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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Labour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, October 2007 - December 2008

Variable Details

VariableNSECM1
LabelNS-SEC category (main job)
Responses
1.0 Employers in large organisations 7
10.0 Lower supervisory occupations 415
11.1 Lower technical craft 130
11.2 Lower technical process operative 25
12.1 Semi routine sales 262
12.2 Semi routine services 322
12.3 Semi routine technical 60
12.4 Semi routine operative 85
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 10
12.6 Semi routine clerical 97
12.7 Semi routine childcare 116
13.1 Routine sales and service 74
13.2 Routine production 62
13.3 Routine technical 241
13.4 Routine operative 277
13.5 Routine agricultural 9
14.1 Never worked 210
14.2 Long-term unemployed 39
15.0 Full-time students 380
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 881
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 8
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 287
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 282
3.2 Higher professional new employee 115
3.3 Higher professional traditional self emp 73
3.4 Higher professional new self emp 16
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 883
4.2 Lower professional new employee 36
4.3 Lower professional traditional self emp 78
4.4 Lower professional new self emp 3
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 409
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 249
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 381
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 280
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 86
7.4 Intermediate engineering 24
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 111
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 6
9.1 Own account workers non professional 408
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 29
-8 No answer 0
-9 Does not apply 164
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationLabour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, October 2007 - December 2008
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