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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

1970 British Cohort Study: Twenty-Nine-Year Follow-up, 1999-2000

Variable Details

Variablevocsub44
Label2nd Pitmans qual:main subject
Question text What was the main subject this qualification was in?
Responses
" 1
999999999999999999999999999999 2
AUDIO TYPING 1
Audio Typewriting 1
Audio typing. 1
BOOKKEEPING 1
Business Communication 1
Business communications 1
COMMERCE 1
Computing 1
DATA BASES 1
ENGLISH ELEMENTARY 1
German for business and commer 1
INTERMEDIATE TYPEWRITING 1
KEYBOARD SKILLS 1
OFFICE MANGMT 1
OFFICE PRACTICE 1
OFFICE STODIES 1
OFFICE STUDIES 1
Office Practice 1
Pitman advanced typing 1
SAME 1
SECRETARIAL 1
SHORTHAND 9
SHORTHQAND 1
STAGE 1 TYPING 1
Secretarial 1
Shorthand 3
Shorthand speed 1
TYPEWRITING 1
TYPING 14
TYPING 2 1
Typewriting 1
Typing 10
Typing Intermediate 1
Typwriting 1
WORD PERFECT 5.1 1
WORD PROCESSING 8
WORD PROCESSING ELEMENTARY 1
WORDPERFECT 1
WORDPROCESSING 3
Word Processing 1
Word processing 4
Word processing 2 1
Wordprocessing 2
accounting 1
assessing nvq retail level 2 c 1
audio 1
audio typing 1
book keeping 2
bookeeping 1
business communication 1
business communications 1
business studies 1
clerical 1
communications 1
computer 1
computer applications 1
computer studies 1
computerised acounts 1
elementary typing 1
english for office skills 1
english for the office 1
excel 1
first aid 1
intermed 1
intermediate typing 1
office admin 1
office practice 2
office skills 1
script 1
shorthand 13
shorthand speed 1
shorthand/different speed 1
shorthand/typing 1
spreadsheets 1
sread sheet 1
typewriting 1
typewriting advanced 1
typing 32
typing 2 1
typing and computer studies 1
welsh typing 1
word for windows 6 1
word processing 6
word processing elementary 1
word processing. 1
wordprocesing 1
wordprocessing 2
wp 1
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
Location1970 British Cohort Study: Twenty-Nine-Year Follow-up, 1999-2000
UniverseLocation of units of observation: National;Population: The original BCS70 sample included all children born in one week in 1970 in the United Kingdom, but waves beyond the initial birth survey have generally only included Great Britain.
SamplingNo sampling (total universe)
Study TypeLongitudinal/panel/cohort
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