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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, July - September, 2023

Variable Details

VariableINECAC05
LabelBasic economic activity (ILO definition) (reported)
Responses
1 Employee 18618
2 Self-employed 3233
3 Government employment & training programmes 31
4 Unpaid family worker 75
5 ILO unemployed 730
6 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, student 38
7 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, looking after family, home 25
8 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, temporarily sick or injured 4
9 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, long-term sick or disabled 10
10 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, other reason 39
11 Inactive, seeking, unavailable, no reason given 11
12 Inactive, not seeking, would like, waiting results of job ap 8
13 Inactive, not seeking, would like, student 149
14 Inactive, not seeking, would like, looking after family, hom 203
15 Inactive, not seeking, would like, temporarily sick or injur 52
16 Inactive, not seeking, would like, long term sick or disable 402
17 Inactive, not seeking, would like, believes no jobs availabl 15
18 Inactive, not seeking, would like, not yet started looking 51
19 Inactive, not seeking, would like, does not need or want emp 23
20 Inactive, not seeking, would like, retired from paid work 64
21 Inactive, not seeking, would like, other reason 76
22 Inactive, not seeking, would like, no reason given 0
23 Inactive, not seeking, not like, waiting results of job appl 5
24 Inactive, not seeking, not like, student 1080
25 Inactive, not seeking, not like, looking after family, home 925
26 Inactive, not seeking, not like, temporarily sick or injured 65
27 Inactive, not seeking, not like, long term sick or disabled 1611
28 Inactive, not seeking, not like, believes no jobs available 5
29 Inactive, not seeking, not like, not yet started looking 45
30 Inactive, not seeking, not like, does not need or want emplo 292
31 Inactive, not seeking, not like, retired from paid work 10197
32 Inactive, not seeking, not like, other reason 156
33 Inactive, not seeking, not like, no reason given 147
34 Under 16 7625
-9 Does not apply 0
-8 No answer 0
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, July - September, 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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