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Question Text: What were you doing before you started to look for paid work, were you... working, in full-time education or training or on a government scheme, looking after the family or home or...
Quarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, January - March, 2019
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Question Text: What were you doing before you started to look for paid work, were you... working, in full-time education or training or on a government scheme, looking after the family or home or...
Quarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, April - June, 2019
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Question Text: What were you doing before you started to look for paid work, were you... working, in full-time education or training or on a government scheme, looking after the family or home or...
Quarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, January - March, 2018
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Question Text: What were you doing before you started to look for paid work, were you... working, in full-time education or training or on a government scheme, looking after the family or home or...
Quarterly Labour Force Survey, April - June, 2018
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Question Text: What were you doing before you started to look for paid work, were you... working, in full-time education or training or on a government scheme, looking after the family or home or...
Quarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, April - June, 2018
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Annual Population Survey, October 2017 - September 2018
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Annual Population Survey, April 2017 - March 2018
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Annual Population Survey, July 2017 - June 2018
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Question Text: What were you doing before you started to look for paid work, were you... working, in full-time education or training or on a government scheme, looking after the family or home or...
Quarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, October - December, 2018
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Question Text: What were you doing before you started to look for paid work, were you... working, in full-time education or training or on a government scheme, looking after the family or home or...
Quarterly Labour Force Survey, July - September, 2018
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