Description of Data Element 01617
NAME: Occupational Activity Category
NUMBER: 01617
FILES/TABLES: CLAS EMPL IRD SCD
INTENT:
IPEDS Reporting
OCR Reporting
DEFINITION:
The classification of occupational activity as defined by
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
EDIT:
DIAGNOSTIC MESSAGE ERROR LEVEL
EQ 1 OR 2 AND CLASSIFIED AS SUPPORT STAFF CRITICAL
IRD <
EQ 2,4,6 OR 7 & CLASSIFIED AS EXECUTIVE CRITICAL
IRD <
MISSING OR INVALID CRITICAL
EMPL IRD SCD
NE 1 & CLASSIFIED AS ADMIN & MANAGERIAL CRITICAL
IRD <
MISSING VALUES GENERATED PROGRAM GENERATED
IRD <
MISSING VALUES GENERATED, IF MISSING PROGRAM GENERATED
EMPL SCD
PROGRAM GENERATED PROGRAM GENERATED
IRD
FREQUENCY COUNTS WILL BE PERFORMED ON FREQUENCY
EMPL IRD SCD
CODING INSTRUCTIONS:
A person engaged in two or more separate activities will
be reported as full time in the principal activity. The
judgement as to what constitutes principal activity should
be made by the institution or reporting unit.
On the IRD file, OPS table values are program generated.
On the SCD file, unfilled (01181 ne E) should be coded blanks.
TABLE VALUES:
1 Executive, Administrative and Managerial
Include all persons whose assignments require primary
(and major) responsibility for management of the
institution, or a customarily recognized department or
subdivision thereof.
Assignments require the performance of work directly
related to management policies or general business
operations of the institution, department, or
subdivision, etc. It is assumed that assignments
in this category customarily and regularly require the
incumbent to exercise discretion and independent
judgement, and to direct the work of others.
Report in this category all officers holding such
titles as President, Vice President, Dean, Director,
or the equivalent, as well as officers subordinate to
any of these administrators with such titles as
Associate Dean, executive officer of academic
department heads, or the equivalent if their principal
activity is administrative.
Note: supervisors of professional employees are
included here, while supervisors of nonprofessional
employees (technical, clerical, craft, and service/
maintenance) are to be reported within the specific
categories of the personnel they supervise.
2 Faculty (Instruction/Research/Public Service)
Include all persons whose specific assignments
customarily are made for the purpose of conducting
instruction, research, or pubic service as a principal
activity (or activities), and who hold academic-rank
titles of Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant
Professor, Instructor, Lecturer or the equivalent
of any of these academic ranks. Report in this category
Report in this category Deans, Directors, or the
equivalents, as well as Associate Deans, Assistant
Deans, and executive officers of academic departments
(chairpersons, heads, or the equivalent) if their
principal activity is instructional. Do not include
student teaching or research assistants or medical
interns or residents.
3 Other Professionals (Support/Service):
Include in this category persons employed for the
primary purpose of performing academic support, student
service and institutional support activities and whose
assignments would require either college graduation
or experience of such kind and amount as to provide
a comparable background. Include employees such
as Librarians, Accountants, Personnel, Counselors,
Systems Analysts, Coaches, Lawyers, and Pharmacists,
for example.
4 Clerical and Secretarial:
Include all persons whose assignments typically
are associated with clerical activities
or are specifically of a secretarial nature.
Include personnel who are responsible for internal and
external communications, recording and retrieval of
data ( other than computer programmers) and/or
information and other paper work required in an office,
such as Bookkeepers, Stenographers, Clerk Typists,
Office-machine Operators, Statistical Clerks, Payroll
Clerks, etc. Include also Sales Clerks such as those
employed full time in the bookstore, and Library Clerks
who are not recognized as Librarians.
5 Technical and Paraprofessional
Include all persons whose assignments require
specialized knowledge or skills which may be acquired
through experience or academic work such as is
offered in many 2-year technical institutes, junior
colleges or through equivalent on-the-job training.
Include Computer Programmers and Operators, Drafters,
Engineering Aides, Junior Engineers, Mathematical
Aides, Licensed Practical or Vocational Nurses,
Dietitians, Photographers, Radio Operators, Scientific
Assistants, Technical Illustrators, Technicians
(medical, dental, electronic, physical sciences),
and similar occupational-activity categories which
are institutionally defined as technical assignments.
Include persons who perform some of the duties of a
professional or technician in a supportive role, which
usually require less formal training and/or experience
normally required for professional technical status.
such positions may fall within an identified pattern of
staff development and promotion under a "New Careers"
concept.
6 Skilled Craft
Include all persons whose assignments typically require
special manual skills and a thorough and comprehensive
knowledge of the processes involved in the work,
acquired through on-the-job training and experience
or through apprenticeship or other formal training
programs.
Include Mechanics and Repairers, Electricians,
Stationary Engineers, Skilled Machinists, Carpenters,
Compositors, Compositors and Typesetters, Upholsterers.
7 Service/Maintenance
Include persons whose assignments require limited
degrees of previously acquired skills and knowledge,
and workers who perform duties which result in or
contribute to the comfort, convenience and hygiene
of personnel and the student body or which contribute
to the upkeep and care of buildings, facilities or
the institutional property.
Include Chauffeurs, Laundry and Dry Cleaning
Operatives, Cafeteria and Restaurant Workers, Truck
Drivers, Bus Drivers, Garage Laborers, Custodial
Personnel, Gardeners, and Grounds Keepers, Refuse
Collectors, Construction Laborers, Security Personnel.
A OPS - Graduate Assistances
At-will temporary employment
B OPS - Faculty
At-will temporary employment
Adjunct appointments may not be for more than 50% of
the time throughout an academic year or full-time for
more than twenty-six weeks of a fiscal year, unless
appointments are for temporary or part time employment
and the term of employment is the period specified
in the offer of employment.
Any classification Codes Faculty or
Housestaff (classes 9179, 9187 or 9188).
C OPS - Extra State Compensation
At-will temporary employment
any faculty classification code
OPS - Phased Retirement
At-will temporary employment
an appointment under the provisions of the phased
retirement program.
Classification Codes Faculty
OPS - Fellowships
Non-employment - Classification Codes 9180, 9192.
OPS - Student Assistants
At-will temporary employment
Classification Codes 9190.
D OPS - Other
At-will temporary employment
Classifications Codes 0012-0017, 9189.
REFERENCES:
Public Law 88-352
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972
SOURCE RESPONSIBILITY:
SUS/NATIONAL CENTER FOR EDUCATION STATISTICS (NCES)
DATABASE INFORMATION:
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: X(1)
COLUMN NAME: OCC_ACT_CAT_EEO6
SHORT NAME: OCCACT
CREATE-CHANGE DATE: 12/08/06
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