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LS variable metadata

SEG7
TableME71 1971 Census - LS members
Short descriptionSocio-economic group. 1971.
Source1971 Census. Questions B16, B17 and B18.
Code notes

Variable coding

ValueLabel
-9Not applicable
-3Retired perm sick
-2Other inactive
-1Student or Child
0(1.1) Employers in industry, commerce etc large estab
1(1.2) Managers central & local government, industry etc large estab
2(2.1) Employers in industry, commerce etc small estab
3(2.2) Managers central & local government, industry etc small estab
4(3) Professional workers self employed
5(4) Professional workers employees
6(5.1) Ancillary workers and artists
7(5.2) Foremen and supervisors non manual
8(6) Junior non manual workers
9(7) Personal service workers
10(8) Foremen and supervisors manual
11(9) Skilled manual workers
12(10) Semi skilled manual workers
13(11) Unskilled and manual workers
14(12) Own account workers other than professionals
15(13) Farmers employers and managers
16(14) Farmers own account
17(15) Agricultural workers
18(16) Members of armed forces
19(17) Inadequately described occupations

References

RefnumReference
642See LS Technical Volume (Hattersley and Creeser, 1995) pp. 263-265, page 63, page 65.
201971 Census Appendix 20

Additional information

ValueLabel
id3546
m204namePAABME71
fullname(ME71)SEG7
description
codedasMAIN
source1971 Census. Questions B16, B17 and B18.
derivedY
codelistY
formerlySEG
restrictedN
formatNumeric
length2
occurs1
sasnameS21222
keywordSocio-economic
classification
comvarind
comvartime
field0ME71

CeLSIUS data dictionary based on original version supplied by ONS