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1. 157 SECOND JOB 2555 6 EE EE 158 2 22250 020500 158 OCEUPATIONIN SECOND JOB ini 159 INDUSTRY IN SECOND JOB CONVERSION 160 INDUSTRY IN SECOND JOB SIC2007 erorernnrvvenenvenenenrnnennrnnensnrenensnrenensnrnnensnrnnensnrnnensnnnnensnnnnenvnrensnvnrnnssvnrevene 161 EMPLOYMENT 5 85 2 02 4 400000 her hsi 163 HOURS N S COND JOE 55 166 HOME WORKERS AND 400 166 LOCATION OF SECOND JOB seler arret 169 SEEKING NOT SEEKING WORK eesscecsccsssssssscesssesscosvcssncosnsesesssebssnessevacsdsscdescossedencdencdsnsbonesscedsvsssvsdssedasedsncooseesess 170 REASON FOR SEEKING REPLACEMENT ADDITIONAL PAID JOB 170 WHETHER LOOKING snarere RNET 172 steere 172 UNDER EMPEOYMENT use 174 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 TE O WNEMPLOY MENT 3 ccscssel
2. 307 SYSTEM 2222 2 55 6 0 0 00806065658665 6 06 5 itisid 6 60 6 8056 308 56 5000 50 314 8 317 45 NS MM EE 318 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 INFORMATION ABOUT THIS GUIDE This edition completely replaces the 2012 version It contains only those variables which will appear in 2013 datasets or which have been removed within the past year Information on old LFS variables between the years 2006 and 2012 can be found in previous volumes Seasonal to Calendar Quarters From 2006 the LFS has been run on CALENDAR quarters i e January to March April to June July to September and October to December instead of seasonal quarters i e March to May June to August September to November and December to February This was because EuroStat require us to use calendar quarters and it will also bring us into line with other ONS household surveys The timings of quarterly specific questions changed as follows
3. 269 n 304 QUAL 13 EE 220 269 OWNBUS 95 QUAL 220 NIGHT 150 OORO a 201 ONE C 220 tusener 105 OYCRY ii 64 OVAL 6 220 ITA 164 OYCRYO mist 65 OANE 220 NOBACK9 296 Med 63 220 107 OYFTPT intet 204 QUAL 19 221 01 10 192 OYMINGE sn 203 OM 218 NOL WE 193 OYMPEO2 203 221 NOLWM 2 192 OYMPRO2 203 Me 221 02 a 204 QUAL 22 221 NY 85 OSD n 202 ANET 221 10 112 ONO n 202 Te 221 NSECMI 10 113 SO ne 204 TET 222 NTAXCRDS 2222222 201 OYSTAT Liten 202 222 TE EE 27 202 OVAL 27 222 NTN 28 Grins 222 11 22222222 28 222 NTLWI I 28 PAIDHRA ort 140 OM 218 NTNLTY 12 16 PAIDHRU oi 138 223 NOMAD 231 302 223 8 2222222 21212 231 PCA 47 Se iih 218 NUMHHLD ort 309 104 OAN 218 Nl re 292 EEA 163 CN st 218 NUMOLS 234 PENBEN3 1 3 mn 199 D 219 5 22222212 234 PENBN 13 ct 200 OUAL 219 NUMOL50 234 OVAL 219 NR 308 PERSNO His cutscenes 311 213 Nl 46 ENC iner
4. 64 HNWOTHOS 82 8 230 170 2 2 74 5 89 130 HOLS 155 89 GOVTOF 42 HOLSB riean 155 9 89 42 127 2 2 005 89 056599 222 22 298 2 166 1D XO S C 89 299 1 3 128 89 GRSPRD 299 2 1 3 167 FDSINCOM 224 GRSSWK 299 304 FDSNGDEG 226 2 307 2 305 222222222222 225 1 2 2 216 300 1 5 267 HOUT edit 312 FIFSAL eorvrvrvrvevrerrrsevrevssrses 105 H 1S 010i O 313 10 145 308 HOW
5. 314 SMSXFU rrosrovrersrvrsvrsvrvsessenne 87 TLRN3M 271 RPO ae 315 SINGDEGB White 226 TLRNAWK 271 SNGDEGN 114222222244 225 293 5 226 ID 117 130 ON 47 gs 139 TY 151 ET ER 47 TOTAL 140 SATIS 15 SOOT OA 264 TOT 75 SCIOLMD 179 SOCIOL siiis 178 142 179 5 222222 103 022 220000 75 SCIOMMD cccecccscccesesseseeeeeee 103 SOCTOO er 206 TOTUST uses 138 103 SOCTOR 127 TOTUST 139 SOEK O V A 206 50 108 222 2 159 NE 76 0 206 SOLO 165 9 1 9 196 8 159 SOLOLR 183 9 1 8 197 SCIOSMN 159 106 gasser 196 2 179 1 9 167 UUO D E 252 SC2KSMN 159 SSELEB 167 11 4 4120112 268 SOACD Sole 237 193 TRIO eg 266 2
6. 177 1 9 222222 114 1 9207 97 EERND 283 22222224 115 IN9207ER 123 2000 285 N 1 92075 0 180 LESPY chevette 171 IN9207SM icici ees 96 LESPAY Zeci 175 11 29 13920755 160 175 29 INENOW ssescccssstscsvsstiseses esses 298 LEVQUELL Locke es 274 NATIDNE mrk 29 198 312 29 181 LIKEWK 192 NATIDS 11 29 07 99 LIMACT onsen hand 284 11 29 07852 162 LIMIT Asvi onses 281 NATO suksessen 17 INDDOTE evel 181 LIMIT R 281 NATOX rnrn an 20 INDDO7M 99 EIV12W nes 13 NEETS 271 7 207 173 NETOJ 300 INDDOTR 22 2222 125 EKFIPC ii 173 301 INDDOTS 162 172 NETWK 301 07 100 EKSELC hv 173 2 308 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014
7. 93 STAR br 104 22410 268 SCEBV use 237 STATZ er 163 11 265 11 257 STATER 182 TRONB se 268 1 120 307 104 se 131 257 1 238 TRVMTH 131 222 257 238 2 4 2 2 2 131 SCOUAT n 214 239 TSCHOTH en 94 238 STECOTH 238 266 SCTV CII 237 5 22 278 271 306 SUBCOD 1 8 276 4 270 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 TSUBJ3M 222 271 W VPTCIAL ENE 109 270 YPTIOB eat 108 Ve 309 TIANGHR rs 141 WAIT 191 9 scscieseccssavissenssetveviees 178 TTUSHR oh 141 20 193 TTWA 47 KARDU 56 IB er 94 TUCOV Va 158 99 301 310 158 WBAG stede 277 8 0 172 151 1 5
8. 156 8 278 291 1 4 304 30 289 BTACD 235 30 140 BTCOTLA 236 CYMS E 30 ACTAR2 vernede 166 236 30 2222202 2 22 140 11 236 CYMW cheatin 31 140 235 ACTWKDY G 7 132 BELEN 235 309 BTSUBJ 235 148 22020 202 2222 171 2 220 5 141 87 230 ADLRNS8X 279 DEGNOW 255 ADLRNSY 279 224 232 CAGI 242 DIFFHR 143 9 242 170 AGEDFE 9 242 DIPTYP 257 AGEEUE visne ease ni 10 1 243 1 9 199 AGES 9 4 4 2 2 243 DISCURR 286
9. 33 196 5 222 2 724 262 33 197 5 34 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 18 002222222222 37 22222 222 21 108 255 02222222 36 FIPIW 108 310 ETHGB 13 36 108 HHTYPEG6 70 40 222 22 35 1 2 220002 93 2 224 1 22222000 33 FOURN asset 85 11 272 1 34 311 274 1 0022222222 35 13 222222222 264 11 274 402222 22 34 22222 222 12 265 6 72 32 FUTWK 194 6 73 ETHWHW 32 FUTYPE 87 HMAWK 128 ETHWSC 32 FWKWEN 194 2 80
10. 222 22 2 110 243 13 287 16 GAIND 68 DOBD 11 6 88 22222 000 27 2 2 11 88 26 DOBY ske 11 16 2 78 2 27 DTEOFBTH 12 19 78 22 4 44 308 DURUN 176 APPRID jeniseiske 263 308 2 176 263 96 DVHRPNUM 74 APPRLEV neirinne 263 hu Qt 56 12 12 263 COT CS er 201 315 APPS TIZ 252 264 11 258 DZONE vasstsgekesgelnuatr 46 2 0 0 168 259 0 129 259 2 2 2 4 278 CGSUBJ 243 EDI3WK 264 261 22 2 22 288 ED4WK 264 2 224 1 1 293 65 2222 24 200000 198
11. 250 te tts 57 0 200 291 256 5 4 24102 57 291 1 6 231 311 09 1 7 199 128 RESTME nesen 57 209 22 2421 128 5 111 SMESIT hisse 129 TELT 312 FORD Gs 288 SMEST2 lenet 168 TE OAD eg 167 RSA ess 240 209 TELQB2 168 RSACD 240 209 111 RSAOTI11 240 5 2222222 209 225 OE 84 1 3 241 SMOKEVER 288 10 1 5 267 RSAOTLA 241 0 209 310 241 01 210 TIED i cA eae 84 240 03 210 290 5 2222222 240 5 5 104 22 210 TEEGID znne 52
12. 266 MARCHK 13 ILODEFR 92 110 13 INO792DE 180 2 165 14 130792 97 5 198 MARSTA sveitsere 12 13079200 207 ISATYR 197 143 INO792DR 125 L 234 1 079205 161 METHAL 01 14 186 792 98 39 191 INOT92ER 125 EANGDL 39 01 11 185 1 7928 97 2 0000 39 1 6 185 1 07925 5 161 LEA 51 MEL604 10 139207 179 279 5964 10 139207 96 LEARNA 279 2 183 139207 206 LEB EMG 178 2 106 IN9207 DR renies 123 178 2 165 IN9207 DS iineoa 160
13. 207 PPs 54 1 7 132 5 078 222 lt 0000 161 55 WEFR vvs 136 5 225 0 91 LES Oe 53 8 1 134 269 580 147 EENG 284 222222 269 LSTHO rd 314 ELMON 136 INTPROB iiia 40 M TENETI nie 133 2 40 135 39 58 IV OPER ora 135 68 M3CRYO dada soca 59 wes gaint 137 TREND 2 nakunan sat G 14 190 TNS Diss 134 188 ESUN rinisin 137 J 188 LETHU she hais 136 2 0 166 118 TEE TUB ae Sees 136 IJBAWAY seie 95 2 164 136 110 105 132 JOBBEG 191 MANAGER 106 2222 2222 292 265 MANAGER 183 ereeees 135
14. 0 4 4 42222 254 AXFA SEE 174 CMBD jr bihakan 228 811 262 AX FB 174 CMBDEGN 226 ELWA 56 173 CMBHDMA 229 EMPLEN 113 AXPB sina 173 228 113 AYFLI9 88 CONMLES 115 ENROLL 261 19 78 222222 2 114 315 B CONMPY 114 01 11 303 1 116 303 141 116 2 34 2 02 022222 2 299 117 ETHIIEW 31 2 306 CONPRY 116 2 2424022221 31 2 222222 222 301 114 ETHEIS 31 2 307 CONNU N O 27 ETHAFS zoia sins 33 BANK reris 155 CONYRLES 115 11 33 2 2 2 195 41 119
15. 232 WCHER hind 152 TYR 293 WCHJB 289 joa 290 NB 294 312 5 2 2 11212 3 eea gan ol GO 152 U WCHSU 152 WCHTH re 152 TACIT sense 44 4 WCHTU vare 152 N ER 45 152 46 309 VAD 46 110 ALDO ee 46 27 UALDWK nosiai 46 TINY 294 UTD us 46 294 UCREDIT es 197 et 153 UGINST 230 24444 153 UNDEMP cccccsscccsssssseeeeee 174 154 174 WKSUN 154 NDS 175 153 0 98 1 9 175 S WRITE oiiaii 153 1 2 222 241 197 WR WED 153 UNION ssia 157 WILSHBCS 232 UNIGUAL sprosser 214 WN2LFT1 1 Ge 177 139 WNLEFT I oosina 177 URESMC 41 NOCOD etatene 295 URIND See 49 WOCCT ossis 295 304 215 0568599 300 15 0 99 302 WRKING ju ccsssssssessseecesseseesees 95 USUGPAY onssas 300 os je ng 138 USUNPAY ossia 302 x 1 3 149 287 1 3 149 9 EE 77
16. 00022 2 22 150 HNFTIME 81 00222 22 142 149 HNFTSTUD 81 00222 22222 138 41 5 2 80 22 22 44 96 GCSE 233 82 2224 150 1 5 233 2 82 98 127 GNACD 245 HNIWSKD 12222222222 82 2222222224 150 222222 245 0 81 5 2222222222 221 154 11 2222 22 244 664 79 TAVAI OIN 154 GNVQOLL 245 5964 79 EXTFU eoorvonsrseesrveesevessessrseven 87 246 HNNOWK05 82 GNVQOLB 246 81 245 HNPENX 79 0 1 3 200 289 HNPENY 79 88 290 HNPTIME 81 227 GORI eee 62 HNUNEMP 00 22 2222 80 FDCMBMA 229
17. 10 left for some other reason FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent working and left paid job in last 3 months or unemployed in ref wk left last job within 8 yrs of ref wk 119 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NOTES If analysing data on redundancies made in the last three months you should also filter on the variable REDUND 1 made redundant This variable replaces REDYLFT This question was removed from the questionnaire in JM13 and replaced with REDYL13 REDYL13 Reason left last job 1 dismissed 2 made redundant 3 took voluntary redundancy 4 temporary job which came to an end 5 resigned 6 gave up work for health reasons 7 took early retirement 8 retired at or after state pension age 9 gave up work for family or personal reasons 10 education or training 11 left for some other reason FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM13 COVERAGE Applies if respondent working and left paid job in last 3 months or unemployed in ref wk left last job within 8 yrs of ref wk NOTES If analysing data on redundancies made in the last three months you should also filter on the variable REDUND 1 made redundant This variable replaces REDYL11 HTHDIS Health reason for being dismissed or redundant 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from 9 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who were dismissed made redundant
18. 77 12 143 KR 00 15 ae 75 2 2 2 2 4 7222 40 191 VETSERV o i 40 41 11 276 Q Y2JOB MENE 158 239 ososi 253 VOCYRB 237 YERQAL2 ovos 253 239 VEROALS p se 254 VOCYRD 242 YLESS6 142 VOCYRE 244 143 247 YNOTFT 109 222 52 250 rs 302 Peer 303 323 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 324
19. 8 NA Inadequate description 9 DNA FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 98 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents made redundant in the three months prior to interview REDUND 1 NOTES With the removal of the Census Matrix Edit REDINDYR supersedes the variable REDINDY This variable is derived from REDUND 5 REDIND INDS92L INDSECT amp RDIC92 The variable INECACR is replaced by INECAC05 in the derivation of this variable from Spring 05 onwards 126 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 For small number of people who were made redundant in the three months prior to interview had been in employment again since then but were not in employment at the time of interview it is assumed that the industry they were made redundant from is the same as the industry in their most recent job If analysing data on redundancies made in the last three months you should also filter on the variable REDUND 1 made redundant RDOCOD Occupation made redundant from if different from previously stated 100 999 Range of occupation codes FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 97 to Winter 2000 Each quarter from Spring 01 to Spring 04 on ONS datasets only COVERAGE Applies to all respondents whose present occupation is different to job where made redundant REDOCC 2 NOTES LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives a full breakdown of industry coding S
