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Variable
UK Data Service variable record for:
Quarterly Labour Force Survey, April - June, 2013
Variable Details
| Variable | BEFOR | ||||||||||||||||||
| Label | Activity before started looking for work | ||||||||||||||||||
| Question text | What were you doing before you started to look for paid work, were you... working, in full-time education or training or on a government scheme, looking after the family or home or were you doing something else? | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Disclaimer | Please note that these frequencies are not weighted. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Quarterly Labour Force Survey, April - June, 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Interviewer Instructions | Code one only (Main activity) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Universe | All persons normally resident in private households in Great Britain and (from 1994) Northern Ireland.;National | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sampling | Simple random sample;Four sampling frames are used. For Great Britain, south of the Caledonian Canal, the Post Office Address File is used, whilst north of the Caledonian Canal, a random sample is drawn from the published telephone directory. The sample of residents in NHS accommodation is also drawn, unclustered, for the whole of Great Britain using a specially-prepared frame. In Northern Ireland, the source of the sample is the Valuation List used for rating purposes, excluding commercial units and known institutions. Households are interviewed on five occasions at quarterly intervals, thereby introducing a panel element to the survey. For further details see documentation. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Study Type | Repeated cross-sectional study. Data are collected quarterly. |
