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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey, October - December, 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 90
10 Lower supervisory occupations 1583
11.1 Lower technical craft 1115
11.2 Lower technical process operative 175
12.1 Semi routine sales 1660
12.2 Semi routine services 2246
12.3 Semi routine technical 325
12.4 Semi routine operative 418
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 59
12.6 Semi routine clerical 547
12.7 Semi routine childcare 330
13.1 Routine sales and service 585
13.2 Routine production 272
13.3 Routine technical 1343
13.4 Routine operative 1451
13.5 Routine agricultural 58
14.1 Never worked 1341
14.2 Long-term unemployed 248
15.0 Full-time students 3219
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 374
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 10970
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 2347
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 3171
3.2 Higher professional new employee 2299
3.3 Higher professional traditional self-emp 666
3.4 Higher professional new self-emp 163
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 7494
4.2 Lower professional new employee 1067
4.3 Lower professional traditional self-emp 1009
4.4 Lower professional new self-emp 141
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 2577
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 1448
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 3876
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 1877
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 719
7.4 Intermediate engineering 232
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 598
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 56
9.1 Own account workers non-professional 3804
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 256
-8 No answer 0
-9 Does not apply 12623
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey, October - December, 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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