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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Labour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, October 2004 - December 2005

Variable Details

VariableNSECM2
LabelNS-SEC category (main job)
Responses
1.0 Employers in large organisations 8
10.0 Lower supervisory occupations 575
11.1 Lower technical craft 187
11.2 Lower technical process operative 28
12.1 Semi routine sales 332
12.2 Semi routine services 360
12.3 Semi routine technical 90
12.4 Semi routine operative 117
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 18
12.6 Semi routine clerical 88
12.7 Semi routine childcare 123
13.1 Routine sales and service 109
13.2 Routine production 101
13.3 Routine technical 260
13.4 Routine operative 297
13.5 Routine agricultural 10
14.1 Never worked 163
14.2 Long-term unemployed 46
15.0 Full-time students 472
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 1155
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 0
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 353
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 327
3.2 Higher professional new employee 120
3.3 Higher professional traditional self emp 85
3.4 Higher professional new self emp 18
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 939
4.2 Lower professional new employee 44
4.3 Lower professional traditional self emp 110
4.4 Lower professional new self emp 7
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 485
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 352
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 500
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 281
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 103
7.4 Intermediate engineering 29
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 144
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 11
9.1 Own account workers non professional 492
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 25
-8 No answer 0
-9 Does not apply 139
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationLabour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, October 2004 - December 2005
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