20. 12 219 REFDTE hett 310 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 310 SECGA 305 225 44214 310 es 306 0 1 8 276 REFWKY 310 SECGRO Lee 305 144 REGI se 62 4 2244 163 SLONI DA A 151 2 4 44422 63 200 158 SUP 105 2 0022222 169 SHENET 307 SUP VIS kes 164 REGWKR 129 SECTOR 102 T RELBUP 14 102 ss 95 5 1 40 104 270 RELHO6 73 SELF ves 164 270 RELHFU 88 No EE 9 222 22 2 4 270 2 4 4 442241 22 73 99 144 271 RELIGI 1 senare 38 144 TAUT4WK 269 00 37 15 270 RELIGS orvrvovsrvrssvsserserssessenee 38 4 222200 15 11 256 RELIGW Gjende 37 224 TCNWACD 256
21. 5 divorced 6 or widowed 7 Spontaneous only In a legally recognised Civil Partnership and separated from his her civil partner 8 Spontaneous only Formerly a civil partner the Civil Partnership now legally dissolved 9 Spontaneous only A surviving civil partner his her partner having since died FREQUENCY Each quarter from AJO6 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This is a questionnaire variable and feeds into the variable MARSTA This variable does not appear on data sets please use MARSTA in its place Please note that this is a forced variable respondents can not say don t know refusal and interviewers can not leave it blank DVMRDF 12 De Facto Marital Status 12 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 1 Married 2 Cohabiting 3 Single 4 Widowed 5 Divorced 6 Separated 7 Same Sex Couple 8 Civil Partner 9 Former Separated Civil Partner FREQUENCY Each quarter from AJO6 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This is a derived variable more information can be found in the Volume 4 User Guide MARDY6 Married cohabiting 1 Married cohabiting civil partner 2 Non married FREQUENCY Each quarter from AJ06 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This is a derived variable please see volume 4 for further guidance Non married include those who are single widowed divorced or separated from their spouse Between
22. AYFL19 Age of youngest dependent child in family under 19 88 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 0 18 Age of youngest dependent child in family aged 0 18 19 No dependent children aged under 19 FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Each quarter from Spring 95 COVERAGE Applies to all family units NOTES Dependent children are all those aged 0 15 and those aged 16 18 who are in full time education Text labels are not available for these variables This variable is derived from CAIND RELHFU amp AGE FDPCH2 Number of dependent children in family aged under 2 0 3 Number of dependent children in family aged under 2 FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Each quarter from Spring 95 NOTES The notes for 19 also apply to this variable FDPCH4 Number of dependent children in family aged between 2 amp 4 0 3 Number of dependent children in family aged between 2 amp 4 FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Each quarter from Spring 95 NOTES The notes for FDPCH19 also apply to this variable FDPCH9 Number of dependent children in family aged between 5 amp 9 0 5 Number of dependent children in family aged between 5 9 FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Each quarter from Spring 95 NOTES The notes for FDPCH19 also apply to this variable FDPCH15 Number of dependent chi
23. ILLDAYS 1 7 Days had off sick or injured 132 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 1 Monday 2 Tuesday 3 Wednesday 4 Thursday 5 Friday 6 Saturday 7 Sunday FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 2000 to Autumn 2000 on ONS datasets only Each quarter from Winter 2000 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who had days off due to sickness injury ILLWK 1 NOTES This variable replaces SIKDAY and SIKSUN Please note that this is multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable ILL1PD Period of sickness 1 one period of sickness absence from work 2 more than one FREQUENCY Each quarter from 9 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who had days off sick or injured ILLDAYS response IL1BEF Period of sickness start day 1 the first day of your working week 2 before that FREQUENCY Each quarter from 9 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who had one period of sickness absence ILL1PD 1 ILLNE11 main condition that caused sickness absence 1 Back pain 2 Neck and upper limb problems e g arthritis in hand joints stiff neck 3 Other musculoskeletal problems 4 Stress depression anxiety common mental health problems 5 Manic depression schizophrenia and other serious mental health problems 6 Minor illnesses coughs colds and flu sickness nausea and
24. Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 JOBTRN Education amp training on or off job 1 On the job training only 2 Training away from job 3 Both FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who said that they had taken part in job related education training in the last 4 weeks ED4WK 1 NOTES On the job training means learning by example and practice while actually doing the job Any training conducted in a classroom or training section even if on the employers premises is not on the job training TSTE10 Main place of education or training in work GB 1 On premises belonging to your employer 2 On premises belonging to another employer 3 Private training centre 5 Employment Rehabilitation Centre 6 Community Project 7 Government or local authority training workshop 8 UK On line Centre 9 At home OU Open Tech Correspondence 10 Learn Direct 11 College of Further Education 12 University 13 Other educational institution 14 None of these FREQUENCY JM and AJ quarters only from 2010 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment or of working age or in receipt of education training who have taken part in job related education training in the 4 weeks prior to the reference week and this training has not been solely based in the workplace JOBTRN 2 3 Also applies to all respondents aged 16 69 who are
25. Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NATOX7 Nationality other FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM07 COVERAGE From JM12 this applies to all respondents whose country of birth is not UK Irish Republic India Pakistan or Poland CRY12 997 Previous to JM12 this applied to all respondents whose country of birth was not UK Irish Republic Hong Kong or China 01 997 NOTES This is a derived variable please see User Guide 4 for more information 578 NORWAY 484 MEXICO 643 RUSSIA 500 MONTSERRAT EUROPE 926 UNITED KINGDOM NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 040 AUSTRIA 056 BELGIUM 100 BULGARIA 901 CYPRUS EUROPEAN UNION 203 CZECH REPUBLIC 971 CZECHOSLOVAKIA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 208 DENMARK 233 ESTONIA 246 FINLAND 250 FRANCE 276 GERMANY 300 GREECE 348 HUNGARY 372 IRELAND REPUBLIC 380 ITALY 428 LATVIA 440 LITHUANIA 442 LUXEMBOURG 470 MALTA 528 NETHERLANDS 616 POLAND 620 PORTUGAL 642 ROMANIA 703 SLOVAKIA 705 SLOVENIA 911 SPAIN EXCEPT CANARY ISLANDS 913 SPAIN NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 752 SWEDEN 248 ALAND ISLANDS 008 ALBANIA 020 ANDORRA 051 ARMENIA 031 AZERBAIJAN 112 BELARUS 070 BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 191 CROATIA 902 CYPRUS NON EUROPEAN UNION 903 CYPRUS NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 981 EUROPE NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 234 FAROE ISLANDS 268 GEORGIA 292 GIBRALTAR 352 ICELAND 891 KOSOVA AND METOHIA 438 LIECHTENSTEIN 807 MACEDONIA
26. Maternity Paternity leave only respondents who are on the special period of maternity leave that is allowed by law are included here Any other leave for reasons of child bearing or child rearing are coded as other reasons Attending a training course away from own workplace this applies only to respondents who are undergoing education or training outside the workplace Respondents who are not working because of a training course inside the workplace are coded as other reasons Laid off short time work interrupted by labour dispute at own workplace This code is only used for respondents directly involved in a labour dispute strike at their own workplace This could involve being either called out or laid off because of a labour dispute in the respondents own workplace 142 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Laid off short time work interrupted by economic and other causes applies to respondents who were not working for technical or economic reasons e g shortage of orders economic reason or because production at their workplace was impeded by a shortage of material supplies e g caused by a labour dispute outside the respondents workplace or at another firm halting supplies In the latter case the respondent would not be personally involved in the labour dispute Between Spring 1992 and Winter 2005 this variable was called YLESS YMORE Reason for worki
27. government scheme NOTES This variable is derived from ACTWKDY 1 7 WKSAT Whether worked on a Saturday 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters only from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment during reference week or on a government scheme NOTES This variable is derived from ACTWKDY 1 7 WKSUN Whether worked on a Sunday 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters only from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment during reference week or on a government scheme NOTES This variable is derived from ACTWKDY 1 7 EVSAT Whether respondent ever works on a Saturday 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY AJ quarters only from Spring 99 From 2014 these questions were reduced in frequency and are asked in wave one every quarter i e not asked all waves in AJ COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment who do not work on a Saturday NOTES Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions EVSUN Whether respondent ever works on a Sunday 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY AJ quarters only from Spring 99 From 2014 these questions were reduced in frequency and are asked in wave one every quarter i e not asked all waves in AJ COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment who do not usually work on a Sunday NOTES Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to histor
