Hours Worked

Description

The number of hours per week that a person worked in their main job. This includes paid and unpaid overtime. Hours Worked is applicable to people aged 16 and over in employment in the week before census (including economically active full-time students in employment). As such, this variable reports 'No code required' for the subset of the population where no response was expected.

Variable categories

Showing all 5 categories from this variable.

A breakdown of the categories in the variable, by code and label.
Label Code
Part-time: 15 hours or less worked per week 1
Part-time: 16-30 hours worked per week 2
Full-time: 31-48 hours worked per week 3
Full-time: 49+ hours worked per week 4
No code required -8