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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, October - December, 2018

Variable Details

VariableINECAC05
LabelBasic economic activity (ILO definition) (reported)
Responses
1 Employee 37847
2 Self-employed 6754
3 Government employment & training programmes 70
4 Unpaid family worker 170
5 ILO unemployed 1768
6 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, student 118
7 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, looking after family, home 85
8 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, temporarily sick or injured 20
9 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, long-term sick or disabled 20
10 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, other reason 76
11 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, no reason given 19
12 Inactive, not seeking, would like, waiting results of job ap 16
13 Inactive, not seeking, would like, student 356
14 Inactive, not seeking, would like, looking after family, hom 593
15 Inactive, not seeking, would like, temporarily sick or injur 100
16 Inactive, not seeking, would like, long term sick or disable 761
17 Inactive, not seeking, would like, believes no jobs availabl 36
18 Inactive, not seeking, would like, not yet started looking 104
19 Inactive, not seeking, would like, does not need or want emp 52
20 Inactive, not seeking, would like, retired from paid work 116
21 Inactive, not seeking, would like, other reason 155
22 Inactive, not seeking, would like, no reason given 5
23 Inactive, not seeking, not like, waiting results of job appl 21
24 Inactive, not seeking, not like, student 2580
25 Inactive, not seeking, not like, looking after family, home 2241
26 Inactive, not seeking, not like, temporarily sick or injured 124
27 Inactive, not seeking, not like, long term sick or disabled 2418
28 Inactive, not seeking, not like, believes no jobs available 18
29 Inactive, not seeking, not like, not yet started looking 69
30 Inactive, not seeking, not like, does not need or want emplo 480
31 Inactive, not seeking, not like, retired from paid work 13794
32 Inactive, not seeking, not like, other reason 316
33 Inactive, not seeking, not like, no reason given 224
34 Under 16 18556
-9 Does not apply 0
-8 No answer 0
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, October - December, 2018
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