Crosswalk between O*NET and ESCO

The O*NET Programme offers detailed occupational information for the U.S. economy to help people understand how work is changing and how this change affects workers. Its database includes hundreds of standardized descriptors on nearly 1,000 different occupations, used by both individuals and employers. Moreover, the O*NET database contains a rich set of variables that describe work and worker characteristics, including skill requirements. Specifically, O*NET Data is divided into several categories: 
-Abilities, Interests, Knowledge, Skills (Basic), Skills (Cross-Functional), Work Activities, Work Context, Work Styles and Work Values (for more information). 

The Content Model of O*NET explains the unique mix of knowledge, skills, abilities, activities, and tasks required for each occupation. It captures both the nature of jobs (through job-focused descriptions) and the qualities of workers (through worker-focused descriptions). 

The purpose of the creating a crosswalk between the O*NET and ESCO taxonomies is of great importance to support interoperability between two labour market standards used by a multitude of public and private stakeholders to provide services such as job matching, upskilling and reskilling, matching people with the right training opportunity, statistical analysis. The integration of ESCO and O*NET can aid researchers and public officials in improving labor market policies and workforce research. An official mapping ensures high quality and reliability, promoting its use by various organisations. 

The ESCO-O*NET mapping table is available by following the link: The crosswalk between ESCO and O*NET | ESCO 

Additional documentation

The crosswalk between ESCO and O*NET can be accessed from both the ESCO and O*NET portals. 

• In the ESCO portal it is available in the section Other Crosswalks. 
• The Data Science Blog provides details regarding the methodology. 
• The report The crosswalk between ESCO and O*NET provides more information on the methodology, mapping guidelines, and quality assurance activities adopted to build the mapping table.
• In the O*NET Resource Center portal the crosswalk is available in the Crosswalk Files section.