Scotland's Census 2022 - MV610 - Occupation by ethnic group

This dataset provides Census 2022 estimates for occupation of people aged 16 and over in employment the week before the census by ethnic group in Scotland.

Occupation

A person's occupation, or occupation in their last main job.

A person's occupation relates to their main job and is derived from either their job title or details of the activities involved in their job. This is used to assign responses to an occupation code based on the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) 2022.

Details of classification can be found here

The quality assurance report can be found here

Ethnic group

Ethnic group classifies people according to their own perceived ethnic group and cultural background. Whilst the main ethnic group categories have not changed from the question asked in Census 2011, some of the detailed response options and write-in prompts for Scotland's Census 2022 were changed based on stakeholder engagement and subsequent question testing.

Details of classification can be found here

The quality assurance report can be found here