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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

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

Variable Details

VariableNSECM2
LabelNS-SEC category (main job)
Responses
1.0 Employers in large organisations 7
10.0 Lower supervisory occupations 453
11.1 Lower technical craft 121
11.2 Lower technical process operative 25
12.1 Semi routine sales 255
12.2 Semi routine services 304
12.3 Semi routine technical 57
12.4 Semi routine operative 86
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 12
12.6 Semi routine clerical 95
12.7 Semi routine childcare 119
13.1 Routine sales and service 78
13.2 Routine production 59
13.3 Routine technical 245
13.4 Routine operative 252
13.5 Routine agricultural 10
14.1 Never worked 133
14.2 Long-term unemployed 46
15.0 Full-time students 417
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 982
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 0
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 288
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 296
3.2 Higher professional new employee 113
3.3 Higher professional traditional self emp 75
3.4 Higher professional new self emp 13
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 858
4.2 Lower professional new employee 37
4.3 Lower professional traditional self emp 92
4.4 Lower professional new self emp 5
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 393
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 287
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 368
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 269
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 81
7.4 Intermediate engineering 18
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 113
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 6
9.1 Own account workers non professional 416
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 30
-8 No answer 0
-9 Does not apply 116
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationLabour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, October 2007 - December 2008
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