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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey, April - June, 2017

Variable Details

VariableINECAC05
LabelBasic economic activity (ILO definition) (reported)
Responses
1 Employee 36183
2 Self-employed 6697
3 Government employment & training programmes 88
4 Unpaid family worker 164
5 ILO unemployed 1854
6 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, student 183
7 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, looking after family, home 77
8 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, temporarily sick or injured 21
9 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, long-term sick or disabled 17
10 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, other reason 84
11 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, no reason given 25
12 Inactive, not seeking, would like, waiting results of job ap 18
13 Inactive, not seeking, would like, student 489
14 Inactive, not seeking, would like, looking after family, hom 702
15 Inactive, not seeking, would like, temporarily sick or injur 116
16 Inactive, not seeking, would like, long term sick or disable 788
17 Inactive, not seeking, would like, believes no jobs availabl 35
18 Inactive, not seeking, would like, not yet started looking 84
19 Inactive, not seeking, would like, does not need or want emp 42
20 Inactive, not seeking, would like, retired from paid work 116
21 Inactive, not seeking, would like, other reason 166
22 Inactive, not seeking, would like, no reason given 0
23 Inactive, not seeking, not like, waiting results of job appl 14
24 Inactive, not seeking, not like, student 2411
25 Inactive, not seeking, not like, looking after family, home 2297
26 Inactive, not seeking, not like, temporarily sick or injured 94
27 Inactive, not seeking, not like, long term sick or disabled 2305
28 Inactive, not seeking, not like, believes no jobs available 21
29 Inactive, not seeking, not like, not yet started looking 58
30 Inactive, not seeking, not like, does not need or want emplo 423
31 Inactive, not seeking, not like, retired from paid work 13611
32 Inactive, not seeking, not like, other reason 253
33 Inactive, not seeking, not like, no reason given 228
34 Under 16 19137
-9 Does not apply 0
-8 No answer 0
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey, April - June, 2017
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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