This site uses cookies

Some of these cookies are essential, while others help us to improve your experience by providing insights into how the site is being used.

For more detailed information please check our Cookie notice.

Necessary cookies

Necessary cookies enable core functionality. This website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Cookies that measure website use

If you provide permission, we will use Google Analytics to measure how you use the website so we can improve it based on our understanding of user needs. Google Analytics sets cookies that store anonymised information about how you got to the site, the pages you visit, how long you spend on each page and what you click on while you're visiting the site.

 

Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Understanding Society: Ethnicity and Health Teaching Dataset Wave 1, 2009-2010

Variable Details

Variablea_jlseg_dv
LabelLast job: Socio-economic Group
Responses
-9 missing 121
-8 inapplicable 31624
-7 proxy 3262
-2 refusal 0
-1 don't know 0
1 employers,large 27
2 managers,large 454
3 employers,small 326
4 managers,small 847
5 professional self-employed 91
6 professional employees 443
7 int. non-manual,workers 2109
8 int. non-man,foreman 342
9 junior non-manual 3517
10 personal service wrkrs 749
11 foreman manual 856
12 skilled manual wkrs 1464
13 semi-skilled manual wkrs 2649
14 unskilled manual wkrs 1202
15 own account wkrs 748
16 farmers - employers,managers 22
17 farmers - own account 50
18 agricultural workers 91
19 members of armed forces 0
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationUnderstanding Society: Ethnicity and Health Teaching Dataset Wave 1, 2009-2010
UniverseAround 50,000 16-43 year olds living in the UK who participated in adult interviews during the first wave of Understanding Society, 2009-10.
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample
Study TypeLongitudinal/panel/cohort
UKRI logo

Funded by UKRI through the ESRC with contributions from our partners.

© 2025 UK Data Service
We are supported by the University of Essex, University of Manchester, Jisc, UCL and University of Edinburgh. We are funded by UKRI through the Economic and Social Research Council.