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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

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

Variable Details

Variablevbb3
LabelMY SKILLS WILL BE VALUABLE IN 5 YEARS
Question text Here is a list of statements to do with your job, that is the work you spend most time at each day. If you do not go out to work but take care of your children or do housework full-time, then treat this as your job. Some of the statements will be very true for you while others will be not true at all. Read the statement on the left carefully, then tick the relevant boxes to show how true you think each statement is. My present work skills will be useful or valuable in five years time.
Responses
1 Very true 641
2 Somewhat true 472
3 Neither true or untrue 241
4 Somewhat untrue 79
5 Not true at all 71
Sysmiss 143
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
Location1970 British Cohort Study: Twenty-One-Year Sample Survey, 1992
Interviewer InstructionsPLEASE TICK ONE BOX FOR EACH STATEMENT.
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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