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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, October - December, 2011

Variable Details

VariableQULHI11
LabelHIGHEST QUAL CURRENTLY STUDYING FOR
Question text What qualifications are you studying for?
Responses
1 DEGREE LEVEL INC PGCE, GRAD M'SHIP 3761
2 DIPLOMA IN HE 178
3 HNC/HND 156
4 ONC/OND 19
5 BTEC/BEC/TEC 531
6 SCOTVEC/SCOTEC/SCOTBEC 7
7 TEACHING QUAL (EXC PGCE) 67
8 NURSING OR OTHER MEDICAL QUAL 85
9 OTHER HE QUALS BELOW DEGREE LEVEL 62
10 A-LEVEL/VOC A-LEVEL 1175
11 NEW DIPLOMA 51
12 WELSH BAC 1
13 INTERNATIONAL BAC 16
14 NVQ/SVQ 1291
15 GNVQ/GSVQ 13
16 AS-LEVEL/VOC AS-LEVEL 256
17 CSYS 2
18 ACCESS TO HE 39
19 O-LEVEL AND EQUIV 0
20 STANDARD/O GRADE/LOWER 16
21 GCSE/VOC GCSE 424
22 CSE 0
23 ADV HIGHER/HIGHER/INTER/ACCESS 129
24 RSA/OCR 8
25 CITY AND GUILDS 157
26 YT CERTIFICATE 0
27 KEY SKILLS/CORE SKILLS 8
28 BASIC SKILLS 182
29 ENTRY LEVEL QUALS 55
30 AWARD/CERTIFICATE/DIPLOMA (ENTRY/L1-8) 61
31 OTHER PROF/WORK QUALIFICATION 1764
-10 No answer/Does not apply 96129
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, October - December, 2011
Interviewer InstructionsPROMPT AS NECESSARY CODE HIGHEST
UniverseLocation of units of observation: National;Population: Households in Great Britain and Northern Ireland
SamplingSample drawn from main LFS data. See documentation for details.
Study TypeData are produced from the April-June and October-December quarters of the main LFS each year.
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