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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Living Costs and Food Survey, 2009

Variable Details

VariableA091
LabelSocio-economic group - household reference person
Responses
0 Not recorded 0
1 Employers in large organisations 6
2 Higher managerial 255
3 Higher professional (traditional ) - emp 225
4 Higher professional (new ) - employees 80
5 Higher professional (traditional ) - sel 46
6 Higher professional (new ) - self-employ 14
7 Lower professional & higher technical (t 498
8 Lower professional & higher technical (n 36
9 Lower professional & higher technical (t 47
10 Lower professional & higher technical (n 6
11 Lower managerial 338
12 Higher supervisory 128
13 Intermediate clerical and administrative 157
14 Intermediate sales and service 131
15 Intermediate technical and auxilary 50
16 Intermediate engineering 17
17 Employers (small organisations, non-prof 47
18 Employers (small - agricultural) 7
19 Own account workers (non-professional) 268
20 Own account workers (agriculture) 17
21 Lower supervisory 242
22 Lower technical craft 107
23 Lower technical process operative 20
24 Semi-routine sales 89
25 Semi-routine service 185
26 Semi-routine technical 38
27 Semi-routine operative 57
28 Semi-routine agricultural 8
29 Semi-routine clerical 29
30 Semi-routine childcare 45
31 Routine sales and service 31
32 Routine production 22
33 Routine technical 159
34 Routine operative 119
35 Routine agricultural 3
36 Never worked 84
37 Long-term unemployed 31
38 Full-time students 88
39 Occupations not stated 113
40 Not classifiable for other reasons 1979
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationLiving Costs and Food Survey, 2009
UniverseNational;Households in the United Kingdom surveyed during 2009.
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample;Due to funding constraints, from January 2010 the Northern Ireland (NI) sample used for the LCF will be reduced to a sample proportionate to the NI population relative to the UK.
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study. From January 2006, the EFS (now LCF) moved from a financial to calendar year basis in anticipation of the IHS.
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