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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey, July - September, 2015

Variable Details

VariableINECAC05
LabelBasic economic activity (ILO definition) (reported)
Responses
1 Employee 37913
2 Self-employed 6696
3 Government employment and training programmes 148
4 Unpaid family worker 157
5 ILO unemployed 2460
6 Inactive - seeking, unavailable, student 133
7 Inactive - seeking, unavailable, looking after family, home 94
8 Inactive - seeking, unavailable, temporarily sick or injured 27
9 Inactive - seeking, unavailable, long-term sick or disabled 22
10 Inactive - seeking, unavailable, other reason 94
11 Inactive - seeking, unavailable, no reason given 21
12 Inactive - not seeking, would like work, waiting results of 10
13 Inactive - not seeking, would like work, student 428
14 Inactive - not seeking, would like work, looking after famil 830
15 Inactive - not seeking, would like work, temporarily sick or 160
16 Inactive - not seeking, would like work, long term sick or d 1059
17 Inactive - not seeking, would like work, believes no jobs av 54
18 Inactive - not seeking, would like work, not yet started loo 95
19 Inactive - not seeking, would like work, does not need or wa 39
20 Inactive - not seeking, would like work, retired from paid w 181
21 Inactive - not seeking, would like work, other reason 224
22 Inactive - not seeking, would like work, no reason given 1
23 Inactive - not seeking, not like work, waiting results of jo 11
24 Inactive - not seeking, not like work, student 2124
25 Inactive - not seeking, not like work, looking after family, 2563
26 Inactive - not seeking, not like work, temporarily sick or i 103
27 Inactive - not seeking, not like work, long term sick or dis 2420
28 Inactive - not seeking, not like work, believes no jobs avai 20
29 Inactive - not seeking, not like work, not yet started looki 64
30 Inactive - not seeking, not like work, does not need or want 503
31 Inactive - not seeking, not like work, retired from paid wor 13914
32 Inactive - not seeking, not like work, other reason 250
33 Inactive - not seeking, not like work, no reason given 228
34 Under 16 19738
-9 Does not apply 0
-8 No answer 0
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey, July - September, 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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