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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Expenditure and Food Survey, 2007

Variable Details

VariableA091
LabelSocio-economic group - Household Reference Person
Responses
0 Not recorded 0
1 Employers in large organisations 5
2 Higher managerial 257
3 Higher professional (traditional ) - emp 242
4 Higher professional (new ) - employees 119
5 Higher professional (traditional ) - sel 61
6 Higher professional (new ) - self-employ 12
7 Lower professional & higher technical (t 548
8 Lower professional & higher technical (n 30
9 Lower professional & higher technical (t 47
10 Lower professional & higher technical (n 7
11 Lower managerial 350
12 Higher supervisory 143
13 Intermediate clerical and administrative 167
14 Intermediate sales and service 127
15 Intermediate technical and auxilary 49
16 Intermediate engineering 13
17 Employers (small organisations, non-prof 73
18 Employers (small - agricultural) 4
19 Own account workers (non-professional) 300
20 Own account workers (agriculture) 16
21 Lower supervisory 238
22 Lower technical craft 114
23 Lower technical process operative 19
24 Semi-routine sales 108
25 Semi-routine service 181
26 Semi-routine technical 42
27 Semi-routine operative 76
28 Semi-routine agricultural 11
29 Semi-routine clerical 31
30 Semi-routine childcare 31
31 Routine sales and service 29
32 Routine production 38
33 Routine technical 158
34 Routine operative 124
35 Routine agricultural 4
36 Never worked 95
37 Long-term unemployed 29
38 Full-time students 68
39 Occupations not stated 38
40 Not classifiable for other reasons 2132
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationExpenditure and Food Survey, 2007
UniverseNational;Households in the United Kingdom surveyed during 2007.
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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