Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

1970 British Cohort Study: Birth and 22-Month Subsample, 1970-1972

Variable Details

Variablea0017
LabelSocio Economic Group Mother
Responses
-2 NS/NK 1495
1 Employers Government 6
2 Employers In Industr 140
3 Prof Self Employed 5
4 Prof Employees 75
5 Middle NM Workers 1608
6 Junior NM Workers 4555
7 Personal Workers 823
8 Supervisors 90
9 Skilled M Workers 379
10 Semi Skilled 2488
11 Unskilled 209
12 Own Account Workers 20
13 Farmers 10
14 Farmers Own Account 2
15 Agricultural Workers 66
16 Armed Forces 27
17 Job Poorly Described 13
18 Housewives 5104
19 Student 81
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
Location1970 British Cohort Study: Birth and 22-Month Subsample, 1970-1972
UniverseLocation of units of observation: National;Population: Children born in one particular week in 1970. The Birth sample covered the United Kingdom while the 22-month Sub-sample covered Great Britain only.
SamplingNo sampling (total universe); One-stage stratified or systematic random sample;The Birth sample (A) included all babies born (alive or dead) after the 24th week of gestation, in one particular week in 1970 in the United Kingdom.<br>The 22-month sub-sample (B) is a 10% sample of the live births in (A) plus all multiple births, all singleton children born at later than 42 weeks gestation, and all singleton children who were on or below the 5th centile of birthweight for their length of gestation.
Study TypeLongitudinal/panel/cohort