Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, April - June, 1996

Variable Details

VariableBEFOR
LabelActivity 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?
Responses
1 Working 3668
2 In FT ed or training or on scheme 1589
3 Looking after family or home 966
4 Doing something else 611
-10 No answer/Does not apply 147379
-9 Does not apply 0
-8 No answer 0
-5 Non-data due to seasonal-to-calendar quarter change 0
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, April - June, 1996
Interviewer InstructionsCODE ONE ONLY (MAIN ACTIVITY)
UniverseLocation of units of observation: National;Population: Households in Great Britain and Northern Ireland
SamplingSample drawn from main LFS data. See documentation for details.
Study TypeUntil 2015, data were produced from the April-June and October-December quarters of the main LFS each year. From January 2015, the household datasets are produced for each quarter.