Classification note
- Published code: 6320
- Hierarchy level: unit-group
- This page uses ISCO-08 as the English occupation reference layer while Thai TSCO label harmonization remains incomplete.
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Occupation hierarchy
- Major Group: 6 Skilled Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Workers
- Sub Major Group: 63 Subsistence Farmers, Fishers, Hunters and Gatherers
- Minor Group: 632 Subsistence Livestock Farmers
- Unit Group: 6320 Subsistence Livestock Farmers
Child groups
- No child groups are published under this code.
TSIC codes where this occupation is primary
- 97000 - กิจกรรมการจ้างงานในครัวเรือนส่วนบุคคล
- 98100 - กิจกรรมการผลิตสินค้าเพื่อใช้ในครัวเรือน ซึ่งไม่สามารถจำแนกกิจกรรมได้อย่างชัดเจน
- 98200 - กิจกรรมการบริการเพื่อใช้ในครัวเรือน ซึ่งไม่สามารถจำแนกกิจกรรมได้อย่างชัดเจน
TSIC codes where this occupation is related
- No related TSIC mapping is published for this occupation yet.
Definition
Subsistence livestock farmers breed, raise and tend livestock 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) cultivating pastures, or managing grazing lands, and monitoring feed and water supplies needed to maintain condition of livestock; (b) monitoring and examining animals to detect illness, injury or disease, and to check physical condition; (c) grooming and marking animals and shearing coats to collect hair or wool; (d) herding or leading livestock to pastures, grazing land and water supplies; (e) raising, tending, feeding and milking animals or draining blood from them; (f) breeding animals and helping with animal births; (g) slaughtering and skinning animals and preparing them and their products for consumption or sale; (h) carrying out some processing of animal products; (i) building and maintaining houses and other shelters; (j) making tools, clothes and utensils for use by the household; (k) fetching water and gathering firewood; (l) buying, bartering and selling animals and some products.
Included occupations or child groups
Examples of the occupations classified here: - Subsistence cattle farmer
Excluded occupations
Some related occupations classified elsewhere: -Livestock farm labourer - 9212 -Mixed crop and livestock farm labourer - 9213 -Water and firewood collectors - 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