National Statistics Socio-economic Classification - 12 Categories

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 12 categories from this variable.

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