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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

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

Variable Details

VariableNSECM3
LabelNS-SEC category (main job)
Responses
1.0 Employers in large organisations 9
10.0 Lower supervisory occupations 471
11.1 Lower technical craft 116
11.2 Lower technical process operative 24
12.1 Semi routine sales 250
12.2 Semi routine services 309
12.3 Semi routine technical 58
12.4 Semi routine operative 79
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 13
12.6 Semi routine clerical 98
12.7 Semi routine childcare 117
13.1 Routine sales and service 76
13.2 Routine production 66
13.3 Routine technical 239
13.4 Routine operative 250
13.5 Routine agricultural 9
14.1 Never worked 140
14.2 Long-term unemployed 43
15.0 Full-time students 437
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 978
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 0
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 291
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 299
3.2 Higher professional new employee 118
3.3 Higher professional traditional self emp 72
3.4 Higher professional new self emp 12
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 852
4.2 Lower professional new employee 37
4.3 Lower professional traditional self emp 89
4.4 Lower professional new self emp 6
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 401
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 283
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 371
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 277
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 77
7.4 Intermediate engineering 21
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 109
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 8
9.1 Own account workers non professional 417
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 30
-8 No answer 0
-9 Does not apply 78
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationLabour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, October 2007 - December 2008
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