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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Labour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, October 2005 - December 2006

Variable Details

VariableNSECM5
LabelNS-SEC category (main job)
Responses
1.0 Employers in large organisations 4
10.0 Lower supervisory occupations 514
11.1 Lower technical craft 152
11.2 Lower technical process operative 34
12.1 Semi routine sales 292
12.2 Semi routine services 338
12.3 Semi routine technical 58
12.4 Semi routine operative 105
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 9
12.6 Semi routine clerical 106
12.7 Semi routine childcare 118
13.1 Routine sales and service 128
13.2 Routine production 60
13.3 Routine technical 219
13.4 Routine operative 277
13.5 Routine agricultural 8
14.1 Never worked 135
14.2 Long-term unemployed 61
15.0 Full-time students 512
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 1029
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 0
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 344
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 315
3.2 Higher professional new employee 130
3.3 Higher professional traditional self emp 104
3.4 Higher professional new self emp 11
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 972
4.2 Lower professional new employee 47
4.3 Lower professional traditional self emp 94
4.4 Lower professional new self emp 9
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 496
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 313
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 450
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 306
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 84
7.4 Intermediate engineering 23
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 114
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 12
9.1 Own account workers non professional 476
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 29
-8 No answer 0
-9 Does not apply 0
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationLabour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, October 2005 - December 2006
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