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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

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

Variable Details

VariableNSECM4
LabelNS-SEC category (main job)
Responses
1.0 Employers in large organisations 4
10.0 Lower supervisory occupations 463
11.1 Lower technical craft 138
11.2 Lower technical process operative 20
12.1 Semi routine sales 236
12.2 Semi routine services 320
12.3 Semi routine technical 58
12.4 Semi routine operative 105
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 16
12.6 Semi routine clerical 89
12.7 Semi routine childcare 141
13.1 Routine sales and service 82
13.2 Routine production 66
13.3 Routine technical 209
13.4 Routine operative 265
13.5 Routine agricultural 7
14.1 Never worked 144
14.2 Long-term unemployed 46
15.0 Full-time students 419
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 1046
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 0
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 373
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 267
3.2 Higher professional new employee 124
3.3 Higher professional traditional self emp 93
3.4 Higher professional new self emp 17
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 818
4.2 Lower professional new employee 34
4.3 Lower professional traditional self emp 88
4.4 Lower professional new self emp 3
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 443
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 280
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 375
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 285
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 82
7.4 Intermediate engineering 27
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 100
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 8
9.1 Own account workers non professional 411
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 27
-8 No answer 0
-9 Does not apply 36
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationLabour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, July 2007 - September 2008
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