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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

European Working Conditions Survey, 2015

Variable Details

VariableQ10
LabelQ10 - Self-employed, was it mainly your own personal preference or you had no better alternatives for work?
Question text When you became self-employed, was it mainly through your own personal preference or because you had no other alternatives for work?
Responses
1 Mainly through own personal preferences 4095
2 No other alternatives for work 2074
3 A combination of both 1144
4 Neither of these reasons 323
8 Don't know (spontaneous) 21
9 Refusal (spontaneous) 4
Sysmiss 36189
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationEuropean Working Conditions Survey, 2015
Interviewer InstructionsONE ANSWER ONLY
UniverseLocation of units of observation: Cross-national; National;Population: All residents of the countries mentioned above aged 15 or older (16 or older in Bulgaria, Norway, Spain and the UK) and in employment at the time of the survey. People were considered to be in employment if they had worked for pay or profit for at least an hour in the week preceding the interview (ILO definition).
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study; Sixth survey in the EWCS series.
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