28. 1 OR UNBENB 1 From Spring 98 UNEMBN 1 JSATYP replaced INCSUP from 7 October 1996 Please note that the reference to Universal Credit was introduced in AJ 13 JSADUR Length of time claiming Job Seekers Allowance Universal Credit and or NI Credits 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 FREQUENCY COVERAGE Less than 1 month 1 month but less than 3 months 3 months but less than 6 months 6 months but less than 12 months 12 months but less than 18 months 18 months but less than 2 years 2 years but less than 3 years 3 years but less than 4 years 4 years but less than 5 years 5 years or more Each quarter from Spring 98 Applies to all respondents who are claiming Job Seekers Allowance and or National Insurance credits Spring 98 to Winter 2000 TYPBEN 1 Spring 01 to Winter 02 TPBNO1 1 From Spring 03 TPBEN3 1 NOTES Please note that the reference to Universal Credit was introduced in AJ13 CLAIMS Whether claiming unemployment related benefits 1 2 3 4 5 6 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES Claiming contributory JSA Claiming income based JSA Claiming both contributory and income based JSA JSA type not stated Claiming National Insurance credits Not claiming unemployment related benefits Each quarter from Spring 98 Applies to all respondents aged 16 and over This variable is derived from AGE WRKING JBAWAY OWNBUS RELBUS BENFTS 9 UNEMBN a
29. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES 1 male 65 with no children 1 female 60 with no children 1 adult under pensionable age with no children 1 adult with one child 1 adult with two or more children married couple both under pensionable age with no children cohabiting couple both under pensionable age with no children married couple one or more over pensionable age with no children cohabiting couple one or more over pensionable age with no children Married couple with one child Married couple with 2 children Married couple with 3 or more children Cohabiting couple with one child Cohabiting couple with 2 children Cohabiting couple with 3 or more children 2 adults not married or cohabiting both under pensionable age with no children 2 adults not married or cohabiting one or more over pensionable age with no children 2 adults not married or cohabiting with 1 or more children 3 or more adults with no children including at least one married cohabiting couple 3 or more adults with 1 or 2 children including at least one married cohabiting couple 3 or more adults with 3 or more children including at least one married cohabiting couple 3 or more adults with no children 3 or more adults with one or more children Same sex cohabiting couple Same sex civil partnership couple Each quarter from AJ10 on household and ONS datasets
30. 13 Linguistics English Celtic and Ancient Languages 14 European Languages 15 Other Languages 16 Humanities 17 Arts 18 Education FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM12 COVERAGE Applies to respondents whose undergraduate degree is a combined subject in one or more subject areas NOTES In JM12 CMBDEGN FDCMBD and CMBHD replaced CMBDEG From JM12 those who have an undergraduate qualification will be routed to this question 227 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Please note that this is multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable CMBHD Higher degree subject areas 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 FREQUENCY COVERAGE Medicine Medical related Subjects Biological Sciences Agricultural Sciences Physical Environmental Sciences Mathematical I Sciences and Computing Engineering Technology Architecture and related studies Social Sciences including Law Business and Financial Studies Librarianship and Information Studies Linguistics English Celtic and Ancient Languages European Languages Other Languages Humanities Arts Education Each quarter from JM12 Applies to respondents whose undergraduate degree is combined subject one or more subject areas NOTES In JM12 CMBDEGN FDCMBD and CMBHD replaced CMBDEG
31. 4 Other type of bonus FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 99 Waves 1 and 5 only COVERAGE Applies to all respondents whose last pay contained additions to their basic pay in the form of bonuses Please note that this is multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable HOURLY Whether paid a fixed hourly rate 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 99 Waves 1 and 5 only COVERAGE Applies to all respondents whose last pay period is less than monthly a lump sum or is not known Respondents should still answer yes here if their rate varies for working at different times of the day e g some people are paid more for working early in the morning HRRATE What is basic hourly rate 1 994 Amount in pounds and pence 995 995 or more 998 Don t know 999 Refusal FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 99 Waves 1 and 5 only COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are paid a fixed hourly rate OVRTME At what rate is overtime paid 1 Your normal basic rate of pay 2 More than your normal basic rate of pay 3 Or less than your normal basic rate of pay 4 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 99 to Winter 2000 Waves 1 and 5 only Each quarter from Spring 02 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have ever worked overtime USESLP Type of documentation used to check income detail 1 Pay slip 2 Bank b
32. 891 KOSOVA AND METOHIA 438 LIECHTENSTEIN 807 MACEDONIA 498 MOLDOVA 492 MONACO 499 MONTENEGRO 578 NORWAY 643 RUSSIA 674 SAN MARINO 688 SERBIA 974 SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 744 SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN 756 SWITZERLAND 792 TURKEY 804 UKRAINE 972 UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 336 VATICAN CITY 973 YUGOSLAVIA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED THE AMERICAS AND THE CARIBBEAN 660 ANGUILLA 028 ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 032 ARGENTINA 533 ARUBA 044 BAHAMAS THE 052 BARBADOS 084 BELIZE 060 BERMUDA 068 BOLIVIA 076 BRAZIL 092 BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS 124 CANADA 988 CARIBBEAN NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 136 CAYMAN ISLANDS 986 CENTRAL AMERICA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 152 CHILE 170 COLOMBIA 188 COSTA RICA 192 CUBA 212 DOMINICA 214 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 218 ECUADOR 17 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 222 EL SALVADOR 238 FALKLAND ISLANDS 254 FRENCH GUIANA 304 GREENLAND 308 GRENADA 312 GUADELOUPE 320 GUATEMALA 328 GUYANA 332 HAITI 340 HONDURAS 388 JAMAICA 474 MARTINIQUE 484 MEXICO 500 MONTSERRAT 530 NETHERLANDS ANTILLES 558 NICARAGUA 985 NORTH AMERICA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 591 PANAMA 600 PARAGUAY 604 PERU 630 PUERTO RICO 987 SOUTH AMERICA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 659 ST KITTS AND NEVIS 662 ST LUCIA 666 ST PIERRE AND MIQUELON 670 ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES 740 SURINAM 780 TRINIDAD AN
33. 926 UK British 372 Irish Republic 356 India 586 Pakistan 616 Poland 997 Other FREQUENCY Every quarter from JM12 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This replaced NTNLTY in JM12 Between Spring 1992 and Spring 2006 this variable was called NATION CRY12 Country of birth 921 England 924 Wales 923 Scotland 922 Northern Ireland 926 UK Britain don t know country 372 Republic of Ireland 356 India 586 Pakistan 16 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 616 Poland 997 Other FREQUENCY Every quarter from JM12 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This replaced CRYO1 in JM12 This question variable was introduced to record in which part of the UK the respondent was born If the respondent does not know the part of UK they were born in but is sure that it was the UK code 926 is used If Ireland is given as an answer the interviewer must check whether it is Northern Ireland code 922 or the Irish Republic code 372 The Isle of Man and the Channel Islands not part of the UK and should be coded 997 From 7 new category codes were introduced for CRYO1 When running tables filtering on CRY01 the relevant category of CRYO7 should also be filtered to ensure accuracy NATO7 Nationality other FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM07 COVERAGE From JM12 this applies to all respondents whose country of birth is n
34. COVERAGE NOTES County Durham Northumberland Tees Valley Tyne amp Wear Cheshire Warrington Cumbria Greater Manchester Lancashire Greater Merseyside previously called Merseyside Halton Humberside North Yorkshire South Yorkshire West Yorkshire Derbyshire Leicestershire Lincolnshire Rutland Northamptonshire Nottinghamshire Birmingham amp Solihull Coventry amp Warwickshire Herefordshire amp Worcestershire Shropshire Staffordshire The Black Country Bedfordshire and Luton previously called Bedfordshire Cambridgeshire Essex Hertfordshire Norfolk Suffolk Central London East London North London South London West London Berkshire Sussex Hampshire Isle of Wight Portsmouth Southampton Kent Medway Oxon Bucks Milton Keynes Surrey West of England previously called Former Avon Bournemouth Dorset Poole Devon amp Cornwall Gloucestershire Somerset Wiltshire amp Swindon Every year from 2000 Applies to all respondents in England This variable is included only on annual local area datasets which are available only to ONS and those government departments which sponsor the local area enhancements 53 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Learning Partnerships County Durham LP Northumberland LP Sunderland ETTAG Tees Valley LP Tyneside LP Bury LP Bolton LP Cumbria LP Cheshire LP Ea
35. COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment other than those on certain government schemes NOTES This variable replaces SC2KMMJ and is derived from SOC10M LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives a complete breakdown of occupation codes SC10MMN Minor occupation group main job 111 927 Range of Occupation Codes FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment other than those on certain government schemes NOTES This variable replaces SC2KMMN and is derived from SOC10M LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives a complete breakdown of occupation codes 103 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 EMPLOYMENT STATUS STAT Employment status 1 2 3 4 FREQUENCY COVERAGE years Employee Self employed Government scheme Unpaid family worker Each quarter from Spring 92 on ONS datasets only Applies to respondents currently in work or who have worked in the last eight NOTES Professional partnerships e g doctors lawyers etc may work in partnerships and are considered as self employed GP s working for the NHS are coded self employed STATR Employment status in main job reported 1 2 3 4 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES filter EVERWK Employee Self employed Government scheme Unpaid family worker Each quarter from Spring 92 Applies to all respondents With the remo
