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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

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

Variable Details

VariableNSECM4
LabelNS-SEC category (main job)
Responses
1.0 Employers in large organisations 7
10.0 Lower supervisory occupations 403
11.1 Lower technical craft 116
11.2 Lower technical process operative 20
12.1 Semi routine sales 248
12.2 Semi routine services 298
12.3 Semi routine technical 48
12.4 Semi routine operative 66
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 12
12.6 Semi routine clerical 81
12.7 Semi routine childcare 89
13.1 Routine sales and service 82
13.2 Routine production 48
13.3 Routine technical 202
13.4 Routine operative 247
13.5 Routine agricultural 4
14.1 Never worked 170
14.2 Long-term unemployed 69
15.0 Full-time students 351
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 821
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 0
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 289
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 261
3.2 Higher professional new employee 98
3.3 Higher professional traditional self emp 68
3.4 Higher professional new self emp 13
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 795
4.2 Lower professional new employee 30
4.3 Lower professional traditional self emp 85
4.4 Lower professional new self emp 7
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 398
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 230
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 363
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 227
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 66
7.4 Intermediate engineering 21
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 91
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 7
9.1 Own account workers non professional 396
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 34
-8 No answer 0
-9 Does not apply 30
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationLabour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, October 2008 - December 2009
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