Economic Activity - 12 Categories

Description

Economic Activity is a measure of whether or not a person was an active participant in the labour market in the week before Census Day (21 March 2021). People were economically active if they were either in employment or unemployed and actively looking for work. Economic activity is applicable to people aged 16 and over. As such, this variable reports 'No code required' for the subset of the population where no response was expected.

Variable categories

Showing all 12 categories from this variable.

A breakdown of the categories in the variable, by code and label.
Label Code
Economically active: Economically active (excluding full-time students): Employee 1
Economically active: Economically active (excluding full-time students): Self-employed with employees 2
Economically active: Economically active (excluding full-time students): Self-employed without employees 3
Economically active: Economically active (excluding full-time students): Unemployed 4
Economically active: Full-time student: In employment 5
Economically active: Full-time student: Unemployed 6
Economically inactive: Retired 7
Economically inactive: Student 8
Economically inactive: Looking after home or family 9
Economically inactive: Long-term sick or disabled 10
Economically inactive: Other 11
No code required -8