36. J Information and communication K Financial and insurance activities L Real estate activities M Prof scientific technical activities N Admin and support services O Public admin and defence P Education Q Health and social work 123 R 5 0 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Arts entertainment and recreation Other service activities Households as employers Extraterritorial organisations Each quarter from 9 Applies to all respondents made redundant in the three months prior to interview This conversion variable gives reasonable comparisons not exact conversions This variable is derived from Redcls EVERWK REDIND INDM92M IMDM92L RDIC92 LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives full industry breakdowns for both SIC92 amp SIC2007 124 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 To convert SIC2007 codes to SIC92 codes INO792DR 01 60 Range of values FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents made redundant in the three months prior to interview NOTES This conversion variable gives reasonable comparisons not exact conversions This variable is derived from Redcls EVERWK REDIND INDSCO7M INDSCO7L RDICO7 LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives full industry breakdowns for both SIC92 amp SIC2007 0792
37. SC100MN Occupation 1 year ago minor group 111 927 Range of Occupation Codes FREQUENCY AJ quarters only from 2011 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents aged 16 and over NOTES This variable replaces SC2KOMN and is derived from SOC100 LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives a complete breakdown of occupation codes INDUSTRY TWELVE MONTHS AGO CONVERSION VARIABLE To convert SIC92 codes to SIC2007 codes The SIC 2007 industry coding frame has been introduced to replace the existing SIC 1992 version In order to maintain some continuity the following variables are available to convert SIC92 codes to SIC2007 codes 13920700 Industry division in job twelve months ago 01 99 Range of values 206 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENCY April to June quarters only from January 2009 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who did no work in the reference week and were not away from any job or business but have worked in the past 8 years NOTES This conversion variable gives reasonable comparisons not exact conversions SIC92 to SIC2007 conversion variables are also available for 3 years 2006 2008 of back series data in SPSS and SAS This variable is derived from INDSC070 LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives full industry breakdowns for both SIC92 amp SIC2007 To convert SIC2007 codes to SIC92 codes IN0792DO Industry division in job twelve mon
38. number of occupied households at a particular address whereas HHLD identifies which household including vacant households at that address the data refers to THISWV Wave to which data refers 1 5 Wave number FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 REFWKD Reference day for current interview 1 31 Day number FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 REFWKM Reference month for current interview 1 12 Month number FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 REFWKY Reference year for current interview Two digits corresponding to last two digits of year e g 95 for 1995 FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 REFDTE Reference date for current interview YYMMDD where Y is year M is month D is day e g 961225 for 25 December 1996 310 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENCY Each quarter from Autumn 96 NOTES This variable is an alternative presentation of the information contained in REFWKD REFWKM REFWKY RECNO Record number 1 15 Record number FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 NOTES This variable is created automatically and establishes the sequence order of individual records PERSNO Person number within household 0 90 Person number within household 91 97 Person number within halls of residence FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 NOTES This variable should only be used for including or excluding persons in student halls of reside
39. t change jobs during the reference week SECJOB 1 AND Y2JOB 2 165 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NOTES Permanency relates to the job itself rather than to the individual who does the job Someone who is being made redundant retiring going on maternity leave or taking up another job may not regard their job as permanent but they are still coded as 1 permanent job Respondents who have short term contracts are coded according to whether they consider their job to be permanent nature JB2T10 Way in which 2 job was not permanent 1 Working for an employment agency 2 Casual type of work 3 Seasonal work 4 Under contract for a fixed period or fixed task 5 Some other reason for not being permanent FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM 2010 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who said their second job was not permanent some way 2 2 NOTES Those who regard their job as not permanent are asked to specify in what way it is not permanent If at this stage the respondent volunteers an answer relating to his or her personal circumstances e g retired the interviewer is asked to return to JOBTYP and stress the first clause again This variable replaced JOBTMP2 JM 2010 From JM11 this variable became multi coded allowing respondents the opportunity to code five possible options Please note that this is a multi response variable Please
40. 07 this is asked odd years only COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have had a work related accident in the past 12 months ACCDNT 1 NOTES This variable applies to respondents who have had an accident in the previous 12 months and identifies whether the job being done at the time of the accident was the same as previously mentioned DNA 9 will include people who were not contacted in the quarter this question was asked See LFS User Guide Volume 1 Background and Methodology Imputation in the LFS for full details Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions GOBACK How soon able to start work after the accident 1 Still off paid work 2 Expects never to do paid work again 3 Same day 4 The day after the accident 5 On the second day after the accident 6 On third day after the accident 7 On fourth day after the accident 8 On fifth day or longer after the accident 9 Don t know 289 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENCY Winter quarters from Winter 93 Winter 05 JM quarters every year from JMO6 to JM08 JM quarters every 2 even years from JM10 onwards COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have had work related accident in the past 12 months ACCDNT 1 NOTES This variable applies to respondents who have had an accident in the previous 12 months DNA 9 will include
41. 09 Nine times a year 305 10 13 26 52 90 95 97 FREQUENCY COVERAGE Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Ten times a year Three months 13 weeks Six months 26 weeks One year 12 months 52 weeks Less than one week One off lump sum None of these Each quarter from Winter 92 Applies to all respondents who are employees in second job SECEX Expected gross earnings Amount of pay 1 99994 1 99994 self assessment 99995 Paid 99995 or more 99998 Don t know 99999 Refusal FREQUENCY Each quarter from Winter 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees in a second job and have not received pay yet SECGRO 99996 SECGB Period of expected earnings Spring 96 onwards 01 One week 02 Two weeks 03 Three weeks 04 Four weeks 05 Calendar month 07 Two calendar months 08 Eight times a year 09 Nine times a year 10 Ten times a year 13 Three months 13 weeks 26 Six months 26 weeks 52 One year 12 months 52 weeks 90 Less than one week 95 One off lump sum 97 None of these FREQUENCY Each quarter from Winter 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees a second job and have not received pay yet BANDG2 Weekly monthly annual pay bands Winter 92 to Winter 96 See Volume 5 LFS Classifications for band details Spring 97 onwards See start of Income sectio
42. 11 Merthyr Tydfil 12 Monmouthshire 13 Neath Port Talbot 14 Newport 15 Pembrokeshire 16 Powys 17 Rhondda Cynon Taff 18 Swansea 19 Torfaen 20 The Vale of Glamorgan 21 Wrexham FREQUENCY Every year from 2001 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in Wales NOTES This variable is included only on annual local area datasets which are available only to ONS and those government departments which sponsor the local area enhancements This variable is derived from UALAD99 ELWA Education and Learning Wales 1 North Wales 2 Mid Wales 3 South East Wales 4 South West Wales FREQUENCY Every year from 2001 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in Wales NOTES This variable is included only on annual local area datasets which are available only to ONS and those government departments which sponsor the local area enhancements This variable is derived from TLEC99 56 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 RESTME Length of time at this address 1 Less than 12 months 2 12 months but less than 2 years 3 2 years but less than 3 years 4 3 years but less than 5 years 5 5 years but less than 10 years 6 10 years or longer FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 96 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This variable which replaces RESLNO is a result of the GSS Social Survey Harmonisation Project The question relates to address rather t
43. 199 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 4 War Disablement Pension or War Widow s Pension including any related allowances FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 03 JM14 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who claiming pension related benefits 4 NOTES This variable replaces PENBEN 1 3 This question was changed to incorporate new State Pensions Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable As of AJ14 this variable has been replaced with PENBN13 PENBN13 Type of state pension claimed 1 State Retirement Pension 2 Pension credit 3 Other pension benefits FREQUENCY Each quarter from AJ14 NOTES This variable replaces PENBENS Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable FAMLY03 1 3 Type of family related benefit claimed 1 Guardian s Allowance 4 Maternity Allowance 5 Statutory Maternity Pay FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 03 JM14 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are claiming family related benefits TPBEN3 5 NOTES This variable replaces FAMLY 1 4 Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable As of AJ14 this variable has been remo
44. 59 Directed not to sample at this address 60 Holiday home 61 Household no longer resident 62 Previously ineligible now eligible 312 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 89 Household not finished with FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 97 HOUT04 Final Outcome Code Hout04 gives the final outcome for the household 110 Complete Interview by Desired Respondent 120 Complete Interview Part resp part prox 130 Complete Interview by Proxy 140 Economically Inactive 70 211 Partial HH Interview 212 HH Int but non cont w certain element 213 HH Int but refusal w certain elements 214 Other Partial int by desired respondents 220 Partial Int Part resp part proxy 231 Partial HH Interview by Proxy 232 HH Int by proxy but non cont with 1 233 HH Int by proxy but refusal with 1 234 Other Partial Int by Proxy 310 No contact with anyone at address 320 Contact made but not with resident 330 Contact made but not w responsible res 410 Office Refusal 421 Info refused about of dwellings 422 Info refused about resp ts within dwelling 431 Refusal by desired respondent 432 Refusal by proxy 433 Refusal of access to site 434 yet finished with case 440 Refusal during interview 450 Broken Appointment 510 Respondents temporarily ill 511 home notified HO 512 at home notified Interviewer 520
