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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Labour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, April 2008 - June 2009

Variable Details

VariableNSECM5
LabelNS-SEC category (main job)
Responses
1.0 Employers in large organisations 2
10.0 Lower supervisory occupations 448
11.1 Lower technical craft 123
11.2 Lower technical process operative 28
12.1 Semi routine sales 266
12.2 Semi routine services 318
12.3 Semi routine technical 52
12.4 Semi routine operative 71
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 9
12.6 Semi routine clerical 74
12.7 Semi routine childcare 111
13.1 Routine sales and service 82
13.2 Routine production 58
13.3 Routine technical 225
13.4 Routine operative 273
13.5 Routine agricultural 5
14.1 Never worked 161
14.2 Long-term unemployed 71
15.0 Full-time students 392
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 970
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 0
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 311
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 292
3.2 Higher professional new employee 111
3.3 Higher professional traditional self emp 84
3.4 Higher professional new self emp 18
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 819
4.2 Lower professional new employee 35
4.3 Lower professional traditional self emp 68
4.4 Lower professional new self emp 8
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 409
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 232
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 357
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 258
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 73
7.4 Intermediate engineering 15
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 105
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 12
9.1 Own account workers non professional 427
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 27
-8 No answer 0
-9 Does not apply 0
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationLabour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, April 2008 - June 2009
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