11 May 2021
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Provide Feedback on Job Role Classifications for Your Sector

The Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment is inviting your feedback on the statistical classification of job roles for the agriculture, forestry and fishing industries.

The Department is working with the Australian Bureau of Statistics to review the way these job roles are defined in the Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO).

Your input to this project is important as it may contribute to the development of a new version of ANZSCO which better describes the agriculture sector’s workforce.

The Department recognises that the current ANZSCO classifications are largely based on the 2001 and pre 2001 labour markets, and a lot has changed in this time as businesses innovate and respond to market and technology changes.

ANZSCO is used when gathering statistics about the Australian workforce. ANZSCO underpins the apprenticeship system and informs important government programs and funding, including the National Skills Needs List, eligibility for VISAs and skilled migration programs.

This 2021 update aims to produce an experimental version of ANZSCO that better reflects modern agriculture by improving how existing and emerging agriculture and related occupations are captured, and skill levels are attributed to those occupations.

We encourage you to provide input:

  • Click here to provide feedback directly to the Department’s submission process.
    And/or
  • Work with your peak industry association who can submit a response on behalf of the whole sector, such as the National Farmers’ Federation, Seafood Industry Australia, Australian Forest Products Association or ForestWorks.

The National Farmers’ Federation are gathering evidence of the essential, unique and modern job roles for the sectors they represent. They encourage your input! Please contact Ben Norton-Smith, Project Officer – Vocational Education and Training, on [email protected] or 02 6269 5666.

Skills Impact will make a submission based on the feedback received from IRCs and the way the qualifications framework interacts with ANZSCO classifications. We will highlight that a key challenge is how only one ANZSCO job code can be allocated to a qualification, but a qualification can be applicable to many different job roles. This means several job roles in the qualifications for these industries are hidden to ANZSCO data.