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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Workplace Employment Relations Survey: Time-Series Dataset, 1980-2004

Variable Details

Variableteuklems
LabelEUKLEMS industry code (based on NACE)
Responses
1 1 Agriculture 0
10 10 Mining of coal and lignite; extraction of peat 0
11 11 Extraction of crude petroleum & natural gas & services 0
12 12 Mining of uranium and thorium ores 0
13 13 Mining of metal ores 0
14 14 Other mining and quarrying 0
15 15 Food products and beverages 86
16 16 Tobacco products 2
17 17 Textiles 22
18 18 Wearing Apparel, Dressing And Dying Of Fur 13
19 19 Leather, leather products and footwear 4
2 2 Forestry 0
20 20 WOOD AND PRODUCTS OF WOOD AND CORK 4
21 21 Pulp, paper and paper products 22
221 221 Publishing 14
22x 22x Printing and reproduction 20
23 23 Coke, refined petroleum products and nuclear fuel 3
244 244 Pharmaceuticals 12
24x 24x Chemicals excluding pharmaceuticals 36
25 25 Rubber and plastics products 38
26 26 OTHER NON-METALLIC MINERAL PRODUCTS 29
27 27 Basic metals 18
28 28 Fabricated metal products 37
29 29 MACHINERY, NEC 52
30 30 Office, accounting and computing machinery 5
313 313 Insulated wire 7
31x 31x Other electrical machinery and apparatus nec 28
321 321 Electronic valves and tubes 8
322 322 Telecommunication equipment 8
323 323 Radio and television receivers 2
331t3 331t3 Scientific instruments 22
334t5 334t5 Other instruments 3
34 34 Motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers 35
351 351 Building and repairing of ships and boats 2
353 353 Aircraft and spacecraft 20
35x 35x Railroad equipment and transport equipment nec 8
36 36 Manufacturing nec 28
37 37 Recycling 3
402 402 Gas supply 19
40x 40x Electricity supply 76
41 41 WATER SUPPLY 27
50 50 Sale&repair of motor vehicles & cycles; retail of fuel 70
51 51 Wholesale&commission trade, exc motor veh & cycles 125
52 52 Retail, exc of motor veh & cycles; repair of hhold goods 384
60 60 Inland transport 78
61 61 Water transport 5
62 62 Air transport 12
63 63 Supporting & aux transport activities; travel agencies 62
64 64 POST AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS 120
65 65 Financial intermed, exc insurance and pension funding 133
66 66 Insurance and pension funding, exc compulsory soc sec 43
67 67 Activities related to financial intermediation 41
70imp 70imp Imputation of owner occupied rents 0
70x 70x Other real estate activities 35
71 71 Renting of machinery and equipment 16
72 72 Computer and related activities 56
73 73 Research and development 23
741t4 741t4 Legal, technical and advertising 153
745t8 745t8 Other business activities, nec 176
90 90 Sewage and refuse disposal, sanitation & similar activs 28
91 91 Activities of membership organizations nec 41
921t2 921t2 Media activities 26
923t7 923t7 Other recreational activities 116
93 93 Other service activities 19
99999 Missing data 6
B B FISHING 0
F F CONSTRUCTION 211
H H HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS 216
L L PUBLIC ADMIN AND DEFENCE; COMPULSORY SOCIAL SECURITY 315
M M EDUCATION 449
N N HEALTH AND SOCIAL WORK 581
P P PRIVATE HOUSEHOLDS WITH EMPLOYED PERSONS 0
Q Q EXTRA-TERRITORIAL ORGANIZATIONS AND BODIES 0
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationWorkplace Employment Relations Survey: Time-Series Dataset, 1980-2004
UniverseFor data files wirsts10 and wirsts25 respectively, the survey population is all British workplaces and employees in those workplaces with at least 10 or at least 25 employees except for those in the following Standard Industrial Classification (1992) divisions: A (Agriculture, hunting and forestry); B (Fishing); C (Mining and quarrying); P (Private households with employed persons); and, Q (Extra-territorial organisations).;Establishments;Managers;National
SamplingOne-stage stratified or systematic random sample
Study TypeCross-sectional (one-time) study; data are taken from four cross-sectional WIRS/WERS surveys
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