Occupation 6310 - Subsistence Crop Farmers

Classification note

• Published code: 6310
• Hierarchy level: unit-group
• This page uses ISCO-08 as the English occupation reference layer while Thai TSCO label harmonization remains incomplete.

Parent link

• 631 - Subsistence Crop Farmers

Occupation hierarchy

• Major Group: 6 Skilled Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Workers
• Sub Major Group: 63 Subsistence Farmers, Fishers, Hunters and Gatherers
• Minor Group: 631 Subsistence Crop Farmers
• Unit Group: 6310 Subsistence Crop Farmers

Child groups

• No child groups are published under this code.

TSIC codes where this occupation is primary

• 98100 - Undifferentiated goods-producing activities of private households for own use
• 98200 - Undifferentiated service-producing activities of private households for own use

TSIC codes where this occupation is related

• 97000 - Activities of households as employers of domestic personnel

Definition

Subsistence crop farmers grow and harvest field or tree and shrub crops, vegetables and fruit, in order to provide food, shelter and, in some cases, a minimum of cash income for themselves and their households.

Tasks include

Tasks include - (a) preparing the soil and sowing, planting, tending and harvesting field crops; (b) growing vegetables, fruit and other tree and shrub crops; (c) fetching water and gathering firewood; (d) storing for later use and carrying out some processing of produce; (e) building and maintaining houses and other shelters; (f) making tools, clothes and utensils for use by the household; (g) selling or bartering some products at local markets.

Included occupations or child groups

Examples of the occupations classified here: - Subsistence crop farmer - Subsistence gardener - Subsistence vegetable grower

Excluded occupations

Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Crop farm labourer - 9211 - Firewood collector- 9624 - Water collector- 9624

Notes

Workers in a subsistence setting whose main tasks are fetching water and gathering firewood are classified in Unit Group 9624: Water and Firewood Collectors. Workers in subsistence agriculture who perform a limited range of simple and routine tasks, usually under the direction of others, are classified in the relevant unit group in Sub-major Group 92: Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Labourers.

ISCO-88 correspondence

• 6210