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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, September - November, 1997

Variable Details

Variableinecacr
LabelEconomic activity (reported)
Responses
1 Employee 56464
2 Self-employed 8579
3 Government emp & training programmes 555
4 Unpaid family worker 298
5 ILO unemployed 4557
6 Inact- seeking, unavailable, student 179
7 Inact- sking,unav,lking after fam,home 91
8 Inact- sking,unav,temp sick or injured 36
9 Inact-sking,unav,long-term sick,disabled 17
10 Inact- sking, unavail, other reason 87
11 Inact- sking, unavail, no reason given 17
12 Inact- not sk,wld like,wait res job app 14
13 Inact- not sking, wld like, student 564
14 Inact- not sk,like,lking after fam,home 1835
15 Inact- not sk,like, temp sick,injured 290
16 Inact-not sk,like,lng trm sick,disabled 1888
17 Inact-not sk,like, believes no job avail 271
18 Inact- not sk,like, not yet looking 258
19 Inact- not sk,like, not looked 500
20 Inact- not sk,like, no reason given 1
21 Inact- not sk,not like,wait results app 8
22 Inact- not sk,not like, student 2688
23 Inact-not sk,not like,lk after fam,home 4684
24 Inact- not sk,not like, temp sick,injur 239
25 Inact-not sk,not like,long-term sick,dis 4333
26 Inact- not sk,not like,not need,want job 598
27 Inact- not sk,not like, retired 23823
28 Inact- not sk,not like, other reason 504
29 Inact- not sk,not like, no reason given 115
30 Under 16 32596
-9 Does not apply 2750
-8 No answer 0
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, September - November, 1997
UniverseLocation of units of observation: National;Population: Households in Great Britain and Northern Ireland
SamplingSample drawn from main LFS data. See documentation for details.
Study TypeData are produced from the April-June and October-December quarters of the main LFS each year.
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