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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Health Survey for England, 2006

Variable Details

Variablesthnssec
LabelNS-SEC Operational Catagories (hrp incl students)
Responses
1 Employers in large organisations 6
2 Higher managerial occupations 1369
3.1 Higher professional occupations - Traditional employee 1152
3.2 Higher professional occupations - New employee 451
3.3 Higher professional occupations - Traditional self-employed 379
3.4 Higher professional occupations - New self-employed 99
4.1 Lower professional & higher technical - Traditional employee 2179
4.2 Lower professional & higher technical - New employee 140
4.3 Lower professional & higher technical - Traditional self-emp 306
4.4 Lower professional & higher technical - New self-employed 39
5 Lower managerial occupations 1820
6 Higher supervisory occupations 690
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 874
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 640
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 208
7.4 Intermediate engineering 101
8.1 Employers in small organisations - non-professional 405
8.2 Employers in small organisations - agriculture 40
9.1 Own account workers - non-professional 1876
9.2 Own account workers - agriculture 80
10 Lower supervisory occupations 1259
11.1 Lower technical craft 772
11.2 Lower technical process operative 176
12.1 Semi-routine sales 668
12.2 Semi-routine service 1139
12.3 Semi-routine technical 298
12.4 Semi-routine operative 482
12.5 Semi-routine agricultural 54
12.6 Semi-routine clerical 202
12.7 Semi-routine childcare 151
13.1 Routine sales and service 306
13.2 Routine production 327
13.3 Routine technical 992
13.4 Routine operative 998
13.5 Routine agricultural 23
14 Never worked & long-term unemployed 553
15 Full-time students 51
16 Occupations not stated or inadequately described 45
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 49
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationHealth Survey for England, 2006
UniverseAdults (aged 16 and over) and children (aged 0-15 years) in the general population, living in private households in England during 2006. A boost sample of children aged 2-15 was also included.;National
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study. The survey is conducted annually.
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