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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey, September - November, 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 88
10 Lower supervisory occupations 1558
11.1 Lower technical craft 1095
11.2 Lower technical process operative 167
12.1 Semi routine sales 1635
12.2 Semi routine services 2254
12.3 Semi routine technical 318
12.4 Semi routine operative 407
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 65
12.6 Semi routine clerical 539
12.7 Semi routine childcare 314
13.1 Routine sales and service 596
13.2 Routine production 270
13.3 Routine technical 1320
13.4 Routine operative 1445
13.5 Routine agricultural 54
14.1 Never worked 1345
14.2 Long-term unemployed 229
15.0 Full-time students 3121
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 368
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 10559
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 2243
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 3093
3.2 Higher professional new employee 2226
3.3 Higher professional traditional self-emp 657
3.4 Higher professional new self-emp 156
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 7234
4.2 Lower professional new employee 1036
4.3 Lower professional traditional self-emp 981
4.4 Lower professional new self-emp 145
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 2536
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 1417
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 3808
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 1809
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 730
7.4 Intermediate engineering 228
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 593
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 54
9.1 Own account workers non-professional 3799
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 267
-8 No answer 0
-9 Does not apply 12576
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey, September - November, 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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