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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

National Survey for Wales, 2014-2015

Variable Details

VariableDv2011OAC
LabelDerived variable - ONS Output Area Classification
Responses
1 1a1 - Rural workers and families 300
2 1a2 - Established farming communities 389
3 1a3 - Agricultural communities 526
4 1a4 - Older farming communities 172
5 1b1 - Rural life 838
6 1b2 - Rural white-collar workers 212
7 1b3 - Ageing rural flat tenants 459
8 1c1 - Rural employment and retirees 114
9 1c2 - Renting rural retirement 181
10 1c3 - Detached rural retirement 147
11 2a1 - Student communal living 28
12 2a2 - Student digs 52
13 2a3 - Students and professionals 67
14 2b1 - Students and commuters 6
15 2b2 - Multicultural student neighbourhood 7
16 2c1 - Migrant families 18
17 2c2 - Migrant commuters 6
18 2c3 - Professional service cosmopolitans 11
19 2d1 - Urban cultural mix 2
20 2d2 - Highly-qualified quaternary workers 0
21 2d3 - EU white-collar workers 5
22 3a1 - Established renting families 7
23 3a2 - Young families and students 19
24 3a3 - Striving service workers 0
25 3b2 - Bangladeshi mixed employment 2
26 3b3 - Multi-ethnic professional service workers 0
27 3c1 - Constrained neighbourhoods 1
28 3c2 - Constrained commuters 0
29 3d1 - New EU tech workers 1
30 3d2 - Established tech workers 2
31 3d3 - Old EU tech workers 3
32 4a1 - Private renting young families 43
33 4a2 - Social renting new arrivals 130
34 4a3 - Commuters with young families 10
35 4b1 - Asian terraces and flats 30
36 4b2 - Pakistani communities 20
37 4c1 - Achieving minorities 8
38 4c2 - Multicultural new arrivals 0
39 4c3 - Inner city ethnic mix 11
40 5a1 - White professionals 430
41 5a2 - Multi-ethnic professionals with families 87
42 5a3 - Families in terraces and flats 263
43 5b1 - Delayed retirement 75
44 5b2 - Communal retirement 217
45 5b3 - Self-sufficient retirement 399
46 6a1 - Indian tech achievers 55
47 6a2 - Comfortable suburbia 206
48 6a3 - Detached retirement living 466
49 6a4 - Ageing in suburbia 204
50 6b1 - Multi-ethnic suburbia 48
51 6b2 - White suburban communities 931
52 6b3 - Semi-detached ageing 561
53 6b4 - Older workers and retirement 436
54 7a1 - Transitional Eastern European neighbourhood 125
55 7a2 - Hampered aspiration 208
56 7a3 - Multi-ethnic hardship 156
57 7b1 - Eastern European communities 11
58 7b2 - Deprived neighbourhoods 5
59 7b3 - Endeavouring flat dwellers 3
60 7c1 - Challenged transitionaries 76
61 7c2 - Constrained young families 106
62 7c3 - Outer city hardship 189
63 7d1 - Ageing communities and families 69
64 7d2 - Retired independent city dwellers 35
65 7d3 - Retired communal city dwellers 53
66 7d4 - Retired city hardship 2
67 8a1 - Industrious transitions 932
68 8a2 - Industrious hardship 653
69 8b1 - Deprived blue-collar terraces 806
70 8b2 - Hard pressed rented terraces 178
71 8c1 - Ageing industrious workers 815
72 8c2 - Ageing rural industry workers 432
73 8c3 - Renting hard-pressed workers 586
74 8d1 - Young hard-pressed families 305
75 8d2 - Hard-pressed ethnic mix 138
76 8d3 - Hard-Pressed European Settlers 197
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationNational Survey for Wales, 2014-2015
UniverseLocation of units of observation: National;Population: Individuals aged 16 or over living in private households in Wales, 2014-2015.
SamplingOne-stage stratified or systematic random sample;See documentation for details
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study
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