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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

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

Variable Details

Variablevc72ba1
LabelSUBJECT 1 CODE
Question text Starting with the first course after you left please tell me all the subjects that you took and the qualifications and grades that you got, or tried to get, on this course. Include qualifications you are studying for at the moment.
Responses
1 Accounting 21
2 Art 8
3 Art and Design 10
4 Anatomy, Physiology & Hygiene 3
5 Arithmetic 0
6 Archaeology 1
7 Biology 3
8 Human Biology 4
9 Business Studies 48
10 Building 22
11 Hairdressing & Beauty 24
12 Chemistry 6
13 Commerce 2
14 Computing Studies 33
15 Classics 2
16 CD & Technology 1
17 Commercial studies 2
18 Child care/Child development 13
19 Cookery 4
20 CSS 0
21 Craft 5
22 Communication skills 9
23 Catering 17
24 Community studies 4
25 Design & Technology 1
26 Design 4
27 Drama 4
28 Dance 2
29 Economics 6
30 Electronics 14
31 Engineering science 10
32 English unspecified 14
33 English language 8
34 English literature 10
35 English spoken 3
36 Engineering 39
37 Environmental studies 1
38 European studies 0
39 Economic history 0
40 Food & Nutrition 3
41 Fashion/Fashion & Fabric 1
42 French 2
43 Geology 2
44 Geography 8
45 German 2
46 Government & Political studies 0
47 General studies 1
48 Graphic design/Graphics 4
49 Government & Commerce 0
50 Government 0
51 GE Design 0
52 History 10
53 Home studies 0
54 Home economics 1
55 Humanities 3
56 History of art 1
57 Health studies 3
58 History of economics 1
59 History & Geography 0
60 Italian 1
61 Information technology 4
62 Latin 1
63 Life/Leisure studies 2
64 Mathematics 33
65 Metalwork 3
66 Metal & Plastics 0
67 Motor vehicle studies 38
68 Music 4
69 Media studies 1
70 Modern studies 1
71 Meedlecraft 1
72 Nutrition 0
73 Nursing 16
74 Numeracy 2
75 Office practices 8
76 Physics 2
77 Physics with Chemistry 1
78 Physical education 1
79 Political economy 3
80 Pottery 0
81 Photography 6
82 Religious education 2
83 Rural studies 0
84 Russian 1
85 Spanish 1
86 Science 7
87 Statistics 1
88 General science 0
89 Secretarial studies 9
90 Social studies 2
91 Sociology 4
92 Social & Community studies 0
93 Social economics 0
94 Social education 0
95 Shorthand 12
96 Typing 79
97 Technology 1
98 Textiles 1
101 Technical woodwork 0
102 TVEI 11
103 Wood processing 7
104 Woodwork 0
105 World studies 0
106 Other languages 31
107 Other academic subjects 119
108 Other vocational subjects 29
109 B Tech unspecified 0
110 Others 152
-8 Out of range 3
Sysmiss 647
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
Location1970 British Cohort Study: Twenty-One-Year Sample Survey, 1992
Interviewer InstructionsUSE SUBJECT, QUALIFICATION AND GRADE CARDS TO CODE. CHECK COURSE NUMBER MATCHES COURSE NUMBER AT Q74.
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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