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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Living Costs and Food Survey, 2014

Variable Details

VariableA091
LabelSocio-economic group - household reference person
Responses
0 Not recorded 0
1 Employers in large organisations 2
2 Higher managerial 147
3 Higher professional (traditional ) - employees 233
4 Higher professional (new ) - employees 173
5 Higher professional (traditional ) – self-employed 33
6 Higher professional (new ) – self-employed 6
7 Lower professional and higher technical (traditional) - empl 468
8 Lower professional and higher technical (new) - employees 77
9 Lower professional and higher technical (traditional) – se 39
10 Lower professional and higher technical (new) – self-emplo 10
11 Lower managerial 242
12 Higher supervisory 125
13 Intermediate clerical and administrative 211
14 Intermediate sales and service 112
15 Intermediate technical and auxilary 51
16 Intermediate engineering 21
17 Employers (small organisations, non-professional) 43
18 Employers (small - agricultural) 2
19 Own account workers (non-professional) 278
20 Own account workers (agriculture) 18
21 Lower supervisory 153
22 Lower technical craft 114
23 Lower technical process operative 21
24 Semi-routine sales 78
25 Semi-routine service 195
26 Semi-routine technical 47
27 Semi-routine operative 48
28 Semi-routine agricultural 3
29 Semi-routine clerical 30
30 Semi-routine childcare 9
31 Routine sales and service 43
32 Routine production 32
33 Routine technical 128
34 Routine operative 142
35 Routine agricultural 6
36 Never worked 51
37 Long-term unemployed 35
38 Full-time students 72
39 Occupations not stated 25
40 Not classifiable for other reasons 1610
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationLiving Costs and Food Survey, 2014
UniverseLocation of units of observation: National;Population: Households in the United Kingdom surveyed during 2014.
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study; From January 2006, the EFS (now LCF) moved from a financial to calendar year basis in anticipation of the IHS.
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