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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

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

Variable Details

VariableNSECM2
LabelNS-SEC category (main job)
Responses
1.0 Employers in large organisations 7
10.0 Lower supervisory occupations 454
11.1 Lower technical craft 127
11.2 Lower technical process operative 34
12.1 Semi routine sales 255
12.2 Semi routine services 300
12.3 Semi routine technical 62
12.4 Semi routine operative 80
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 10
12.6 Semi routine clerical 95
12.7 Semi routine childcare 116
13.1 Routine sales and service 91
13.2 Routine production 52
13.3 Routine technical 222
13.4 Routine operative 251
13.5 Routine agricultural 6
14.1 Never worked 140
14.2 Long-term unemployed 38
15.0 Full-time students 370
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 855
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 1
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 298
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 270
3.2 Higher professional new employee 103
3.3 Higher professional traditional self emp 71
3.4 Higher professional new self emp 11
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 811
4.2 Lower professional new employee 40
4.3 Lower professional traditional self emp 76
4.4 Lower professional new self emp 7
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 456
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 221
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 345
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 238
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 68
7.4 Intermediate engineering 23
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 100
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 8
9.1 Own account workers non professional 385
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 34
-8 No answer 0
-9 Does not apply 100
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationLabour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, July 2008 - September 2009
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