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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey, January - March, 2015

Variable Details

VariableNSECM10
LabelNS-SEC category (SOC2010 based)
Responses
1.0 Employers in large organisations 81
10 Lower supervisory occupations 2476
11.1 Lower technical craft 1667
11.2 Lower technical process operative 241
12.1 Semi routine sales 2340
12.2 Semi routine services 3382
12.3 Semi routine technical 544
12.4 Semi routine operative 724
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 94
12.6 Semi routine clerical 678
12.7 Semi routine childcare 284
13.1 Routine sales and service 1069
13.2 Routine production 583
13.3 Routine technical 1945
13.4 Routine operative 2434
13.5 Routine agricultural 72
14.1 Never worked 2204
14.2 Long-term unemployed 627
15.0 Full-time students 5258
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 953
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 11258
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 1995
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 2937
3.2 Higher professional new employee 2201
3.3 Higher professional traditional self emp 717
3.4 Higher professional new self emp 181
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 7850
4.2 Lower professional new employee 1040
4.3 Lower professional traditional self emp 1048
4.4 Lower professional new self emp 166
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 2921
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 1887
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 4532
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 2276
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 826
7.4 Intermediate engineering 258
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 877
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 75
9.1 Own account workers non professional 4511
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 299
-8 No answer 0
-9 Does not apply 20430
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey, January - March, 2015
UniverseLocation of units of observation: National;Population: All persons normally resident in private households in Great Britain and (from 1994) Northern Ireland.
SamplingSimple random sample;Four sampling frames are used. See documentation for details.
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study; Data are collected quarterly
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