NHANES code | NHANES occupation group | Participants number | O*NET noise average score | |
Unweighted | Weighted* | |||
1 | Executive, administrators and managers | 276 | 2.65 | 2.64 |
2 | Management-related occupations | 117 | 2.87 | 2.83 |
3 | Engineers, architects and scientists | 119 | 2.77 | 2.84 |
4 | Health diagnosing, assessing and treating occupations | 106 | 2.45 | 2.23 |
5 | Teachers | 159 | 2.50 | 2.48 |
6 | Writers, artists, entertainers and athletes | 65 | 2.73 | 2.72 |
7 | Other professional specialty occupations | 67 | 2.48 | 2.46 |
8 | Technicians and related support occupations | 113 | 3.12 | 3.16 |
9 | Supervisors and proprietors, sales occupations | 43 | 2.68 | 2.96 |
10 | Sales representatives, finance, business and commodities ex. retail | 70 | 2.41 | 2.29 |
11 | Sales workers, retail and personal services | 210 | 2.70 | 2.85 |
12 | Secretaries, stenographers and typists | 114 | 2.68 | 2.67 |
13 | Information clerks | 56 | 2.74 | 2.66 |
14 | Records processing occupations | 89 | 2.80 | 2.82 |
15 | Material recording, scheduling and distributing clerks | 58 | 3.34 | 3.37 |
16 | Miscellaneous administrative support occupations | 239 | 2.59 | 2.50 |
17 | Private household occupations | 54 | 1.80 | 2.02 |
18 | Protective service occupations | 63 | 3.51 | 3.63 |
19 | Waiters and waitresses | 81 | 2.84 | 2.84 |
20 | Cooks | 91 | 2.84 | 2.84 |
21 | Miscellaneous food preparation and service occupations | 78 | 2.84 | 2.84 |
22 | Health service occupations | 122 | 2.73 | 2.58 |
23 | Cleaning and building service occupations | 97 | 3.33 | 3.91 |
24 | Personal service occupations | 100 | 2.83 | 2.69 |
25 | Farm operators, managers and supervisors | 22 | 3.25 | 3.48 |
26 | Farm and nursery workers | 65 | 3.16 | 3.22 |
27 | Related agricultural, forestry and fishing occupations | 48 | 3.61 | 4.16 |
28 | Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics and repairers | 58 | 4.34 | 4.59 |
29 | Other mechanics and repairers | 63 | 3.60 | 3.91 |
30 | Construction trades | 187 | 3.95 | 4.23 |
31 | Extractive and precision production occupations | 168 | 4.37 | 4.63 |
32 | Textile, apparel and furnishings machine operators | 46 | 3.24 | 3.78 |
33 | Machine operators, assorted materials | 107 | 3.94 | 4.44 |
34 | Fabricators, assemblers, inspectors and samplers | 107 | 3.63 | 4.16 |
35 | Motor vehicle operators | 123 | 3.23 | 3.56 |
36 | Other transportation and material moving occupations | 49 | 4.26 | 4.75 |
37 | Construction labourers | 52 | 4.09 | 4.09 |
38 | Labourers, except construction | 45 | 3.93 | 3.93 |
39 | Freight, stock and material movers, hand | 58 | 3.93 | 3.93 |
40 | Other helpers, equipment cleaners, hand packagers and labourers | 43 | 3.67 | 3.73 |
↵* Weighted average was defined as where i is an individual job title in O*NET Standard Occupation Classification (SOC) and p is the total number of O*NET SOCs classified within the NHANES occupation group.
NHANES, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; O*NET, Occupational Information Network.