
423 423 - Telephone company workers
424 424 - Telephone operators
425 425 - Timekeepers
426 426 - Toll collectors
427 427 - Tower operators
428 428 - Truck dispatchers
429 429 - Typists
430 430 - Utility workers
431 431 - Warehouse clerks
432 432 - Window store trimmers
500 500 - Skilled Manual Employees
501 501 - Auto body repairers
502 502 - Barbers
503 503 - Boiler repairers
504 504 - Bookbinders
505 505 - Brewers
506 506 - Cabinet makers
507 507 - Carpenters
508 508 - Cement layers / finishers
509 509 - Checkers / examiners / inspectors
510 510 - Cheese makers
511 511 - Construction forepeople
512 512 - Die makers
513 513 - Electricians
514 514 - Engravers
515 515 - Exterminators
516 516 - Firefighters
517 517 - Gardeners / landscapers
518 518 - Glassblowers
519 519 - Glaziers
520 520 - Gun smiths
521 521 - Hair stylists
522 522 - Heavy equipment operators
523 523 - Home repairs
524 524 - Iron workers
525 525 - Kitchen workers / cooks
526 526 - Locksmiths
527 527 - Machinists
528 528 - Mail carriers
529 529 - Maintenance forepeople
530 530 - Masons
531 531 - Mechanics
532 532 - Millwrights
533 533 - Noncommissioned officers in the military (below rank of master sergeant / C.P.O.)
534 534 - Painters
535 535 - Paperhangers
536 536 - Patrolmen
537 537 - Piano builders
538 538 - Piano tuners
539 539 - Plumbers
540 540 - Police officers
541 541 - Postal workers
542 542 - Printers
543 543 - Radio / TV maintenance
544 544 - Railroad brake operators
545 545 - Repair people
546 546 - Seamstresses / seamsters
547 547 - Sheet metal workers
548 548 - Ship smiths
549 549 - Shoe repairers
550 550 - Steelworkers
551 551 - Tile layers
552 552 - Tool makers
553 553 - Upholsterers
554 554 - Utility line workers
555 555 - Weavers
556 556 - Welders
600 600 - Machine Operators/ Semiskilled Employees
601 601 - Apprentices (electrician / printers / etc.)
602 602 - Assembly line workers
603 603 - Bartenders
604 604 - Building superintendents
605 605 - Bus drivers
606 606 - Cab / taxi drivers
607 607 - Cashiers
608 608 - Child care workers (not private household)
609 609 - Cooks (short order)
610 610 - Corrections workers
611 611 - Delivery people
612 612 - Dry cleaning pressers
613 613 - Elevator operators
614 614 - Enlisted military personnel (other than noncommissioned officers)
615 615 - Factory machine operators
616 616 - Factory workers
617 617 - Foundry workers
618 618 - Garage and gas station assistants
619 619 - Greenhouse workers
620 620 - Guards / security watch people
621 621 - Machine operators
622 622 - Meat cutters / packers
623 623 - Meter readers
624 624 - Nursing aides / attendants
625 625 - Oil delivery people
626 626 - Practical nurses
627 627 - Pump operators
628 628 - Receivers / checkers
629 629 - Servers (waiters / waitresses)
630 630 - Signal operators (railroad)
631 631 - Truck drivers
632 632 - Wood workers
633 633 - Wrappers (stores / factories)
700 700 - Unskilled Employees
701 701 - Amusement park workers
702 702 - Cafeteria workers
703 703 - Car cleaners
704 704 - Child care workers (private household)
705 705 - Construction laborers
706 706 - Dairy workers
707 707 - Deck hands
708 708 - Farm laborers
709 709 - Fishers
710 710 - Freight handlers
711 711 - Garbage collectors
712 712 - Grave diggers
713 713 - Homemakers
714 714 - House cleaners
715 715 - Janitors
716 716 - Junk / recycle sorters
717 717 - Laundry workers
718 718 - Messengers
719 719 - Peddlers
720 720 - Porters
721 721 - Roofing laborers
722 722 - Shoe shiners
723 723 - Stagehands
724 724 - Stock handlers
725 725 - Street cleaners
726 726 - Unemployed
727 727 - Unskilled factory workers
728 728 - Unspecified laborers
729 729 - Window cleaners
730 730 - Woodchoppers
731 731 - Worked while incarcerated

# Identifier Origin Version
UDS_a1_Initial Visit Packet_priocc NACC-source_dataset+form_name+packet+var_name NACC_uds-v4-ivp-ded-11122025