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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 1
10 10 Mining of coal and lignite; extraction of peat 5
11 11 Extraction of crude petroleum & natural gas & services 8
12 12 Mining of uranium and thorium ores 0
13 13 Mining of metal ores 0
14 14 Other mining and quarrying 14
15 15 Food products and beverages 320
16 16 Tobacco products 11
17 17 Textiles 127
18 18 Wearing Apparel, Dressing And Dying Of Fur 80
19 19 Leather, leather products and footwear 40
2 2 Forestry 0
20 20 WOOD AND PRODUCTS OF WOOD AND CORK 24
21 21 Pulp, paper and paper products 89
221 221 Publishing 13
22x 22x Printing and reproduction 130
23 23 Coke, refined petroleum products and nuclear fuel 17
244 244 Pharmaceuticals 48
24x 24x Chemicals excluding pharmaceuticals 141
25 25 Rubber and plastics products 112
26 26 OTHER NON-METALLIC MINERAL PRODUCTS 110
27 27 Basic metals 119
28 28 Fabricated metal products 181
29 29 MACHINERY, NEC 305
30 30 Office, accounting and computing machinery 21
313 313 Insulated wire 26
31x 31x Other electrical machinery and apparatus nec 198
321 321 Electronic valves and tubes 38
322 322 Telecommunication equipment 8
323 323 Radio and television receivers 1
331t3 331t3 Scientific instruments 46
334t5 334t5 Other instruments 16
34 34 Motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers 125
351 351 Building and repairing of ships and boats 28
353 353 Aircraft and spacecraft 69
35x 35x Railroad equipment and transport equipment nec 22
36 36 Manufacturing nec 94
37 37 Recycling 2
402 402 Gas supply 63
40x 40x Electricity supply 156
41 41 WATER SUPPLY 56
50 50 Sale&repair of motor vehicles & cycles; retail of fuel 121
51 51 Wholesale&commission trade, exc motor veh & cycles 317
52 52 Retail, exc of motor veh & cycles; repair of hhold goods 692
60 60 Inland transport 250
61 61 Water transport 15
62 62 Air transport 12
63 63 Supporting & aux transport activities; travel agencies 130
64 64 POST AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS 300
65 65 Financial intermed, exc insurance and pension funding 268
66 66 Insurance and pension funding, exc compulsory soc sec 43
67 67 Activities related to financial intermediation 121
70imp 70imp Imputation of owner occupied rents 0
70x 70x Other real estate activities 49
71 71 Renting of machinery and equipment 31
72 72 Computer and related activities 46
73 73 Research and development 75
741t4 741t4 Legal, technical and advertising 225
745t8 745t8 Other business activities, nec 257
90 90 Sewage and refuse disposal, sanitation & similar activs 54
91 91 Activities of membership organizations nec 70
921t2 921t2 Media activities 55
923t 923t7 Other recreational activities 0
923t7 923t7 Other recreational activites 177
93 93 Other service activities 31
99999 Missing data 41
B B FISHING 0
F F CONSTRUCTION 411
H H HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS 300
L L PUBLIC ADMIN AND DEFENCE; COMPULSORY SOCIAL SECURITY 829
M M EDUCATION 901
N N HEALTH AND SOCIAL WORK 1010
P P PRIVATE HOUSEHOLDS WITH EMPLOYED PERSONS 0
Q Q EXTRA-TERRITORIAL ORGANIZATIONS AND BODIES 2
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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