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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

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

Variable Details

VariableNSECM2
LabelNS-SEC category (main job)
Responses
1.0 Employers in large organisations 5
10.0 Lower supervisory occupations 370
11.1 Lower technical craft 124
11.2 Lower technical process operative 26
12.1 Semi routine sales 252
12.2 Semi routine services 290
12.3 Semi routine technical 51
12.4 Semi routine operative 65
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 13
12.6 Semi routine clerical 71
12.7 Semi routine childcare 92
13.1 Routine sales and service 84
13.2 Routine production 45
13.3 Routine technical 205
13.4 Routine operative 242
13.5 Routine agricultural 7
14.1 Never worked 159
14.2 Long-term unemployed 52
15.0 Full-time students 360
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 825
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 1
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 299
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 254
3.2 Higher professional new employee 100
3.3 Higher professional traditional self emp 66
3.4 Higher professional new self emp 16
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 785
4.2 Lower professional new employee 37
4.3 Lower professional traditional self emp 82
4.4 Lower professional new self emp 5
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 389
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 237
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 357
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 230
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 71
7.4 Intermediate engineering 21
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 98
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 8
9.1 Own account workers non professional 374
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 31
-8 No answer 0
-9 Does not apply 92
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationLabour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, October 2008 - December 2009
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