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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey, April - June, 2016

Variable Details

VariableINECAC05
LabelBasic economic activity (ILO definition) (reported)
Responses
1 Employee 36594
2 Self-employed 6777
3 Government employment & training programmes 119
4 Unpaid family worker 182
5 ILO unemployed 2148
6 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, student 185
7 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, looking after family, home 82
8 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, temporarily sick or injured 21
9 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, long-term sick or disabled 27
10 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, other reason 94
11 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, no reason given 26
12 Inactive, not seeking, would like, waiting results of job ap 17
13 Inactive, not seeking, would like, student 467
14 Inactive, not seeking, would like, looking after family, hom 761
15 Inactive, not seeking, would like, temporarily sick or injur 139
16 Inactive, not seeking, would like, long term sick or disable 972
17 Inactive, not seeking, would like, believes no jobs availabl 51
18 Inactive, not seeking, would like, not yet started looking 101
19 Inactive, not seeking, would like, does not need or want emp 27
20 Inactive, not seeking, would like, retired from paid work 147
21 Inactive, not seeking, would like, other reason 165
22 Inactive, not seeking, would like, no reason given 5
23 Inactive, not seeking, not like, waiting results of job appl 8
24 Inactive, not seeking, not like, student 2503
25 Inactive, not seeking, not like, looking after family, home 2409
26 Inactive, not seeking, not like, temporarily sick or injured 98
27 Inactive, not seeking, not like, long term sick or disabled 2296
28 Inactive, not seeking, not like, believes no jobs available 18
29 Inactive, not seeking, not like, not yet started looking 54
30 Inactive, not seeking, not like, does not need or want emplo 483
31 Inactive, not seeking, not like, retired from paid work 13422
32 Inactive, not seeking, not like, other reason 239
33 Inactive, not seeking, not like, no reason given 242
34 Under 16 19404
-9 Does not apply 0
-8 No answer 0
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey, April - June, 2016
UniverseAll persons normally resident in private households in Great Britain and (from 1994) Northern Ireland.;National
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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