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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, October - December, 2005

Variable Details

VariableNSECM
LabelNS-SEC category (main job)
Responses
1.0 Employers in large organisations 115
10.0 Lower supervisory occupations 5565
11.1 Lower technical craft 1659
11.2 Lower technical process operative 371
12.1 Semi routine sales 3364
12.2 Semi routine services 3776
12.3 Semi routine technical 774
12.4 Semi routine operative 1223
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 144
12.6 Semi routine clerical 965
12.7 Semi routine childcare 942
13.1 Routine sales and service 1329
13.2 Routine production 941
13.3 Routine technical 2691
13.4 Routine operative 3123
13.5 Routine agricultural 102
14.1 Never worked 2948
14.2 Long-term unemployed 489
15.0 Full-time students 6184
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 19395
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 57
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 3427
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 3071
3.2 Higher professional new employee 1230
3.3 Higher professional traditional self emp 848
3.4 Higher professional new self emp 167
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 8893
4.2 Lower professional new employee 495
4.3 Lower professional traditional self emp 934
4.4 Lower professional new self emp 109
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 4947
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 3058
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 4291
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 2974
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 903
7.4 Intermediate engineering 264
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 1396
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 89
9.1 Own account workers non professional 4932
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 307
-10 No answer/Does not apply 25568
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, October - December, 2005
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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