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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey, November, 2020 - January, 2021

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 61
10 Lower supervisory occupations 1071
11.1 Lower technical craft 763
11.2 Lower technical process operative 124
12.1 Semi routine sales 1109
12.2 Semi routine services 1577
12.3 Semi routine technical 228
12.4 Semi routine operative 281
12.5 Semi routine agricultural 39
12.6 Semi routine clerical 386
12.7 Semi routine childcare 227
13.1 Routine sales and service 388
13.2 Routine production 184
13.3 Routine technical 877
13.4 Routine operative 987
13.5 Routine agricultural 39
14.1 Never worked 904
14.2 Long-term unemployed 167
15.0 Full-time students 2277
16.0 Not classified or inadequately stated 265
17.0 Not classifiable for other reasons 7573
2.0 Higher managerial occupations 1611
3.1 Higher professional traditional employee 2169
3.2 Higher professional new employee 1617
3.3 Higher professional traditional self-emp 443
3.4 Higher professional new self-emp 122
4.1 Lower professional traditional employee 5160
4.2 Lower professional new employee 766
4.3 Lower professional traditional self-emp 703
4.4 Lower professional new self-emp 98
5.0 Lower managerial occupations 1760
6.0 Higher supervisory occupations 985
7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative 2686
7.2 Intermediate sales and service 1265
7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary 498
7.4 Intermediate engineering 147
8.1 Employers in small orgs non-professional 410
8.2 Employers in small orgs agriculture 44
9.1 Own account workers non-professional 2603
9.2 Own account workers agriculture 170
-8 No answer 0
-9 Does not apply 33938
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey, November, 2020 - January, 2021
UniverseAll persons normally resident in private households in Great Britain and (from 1994) Northern Ireland.
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study
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