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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Health Survey for England, 2005

Variable Details

Variablenssec
LabelNS-SEC - long version (harmonised)
Responses
1 Employers in large organisations 5
2 Higher managerial occupations 372
3.1 Higher professional occupations - Traditional employee 378
3.2 Higher professional occupations - New employee 96
3.3 Higher professional occupations - Traditional self-employed 95
3.4 Higher professional occupations - New self-employed 19
4.1 Lower professional & higher technical - Traditional employee 1097
4.2 Lower professional & higher technical - New employee 58
4.3 Lower professional & higher technical - Traditional self-emp 107
4.4 Lower professional & higher technical - New self-employed 8
5 Lower managerial occupations 567
6 Higher supervisory occupations 309
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 780
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 349
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 126
7.4 Intermediate engineering 42
8.1 Employers in small organisations - non-professional 215
8.2 Employers in small organisations - agriculture 21
9.1 Own account workers - non-professional 605
9.2 Own account workers - agriculture 26
10 Lower supervisory occupations 574
11.1 Lower technical craft 275
11.2 Lower technical process operative 83
12.1 Semi-routine sales 539
12.2 Semi-routine service 630
12.3 Semi-routine technical 153
12.4 Semi-routine operative 217
12.5 Semi-routine agricultural 29
12.6 Semi-routine clerical 172
12.7 Semi-routine childcare 83
13.1 Routine sales and service 186
13.2 Routine production 218
13.3 Routine technical 427
13.4 Routine operative 624
13.5 Routine agricultural 11
14 Never worked & long-term unemployed 325
15 Full-time students 427
16 Occupations not stated or inadequately described 20
17 Not classifiable for other reasons 0
-9 No answer/refused 0
-8 Don't know 0
-7 Refused/not obtained 0
-6 Schedule not obtained 0
-2 Schedule not applicable 0
-1 Item not applicable 3029
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationHealth Survey for England, 2005
UniverseAdults (aged 16 and over) and children (aged 0-15 years) in the general population, living in private households in England during 2005. Boost samples of children aged 2-15 and people aged 65 years and over were also included.;National
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study. The survey is conducted annually.
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