Occupation and Industry Codes

Introduction

The following notes on occupation and industry codes, and related CDS schemas, are gathered from Subject Matter Expert guidance and responses to participant support issues.

CommonPerson schema

The items below relate to the CDS, CommonPerson schema. The schema is a component of responses to the Get Customer request, and to the  Get Customer Detail request.

Get Customer :
ResponseCommonCustomer: 
CommonPerson

Get Customer Detail :
ResponseCommonCustomerDetail :
CommonPersonDetail :
CommonPerson

The occupationCode field

The occupationCode field is optional. See CDS, Payload Conventions, Field Property Conventions, Mandatory/Optional fields.

If a Data Holder (DH) has the occupation code in the required ANZSCO format, then it must be supplied.

If a DH has an occupation code in some other format, and is able to translate it into the ANZSCO format, the DH must supply it.

If the DH does not have an occupation code for a customer, the field can be omitted.

As the occupationCode field description states, the value code must not be supplied if is not available in the required ANZSCO format. The field must be omitted.

Passing a Null value is equivalent to omitting the field from the payload. See CDS, Payload Conventions, Field Property Conventions, Empty/Null Fields.

CommonOrganisation schema

The items below relate to the CDS, CommonOrganisation schema. The schema is a component of responses to the Get Customer request, and to the  Get Customer Detail request.

Get Customer :
ResponseCommonCustomer:
CommonOrganisation

Get Customer Detail :
ResponseCommonCustomerDetail :
CommonOrganisationDetail :
CommonOrganisation

The industryCode field

The industryCode field is optional. See CDS, Payload Conventions, Field Property Conventions, Mandatory/Optional fields. As for the CommonPerson/occupationCode field described above, the industryCode field must be supplied if it is available, and can otherwise be omitted.

If a Data Holder (DH) has the occupation code in the required ANZSIC format, then it must be supplied.

If a DH has an occupation code in some other format, and is able to translate it into the ANZSIC format, the DH must supply it.

Otherwise the industryCode field can be omitted, or supplied with a Null value.