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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Health Survey for England, 2006

Variable Details

Variablenssec
LabelNS-SEC - long version (harmonised)
Responses
1 Employers in large organisations 7
2 Higher managerial occupations 531
3.1 Higher professional occupations - Traditional employee 504
3.2 Higher professional occupations - New employee 192
3.3 Higher professional occupations - Traditional self-employed 162
3.4 Higher professional occupations - New self-employed 41
4.1 Lower professional & higher technical - Traditional employee 1494
4.2 Lower professional & higher technical - New employee 65
4.3 Lower professional & higher technical - Traditional self-emp 191
4.4 Lower professional & higher technical - New self-employed 22
5 Lower managerial occupations 871
6 Higher supervisory occupations 444
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 1004
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 562
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 192
7.4 Intermediate engineering 33
8.1 Employers in small organisations - non-professional 188
8.2 Employers in small organisations - agriculture 20
9.1 Own account workers - non-professional 938
9.2 Own account workers - agriculture 47
10 Lower supervisory occupations 750
11.1 Lower technical craft 343
11.2 Lower technical process operative 103
12.1 Semi-routine sales 680
12.2 Semi-routine service 815
12.3 Semi-routine technical 160
12.4 Semi-routine operative 275
12.5 Semi-routine agricultural 36
12.6 Semi-routine clerical 239
12.7 Semi-routine childcare 165
13.1 Routine sales and service 262
13.2 Routine production 283
13.3 Routine technical 537
13.4 Routine operative 776
13.5 Routine agricultural 21
14 Never worked & long-term unemployed 429
15 Full-time students 703
16 Occupations not stated or inadequately described 25
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 7289
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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