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Variable
UK Data Service variable record for:
Quarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, October - December, 2016
Variable Details
| Variable | BEFOR | ||||||||||||||||||
| Label | Activity before starting to look for work | ||||||||||||||||||
| Question text | What were you doing before you started to look for paid work, were you... working, in full-time education or training or on a government scheme, looking after the family or home or were you doing something else? | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Disclaimer | Please note that these frequencies are not weighted. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Quarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, October - December, 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Interviewer Instructions | Code one only (Main activity) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Universe | Households in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.;Households;National | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sampling | Sample drawn from main LFS data. See documentation for details. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Study Type | Until 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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