The Australian Bureau of Statistics and Statistics New Zealand have made an announcement each country will introduce their own tailored occupational statistical classifications.
For Australia, the new classification will be called the Occupation Standard Classification for Australia (OSCA), 2024, version 1.0 and will be released on Friday 6 December 2024.
The rationale behind the change is that the difference between Australia’s and New Zealand’s labour markets is greater than when a joint classification began in 2006. Where this is most visible is when ANZSCO was first published in 2006, all ANZSCO occupations had a common skill level between Australia and New Zealand. Now, 56 of the current 1,076 occupations in ANZSCO have a different skill level in Australia and New Zealand.
Skill level will be determined solely with reference to the Australian labour market based on OSCA. ANZSCO will continue to remain available on the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) website.
Source: ABS website