45. 61 Foundation 14 19 Diploma 62 Level1 Diploma 63 CSE below grade 1 GCSE below grade C 64 BTEC SCOTVEC First or General certificate 65 SCOTVEC modules 66 RSA other 67 City amp Guilds foundation Part 1 68 Level1 Certificate 69 Level2 Award 70 certificate 71 Key skills qualification 72 Basic skills qualification 73 Entry level qualification 74 Entry level Diploma 75 Entry level Certificate 76 Level1 Award 77 Entry level Award 78 Other qualification 79 No qualifications 80 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents of working age 16 69 or those in employment with qualifications including respondents aged 70 99 NOTES This variable replaces HIQUAL8 From JM11 more information on foreign qualifications was collected Therefore a large number of respondents who previously ended up as other on the HIQUAL and LEVQUAL DV s are now assigned to appropriate qualifications levels Please see Volume 4 User Guide for further information Analysts should be aware of the following when analysing this variable Prior to OD13 if a respondent was in the age group 65 69 not in work and had stated at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL OTQUAL that they had NVQ or GNVQ they would not 273 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 have been routed to the questions that look in further detail
46. 76 286 HSTNOW 259 211 HEALYR 285 5 120 0 213 220 80 121 FORTYP11 212 12 94 120 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 2222222 2 120 125 194 iini 105 181 195 222222 297 07 99 183 222 2 297 075 162 172 I 5071 2000000 181 oases 84 807 99 LNGLIM iiics siss 280 133 INDSO S ine 162 ENGES henni 281 2 134 8 071 180 172 ILCURR siriasi 294 8 07 98 LOOKMII 171 TEIPD 133 070
47. COVERAGE Applies to all respondents 16 not on a government training scheme and those aged between 65 and 99 JBAWAY Whether temporarily away from paid work 1 Yes 2 No 3 Waiting to take up new job business already obtained FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who did no paid work in the reference week WRKING 2 NOTES People temporarily away from paid work are still defined as in employment OWNBUS Whether doing unpaid work for own business 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents doing unpaid work but not away from job business or waiting to take up a new job business already obtained in the reference week JBAWAY 2 or 3 NOTES The variables OWNBUS and RELBUS are used to identify unpaid family workers RELBUS Whether doing unpaid work for relative s business 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents doing unpaid work but not away form a job business or waiting to take up a new job business already obtained but didn t work for own business in the reference week OWNBUS 2 NOTES The variables OWNBUS and RELBUS are used to identify unpaid family workers 95 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 EVERWK Ever had paid job or place on scheme 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAG
48. Details of LFS variables 2014 XR 00 15 Relationship to person Up to amp including Autumn 2005 From Winter 2005 onwards 1 Spouse 1 Spouse 2 Cohabiting partner 2 Cohabiting partner 3 Natural son or daughter 3 Natural son or daughter 4 Step son or daughter 4 Step son or daughter 5 Foster child 5 Foster child 6 Son or daughter in law 6 Son or daughter in law 7 Parent 7 Parent Guardian 8 Step parent 8 Step parent 9 Guardian 10 Foster parent 10 Foster parent 11 Parent in law 11 Parent in law 12 Brother or sister 12 Brother or sister 13 Step brother or sister 13 Step brother or sister 14 Foster brother or sister 14 Foster brother or sister 15 Brother or sister in law 15 Brother or sister in law 16 Grandchild 16 Grandchild 17 Grandparent 17 Grandparent 18 Other relation 18 Other relation 19 Other non relative 19 Other non relative 20 Civil Partner FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 96 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This variable is based on a relationship grid which calculates family units by defining household members relationship to one another The relationship grid will only appear if there is more than one person in the household Response options were harmonised in the Winter 2005 questionnaire TOTNUM Total number of eligible people in household 1 16 Total numbe
49. Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who s first period of sickness started before the first day of their working week IL1BEF 2 or IL2BEF 2 ILNXSM Medical reason 1 the same medical reason 2 a different medical reason FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who had more than one period of sickness absence ILL1PD 2 ILLNXT11 main condition that caused further sickness absence 1 Back pain 2 Neck and upper limb problems e g arthritis in hand joints stiff neck 3 Other musculoskeletal problems 4 Stress depression anxiety common mental health problems 5 Manic depression schizophrenia and other serious mental health problems 6 Minor illnesses coughs colds and flu sickness nausea and diarrhoea 7 Other respiratory conditions e g asthma Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease OPD bronchitis pneumonia 8 Other gastrointestinal problems e g irritable bowel syndrome IBS piles bowel cancer stomach ulcer 9 Headaches and migraines 10 Genito urinary to include urine infections menstrual problems pregnancy problems 11 Heart blood pressure amp circulation problems 12 Eye ear nose amp mouth dental to include sinusitis and toothache 13 Diabetes 14 Other accidents poisonings infectious diseases skin disorders and anything else not covered above 15 Prefers not to give details FREQUENCY Ea
50. Each quarter from JM12 COVERAGE Applies to respondents who started their apprenticeship in the year 2000 or later APPSAM Apprenticeship part of main job 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies if respondent is aged between 16 and 69 and finished full time education between age 5 and 95 or never attended full time education or is currently on a course though not at school 263 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NOTES Those still doing their apprenticeship are asked for full details of what they are doing FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM 2011 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has completed an apprenticeship APPST12 When apprenticeship started 1 Yes before 2000 2 No in 2000 or after FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM12 COVERAGE Applies to respondents who have completed or are currently doing formal apprenticeship NOTES Replaced APPSTRT in JM12 SOC10A Occupation in apprenticeship 1111 9279 Range of occupation codes FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This variable replaces SOC2KAP This variable is derived from OCOD10A amp APPR8 Training Done In Last 13 Weeks 4 Weeks ED13WK Job related training or education in the last 3 months 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Summer 94 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents aged 16 69 who are in employment or in receipt of
51. IN9207SL Industry section in last job 1 A Agriculture forestry and fishing 2 B Mining and quarrying 3 C Manufacturing 4 D Electricity gas steam and air conditioning supply 5 E Water supply sewerage waste management and remediation activities 6 F Construction 7 G Wholesale and retail trade repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles 8 H Transportation and storage 9 I Accommodation and food service activities 10 J Information and communication 11 K Financial and insurance activities 12 L Real estate activities 13 Professional scientific and technical activities 14 Administrative and support service activities 15 Public administration and defence compulsory social security 16 P Education 17 Q Human health and social work activities 18 R Arts entertainment and recreation 19 S Other service activities 20 T Activities of households as employers undifferentiated goods and services producing activities of households for own use 21 U Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who did no work in the reference week and were not away from any job or business but have worked in the past 8 years NOTES This conversion variable gives reasonable comparisons not exact conversions This variable is derived from INDSCO7L LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classificati
52. NOTES This variable is included on ONS datasets only It is derived using UALAD99 From Spring 92 Summer 93 LADs are based on 1981 wards From Autumn 93 onwards they are based on 1991 wards UALD3 Place of residence three months ago FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 2000 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This variable is included on ONS datasets only It is derived using RESTME RESMTH RESBBY M3CRY M3RESC amp COUNTRY UALDO Place of residence one year ago FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 2000 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This variable is included on ONS datasets only It is derived using RESTME AGE RESMTH OYRESC OYEQM3 M3RESC amp COUNTRY UALDWK Place of work FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 2000 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This variable is included on ONS datasets only It is derived using WRKING JBAWAY OWNBUS RELBUS HOME WKPL99 amp COUNTRY UALDWk2 Place of work in second job FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 2000 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This variable is included on ONS datasets only It is derived Y2JOB YTETJB HOME2 COUNTRY amp WKPL299 DZONE Scottish Data Zones Range of codes FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 05 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This variable is included on ONS datasets only NUTS2 NUTS level 2 Range of codes FREQUENCY Each quarter from Summer 03 C
53. OVHRS How many fewer hours would you like to work 97 97 or more 175 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 99 Don t know No answer FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 2000 to Winter 2000 on ONS datasets only Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who would work shorter hours for less pay or would work shorter hours in current job for less pay LESPAY 1 OR LESPAY3 1 ILO UNEMPLOYMENT WHEN LEFT LAST JOB DURUN Duration of unemployment 1 Less than 3 months 2 3 months but less that 6 months 3 6 months but less than 12 months 4 1 year but less than 2 years 5 2 years but less than 3 years 6 3 years but less than 4 years 7 4 years but less than 5 years 8 5 years or more FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are unemployed NOTES This is a derived variable changes have been made to the way it has been calculated in 2012 in order to reflect the change in Government training scheme questions Please see Volume 4 user Guide for further detail This variable shows the minimum of the length of time looking for work and the length of time since the respondent s last job DURUN2 Duration of unemployment 1 Less than 3 months 2 3 months but less that 6 months 3 6 months but less than 12 months 4 12 months but less than 18 months 5 18 months but less than 2 years 6 2 year
