National Statistics Socio-economic Classification

Description

The National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SeC) indicates a person's socio-economic position based on their occupation and other job characteristics. Full-time students are recorded in the 'full-time students' category regardless of whether they are economically active. This variable 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. This variable uses information from the 'Ever worked' question in the census. Users are advised to visit https://www.nisra.gov.uk/statistics/2021-census/results/quality-notes-issues-and-corrections for more information regarding the 'Ever worked' question.

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Variable categories

Showing all 17 categories from this variable.

A breakdown of the categories in the variable, by code and label.
Label Code
L1: Employers in large establishments 1
L2: Higher managerial and administrative occupations 2
L3: Higher professional occupations 3
L4: Lower professional and higher technical occupations 4
L5: Lower managerial and administrative occupations 5
L6: Higher supervisory occupations 6
L7: Intermediate occupations 7
L8: Employers in small establishments 8
L9: Own account workers 9
L10: Lower supervisory occupations 10
L11: Lower technical occupations 11
L12: Semi-routine occupations 12
L13: Routine occupations 13
L14.1: Never worked 14
L14.2: Long-term unemployed 15
L15: Full-time students 16
No code required -8