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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Health Survey for England, 2008

Variable Details

Variablenssec
LabelNS-SEC - long version (harmonised)
Responses
1 Employers in large organisations 9
2 Higher managerial occupations 560
3.1 Higher professional occupations - Traditional employee 554
3.2 Higher professional occupations - New employee 196
3.3 Higher professional occupations - Traditional self-employed 119
3.4 Higher professional occupations - New self-employed 34
4.1 Lower professional & higher technical - Traditional employee 1673
4.2 Lower professional & higher technical - New employee 88
4.3 Lower professional & higher technical - Traditional self-emp 171
4.4 Lower professional & higher technical - New self-employed 17
5 Lower managerial occupations 966
6 Higher supervisory occupations 428
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 1064
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 610
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 199
7.4 Intermediate engineering 46
8.1 Employers in small organisations - non-professional 200
8.2 Employers in small organisations - agriculture 21
9.1 Own account workers - non-professional 1013
9.2 Own account workers - agriculture 43
10 Lower supervisory occupations 752
11.1 Lower technical craft 378
11.2 Lower technical process operative 85
12.1 Semi-routine sales 775
12.2 Semi-routine service 935
12.3 Semi-routine technical 175
12.4 Semi-routine operative 251
12.5 Semi-routine agricultural 24
12.6 Semi-routine clerical 209
12.7 Semi-routine childcare 175
13.1 Routine sales and service 312
13.2 Routine production 292
13.3 Routine technical 515
13.4 Routine operative 793
13.5 Routine agricultural 27
14 Never worked & long-term unemployed 470
15 Full-time students 853
16 Occupations not stated or inadequately described 19
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 7572
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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