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Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey, 1996

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Variable Details

Variable

RMINGRP

Label

R's R.G.Constituent Minor Groups dv Q285

Responses

-3	Job details missing	0
-2	Skp,nvr had job	46
-1	Skpd,not mar/liv as	0
10	General managers	4
11	Production managers	7
12	Specialist Managers	3
13	Finance managers	8
14	Transport/store managers	3
15	Prt.Serve officers	0
16	Farm,hort,forest,fish managers	19
17	Service Managers	28
19	Manager+admin n.e.c.	3
20	Natural scientists	2
21	Engineers+technologists	5
22	Health professionals	8
23	Teaching professionals	31
24	Legal professionals	0
25	Bus+finance professionals	6
26	Arch,town pln,surveyors	1
27	Librarians+related prof	1
29	Prof.occup n.e.c.	9
30	Scientific technicians	3
31	Draftpsns,surveyors	2
32	Computer analyst/programmer	4
33	Ship+Air off,air traff	0
34	Health ass.profesionals	39
35	Legal ass.professionals	1
36	Bus+finance ass.profs	5
37	Social welfare ass.prof	4
38	Literary,art,sport prof	11
39	Ass.prof+tech	5
40	Admin,clerical off+assnt	24
41	Numerical clerks+cashiers	19
42	Filing+records clerks	8
43	Clerks not oth spec	26
44	Stores+dispatch clerks	9
45	Sec,PA,Typ,wp ops	22
46	Recep,tele+related	10
49	Clerical+sec n.e.c.	2
50	Construction trades	22
51	metal mach,fitt,instrument trades	13
52	Electrical/electronic trades	11
53	Metal form,weld+rel trades	4
54	Vehicle trades	7
55	Textile,garment+rel trades	34
56	Printing+rel trades	2
57	Woodwork trades	5
58	Food prep trades	4
59	Oth craft+rel n.e.c.	2
60	NCO+Oth ranks armed forces	2
61	Security+prot.serv	10
62	Catering occupations	23
63	Travel attendants+rel	0
64	Health+rel occupations	29
65	Childcare+rel occupations	9
66	Hairdressers,beauticians+rel	2
67	Domestic staff+rel	7
69	Personal+protective serv	2
70	Buyers,brokers+rel	0
71	Sales representatives	5
72	Sales assnt+checkout ops	48
73	Mobile,market+door2door	5
79	Sales occup n.e.c.	2
80	Food,drink+tob ops	5
81	Textile+tannery ops	9
82	Chemical,paper,plastic ops	3
83	Metal making+treatn ops	3
84	Metal workn ops	0
85	Assemblers,line wrkrs	7
86	Oth routine process ops	16
87	Road transport ops	10
88	Oth transport+machn ops	5
89	Plant+machn ops n.e.c.	6
90	Oth agric,forest,fish	6
91	Oth mining+manuf	3
92	Oth construction	8
93	Other transport	2
94	Oth communications	5
95	Oth sales+services	68
99	Oth occup n.e.c.	4

Disclaimer

Please note that these frequencies are not weighted.

Location

Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey, 1996

Universe

Adults (18 and over) living in private households in Northern Ireland.;Northern Irish adults;National;Adults (18 and over) living in private households in Northern Ireland. Addresses were sampled from the rating list provided by the Valuation and Land Agency. The areas in which the survey was undertaken include: Belfast (Belfast District Council area); most of the remaining district council areas east of the river Bann, excluding Moyle, Newry and Mourne; and the remaining council areas in west Northern Ireland.

Sampling

Multi-stage stratified random sample;The sampling frame is the rating list. Geographical stratification (into three areas) followed by simple (ie unclustered) random sample of address, and random selection of one adult at each address.

Study Type

Repeated cross-sectional study. The study was undertaken every year from 1989 to 1996, except in 1992 when BSA core funding was devoted to the <i>British Election Study</i> series.

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