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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Understanding Society: Waves 1-4, 2009-2013

Variable Details

Variablea_jlnssec_dv
LabelLast job: NS-SEC
Responses
-9 missing 121
-8 inapplicable 31624
-7 Proxy or telephone respondent 3262
1 1 Employers in large establishments 27
2 2 Higher managerial and admin. Occupations 454
3 3.1 Higher professional: 'traditional' employees 443
4 3.2 Higher professional: 'new' employees 89
5 3.3 Higher professional: 'traditional' self-employed 91
6 3.4 Higher professional: 'new' self-employed 10
7 4.1 Lower prof./higher techn.: 'traditional' employees 1637
8 4.2 Lower prof./higher techn.: 'new' employees 82
9 4.3 Lower prof./higher techn.: 'traditional' self-employed 125
10 4.4 Lower prof./higher techn.: 'new' self-employed 16
11 5 Lower managerial and admin. occupations 847
12 6 Higher supervisory occupations 342
13 7.1 Intermediate clerical and admin. occupations 1120
14 7.2 Intermediate sales and service occupations 809
15 7.3 Intermediate techn. & auxiliary occupations 248
16 7.4 Intermediate engineering occupations 53
17 8.1 Employers, small establ. (excl. agriculture) 326
18 8.2 Employers, small establ. in agriculture 22
19 9.1 Own account workers (non-professional) 732
20 9.2 Own account workers (agriculture) 50
21 10 Lower supervisory occupations 856
22 11.1 Lower technical craft occupations 415
23 11.2 Lower techn. process operative occupations 144
24 12.1 Semi-routine sales operations 1183
25 12.2 Semi-routine service operations 1395
26 12.3 Semi-routine technical operations 269
27 12.4 Semi-routine operative operations 458
28 12.5 Semi-routine agricultural operations 57
29 12.6 Semi-routine clerical operations 323
30 12.7 Semi-routine childcare operations 185
31 13.1 Routine sales and service operations 564
32 13.2 Routine production operations 652
33 13.3 Routine technical operations 727
34 13.4 Routine operative operations 1202
35 13.5 Routine agricultural operations 34
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationUnderstanding Society: Waves 1-4, 2009-2013
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