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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

1970 British Cohort Study: Twenty-One-Year Sample Survey, 1992

Variable Details

Variablevc34a
LabelMINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED
Question text What were the minimum qualifications that were required when you started working with this employer?
Responses
0 None 658
1 CSE 26
3 GCE 'O' Level 90
4 GCSE 2
5 GCE 'A' Level 13
6 Scottish 'O' Grade 0
7 Scottish Standard Grade 1
8 Scottish Higher Grade 0
9 CSYS 1
10 RSA - Stage 1 8
11 RSA - Stage 2 2
12 RSA - Stage 3 2
13 Operative 0
14 Craft/Intermediate/Ordinary/Part 1 7
15 Advance/Final/Part II/III 1
16 Full Technological (FTC) 0
17 Other City & Gilds 6
18 City & Guilds-can't say which 6
19 Insignia Award in Technology (GCIA) 0
20 JIB/NHC or other Craft Technician Certificate 0
21 ONC/OND (or SNC/SND) 3
22 HNC/HND (or SHNC/SHND) 1
23 TEC/BEC/BTEC National/General certificate or Diploma 5
24 TEC/BEC/BTEC Higher or Higher Cert or Diploma 0
25 Other technical/business qual 1
26 Professional qualification 1
28 Nursing quals incl. NNEB 0
29 Polytechnic Diploma/Certificate 8
30 University Diploma/Certificate 0
31 University/CNAA Degree 0
32 University/CNAA Postgraduate Diploma 0
33 University/CNAA Higher Degree 0
34 Other qualifications 1
99 Don't know 55
-8 Out of range 17
Sysmiss 732
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
Location1970 British Cohort Study: Twenty-One-Year Sample Survey, 1992
Interviewer InstructionsENTER QUALIFICATION CODE FROM QUALIFICATION CARD. RECORD HIGHEST OUALIFICATION. USE QUALIFICATION CARD. IF NONE ENTER 00, IF DON'T KNOW ENTER 99.
UniverseA clustered 10% sample of all respondents to an earlier BCS70 follow-up, living in England and Wales during 1992, who were not known to have died, emigrated or refused.;National
SamplingOne-stage cluster sample;A simple random sample of the BCS70 cohort
Study TypeLongitudinal/panel/cohort
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