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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, April - June, 2008

Variable Details

VariableNSECM
LabelNS-SEC category (main job)
Responses
1.0 Employers in large organisations 95
10.0 Lower supervisory occupations 4956
11.1 Lower technical craft 1511
11.2 Lower technical process operative 287
12.1 Semi routine sales 3169
12.2 Semi routine services 3725
12.3 Semi routine technical 723
12.4 Semi routine operative 1129
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 155
12.6 Semi routine clerical 889
12.7 Semi routine childcare 1070
13.1 Routine sales and service 1294
13.2 Routine production 777
13.3 Routine technical 2540
13.4 Routine operative 3148
13.5 Routine agricultural 112
14.1 Never worked 3404
14.2 Long-term unemployed 551
15.0 Full-time students 6595
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 19786
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 66
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 3477
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 3174
3.2 Higher professional new employee 1159
3.3 Higher professional traditional self emp 842
3.4 Higher professional new self emp 179
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 8749
4.2 Lower professional new employee 446
4.3 Lower professional traditional self emp 951
4.4 Lower professional new self emp 64
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 5089
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 2757
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 3866
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 3019
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 892
7.4 Intermediate engineering 232
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 1362
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 95
9.1 Own account workers non professional 4865
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 333
-10 No answer/Does not apply 24516
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, April - June, 2008
UniverseHouseholds in Great Britain and Northern Ireland;Households;National
SamplingSample drawn from main LFS data. See documentation for details.
Study TypeData are produced from the spring and autumn quarters of the main LFS each year.
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