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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey, August - October, 2020

Variable Details

VariableNSECM10
LabelNS-SEC category (SOC2010 based)
Question text We are interested in understanding why you took a second job as self-employed. Which of the following reasons describe why you became self-employed?
Responses
1.0 Employers in large organisations 82
10 Lower supervisory occupations 1568
11.1 Lower technical craft 1068
11.2 Lower technical process operative 154
12.1 Semi routine sales 1590
12.2 Semi routine services 2206
12.3 Semi routine technical 317
12.4 Semi routine operative 399
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 59
12.6 Semi routine clerical 524
12.7 Semi routine childcare 281
13.1 Routine sales and service 587
13.2 Routine production 269
13.3 Routine technical 1302
13.4 Routine operative 1425
13.5 Routine agricultural 55
14.1 Never worked 1364
14.2 Long-term unemployed 218
15.0 Full-time students 2983
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 409
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 10158
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 2127
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 2920
3.2 Higher professional new employee 2167
3.3 Higher professional traditional self-emp 613
3.4 Higher professional new self-emp 141
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 6948
4.2 Lower professional new employee 960
4.3 Lower professional traditional self-emp 906
4.4 Lower professional new self-emp 137
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 2447
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 1367
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 3565
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 1792
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 704
7.4 Intermediate engineering 221
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 561
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 49
9.1 Own account workers non-professional 3652
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 253
-8 No answer 0
-9 Does not apply 12441
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey, August - October, 2020
UniverseAll persons normally resident in private households in Great Britain and (from 1994) Northern Ireland.
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study
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