Approximated Social Grade

The Approximated Social Grade of usual residents living in households with Household Reference Persons aged 16 to 64 years. Census data uses a combined four-way classification for Social Grade: AB: Higher and intermediate managerial, administrative and professional occupations C1: Supervisory, clerical, and junior managerial, administrative and professional occupations C2: Skilled manual occupations DE: Semi-skilled and unskilled manual occupations; unemployed and lowest grade occupations Social Grade is a socio-economic classification approximated from information collected in Census 2021 using a method defined by the Market Research Society. For Census 2021 only the person deemed Household Reference Person (HRP) receives their own Social Grade, and all other members of the household are assigned this grade. Social Grade estimates from census data are more precise for HRPs of working age than for other age groups. Therefore, an Approximated Social Grade for all usual residents in households using the grade of the HRP aged 16 to 64 years is provided. 'No code required' is reported for the subset of the population where no response was expected.