Thailand business reference

Occupation 9624 - Water and Firewood Collectors

Primary-source occupation page using the ILO ISCO-08 structure as the English reference layer.

2026-05-05Not official

Classification note

  • Published code: 9624
  • Hierarchy level: unit-group
  • This page uses ISCO-08 as the English occupation reference layer while Thai TSCO label harmonization remains incomplete.

Occupation hierarchy

  • Major Group: 9 Elementary Occupations
  • Sub Major Group: 96 Refuse Workers and Other Elementary Workers
  • Minor Group: 962 Other Elementary Workers
  • Unit Group: 9624 Water and Firewood Collectors

Child groups

  • No child groups are published under this code.

TSIC codes where this occupation is primary

  • No primary TSIC mapping is published for this occupation yet.
  • No related TSIC mapping is published for this occupation yet.

Definition

Water and firewood collectors collect water and firewood and transport them on foot or using hand or animal carts.

Tasks include

Tasks include - (a) cutting and collecting wood from forests for sale in market or as fuel or for own consumption; (b) visiting forests or fields to pick pieces of dried wood from ground and arranging them in heaps; (c) cutting decayed branches and trunks of trees using axes and hand-saws; (d) tying collected wood into small faggots and carrying them or transporting them on a cart to the market for sale or to village or household for use; (e) drawing water from wells, rivers or ponds, etc. for domestic use; (f) collecting water in leather bags, buckets or other containers from taps, rivers, ponds or wells, and delivering the water to work sites, the houses of clients or to own household for drinking, cleaning of drains or storage in tanks.

Included occupations or child groups

Examples of the occupations classified here: - Firewood collector - Water collector

ISCO-88 correspondence

  • 9162