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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey, July - September, 2008

Variable Details

Variablensecm
LabelNS-SEC category (main job)
Responses
1.0 Employers in large organisations 82
10.0 Lower supervisory occupations 4821
11.1 Lower technical craft 1426
11.2 Lower technical process operative 269
12.1 Semi routine sales 3089
12.2 Semi routine services 3572
12.3 Semi routine technical 668
12.4 Semi routine operative 1009
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 155
12.6 Semi routine clerical 888
12.7 Semi routine childcare 1007
13.1 Routine sales and service 1233
13.2 Routine production 751
13.3 Routine technical 2359
13.4 Routine operative 2982
13.5 Routine agricultural 96
14.1 Never worked 3362
14.2 Long-term unemployed 575
15.0 Full-time students 5053
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 19398
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 63
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 3325
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 3030
3.2 Higher professional new employee 1197
3.3 Higher professional traditional self emp 809
3.4 Higher professional new self emp 179
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 8305
4.2 Lower professional new employee 445
4.3 Lower professional traditional self emp 902
4.4 Lower professional new self emp 63
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 4836
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 2600
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 3675
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 2852
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 838
7.4 Intermediate engineering 202
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 1305
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 93
9.1 Own account workers non professional 4700
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 291
-8 No answer 0
-9 Does not apply 27271
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey, July - September, 2008
UniverseAll persons normally resident in private households in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. From winter 1994-1995, Northern Ireland is included in each quarter. Prior to this, data were only collected there in the March-May quarter each year. When the LFS moved to a quarterly cycle, two new groups of people were included in the survey to improve the coverage of young people: residents in National Health Service (NHS) hospital accommodation (formerly called nurses' homes), and students living in halls of residence or boarding schools.<br>Northern Ireland is not included in the Local Area Data files before 1997.;Households;National
SamplingSimple random sample;Four sampling frames are used. For Great Britain, south of the Caledonian Canal, the Post Office Address File is used, whilst north of the Caledonian Canal, a random sample is drawn from the published telephone directory. The sample of residents in NHS accommodation is also drawn, unclustered, for the whole of Great Britain using a specially-prepared frame. In Northern Ireland, the source of the sample is the Valuation List used for rating purposes, excluding commercial units and known institutions. Households are interviewed on five occasions at quarterly intervals, thereby introducing a panel element to the survey. For further details see documentation.
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study. Data are collected quarterly.
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