This site uses cookies

Some of these cookies are essential, while others help us to improve your experience by providing insights into how the site is being used.

For more detailed information please check our Cookie notice.

Necessary cookies

Necessary cookies enable core functionality. This website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Cookies that measure website use

If you provide permission, we will use Google Analytics to measure how you use the website so we can improve it based on our understanding of user needs. Google Analytics sets cookies that store anonymised information about how you got to the site, the pages you visit, how long you spend on each page and what you click on while you're visiting the site.

 

Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey, October - December, 2008

Variable Details

Variablensecm
LabelNS-SEC category (main job)
Responses
1.0 Employers in large organisations 76
10.0 Lower supervisory occupations 4714
11.1 Lower technical craft 1512
11.2 Lower technical process operative 289
12.1 Semi routine sales 3092
12.2 Semi routine services 3694
12.3 Semi routine technical 631
12.4 Semi routine operative 975
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 133
12.6 Semi routine clerical 899
12.7 Semi routine childcare 1027
13.1 Routine sales and service 1219
13.2 Routine production 766
13.3 Routine technical 2436
13.4 Routine operative 3020
13.5 Routine agricultural 95
14.1 Never worked 3133
14.2 Long-term unemployed 594
15.0 Full-time students 5808
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 19056
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 65
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 3303
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 3069
3.2 Higher professional new employee 1229
3.3 Higher professional traditional self emp 821
3.4 Higher professional new self emp 173
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 8454
4.2 Lower professional new employee 469
4.3 Lower professional traditional self emp 904
4.4 Lower professional new self emp 70
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 4868
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 2646
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 3714
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 2897
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 842
7.4 Intermediate engineering 213
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 1309
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 94
9.1 Own account workers non professional 4799
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 306
-8 No answer 0
-9 Does not apply 27415
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey, October - December, 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.
UKRI logo

Funded by UKRI through the ESRC with contributions from our partners.

© 2025 UK Data Service
We are supported by the University of Essex, University of Manchester, Jisc, UCL and University of Edinburgh. We are funded by UKRI through the Economic and Social Research Council.