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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

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

Variable Details

VariableNSECM4
LabelNS-SEC category (main job)
Responses
1.0 Employers in large organisations 2
10.0 Lower supervisory occupations 522
11.1 Lower technical craft 145
11.2 Lower technical process operative 33
12.1 Semi routine sales 305
12.2 Semi routine services 330
12.3 Semi routine technical 61
12.4 Semi routine operative 96
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 13
12.6 Semi routine clerical 104
12.7 Semi routine childcare 123
13.1 Routine sales and service 133
13.2 Routine production 62
13.3 Routine technical 222
13.4 Routine operative 271
13.5 Routine agricultural 7
14.1 Never worked 174
14.2 Long-term unemployed 57
15.0 Full-time students 431
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 1037
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 0
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 335
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 301
3.2 Higher professional new employee 133
3.3 Higher professional traditional self emp 103
3.4 Higher professional new self emp 11
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 963
4.2 Lower professional new employee 51
4.3 Lower professional traditional self emp 96
4.4 Lower professional new self emp 9
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 500
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 318
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 457
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 289
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 88
7.4 Intermediate engineering 25
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 111
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 12
9.1 Own account workers non professional 474
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 28
-8 No answer 0
-9 Does not apply 56
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationLabour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, October 2005 - December 2006
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