Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Survey of English Housing, 2005-2006

Variable Details

Variablenssec2
LabelNS-SEC Socio-economic classification
Responses
1 Employers in large organisations 39
2 Higher managerial occupations 915
3 Higher professional occupations 1390
4 Lower professional and higher technical occupations 2457
5 Lower managerial occupations 1441
6 Higher supervisory occupations 899
7 Intermediate occupations 1730
8 Small employers 511
9 Own account workers 1430
10 Lower supevisory occupations 1591
11 Lower technical occupations 777
12 Semi-routine occupations 2544
13 Routine occupations 2355
14 Never worked or long-term unemployed 0
15 Full-time students 0
16 Occupations not stated or inadequately described 0
17 Not classifiable for other reasons 0
-9 No information (99) 0
-8 Refusal (98) 0
-2 Schedule not applicable 10816
-1 Item not applicable 999
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationSurvey of English Housing, 2005-2006
Interviewer InstructionsNS-SEC Socio-economic Classification.
UniversePrivate households and privately renting tenancy groups in England;Households;Housing;Tenants;National
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study; conducted annually from 1993/1994-2007/2008. The SEH was replaced by the EHS from 2008 (see Abstract section for details).