DETAIL OF NOMENCLATURE ITEM

Nomenclature: International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED 97) - FIELDS - level 3 - Detailed fields

Code: 5627 Abbreviation: ISCED_O3 Validity: 01.01.2008 - 09.09.9999 Family: Education

Item: 346 - Secretarial and office work

Item's explanatory note:Vysvětlivka k položce:

Secretarial and office work is the study of administrative procedures and practises,
office technology and clerical, shorthand and keyboard skills. Specialised secretarial
programmes (bilingual, medical, law, accounting etc) are included if the programme has
secretarial work as its objective, rather than work as specialised assistants. Programmes
with the following main content are classified here:

Administrative and secretarial services
Clerical programmes
Data entry
Foreign language secretary programmes
Keyboard skills
Legal secretary programmes
Medical secretary programmes
Operation of office machines
Receptionist training
Secretarial programmes
Shorthand
Switchboard operating
Typing

Inclusions:

Broad secretarial programmes comprising among other thing computer courses are
included in this field.

Exclusions:

Separate programmes in using a specific computer software are excluded from this field
and included in 482 ‘Computer use’.
Office management is excluded from this group and included in field 345
‘Management and administration’.
Hotel receptionist programmes are excluded from this field and included in field 811
‘Hotel, restaurant and catering’.

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Correspondences:
International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED 97) - FIELDS - level 2 - Narrow fields	34	Business and administration