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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

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

Variable Details

VariableNSECM2
LabelNS-SEC category (main job)
Responses
1.0 Employers in large organisations 2
10.0 Lower supervisory occupations 446
11.1 Lower technical craft 141
11.2 Lower technical process operative 24
12.1 Semi routine sales 254
12.2 Semi routine services 327
12.3 Semi routine technical 64
12.4 Semi routine operative 105
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 13
12.6 Semi routine clerical 83
12.7 Semi routine childcare 139
13.1 Routine sales and service 92
13.2 Routine production 68
13.3 Routine technical 211
13.4 Routine operative 278
13.5 Routine agricultural 11
14.1 Never worked 153
14.2 Long-term unemployed 37
15.0 Full-time students 380
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 943
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 1
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 373
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 267
3.2 Higher professional new employee 129
3.3 Higher professional traditional self emp 97
3.4 Higher professional new self emp 17
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 828
4.2 Lower professional new employee 33
4.3 Lower professional traditional self emp 87
4.4 Lower professional new self emp 5
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 434
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 303
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 378
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 279
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 75
7.4 Intermediate engineering 25
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 103
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 5
9.1 Own account workers non professional 418
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 28
-8 No answer 0
-9 Does not apply 109
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationLabour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, July 2007 - September 2008
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