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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey, October - December, 2015

Variable Details

VariableNSECM10
LabelNS-SEC category (SOC2010 based)
Responses
1.0 Employers in large organisations 68
10 Lower supervisory occupations 2341
10.0 Lower supervisory occupations 0
11.1 Lower technical craft 1645
11.2 Lower technical process operative 233
12.1 Semi routine sales 2249
12.2 Semi routine services 3216
12.3 Semi routine technical 525
12.4 Semi routine operative 663
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 92
12.6 Semi routine clerical 653
12.7 Semi routine childcare 292
13.1 Routine sales and service 1026
13.2 Routine production 575
13.3 Routine technical 1857
13.4 Routine operative 2299
13.5 Routine agricultural 82
14.1 Never worked 2085
14.2 Long-term unemployed 500
15.0 Full-time students 4814
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 465
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 10838
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 2044
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 2970
3.2 Higher professional new employee 2183
3.3 Higher professional traditional self-emp 666
3.4 Higher professional new self-emp 195
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 7532
4.2 Lower professional new employee 1040
4.3 Lower professional traditional self-emp 1011
4.4 Lower professional new self-emp 174
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 2746
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 1717
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 4302
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 2253
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 713
7.4 Intermediate engineering 266
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 847
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 58
9.1 Own account workers non-professional 4542
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 308
-8 No answer 0
-9 Does not apply 19533
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey, October - December, 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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