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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

1970 British Cohort Study: Thirty-Eight-Year Follow-up, 2008-2009

Variable Details

Variableb8acti04
LabelMain Activity - 04
Question text [^Which of the things on this card best describes what you were doing [^in [^Date of last interview]]/[^on [^1st January 2000]]? You ended that period of [^Economic activity] in [^Date finished previous economic activity/job]. Which of the things on this card best describes what you were doing next?
Responses
1 Full-time paid employee (30+ hrs / week) 243
2 Part-time paid employee (>30hrs / week) 64
3 Full-time self-employed 23
4 Part-time self-employed 11
5 Unemployed and seeking work 50
6 Full-time education 10
7 On a government scheme for emp training 3
8 Temporarily sick/disabled 6
9 Permanently sick/disabled 5
10 Looking after home/family 32
11 Wholly retired 0
94 Other specific answer not in codeframe 18
95 Vague or irrelevant answer 0
96 Editor can t deal with 0
-9 Refusal 0
-8 Don't Know 0
-2 Schedule not applicable 0
-1 Item not applicable 8409
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
Location1970 British Cohort Study: Thirty-Eight-Year Follow-up, 2008-2009
Interviewer InstructionsPlease ask cohort member to have show cards to hand. SHOW CARD A CODE ONLY ONE MAIN ACTIVITY. PLEASE READ OUT IF SHOW CARD NOT TO HAND. SEE GLOSSARY ENTRIES ON JOBS, ACTIVITY STATUS AND MAIN ACTIVITY. IF ON PAID MATERNITY/PATERNITY LEAVE CODE WHETHER USUALLY IN FULL-TIME OR PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT. TEMPORARILY SICK/DISABLED (<6MTHS), PERMANENTLY SICK/DISABLED (6+MTHS)
UniverseLocation of units of observation: National;Population: All children in England, Scotland and Wales born in one week in 1970
SamplingNo sampling (total universe)
Study TypeLongitudinal/panel/cohort
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