Analyzers will often perform the following tasks:

• Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
• Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
• Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
• Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.

Inspectors should be great at:

• Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
• Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.

• Providing litigation assistance, such as writing reports for expert testimony or testifying as an expert witness.
• Studying the socioeconomic impacts of new public policies, such as proposed legislation, taxes, services, and regulations.
• Conducting researching on economic issues and disseminating researching findings through technical reports or scientific articles in journals.
• Studying economic and statistical data in area of specialization, such as finance, labor, or agriculture.
• Providing advices and consultation on economic relationships to businesses, public and private agencies, and other employers.
• Compiling, analyzing, and reporting data for explaining economic phenomena and forecast market trends, applying mathematical models and statistical techniques.
• Formulating recommendations, policies, or plans for solving economic problems or for interpreting markets.
• Developing economic guidelines and standards and preparing points of view used in forecasting trends and formulating economic policy.