54. Option 9 Don t know has been removed from Spring 04 See FLED10 for definitions of the individual categories Please be aware that between the first quarter of 2004 and JS13 there was a check in the questionnaire that did not allow respondents to say that they worked shift work at SHFTWK99 and then go on to say that they worked zero hours at FLEX10 However as SHFTWK99 is only asked in wave 1 and in AJ this check only affected AJ respondents and all wave 1 respondents From JS13 onwards this check has been removed i e zero hours contracts and shift work are no longer deemed incompatible Analysts should be aware of this when doing any analysis surrounding zero hours contracts and are advised to restrict their analysis to OD quarters Please note that this does not affect data sets prior to 2004 and after AJ13 Please see the following article that explains in further detail how the LFS estimates zero hour contracts Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable 146 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 LSSOTH Time off flexi or annual 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Spring only in 2000 AJ quarters only from Spring 03 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who give a reason for wor
55. Overall how satisfied are you with your life nowadays where nought is not at all satisfied and 10 is completely satisfied 0 10 FREQUENCY Each quarter from AJ11 COVERAGE Applies to respondents aged 16 and over Personal interviews only NOTES This variable is currently only available upon ONS datasets WORTH Overall to what extent do you feel that the things you do in your life are worthwhile where nought is not at all worthwhile 10 is completely worthwhile 0 10 FREQUENCY Each quarter from AJ11 15 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 COVERAGE Applies to respondents aged 16 and over Personal interviews only NOTES This variable is currently only available upon ONS datasets HAPPY How happy did you feel yesterday where nought is not at all happy and 10 is completely happy 0 10 FREQUENCY Each quarter from AJ11 COVERAGE Applies to respondents aged 16 and over Personal interviews only NOTES This variable is currently only available upon ONS datasets ANXIOUS How anxious did you feel yesterday where nought is not at all anxious and 10 is completely anxious 0 10 FREQUENCY Each quarter from AJ11 COVERAGE Applies to respondents aged 16 and over Personal interviews only NOTES This variable is currently only available upon ONS datasets NATIONALITY NATIONAL IDENTITY COUNTRY OF BIRTH NTNLTY12 Nationality
56. Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions OYSUPVI Supervisory responsibilities 1 year ago 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY AJ quarters only from Spring 01 202 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who were employees 12 months ago OYSTAT 1 OYMNGE Managerial duties 1 year ago reported 1 Manager 2 Foreman or supervisor 3 Not manager or supervisor FREQUENCY AJ quarters only from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who were employees 12 months ago OYSTAT 1 NOTES From Spring 92 to Winter 00 this variable was called NOYMNGE NOYMNGE was processed through the Census Matrix Edit which checks the respondents occupation and their employment status for inconsistencies With the removal of the edit OYMNGE supersedes the variable NOYMNGE If respondents have both managerial and supervisory duties then their main duty is recorded Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions OYMPR02 Number of employees at workplace 1 year ago reported 1 1 10 2 11 19 3 20 24 4 Don t know but under 25 5 25 49 6 50 249 7 250 499 8 Don t know but between 50 and 499 9 500 or more FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 02 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who were employees 12 months
57. QUAL_3 Whether HNC HND obtained 1 Yes 0 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE This variable amalgamates the responses given at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL and OTQUAL in order to identify whether a respondent has received this particular qualification QUAL_4 Whether ONC OND obtained 1 Yes 0 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM1 1 COVERAGE This variable amalgamates the responses given at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL and OTQUAL in order to identify whether respondent has received this particular qualification QUAL_5 Whether BECTEC BEC TEC Edexcel LQL obtained 1 Yes 0 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE This variable amalgamates the responses given at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL and OTQUAL in order to identify whether a respondent has received this particular qualification QUAL_6 Whether SCOTVEC SCOTEC or SCOTBEC obtained 1 Yes 0 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE This variable amalgamates the responses given at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL and OTQUAL in order to identify whether a respondent has received this particular qualification 218 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 QUAL 7 Whether Teaching qualification excluding PGCE obtained 1 Yes 0 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE This variable amalgamates the responses given at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL and OTQUAL in orde
58. Spring 2000 to AJ13 COVERAGE Applies if Y2Job 2 NOTES This variable was removed from the questionnaire as of 2014 TELQA2 Whether respondent uses both a telephone and a computer to carry out work at home 1 Yes 2 No 167 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters 97 Spring quarters only from Spring 98 to AJ13 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who work mainly from home in their regular additional job or did so during the reference week HOME2 1 or 3 OR HOMED2 1 or 3 NOTES Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions This variable was removed from the questionnaire as of 2014 TELQB2 Whether possible to work at home without using both telephone and computer 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters in 1997 Spring quarters only from Spring 98 to AJ13 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who use both a telephone and a computer for work at home TELQA2 1 NOTES Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions This variable was removed from the questionnaire as of 2014 ATFRM2 Who working for from home in additional job 1 Family business 2 Outside firm or organisation 3 Own account FREQUENCY Spring only in 92 Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 93 to Autumn 99 Spring quarters only fr
59. from Spring 98 to 135 and from Spring 99 to 144 this is for SOEC purposes as a number of countries were not uniquely identifiable Note the change in coding for At sea in the air and Stateless in from Spring 93 Spring 98 and Spring 99 New list of countries added in Spring 07 Note that residents of in England Wales Scotland Northern Ireland Jersey and Isle of Man were coded as 1 UK in M3CRY Interviewers are advised not to code UK 926 England 921 Wales 924 Scotland 923 Northern Ireland 922 Jersey 832 and Isle of Man 833 for M3CRYO 67 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 RESPONSE DETAILS CAIND Child Adult indicator 1 Adult 2 Child of head of household and head of family unit 3 Child of other family 4 Child of head of household but not head of family unit FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This is a derived variable please see Volume 4 User Guide for further guidance CAIND identifies dependent children i e aged lt 16 or aged 16 18 in full time education and never married IOUTCOME Individual outcome 1 Personal response 2 Proxy response 3 Non response 4 Child 6 Data brought forward from previous quarter 7 Economically inactive 70 FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This variable is used mainly to identify whether responses ob
60. most commonly 0600 1400 This code is used if the morning shift is the only shift worked or worked part time during the morning Evening shift if this is full time most commonly 1500 2400 Also used for a part time shift 1700 2100 or 1800 2200 Part time evening shifts are usually called twilight shifts Night shift if this is full time most commonly 1800 0600 and usually continuing after midnight This code is used only for permanent night work Weekend shift this code is used for work during Fridays Saturdays Sundays 0600 1800 when there is no other work Other type of shift work this code is only used when none of the above apply Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions FLED10 Type of agreed work arrangement 1 Flexible working hours Flexitime 2 Annualised hours contract 3 Term time working 4 Job sharing 5 Nine day fortnight 6 Four and a half day week 7 Zero hours contract 8 On Call Working 9 None of these 10 Don t know FREQUENCY AJ OD or wave 1 only from Spring 2010 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment excluding those on college based schemes NOTES This variable is derived from FLEX10 The categories are defined as below This variable replaced FLEDSD 2010 Please see the following article that explains how the LFS estimates zero hour contracts Flexible working hours Employees
61. not thought that proxy respondents would be able to provide accurate information on past disabilities Therefore users need to make an adjustment to any estimates they derive from this variable involving past disabilities The adjustment process is described below Adjustment for past disabilities To take account of the absence of proxy data the suggested method is to apply the same proportion of proxy response in wave 1 at HEALIM to the number of people in category 3 of XDISDDA Thus in Spring 1998 table of HEALIM by IOUTCOME filtered THISWV 1 shows that the proportion of proxy response was 24 so the adjustment made to XDISDDA is to multiply the past disabilities only category by 100 76 So the estimate of total DDA disabled people in the UK in Spring 1998 is Thousands Current disability only 4 682 Current and past disability 301 Past disability only 571 100 76 751 Total DDA disabled 5 734 This is a derived variable please see Volume 4 User Guide for further guidance 287 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 SMOKEVER Ever Smoked 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Every Quarter from 9 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents aged 18 and over NOTES This variable appears on ONS datasets only and will be published as part of the IHS Includes only ordinary tobacco which is smoked Exclude any reference to snuff tobacco or tobacco products that are chewed or sucked or herbal t
