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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

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

Variable Details

VariableNSECM3
LabelNS-SEC category (main job)
Responses
1.0 Employers in large organisations 7
10.0 Lower supervisory occupations 488
11.1 Lower technical craft 157
11.2 Lower technical process operative 25
12.1 Semi routine sales 288
12.2 Semi routine services 325
12.3 Semi routine technical 58
12.4 Semi routine operative 92
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 13
12.6 Semi routine clerical 99
12.7 Semi routine childcare 113
13.1 Routine sales and service 94
13.2 Routine production 67
13.3 Routine technical 233
13.4 Routine operative 276
13.5 Routine agricultural 8
14.1 Never worked 147
14.2 Long-term unemployed 25
15.0 Full-time students 470
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 933
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 1
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 325
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 312
3.2 Higher professional new employee 91
3.3 Higher professional traditional self emp 84
3.4 Higher professional new self emp 15
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 875
4.2 Lower professional new employee 30
4.3 Lower professional traditional self emp 80
4.4 Lower professional new self emp 11
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 474
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 283
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 424
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 244
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 87
7.4 Intermediate engineering 24
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 96
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 12
9.1 Own account workers non professional 435
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 30
-8 No answer 0
-9 Does not apply 75
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationLabour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, April 2007 - June 2008
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