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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Labour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, April 2007 - June 2008

Variable Details

VariableNSECM2
LabelNS-SEC category (main job)
Responses
1.0 Employers in large organisations 9
10.0 Lower supervisory occupations 473
11.1 Lower technical craft 161
11.2 Lower technical process operative 28
12.1 Semi routine sales 282
12.2 Semi routine services 332
12.3 Semi routine technical 58
12.4 Semi routine operative 96
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 12
12.6 Semi routine clerical 94
12.7 Semi routine childcare 114
13.1 Routine sales and service 98
13.2 Routine production 68
13.3 Routine technical 233
13.4 Routine operative 273
13.5 Routine agricultural 8
14.1 Never worked 178
14.2 Long-term unemployed 38
15.0 Full-time students 418
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 926
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 2
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 332
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 308
3.2 Higher professional new employee 92
3.3 Higher professional traditional self emp 77
3.4 Higher professional new self emp 16
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 881
4.2 Lower professional new employee 28
4.3 Lower professional traditional self emp 84
4.4 Lower professional new self emp 13
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 455
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 276
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 413
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 247
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 96
7.4 Intermediate engineering 25
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 90
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 10
9.1 Own account workers non professional 434
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 32
-8 No answer 0
-9 Does not apply 116
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationLabour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, April 2007 - June 2008
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