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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Health Survey for England, 2009

Variable Details

Variablenssec
LabelNS-SEC - long version (harmonised)
Responses
1 Employers in large organisations 2
2 Higher managerial occupations 180
3.1 Higher professional occupations - Traditional employee 173
3.2 Higher professional occupations - New employee 54
3.3 Higher professional occupations - Traditional self-employed 49
3.4 Higher professional occupations - New self-employed 12
4.1 Lower professional & higher technical - Traditional employee 469
4.2 Lower professional & higher technical - New employee 23
4.3 Lower professional & higher technical - Traditional self-emp 62
4.4 Lower professional & higher technical - New self-employed 6
5 Lower managerial occupations 308
6 Higher supervisory occupations 137
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 290
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 204
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 74
7.4 Intermediate engineering 15
8.1 Employers in small organisations - non-professional 69
8.2 Employers in small organisations - agriculture 6
9.1 Own account workers - non-professional 349
9.2 Own account workers - agriculture 16
10 Lower supervisory occupations 220
11.1 Lower technical craft 109
11.2 Lower technical process operative 23
12.1 Semi-routine sales 230
12.2 Semi-routine service 284
12.3 Semi-routine technical 51
12.4 Semi-routine operative 79
12.5 Semi-routine agricultural 10
12.6 Semi-routine clerical 61
12.7 Semi-routine childcare 66
13.1 Routine sales and service 95
13.2 Routine production 88
13.3 Routine technical 161
13.4 Routine operative 251
13.5 Routine agricultural 7
14 Never worked & long-term unemployed 130
15 Full-time students 262
16 Occupations not stated or inadequately described 5
17 Not classifiable for other reasons 0
-9 No answer/refused 0
-8 Don't know 0
-7 Refused/not obtained 0
-6 Schedule not obtained 0
-2 Schedule not applicable 0
-1 Item not applicable 3972
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationHealth Survey for England, 2009
UniverseAdults (aged 16 and over) and children (aged 0-15 years) in the general population, living in private households in England during 2009.;National
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study. The survey is conducted annually.
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