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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, April - June, 2017

Variable Details

VariableINECAC05
LabelBasic economic activity (ILO definition) (reported)
Responses
1 Employee 38167
2 Self-employed 6976
3 Government employment & training programmes 93
4 Unpaid family worker 174
5 ILO unemployed 1989
6 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, student 203
7 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, looking after family, home 79
8 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, temporarily sick or injured 23
9 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, long-term sick or disabled 17
10 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, other reason 89
11 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, no reason given 26
12 Inactive, not seeking, would like, waiting results of job ap 19
13 Inactive, not seeking, would like, student 536
14 Inactive, not seeking, would like, looking after family, hom 728
15 Inactive, not seeking, would like, temporarily sick or injur 123
16 Inactive, not seeking, would like, long term sick or disable 815
17 Inactive, not seeking, would like, believes no jobs availabl 37
18 Inactive, not seeking, would like, not yet started looking 88
19 Inactive, not seeking, would like, does not need or want emp 42
20 Inactive, not seeking, would like, retired from paid work 122
21 Inactive, not seeking, would like, other reason 176
22 Inactive, not seeking, would like, no reason given 0
23 Inactive, not seeking, not like, waiting results of job appl 16
24 Inactive, not seeking, not like, student 2717
25 Inactive, not seeking, not like, looking after family, home 2390
26 Inactive, not seeking, not like, temporarily sick or injured 103
27 Inactive, not seeking, not like, long term sick or disabled 2389
28 Inactive, not seeking, not like, believes no jobs available 24
29 Inactive, not seeking, not like, not yet started looking 61
30 Inactive, not seeking, not like, does not need or want emplo 442
31 Inactive, not seeking, not like, retired from paid work 13756
32 Inactive, not seeking, not like, other reason 268
33 Inactive, not seeking, not like, no reason given 259
34 Under 16 19353
-9 Does not apply 0
-8 No answer 0
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, April - June, 2017
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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