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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Labour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, July 2007 - September 2008

Variable Details

VariableNSECM1
LabelNS-SEC category (main job)
Responses
1.0 Employers in large organisations 6
10.0 Lower supervisory occupations 412
11.1 Lower technical craft 143
11.2 Lower technical process operative 30
12.1 Semi routine sales 246
12.2 Semi routine services 342
12.3 Semi routine technical 71
12.4 Semi routine operative 102
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 12
12.6 Semi routine clerical 78
12.7 Semi routine childcare 132
13.1 Routine sales and service 94
13.2 Routine production 66
13.3 Routine technical 216
13.4 Routine operative 276
13.5 Routine agricultural 10
14.1 Never worked 237
14.2 Long-term unemployed 31
15.0 Full-time students 347
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 920
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 4
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 363
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 261
3.2 Higher professional new employee 126
3.3 Higher professional traditional self emp 87
3.4 Higher professional new self emp 18
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 819
4.2 Lower professional new employee 36
4.3 Lower professional traditional self emp 89
4.4 Lower professional new self emp 5
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 427
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 281
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 383
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 293
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 75
7.4 Intermediate engineering 27
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 109
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 5
9.1 Own account workers non professional 417
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 26
-8 No answer 0
-9 Does not apply 143
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationLabour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, July 2007 - September 2008
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