62. polytechnic college full time Training for a qualification in nursing physiotherapy or a similar medical subject Part time course at university polytechnic or college including day release and block release Open college Open University Any other correspondence course Any other self open learning course FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are still attending school 6 form college or a course of some kind or they are waiting for term to re start ATTEND 1 or 2 NOTES week A sandwich course includes those working or studying at college during the reference Studying at University etc includes those studying for a degree in medicine and those studying at a Tertiary College Full time courses must last 3 months or more Nursing physiotherapy etc includes those who may normally work in a hospital at the same time Part time courses includes those who are working during the reference week Also included are those studying in the evening and those on a course for less than 3 months An evening course could be held in a school college polytechnic or university DNAs include those who are enrolled on but not attending their course EDINS11 educational institution currently attended 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 FREQUENCY JM quarters only from JM 2011 University College of Higher Education including the Open University State System Lo
63. private sector not necessarily an accurate split between each category listed A small number of self employed respondents get classified into categories of SECTRO03 which are public sector However they are classified correctly in PUBLIC as private sector 102 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Codes 1 amp 7 Private and 2 to 6 amp 8 amp 9 Public ONS are interested in a more comprehensive measure of armed forces employees than provided by SOC2000 Hence the answer category Armed forces previously along with central government and the civil service now appears as a separate category OCCUPATION SOC10M Occupation main job 1111 9279 Range of occupation codes FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment other than those on certain government schemes NOTES This variable replaces SOC2KM and is derived from STAT EVERWK amp OCOD10M SC10MM J Major occupation group main job Managers Directors And Senior Officials Professional Occupations Associate Professional And Technical Occupations Administrative And Secretarial Occupations Skilled Trades Occupations Caring Leisure And Other Service Occupations Sales And Customer Service Occupations Process Plant And Machine Operatives Elementary Occupations OONOOA RAN FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11
64. self assessment 99996 No pay yet received 99998 Don t know 99999 Refusal FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 99 Waves 1 and 5 only COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees and those on a government scheme not New Deal in the voluntary sector or environmental task force NOTES This variable replaces GOVGRO and EMPGRO from Spring 99 298 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 GRSPRD Period covered by last gross pay 1 One week 2 Two weeks 3 Three weeks 4 Four weeks 5 Calendar month 7 Two calendar months 8 Eight times a year 9 Nine times year 10 Ten times year 13 Three months 13 weeks 26 Six months 26 weeks 52 One year 12 months 52 weeks 90 Less than one week 95 One off lump sum 97 None of these FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 99 Waves 1 and 5 only COVERAGE Applies to all respondents giving a figure for either their actual last payment as an employee or on government scheme or a figure for the payment which they expect NOTES This question replaces GOEMGB as of Spring 99 GRSEXP Gross pay expected 1 99994 1 to 99994 self assessment 99995 Paid 99995 or more self assessment 99998 Don t know 99999 Refusal FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 99 Waves 1 and 5 only COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have not yet received pay from government scheme or an e
65. work related qualification 2 a professional qualification 3 none of these FREQUENCY Each quarter from AJ 2011 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has an OTHER qualification NOTES This variable replaces TPQL10 Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable OTHQU9 Type of other work related or vocational qualification 1 H amp S Food hygiene qualification 2 HGV forklift licence 3 Computers IT qualification 4 First aid qualification 5 Any others FREQUENCY Each quarter from JMO09 COVERAGE This variable replaces OTHQU Applies to all respondents who have another work related qualification Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable VOCYRH year in which other qualification was obtained 1 2009 or earlier 2 2010 or later FREQUENCY Every quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has an OTHER qualification OTHQAL1 1 subject title awarding body of other qualification 252 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Free text input max 250 characters FREQUENCY Every quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has an OTHER qualification OTHQLEV level of other qualification Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6 Level 7 Level 8 En
66. 01 1 99 0 Range of industry codes 8 Not Applicable NA 9 Did Not Answer DNA FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment who have a regular additional job NOTES This variable is derived from INDSCO7S LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives a complete industry breakdown of both SIC92 amp SIC2007 INDS07S Industry section in second job 1 A Agriculture forestry and fishing 2 B Mining and quarrying 3 C Manufacturing 4 D Electricity gas steam and air conditioning supply 5 E Water supply sewerage waste management and remediation activities 6 F Construction 7 G Wholesale and retail trade repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles 8 H Transportation and storage 9 I Accommodation and food service activities 10 J Information and communication 11 K Financial and insurance activities 12 L Real estate activities 13 M Professional scientific and technical activities 162 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 14 N Administrative and support service activities 15 O Public administration and defence compulsory social security 16 P Education 17 Q Human health and social work activities 18 R Arts entertainment and recreation 19 S Other service activities 20 T Activities of households as employers undifferentiated goods and services producing activities of
67. 05 onwards This variable is included on household datasets only HNWOTHO5 Number of people in household who are inactive for other reasons but would like to work 0 19 Number of people FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 05 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are inactive for other reasons would like work INECACO05 10 11 12 18 19 20 21 22 NOTES This variable is included on household datasets only HNNOWKO05 Number of people in household who are inactive and do not want work 0 19 Number of people 82 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 05 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are inactive and do not want to work INECAC05 23 33 NOTES This variable is included on household datasets only 83 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 HOUSING TENURE HRPID Respondent accommodation responsibility 1 2 FREQUENCY COVERAGE Yes No Each quarter from Spring 96 Applies to all respondents aged 16 TEN1 Accommodation details 1 2 3 4 5 6 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES Owned outright Being bought with mortgage or loan Part rent part mortgage Rented Rent free Squatting Each quarter from Spring 06 Applies to all respondents This variable was introduced in Spring 2006 as result of the GSS Social Survey
68. 1 Agriculture amp fishing 2 Energy amp water 3 D Manufacturing 4 F Construction 5 G H Distribution hotels amp restaurants 6 I Transport amp communication 7 J K Banking finance amp insurance etc 8 L N Public admin education amp health 9 O U Other services FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents made redundant in the three months prior to interview NOTES This conversion variable gives reasonable comparisons not exact conversions This variable is derived from Redcls EVERWK REDIND INDSCO7M INDSCO7L RDICO7 LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives full industry breakdowns for both SIC92 amp SIC2007 INDDO7R Industry division in job made redundant from 01 99 Range of industry codes 8 No Answer NA 9 Did Not Ask DNA FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents made redundant in the three months prior to interview NOTES This variable is derived from REDUND EVERWK INDDO7L REDIND and INDDO7M INDEO7R Industry sectors in job made redundant from 1 A B Agriculture forestry amp fishing 2 C E Energy amp water 3 D Manufacturing 4 F Construction 5 G H Distribution hotels amp restaurants 6 I Transport amp communication 7 J K Banking finance amp insurance etc 8 L N Public admin education amp health 9 O U Other services 125 Labour Force Sur
69. 1 Yes 0 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE This variable amalgamates the responses given at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL and OTQUAL in order to identify whether a respondent has received this particular qualification QUAL 27 Whether Key skills Core skills Scotland qualification obtained 1 Yes 0 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE This variable amalgamates the responses given at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL and OTQUAL in order to identify whether a respondent has received this particular qualification QUAL_28 Whether Basic skills Skills for life literacy numeracy language qualification obtained 1 Yes 0 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE This variable amalgamates the responses given at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL and OTQUAL in order to identify whether a respondent has received this particular qualification QUAL_29 Whether Entry Level qualifications qualification obtained 1 Yes 0 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE This variable amalgamates the responses given at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL and OTQUAL in order to identify whether a respondent has received this particular qualification 222 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 QUAL 30 Whether Award Certificate or Diploma at Entry Level and Levels 1t o 8 obtained 1 Yes 0 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM1 1 COVERAGE This variable
70. 112 BELARUS 212 DOMINICA 070 BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 191 CROATIA 902 CYPRUS NON EUROPEAN UNION 214 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 218 ECUADOR 222 EL SALVADOR 238 FALKLAND ISLANDS 254 FRENCH GUIANA 903 CYPRUS NOT 304 GREENLAND OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 308 GRENADA 981 EUROPE NOT 312 GUADELOUPE OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 320 GUATEMALA 234 FAROE ISLANDS 328 GUYANA 268 GEORGIA 332 HAITI 292 GIBRALTAR 340 HONDURAS 352 ICELAND 388 JAMAICA 438 LIECHTENSTEIN 474 MARTINIQUE 807 MACEDONIA 484 MEXICO 498 MOLDOVA 500 MONTSERRAT 492 MONACO 530 NETHERLANDS 499 MONTENEGRO ANTILLES 578 NORWAY 558 NICARAGUA 643 RUSSIA 985 NORTH AMERICA NOT 674 SAN MARINO OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 591 PANAMA 600 PARAGUAY 604 PERU 630 PUERTO RICO 987 SOUTH AMERICA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 659 ST KITTS AND NEVIS 662 ST LUCIA 666 ST PIERRE AND MIQUELON 670 ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES 740 SURINAM 780 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 796 TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS 840 UNITED STATES 850 UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS 858 URUGUAY 862 VENEZUELA AFRICA 982 AFRICA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 012 ALGERIA 024 ANGOLA 204 BENIN 072 BOTSWANA 854 BURKINA 108 BURUNDI 120 CAMEROON 912 CANARY ISLANDS 132 CAPE VERDE 140 CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 148 CHAD 174 COMOROS 178 CONGO 180 CONGO DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC 262 DJIBOUTI 818 EGYPT 226 EQUATORIAL GUINEA 232 ERITREA 231 ETHIOPIA 266 GABON 270 GAMBIA THE 288 GHANA 324 GUINEA 624 GUINEA BISSAU 384
