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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, October - December, 2012

Variable Details

VariableNSECM10
LabelNS-SEC category (SOC2010 based)
Responses
-8 No answer 0
-9 Does not apply 0
1.0 Employers in large organisations 98
10 Lower supervisory occupations 2702
11.1 Lower technical craft 1769
11.2 Lower technical process operative 266
12.1 Semi routine sales 2810
12.2 Semi routine services 3581
12.3 Semi routine technical 650
12.4 Semi routine operative 836
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 110
12.6 Semi routine clerical 799
12.7 Semi routine childcare 343
13.1 Routine sales and service 1189
13.2 Routine production 723
13.3 Routine technical 1982
13.4 Routine operative 2669
13.5 Routine agricultural 82
14.1 Never worked 2460
14.2 Long-term unemployed 1040
15.0 Full-time students 5715
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 458
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 11991
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 2081
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 3074
3.2 Higher professional new employee 2275
3.3 Higher professional traditional self emp 747
3.4 Higher professional new self emp 166
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 8596
4.2 Lower professional new employee 1118
4.3 Lower professional traditional self emp 1030
4.4 Lower professional new self emp 197
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 3071
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 2241
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 4913
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 2470
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 858
7.4 Intermediate engineering 240
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 922
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 93
9.1 Own account workers non professional 4770
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 307
-10 No answer/Does not apply 21705
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, October - December, 2012
UniverseHouseholds in Great Britain and Northern Ireland;Households;National
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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