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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Labour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, July 2004 - September 2005

Variable Details

VariableNSECM2
LabelNS-SEC category (main job)
Responses
1.0 Employers in large organisations 5
10.0 Lower supervisory occupations 592
11.1 Lower technical craft 194
11.2 Lower technical process operative 32
12.1 Semi routine sales 337
12.2 Semi routine services 396
12.3 Semi routine technical 87
12.4 Semi routine operative 128
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 14
12.6 Semi routine clerical 120
12.7 Semi routine childcare 126
13.1 Routine sales and service 112
13.2 Routine production 91
13.3 Routine technical 271
13.4 Routine operative 365
13.5 Routine agricultural 14
14.1 Never worked 165
14.2 Long-term unemployed 31
15.0 Full-time students 494
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 1050
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 0
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 377
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 358
3.2 Higher professional new employee 107
3.3 Higher professional traditional self emp 92
3.4 Higher professional new self emp 21
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 989
4.2 Lower professional new employee 45
4.3 Lower professional traditional self emp 84
4.4 Lower professional new self emp 5
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 523
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 359
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 515
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 307
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 100
7.4 Intermediate engineering 29
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 140
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 6
9.1 Own account workers non professional 511
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 25
-8 No answer 0
-9 Does not apply 154
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationLabour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, July 2004 - September 2005
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