Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, October - December, 2016

Variable Details

VariableINCSUP
LabelWhether claiming income support in reference week
Question text (In the week ending Sunday the [date]) were you claiming income support as a... sick person, pensioner, lone parent or any other form or premium of income support?
Responses
1 Sick person 285
2 Pensioner 10
3 Lone parent 474
4 any other form of Income support 264
-9 Does not apply 91087
-8 No answer 10
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, October - December, 2016
Interviewer InstructionsASK OR RECORD
UniverseHouseholds in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.;Households;National
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.