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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Millennium Cohort Study: First Survey, 2001-2003

Variable Details

Variableapsecc00
LabelS1 PART NS-SEC - long version
Responses
1 Employers in large organisations 47
2 Higher managerial occupations 727
3.1 Higher professional occupations - Traditional employee 727
3.2 Higher professional occupations - New employee 365
3.3 Higher professional occupations - Traditional self-employed 158
3.4 Higher professional occupations - New self-employed 75
4.1 Lower professional & higher technical - Traditional employee 1009
4.2 Lower professional & higher technical - New employee 150
4.3 Lower professional & higher technical - Traditional self-emp 141
4.4 Lower professional & higher technical - New self-employed 17
5 Lower managerial occupations 1055
6 Higher supervisory occupations 421
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 140
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 313
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 86
7.4 Intermediate engineering 138
8.1 Employers in small organisations - non-professional 512
8.2 Employers in small organisations - agriculture 37
9.1 Own account workers - non-professional 1051
9.2 Own account workers - agriculture 76
10 Lower supervisory occupations 1314
11.1 Lower technical craft 620
11.2 Lower technical process operative 118
12.1 Semi-routine sales 211
12.2 Semi-routine service 567
12.3 Semi-routine technical 311
12.4 Semi-routine operative 485
12.5 Semi-routine agricultural 43
12.6 Semi-routine clerical 36
12.7 Semi-routine childcare 4
13.1 Routine sales and service 84
13.2 Routine production 286
13.3 Routine technical 900
13.4 Routine operative 672
13.5 Routine agricultural 15
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 92
-8 Don't Know 0
-1 Not applicable 5549
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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