| classificationfullname | Economic Position (Economic Activity) 1981 |
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| ix | 4200 |
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| classificationshortname | ECONPOS81 |
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| keywords | Employment |
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| descriptiongeneral | Classification of economic position distinguishes primarily between the economically active and the economically inactive according to whether a person is or is not a member of the labour force at some reference in time.
There are further distinctions within these two broad categories, which attempt to identify mutually exclusive groups according to their position in the labour force or employment status.
Revision of the classification for the 1981 Census incorporated three categories in the persons out of employment subdivision to distinguish between persons waiting to take up a job already accepted and persons seeking work who were grouped together as |
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| descriptionls | In 1981, students were classified as economically inactive, whether or not they were working.
The general description of the classification refers to the Census form of the classifcation. Statistics variables differs in that the classifcation of students changes in order to take account of the changing status of students in employment with |
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| startdate | Census 1981 |
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