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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Millennium Cohort Study: First Survey, 2001-2003

Variable Details

Variableamsecc00
LabelS1 MAIN NS-SEC - long version
Responses
1 Employers in large organisations 10
2 Higher managerial occupations 320
3.1 Higher professional occupations - Traditional employee 443
3.2 Higher professional occupations - New employee 172
3.3 Higher professional occupations - Traditional self-employed 64
3.4 Higher professional occupations - New self-employed 10
4.1 Lower professional & higher technical - Traditional employee 2162
4.2 Lower professional & higher technical - New employee 119
4.3 Lower professional & higher technical - Traditional self-emp 136
4.4 Lower professional & higher technical - New self-employed 11
5 Lower managerial occupations 690
6 Higher supervisory occupations 691
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 1631
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 1179
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 276
7.4 Intermediate engineering 10
8.1 Employers in small organisations - non-professional 187
8.2 Employers in small organisations - agriculture 2
9.1 Own account workers - non-professional 450
9.2 Own account workers - agriculture 12
10 Lower supervisory occupations 855
11.1 Lower technical craft 87
11.2 Lower technical process operative 59
12.1 Semi-routine sales 1825
12.2 Semi-routine service 1289
12.3 Semi-routine technical 41
12.4 Semi-routine operative 306
12.5 Semi-routine agricultural 10
12.6 Semi-routine clerical 420
12.7 Semi-routine childcare 185
13.1 Routine sales and service 1050
13.2 Routine production 798
13.3 Routine technical 107
13.4 Routine operative 725
13.5 Routine agricultural 24
14 Never worked & long-term unemployed 0
15 Full-time students 0
16 Occupations not stated or inadequately described 0
17 Not classifiable for other reasons 0
-9 Refusal 139
-8 Don't Know 0
-1 Not applicable 2057
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationMillennium Cohort Study: First Survey, 2001-2003
UniverseThe sample population for MCS was drawn from all live births in the United Kingdom over 12 months (from 1 September 2000 in England and Wales and for 59 weeks from 22 November 2000 in Scotland and Northern Ireland).;National
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample;See documentation for details.
Study TypeLongitudinal/panel/cohort<br><br>Four waves have been conducted to date: MCS1 (age 9 months), MCS2 (age 3 years), MCS3 (age 5 years) and MCS4 (age 7 years).<br><br>The population of eligible live births was selected from a random sample of electoral wards, disproportionately stratified to ensure adequate representation of all four UK countries, deprived areas and those with high concentrations of black and Asian families. See documentation for further details.
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