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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey, January - March, 2018

Variable Details

VariableINECAC05
LabelBasic economic activity (ILO definition) (reported)
Responses
1 Employee 36962
2 Self-employed 6644
3 Government employment & training programmes 74
4 Unpaid family worker 164
5 ILO unemployed 1776
6 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, student 150
7 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, looking after family, home 78
8 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, temporarily sick or injured 16
9 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, long-term sick or disabled 17
10 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, other reason 85
11 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, no reason given 22
12 Inactive, not seeking, would like, waiting results of job ap 22
13 Inactive, not seeking, would like, student 411
14 Inactive, not seeking, would like, looking after family, hom 645
15 Inactive, not seeking, would like, temporarily sick or injur 104
16 Inactive, not seeking, would like, long term sick or disable 795
17 Inactive, not seeking, would like, believes no jobs availabl 36
18 Inactive, not seeking, would like, not yet started looking 109
19 Inactive, not seeking, would like, does not need or want emp 57
20 Inactive, not seeking, would like, retired from paid work 128
21 Inactive, not seeking, would like, other reason 176
22 Inactive, not seeking, would like, no reason given 1
23 Inactive, not seeking, not like, waiting results of job appl 17
24 Inactive, not seeking, not like, student 2404
25 Inactive, not seeking, not like, looking after family, home 2209
26 Inactive, not seeking, not like, temporarily sick or injured 123
27 Inactive, not seeking, not like, long term sick or disabled 2308
28 Inactive, not seeking, not like, believes no jobs available 13
29 Inactive, not seeking, not like, not yet started looking 52
30 Inactive, not seeking, not like, does not need or want emplo 483
31 Inactive, not seeking, not like, retired from paid work 13807
32 Inactive, not seeking, not like, other reason 281
33 Inactive, not seeking, not like, no reason given 156
34 Under 16 18714
-9 Does not apply 0
-8 No answer 0
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey, January - March, 2018
UniverseLocation of units of observation: National;Population: All persons normally resident in private households in Great Britain and (from 1994) Northern Ireland.
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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