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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

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

Variable Details

VariableNSECM4
LabelNS-SEC category (main job)
Responses
1.0 Employers in large organisations 9
10.0 Lower supervisory occupations 604
11.1 Lower technical craft 186
11.2 Lower technical process operative 26
12.1 Semi routine sales 341
12.2 Semi routine services 365
12.3 Semi routine technical 79
12.4 Semi routine operative 117
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 16
12.6 Semi routine clerical 96
12.7 Semi routine childcare 115
13.1 Routine sales and service 120
13.2 Routine production 93
13.3 Routine technical 254
13.4 Routine operative 297
13.5 Routine agricultural 10
14.1 Never worked 188
14.2 Long-term unemployed 44
15.0 Full-time students 424
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 1155
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 0
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 352
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 332
3.2 Higher professional new employee 121
3.3 Higher professional traditional self emp 87
3.4 Higher professional new self emp 16
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 956
4.2 Lower professional new employee 50
4.3 Lower professional traditional self emp 112
4.4 Lower professional new self emp 6
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 500
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 360
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 509
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 284
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 101
7.4 Intermediate engineering 23
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 149
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 11
9.1 Own account workers non professional 520
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 26
-8 No answer 0
-9 Does not apply 49
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationLabour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, October 2004 - December 2005
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