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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, October - December, 2006

Variable Details

VariableNSECM
LabelNS-SEC category (main job)
Responses
1.0 Employers in large organisations 105
10.0 Lower supervisory occupations 5214
11.1 Lower technical craft 1632
11.2 Lower technical process operative 333
12.1 Semi routine sales 3189
12.2 Semi routine services 3679
12.3 Semi routine technical 728
12.4 Semi routine operative 1158
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 142
12.6 Semi routine clerical 947
12.7 Semi routine childcare 958
13.1 Routine sales and service 1324
13.2 Routine production 847
13.3 Routine technical 2604
13.4 Routine operative 3096
13.5 Routine agricultural 91
14.1 Never worked 3250
14.2 Long-term unemployed 566
15.0 Full-time students 6121
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 19259
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 44
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 3336
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 3136
3.2 Higher professional new employee 1313
3.3 Higher professional traditional self emp 907
3.4 Higher professional new self emp 186
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 8695
4.2 Lower professional new employee 511
4.3 Lower professional traditional self emp 938
4.4 Lower professional new self emp 87
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 4967
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 2871
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 4042
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 3063
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 875
7.4 Intermediate engineering 241
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 1398
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 81
9.1 Own account workers non professional 4885
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 294
-10 No answer/Does not apply 25267
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, October - December, 2006
UniverseHouseholds in Great Britain and Northern Ireland;Households;National
SamplingSample drawn from main LFS data. See documentation for details.
Study TypeData are produced from the spring and autumn quarters of the main LFS each year.
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