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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, October - December, 2023

Variable Details

VariableINECAC05
LabelBasic economic activity (ILO definition) (reported)
Responses
1 Employee 18723
2 Self-employed 3274
3 Government employment & training programmes 28
4 Unpaid family worker 73
5 ILO unemployed 676
6 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, student 43
7 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, looking after family, home 32
8 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, temporarily sick or injured 6
9 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, long-term sick or disabled 9
10 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, other reason 43
11 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, no reason given 4
12 Inactive, not seeking, would like, waiting results of job ap 9
13 Inactive, not seeking, would like, student 131
14 Inactive, not seeking, would like, looking after family, hom 202
15 Inactive, not seeking, would like, temporarily sick or injur 40
16 Inactive, not seeking, would like, long term sick or disable 423
17 Inactive, not seeking, would like, believes no jobs availabl 16
18 Inactive, not seeking, would like, not yet started looking 62
19 Inactive, not seeking, would like, does not need or want emp 20
20 Inactive, not seeking, would like, retired from paid work 49
21 Inactive, not seeking, would like, other reason 72
22 Inactive, not seeking, would like, no reason given 0
23 Inactive, not seeking, not like, waiting results of job appl 10
24 Inactive, not seeking, not like, student 1215
25 Inactive, not seeking, not like, looking after family, home 888
26 Inactive, not seeking, not like, temporarily sick or injured 55
27 Inactive, not seeking, not like, long term sick or disabled 1621
28 Inactive, not seeking, not like, believes no jobs available 4
29 Inactive, not seeking, not like, not yet started looking 41
30 Inactive, not seeking, not like, does not need or want emplo 311
31 Inactive, not seeking, not like, retired from paid work 9878
32 Inactive, not seeking, not like, other reason 162
33 Inactive, not seeking, not like, no reason given 113
34 Under 16 7851
-9 Does not apply 0
-8 No answer 0
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, October - December, 2023
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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