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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, January - March, 2024

Variable Details

VariableINECAC05
LabelBasic economic activity (ILO definition) (reported)
Responses
1 Employee 21470
2 Self-employed 3597
3 Government employment & training programmes 37
4 Unpaid family worker 76
5 ILO unemployed 902
6 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, student 76
7 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, looking after family, home 27
8 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, temporarily sick or injured 12
9 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, long-term sick or disabled 12
10 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, other reason 53
11 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, no reason given 11
12 Inactive, not seeking, would like, waiting results of job ap 4
13 Inactive, not seeking, would like, student 145
14 Inactive, not seeking, would like, looking after family, hom 226
15 Inactive, not seeking, would like, temporarily sick or injur 47
16 Inactive, not seeking, would like, long term sick or disable 464
17 Inactive, not seeking, would like, believes no jobs availabl 12
18 Inactive, not seeking, would like, not yet started looking 70
19 Inactive, not seeking, would like, does not need or want emp 23
20 Inactive, not seeking, would like, retired from paid work 67
21 Inactive, not seeking, would like, other reason 81
22 Inactive, not seeking, would like, no reason given 1
23 Inactive, not seeking, not like, waiting results of job appl 13
24 Inactive, not seeking, not like, student 1473
25 Inactive, not seeking, not like, looking after family, home 1025
26 Inactive, not seeking, not like, temporarily sick or injured 86
27 Inactive, not seeking, not like, long term sick or disabled 1824
28 Inactive, not seeking, not like, believes no jobs available 8
29 Inactive, not seeking, not like, not yet started looking 44
30 Inactive, not seeking, not like, does not need or want emplo 303
31 Inactive, not seeking, not like, retired from paid work 11039
32 Inactive, not seeking, not like, other reason 177
33 Inactive, not seeking, not like, no reason given 127
34 Under 16 9097
-9 Does not apply 0
-8 No answer 0
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, January - March, 2024
UniverseHouseholds in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
SamplingSample drawn from main LFS data. See documentation for details.
Study TypeUntil 2015, data were produced from the April-June and October-December quarters of the main LFS each year. From January 2015, the household datasets are produced for each quarter.
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