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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, October - December, 2015

Variable Details

VariableNSECM10
LabelNS-SEC category (SOC2010 based)
Responses
1.0 Employers in large organisations 72
10 Lower supervisory occupations 2438
11.1 Lower technical craft 1755
11.2 Lower technical process operative 244
12.1 Semi routine sales 2375
12.2 Semi routine services 3361
12.3 Semi routine technical 548
12.4 Semi routine operative 711
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 99
12.6 Semi routine clerical 689
12.7 Semi routine childcare 308
13.1 Routine sales and service 1098
13.2 Routine production 600
13.3 Routine technical 1921
13.4 Routine operative 2402
13.5 Routine agricultural 89
14.1 Never worked 2239
14.2 Long-term unemployed 531
15.0 Full-time students 5325
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 480
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 11014
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 2118
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 3098
3.2 Higher professional new employee 2276
3.3 Higher professional traditional self-emp 685
3.4 Higher professional new self-emp 204
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 7849
4.2 Lower professional new employee 1094
4.3 Lower professional traditional self-emp 1039
4.4 Lower professional new self-emp 176
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 2873
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 1793
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 4472
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 2366
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 749
7.4 Intermediate engineering 284
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 880
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 63
9.1 Own account workers non-professional 4765
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 329
-8 No answer 0
-9 Does not apply 19764
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, October - December, 2015
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.
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