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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, October - December, 2008

Variable Details

VariableNSECM
LabelNS-SEC category (main job)
Responses
1.0 Employers in large organisations 80
10.0 Lower supervisory occupations 4868
11.1 Lower technical craft 1582
11.2 Lower technical process operative 301
12.1 Semi routine sales 3230
12.2 Semi routine services 3808
12.3 Semi routine technical 669
12.4 Semi routine operative 1020
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 135
12.6 Semi routine clerical 927
12.7 Semi routine childcare 1051
13.1 Routine sales and service 1282
13.2 Routine production 785
13.3 Routine technical 2534
13.4 Routine operative 3102
13.5 Routine agricultural 103
14.1 Never worked 3293
14.2 Long-term unemployed 617
15.0 Full-time students 6424
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 19187
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 79
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 3408
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 3179
3.2 Higher professional new employee 1296
3.3 Higher professional traditional self emp 837
3.4 Higher professional new self emp 176
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 8786
4.2 Lower professional new employee 483
4.3 Lower professional traditional self emp 940
4.4 Lower professional new self emp 72
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 5014
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 2720
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 3852
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 3005
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 870
7.4 Intermediate engineering 229
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 1340
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 96
9.1 Own account workers non professional 4970
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 317
-10 No answer/Does not apply 24162
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, October - December, 2008
UniverseHouseholds in Great Britain and Northern Ireland;Households;National
SamplingSample drawn from main LFS data. See documentation for details.
Study TypeData are produced from the spring and autumn quarters of the main LFS each year.
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