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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Living Costs and Food Survey, 2008

Variable Details

VariableA091
LabelSocio-economic group - Household Reference Person
Responses
0 Not recorded 0
1 Employers in large organisations 5
2 Higher managerial 259
3 Higher professional (traditional ) - emp 264
4 Higher professional (new ) - employees 107
5 Higher professional (traditional ) - sel 53
6 Higher professional (new ) - self-employ 9
7 Lower professional & higher technical (t 509
8 Lower professional & higher technical (n 26
9 Lower professional & higher technical (t 44
10 Lower professional & higher technical (n 5
11 Lower managerial 311
12 Higher supervisory 149
13 Intermediate clerical and administrative 138
14 Intermediate sales and service 110
15 Intermediate technical and auxilary 31
16 Intermediate engineering 11
17 Employers (small organisations, non-prof 54
18 Employers (small - agricultural) 7
19 Own account workers (non-professional) 282
20 Own account workers (agriculture) 20
21 Lower supervisory 244
22 Lower technical craft 127
23 Lower technical process operative 17
24 Semi-routine sales 87
25 Semi-routine service 160
26 Semi-routine technical 40
27 Semi-routine operative 65
28 Semi-routine agricultural 5
29 Semi-routine clerical 35
30 Semi-routine childcare 29
31 Routine sales and service 33
32 Routine production 19
33 Routine technical 189
34 Routine operative 130
35 Routine agricultural 5
36 Never worked 108
37 Long-term unemployed 15
38 Full-time students 58
39 Occupations not stated 82
40 Not classifiable for other reasons 2001
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationLiving Costs and Food Survey, 2008
UniverseNational;Households in the United Kingdom surveyed during 2008.
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample;Due to funding constraints, from January 2010 the Northern Ireland (NI) sample used for the LCF will be reduced to a sample proportionate to the NI population relative to the UK.
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study; From January 2006, the EFS (now LCF) moved from a financial to calendar year basis in anticipation of the IHS.
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