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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Expenditure and Food Survey, 2006

Variable Details

VariableA091
LabelSocio-economic group - Household Reference Person
Responses
0 Not recorded 0
1 Employers in large organisations 3
2 Higher managerial 305
3 Higher professional (traditional ) - emp 276
4 Higher professional (new ) - employees 110
5 Higher professional (traditional ) - sel 70
6 Higher professional (new ) - self-employ 14
7 Lower professional & higher technical (t 549
8 Lower professional & higher technical (n 36
9 Lower professional & higher technical (t 48
10 Lower professional & higher technical (n 6
11 Lower managerial 357
12 Higher supervisory 169
13 Intermediate clerical and administrative 173
14 Intermediate sales and service 133
15 Intermediate technical and auxilary 47
16 Intermediate engineering 22
17 Employers (small organisations, non-prof 90
18 Employers (small - agricultural) 4
19 Own account workers (non-professional) 306
20 Own account workers (agriculture) 26
21 Lower supervisory 276
22 Lower technical craft 117
23 Lower technical process operative 23
24 Semi-routine sales 113
25 Semi-routine service 177
26 Semi-routine technical 58
27 Semi-routine operative 61
28 Semi-routine agricultural 11
29 Semi-routine clerical 27
30 Semi-routine childcare 45
31 Routine sales and service 36
32 Routine production 43
33 Routine technical 193
34 Routine operative 150
35 Routine agricultural 4
36 Never worked 105
37 Long-term unemployed 33
38 Full-time students 70
39 Occupations not stated 41
40 Not classifiable for other reasons 2318
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationExpenditure and Food Survey, 2006
UniverseNational;Households in the United Kingdom surveyed during 2006.
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study. From January 2006, the EFS moved from a financial to calendar year basis in anticipation of the CPS.
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