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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

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

Variable Details

VariableNSECM3
LabelNS-SEC category (main job)
Responses
1.0 Employers in large organisations 4
10.0 Lower supervisory occupations 385
11.1 Lower technical craft 120
11.2 Lower technical process operative 23
12.1 Semi routine sales 249
12.2 Semi routine services 291
12.3 Semi routine technical 54
12.4 Semi routine operative 65
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 13
12.6 Semi routine clerical 79
12.7 Semi routine childcare 85
13.1 Routine sales and service 87
13.2 Routine production 49
13.3 Routine technical 202
13.4 Routine operative 235
13.5 Routine agricultural 6
14.1 Never worked 159
14.2 Long-term unemployed 58
15.0 Full-time students 360
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 824
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 0
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 299
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 265
3.2 Higher professional new employee 97
3.3 Higher professional traditional self emp 63
3.4 Higher professional new self emp 17
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 776
4.2 Lower professional new employee 33
4.3 Lower professional traditional self emp 84
4.4 Lower professional new self emp 7
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 387
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 243
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 362
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 229
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 72
7.4 Intermediate engineering 20
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 96
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 8
9.1 Own account workers non professional 392
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 31
-8 No answer 0
-9 Does not apply 62
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationLabour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, October 2008 - December 2009
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