Industry (Current) - 19 Categories

Description

The industry classification of people who were in employment in the week before Census Day (21 March 2021). The responses are coded to a modified version of the UK Standard Industrial Classification of Economic Activities 2007 - UK SIC (2007). Industry 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 19 categories from this variable.

A breakdown of the categories in the variable, by code and label.
Label Code
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing 1
B Mining and quarrying 2
C Manufacturing 3
D Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply 4
E Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities 5
F Construction 6
G Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motor cycles 7
H Transport and storage 8
I Accommodation and food service activities 9
J Information and communication 10
K Financial and insurance activities 11
L Real estate activities 12
M Professional, scientific and technical activities 13
N Administrative and support service activities 14
O Public administration and defence; compulsory social security 15
P Education 16
Q Human health and social work activities 17
R S T U Other 18
No code required -8