California Cancer Reporting System Standards Volume I: Abstracting and Coding Procedures for Hospitals
If the patient is a child, enter "Child" in the Occupation field, beginning in the leftmost space.
Also record any information available about the occupations of the parents and the industries in which they are employed.
Record the occupation and industry of both parents if the information is in the medical record. If there is not enough room, however, give priority to the father's occupation and industry. Precede information about a parent with "FA" (father) or "MO" (mother).
Patient is 10 years old. Father is a field engineer with an oil company. Mother is an artist (NOS). Complete the Occupational and Industry fields as follows:
Occupation: Child—FA: field engineer MO: artist
Industry: FA: oil industry
Patient is 14 years old. Father's occupation is not recorded. Mother is a biology professor at a university. Complete the Occupational and Industry fields as follows:
Occupation: Child - MO: biology professor
Industry: MO: University
Please refer to http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2011-173/