Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Living Costs and Food Survey, 2013

Variable Details

VariableA091
LabelSocio-economic group - household reference person
Responses
0 Not recorded 0
1 Employers in large organisations 6
2 Higher managerial 165
3 Higher professional (traditional) - employees 246
4 Higher professional (new) - employees 180
5 Higher professional (traditional) – self-employed 52
6 Higher professional (new) – self-employed 11
7 Lower professional and higher technical (traditional) - empl 481
8 Lower professional and higher technical (new) - employees 81
9 Lower professional and higher technical (traditional) – self 49
10 Lower professional and higher technical (new) – self-employe 5
11 Lower managerial 199
12 Higher supervisory 114
13 Intermediate clerical and administrative 216
14 Intermediate sales and service 100
15 Intermediate technical and auxilary 35
16 Intermediate engineering 17
17 Employers (small organisations, non-professional) 38
18 Employers (small - agricultural) 1
19 Own account workers (non-professional) 264
20 Own account workers (agriculture) 20
21 Lower supervisory 124
22 Lower technical craft 113
23 Lower technical process operative 10
24 Semi-routine sales 95
25 Semi-routine service 183
26 Semi-routine technical 36
27 Semi-routine operative 45
28 Semi-routine agricultural 4
29 Semi-routine clerical 44
30 Semi-routine childcare 10
31 Routine sales and service 61
32 Routine production 35
33 Routine technical 144
34 Routine operative 137
35 Routine agricultural 4
36 Never worked 46
37 Long-term unemployed 55
38 Full-time students 79
39 Occupations not stated 20
40 Not classifiable for other reasons 1619
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationLiving Costs and Food Survey, 2013
UniverseLocation of units of observation: National;Population: Households in the United Kingdom surveyed during 2013.
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample
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.