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LS variable metadata
| SCLAS9 |
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| Table | ME91 1991 Census - LS members |
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| Short description | Social class based on occupation. 1991. |
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| Source | 1991 Census. Question 15. |
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| Code notes | |
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Variable coding
| Value | Label |
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| 1 | I Professional Occupations |
| 2 | II Managerial and Technical Occupations |
| 3 | IIIN Skilled Non-manual Occupations |
| 4 | IIIM Skilled Manual Occupations |
| 5 | IV Partly-Skilled Occupations |
| 6 | V Unskilled Occupations |
| 7 | Armed Forces |
| 8 | Inadequately Described |
| 9 | Not stated |
| -9 | Not applicable or missing |
| -9 | Not applicable or missing |
References
| Refnum | Reference |
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| 689 | See LS Technical Volume (Hattersley and Creeser, 1995) pp. 333-334, pp. 336-337, pp. 64-65. |
| 84 | 1991 Census Appendix 20 |
Additional information
| Value | Label |
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| id | 3413 |
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| m204name | PAABME91 |
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| fullname | (ME91)SCLAS9 |
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| description | |
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| codedas | MAIN |
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| source | 1991 Census. Question 15. |
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| derived | Y |
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| codelist | Y |
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| notes | For definitions see 1991 Census Appendix 20. Produced from the Occupation Control File. |
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| formerly | SCLAS |
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| restricted | N |
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| format | Numeric |
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| length | 2 |
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| occurs | 1 |
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| nmsasname | S42092 |
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| sasname | S41177 |
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| keyword | Socio-economic |
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| classification | |
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| comvarind | |
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| comvartime | |
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| field0 | ME91 |
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