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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Labour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, July 2008 - September 2009

Variable Details

VariableNSECM5
LabelNS-SEC category (main job)
Responses
1.0 Employers in large organisations 5
10.0 Lower supervisory occupations 461
11.1 Lower technical craft 117
11.2 Lower technical process operative 26
12.1 Semi routine sales 243
12.2 Semi routine services 307
12.3 Semi routine technical 48
12.4 Semi routine operative 67
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 8
12.6 Semi routine clerical 78
12.7 Semi routine childcare 112
13.1 Routine sales and service 108
13.2 Routine production 50
13.3 Routine technical 208
13.4 Routine operative 247
13.5 Routine agricultural 5
14.1 Never worked 162
14.2 Long-term unemployed 72
15.0 Full-time students 381
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 968
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 1
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 277
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 260
3.2 Higher professional new employee 105
3.3 Higher professional traditional self emp 78
3.4 Higher professional new self emp 12
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 807
4.2 Lower professional new employee 37
4.3 Lower professional traditional self emp 75
4.4 Lower professional new self emp 8
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 475
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 208
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 344
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 252
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 74
7.4 Intermediate engineering 22
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 86
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 7
9.1 Own account workers non professional 395
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 35
-8 No answer 0
-9 Does not apply 0
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationLabour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, July 2008 - September 2009
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