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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

1970 British Cohort Study: Sixteen-Year Head Teacher Questionnaire, 1986

Variable Details

Variablehtq29_2
LabelQ29 Estimated % fathers clerical or other white collar
Question text In the next six questions we are asking you to estimate the distribution of certain characteristics of your school population and parents in the following categories. Occupation groups of parents. Please make an estimate, which clearly must be an approximation, of the percentages of your pupils whose father (or head of household) normally fall into the following broad occupation groups (irrespective of whether employed or not). Clerical and other 'white collar' workers.
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
Location1970 British Cohort Study: Sixteen-Year Head Teacher Questionnaire, 1986
UniverseThe instrument was sent out to every school in Great Britain which anyone born in the target 1970 was likely to be attending.;National
SamplingSee documentation for details.
Study TypeLongitudinal/panel/cohort; this dataset comprised part of the sixteen-year follow-up sweep of the longitudinal BCS70 study
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