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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

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

Variable Details

VariableETHEWEUL
LabelEthnicity (16 categories) England and Wales level
Responses
1 White British 62688
2 White Irish 403
3 Other White 4197
4 White and Black Caribbean 479
5 White and Black African 205
6 White and Asian 397
7 Other Mixed / multiple ethnic background 350
8 Indian 2114
9 Pakistani 1538
10 Bangladeshi 742
11 Chinese 380
12 Other Asian background 977
13 Black African 1511
14 Black Caribbean 770
15 Other Black / African / Caribbean background 156
16 Other ethnic group 1361
-9 Does not apply 10888
-8 No answer 2974
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, October - December, 2016
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.
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