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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Labour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, January 2008 - March 2009

Variable Details

VariableNSECM2
LabelNS-SEC category (main job)
Responses
1.0 Employers in large organisations 7
10.0 Lower supervisory occupations 396
11.1 Lower technical craft 135
11.2 Lower technical process operative 23
12.1 Semi routine sales 253
12.2 Semi routine services 299
12.3 Semi routine technical 60
12.4 Semi routine operative 83
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 12
12.6 Semi routine clerical 88
12.7 Semi routine childcare 101
13.1 Routine sales and service 101
13.2 Routine production 47
13.3 Routine technical 213
13.4 Routine operative 251
13.5 Routine agricultural 5
14.1 Never worked 149
14.2 Long-term unemployed 43
15.0 Full-time students 378
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 882
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 1
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 300
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 300
3.2 Higher professional new employee 97
3.3 Higher professional traditional self emp 74
3.4 Higher professional new self emp 18
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 805
4.2 Lower professional new employee 46
4.3 Lower professional traditional self emp 88
4.4 Lower professional new self emp 8
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 398
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 241
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 366
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 257
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 81
7.4 Intermediate engineering 19
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 118
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 7
9.1 Own account workers non professional 428
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 26
-8 No answer 0
-9 Does not apply 118
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationLabour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, January 2008 - March 2009
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