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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Labour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, October 2008 - December 2009

Variable Details

VariableNSECM1
LabelNS-SEC category (main job)
Responses
1.0 Employers in large organisations 6
10.0 Lower supervisory occupations 335
11.1 Lower technical craft 134
11.2 Lower technical process operative 26
12.1 Semi routine sales 260
12.2 Semi routine services 297
12.3 Semi routine technical 49
12.4 Semi routine operative 80
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 16
12.6 Semi routine clerical 70
12.7 Semi routine childcare 95
13.1 Routine sales and service 81
13.2 Routine production 48
13.3 Routine technical 210
13.4 Routine operative 236
13.5 Routine agricultural 7
14.1 Never worked 198
14.2 Long-term unemployed 46
15.0 Full-time students 355
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 745
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 8
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 289
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 258
3.2 Higher professional new employee 102
3.3 Higher professional traditional self emp 72
3.4 Higher professional new self emp 14
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 779
4.2 Lower professional new employee 43
4.3 Lower professional traditional self emp 83
4.4 Lower professional new self emp 3
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 376
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 219
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 371
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 251
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 78
7.4 Intermediate engineering 21
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 89
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 10
9.1 Own account workers non professional 380
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 34
-8 No answer 0
-9 Does not apply 117
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationLabour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, October 2008 - December 2009
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