This site uses cookies

Some of these cookies are essential, while others help us to improve your experience by providing insights into how the site is being used.

For more detailed information please check our Cookie notice.

Necessary cookies

Necessary cookies enable core functionality. This website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Cookies that measure website use

If you provide permission, we will use Google Analytics to measure how you use the website so we can improve it based on our understanding of user needs. Google Analytics sets cookies that store anonymised information about how you got to the site, the pages you visit, how long you spend on each page and what you click on while you're visiting the site.

 

Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Families and Children Study: Waves 1-10, 1999-2008

Variable Details

Variabledparasp4
LabelWhat type of job would (child's name) like to be doing by the time (he/she) reaches (his/her) mid-twenties?
Responses
0 Has no specific job in mind 132
1 Armed forces 136
2 Manager or senior official in someone else s business 28
3 Running their own business 66
4 Professional or technical 872
5 Administrative, clerical or secretarial 30
6 Skilled trade 237
7 Caring, leisure, travel or personal service 234
8 Sales or customer service 10
9 Plant, process or machine drivers or operators 4
10 Other jobs 37
11 Something else (PLEASE SPECIFY) 174
12 [None of these - spontaneous code] 24
13 Acting/singing/performance arts 0
14 Other specific answer, not codeable to 1-12 0
97 Other vague answer, not codeable to 1-13 0
98 Refusal 0
99 Don't Know 8
Sysmiss 11974
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationFamilies and Children Study: Waves 1-10, 1999-2008
UKRI logo

Funded by UKRI through the ESRC with contributions from our partners.

© 2025 UK Data Service
We are supported by the University of Essex, University of Manchester, Jisc, UCL and University of Edinburgh. We are funded by UKRI through the Economic and Social Research Council.