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Cotton Grader
OFO Code: 684303
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 684303
- Occupation
- Cotton Grader
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- SKILLED AGRICULTURAL, FORESTRY, FISHERY, CRAFT AND RELATED TRADES WORKERS
- Unit group
- 6843 · Product Graders and Testers (Except Foods and Beverages)
Official description
Product graders and testers (except foods and beverages) inspect , test, sort, sample, and weigh raw materials, manufactured components and non-comestible goods produced or sold, to ensure compliance with quality standards and to identify defects, wear, and deviations from specifications, and to grade and classify them according to their quality.
More official OFO detail
- Analyzing test data and making computations as necessary to determine test results
- Discarding or rejecting products, materials, and equipment not meeting specifications
- Notifying supervisors and other personnel of production problems, and assisting in identifying and correcting these problems
- Measuring dimensions of products using instruments such as rulers, callipers, gauges, or micrometers
- Analyzing and interpreting blueprints, data, manuals, and other materials to determine specifications, inspection and testing procedures
- Inspecting and testing products, parts and materials for conformity with specifications and standards
- Marking items with details such as grade and acceptance or rejection status
- Grading and classifying natural textile fibres for spinning and winding
- Recording inspection or test data, such as weights, temperatures, grades, or moisture content, and quantities inspected or graded
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
PathLens does not fall back to legacy specimen demand flags when governed evidence is unavailable.
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3. Salary evidence
No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.
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5. Qualification
Qualification evidence pending.
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.
No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
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9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.