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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Health Survey for England, 2008

Variable Details

Variablesthnssec
LabelNS-SEC Operational Categories (hrp including students)
Responses
1 Employers in large organisations 19
2 Higher managerial occupations 1410
3.1 Higher professional occupations - Traditional employee 1196
3.2 Higher professional occupations - New employee 464
3.3 Higher professional occupations - Traditional self-employed 279
3.4 Higher professional occupations - New self-employed 86
4.1 Lower professional & higher technical - Traditional employee 2542
4.2 Lower professional & higher technical - New employee 138
4.3 Lower professional & higher technical - Traditional self-emp 249
4.4 Lower professional & higher technical - New self-employed 35
5 Lower managerial occupations 1971
6 Higher supervisory occupations 722
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 949
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 763
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 213
7.4 Intermediate engineering 111
8.1 Employers in small organisations - non-professional 382
8.2 Employers in small organisations - agriculture 32
9.1 Own account workers - non-professional 1978
9.2 Own account workers - agriculture 74
10 Lower supervisory occupations 1384
11.1 Lower technical craft 725
11.2 Lower technical process operative 128
12.1 Semi-routine sales 789
12.2 Semi-routine service 1240
12.3 Semi-routine technical 323
12.4 Semi-routine operative 407
12.5 Semi-routine agricultural 38
12.6 Semi-routine clerical 187
12.7 Semi-routine childcare 147
13.1 Routine sales and service 324
13.2 Routine production 338
13.3 Routine technical 1086
13.4 Routine operative 1104
13.5 Routine agricultural 23
14 Never worked & long-term unemployed 567
15 Full-time students 100
16 Occupations not stated or inadequately described 42
17 Not classifiable for other reasons 0
-9 No answer/refused 0
-8 Don't know 0
-7 Refused/not obtained 0
-6 Schedule not obtained 0
-2 Schedule not applicable 0
-1 Item not applicable 58
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationHealth Survey for England, 2008
UniverseAdults (aged 16 and over) and children (aged 0-15 years) in the general population, living in private households in England during 2008.;National
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study. The survey is conducted annually.
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