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Variable
UK Data Service variable record for:
1970 British Cohort Study: Twenty-One-Year Sample Survey, 1992
Variable Details
| Variable | vc62a | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Label | L - UNEMPLOYMENT START MONTH | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Question text | I am now going to ask you about your longest period of unemployment. Unemployment means being out of work but wanting work. You do not have to be registered unemployed. Do not count holidays during full-time education. When did this period of unemployment begin and end? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Disclaimer | Please note that these frequencies are not weighted. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | 1970 British Cohort Study: Twenty-One-Year Sample Survey, 1992 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interviewer Instructions | USE 'CALENDAR' FROM THE YOUR LIFE SELF-COMPLETION QUESTIONNAIRE FOR DATES. RESOLVE INCONSISTENCIES. IF HAD SEVERAL PERIODS OF UNEMPLOYMENT OF MORE THAN 3 MONTHS, ASK ABOUT THE LONGEST PERIOD. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Universe | A 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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sampling | One-stage cluster sample;A simple random sample of the BCS70 cohort | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Study Type | Longitudinal/panel/cohort |
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