71. 12 Rest of South East 13 Rest of West Midlands 13 South West 14 Greater Manchester 14 West Midlands met county 15 Merseyside 15 Rest of West Midlands 16 Rest of North West 16 Greater Manchester 17 Wales 17 Merseyside 18 Strathclyde 18 Rest of North West 19 Rest of Scotland 19 Wales 21 Workplace outside UK 20 Strathclyde 21 Rest of Scotland 22 Northern Ireland 23 Workplace outside UK FREQUENCY Spring amp Autumn quarters only from Spring 92 to Autumn 96 Each quarter from Spring 97 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment NOTES With the removal of the Census Matrix Edit REGWKR supersedes the variable REGWK This is a derived variable please see Volume 4 User Guide for further guidance From Spring 2000 UALDWK is used in the derivation of this variable prior to this LADWK was used Central London is defined by the Department of Transport as the area within the bounds of the main London British Rail train termini is not included on the Summer 99 datasets GORWKR Region of place of work 1 Tyne amp Wear 12 East of England 2 Rest of North East 13 Central London 3 Greater Manchester 14 Inner London 4 Merseyside 15 Outer London 5 Rest of North West 16 South East 6 South Yorkshire 17 South West 7 West Yorkshire 18 Wales 8 Rest of Yorkshire amp Humberside 19 Strathclyde 9 East Midlands 20 Rest of Scotland 10 We
72. 16 69 or in work Please see user guide 2 for the definitive routing Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable NVQUN Whether respondent has any units towards NVQs or SVQs 249 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 1 Yes 2 No 3 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 93 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have or have heard of NVQs SVQs NOTES Between JM11 and JS13 respondents were routed to these questions if aged 16 64 or in work From OD13 respondents are routed to these questions if aged 16 69 or in work Please see user guide 2 for the definitive routing VOCYRG period highest Entry Level or Level 1 to 8 Award Certificate or Diploma qualification was obtained 1 2009 or earlier 2 2010 or later FREQUENGY Every quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has QCF qualifications NOTES Between JM11 and JS13 respondents were routed to these questions if aged 16 64 or in work From OD13 respondents are routed to these questions if aged 16 69 or in work Please see user guide 2 for the definitive routing QCFACD type of highest Entry Level or Level 1 to 8 Award Certificate or Diploma qualification 1 Award 2 Certificate 3 Diploma 4 Other Award Certificate or Diploma qualification 5 Don t know FREQUENGY Every quarter from JM11 COVERA
73. 204 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NOTES Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions As of 2014 this is asked of AJ main respondents only 205 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 TWELVE MONTHS AGO SOC100 Occupation 1 year ago 1111 9279 Range of occupation codes FREQUENCY AJ quarters only from 2011 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents aged 16 and over NOTES This variable replaces SOC2KO This variable is derived from OYSOCC OCOD10M STAT OCOD100 amp OYSTAT LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives a complete breakdown of occupation codes 5 10 Major occupation group 1 year ago 1 Managers Directors And Senior Officials Professional Occupations Associate Professional And Technical Occupations Administrative And Secretarial Occupations Skilled Trades Occupations Caring Leisure And Other Service Occupations Sales And Customer Service Occupations Process Plant And Machine Operatives Elementary Occupations OOANOOaRWND FREQUENCY AJ quarters only from 2011 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents aged 16 and over NOTES This variable replaces SC2KOMJ and is derived from SOC100 LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives a complete breakdown of occupation codes
74. 270 GAMBIA THE 288 GHANA 324 GUINEA 624 GUINEA BISSAU 384 IVORY COAST 404 KENYA 426 LESOTHO 430 LIBERIA 434 LIBYA 450 MADAGASCAR 454 MALAWI 478 MAURITANIA 480 MAURITIUS 175 MAYOTTE 504 MOROCCO 508 MOZAMBIQUE 516 NAMIBIA 562 NIGER 566 NIGERIA 638 R UNION 646 RWANDA 678 SAO TOME AND 686 SENEGAL 690 SEYCHELLES 694 SIERRA LEONE 706 SOMALIA 710 SOUTH AFRICA 654 ST HELENA 736 SUDAN 748 SWAZILAND 834 TANZANIA 768 TOGO 788 TUNISIA 800 UGANDA 732 WESTERN SAHARA 894 ZAMBIA 716 ZIMBABWE MIDDLE EAST AND ASIA 004 AFGHANISTAN 984 ASIA EXCEPT MIDDLE EAST NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 048 BAHRAIN 050 BANGLADESH 064 BHUTAN 096 BRUNEI 104 BURMA 116 CAMBODIA 156 CHINA 158 CHINA TAIWAN 626 EAST TIMOR 344 HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION OF CHIINA 356 INDIA 360 INDONESIA 364 IRAN 368 IRAQ 376 ISRAEL 392 JAPAN 400 JORDAN 398 KAZAKHSTAN 408 KOREA NORTH 410 KOREA SOUTH 414 KUWAIT 417 KYRGYZSTAN 418 LAOS 422 LEBANON 446 MACAO SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION OF CHIINA 458 MALAYSIA 462 MALDIVES 983 Middle East NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 496 MONGOLIA 524 NEPAL 512 OMAN 586 PAKISTAN 608 PHILIPPINES 634 QATAR 23 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 682 SAUDI ARABIA 702 SINGAPORE 144 SRI LANKA 760 SYRIA 762 TAJIKISTAN 764 THAILAND 795 TURKMENISTAN 784 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
75. 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 WCHDAY 1 7 Which days of the week respondent usually works on 1 Monday 2 Tuesday 3 Wednesday 4 Thursday 5 Friday 6 Saturday 7 Sunday FREQUENCY AJ quarters only from Spring 99 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment who do not usually work 7 different days during the week NOTES Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable SATDY How many Saturdays worked in last 4 weeks 1 Two or more 2 One 3 None no time worked on Saturdays in past 4 weeks FREQUENCY quarters only from 7 From 2014 these questions were reduced in frequency and are asked in wave one every quarter i e not asked all waves in AJ COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who usually work on a Saturday WCHDAY 6 NOTES Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions SUNDY How many Sundays worked in last 4 weeks 1 Two or more 2 One 3 None no time worked on Sundays in past 4 weeks FREQUENCY quarters only from AJO7 From 2014 these questions were reduced in frequency and are asked in wave one every quarter i e not asked all waves in AJ COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who usuall
76. 3 Scottish 4 Northern Irish 27 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 5 British 6 Other FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to all living in England NOTES This variable replaces NATLDE 1 6 Please note that this is multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable NTLS11 1 6 National identity Scotland 1 Scottish 2 English 3 Welsh 4 Northern Irish 5 British 6 Other FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to all living in Scotland NOTES This variable replaces NATLDS 1 6 Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable Please be aware that due to a processing error that took place in OD12 care should be taken when analysing this variable NTLW11 1 6 National identity Wales 1 Welsh 2 English 3 Scottish 4 Northern Irish 5 British 6 Other FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to all living in Wales NOTES This variable replaces NATLDW 1 6 Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable NTLN11 National identity Northern Ireland 1 British 2 Irish 3 Northern Irish 4 English 5 Scottish 6 Welsh 7
77. 498 MOLDOVA 492 MONACO 499 MONTENEGRO 674 SAN MARINO 688 SERBIA 974 SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 744 SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN 756 SWITZERLAND 792 TURKEY 804 UKRAINE 972 UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 336 VATICAN CITY 973 YUGOSLAVIA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED THE AMERICAS AND THE CARIBBEAN 660 ANGUILLA 028 ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 032 ARGENTINA 533 ARUBA 044 BAHAMAS THE 052 BARBADOS 084 BELIZE 060 BERMUDA 068 BOLIVIA 076 BRAZIL 092 BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS 124 CANADA 988 CARIBBEAN NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 136 CAYMAN ISLANDS 986 CENTRAL AMERICA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 152 CHILE 170 COLOMBIA 188 COSTA RICA 192 CUBA 212 DOMINICA 214 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 218 ECUADOR 222 EL SALVADOR 238 FALKLAND ISLANDS 254 FRENCH GUIANA 304 GREENLAND 308 GRENADA 312 GUADELOUPE 320 GUATEMALA 328 GUYANA 332 HAITI 340 HONDURAS 388 JAMAICA 474 MARTINIQUE 530 NETHERLANDS ANTILLES 558 NICARAGUA 985 NORTH AMERICA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 591 PANAMA 600 PARAGUAY 604 PERU 630 PUERTO RICO 987 SOUTH AMERICA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 659 ST KITTS AND NEVIS 662 ST LUCIA 666 ST PIERRE AND MIQUELON 670 ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES 740 SURINAM 780 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 796 TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS 840 UNITED STATES 850 UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS 858 URUGUAY 862 VENEZUELA AFRICA 982 AFRICA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 012 ALGERIA 024 ANGOL
78. 69 who are doing college based training and those not in work or full time education and who have taken part in a job related education training course in the 3 months prior to the reference week FUTUR13 1 The course is connected to a job that the respondent might be able to do in the future NOTES FUTURA applies to respondents 16 69 who are not at school to whom ED4WK does not apply To get JOBTRN for In employment unemployed and Inactive ED4WK and FUTUR4 need to be added together There are errors in the coverage of these variables in Winter 93 94 as the question was asked of those still at school and not asked of those in other full time continuous education this also affects all other variables routed from these variables JOBED Was training part of the education course previously mentioned 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 97 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have taken part in job related education training in the previous months and are on a full time part time course ED13WK 1 OR FUTUR13 1 and ATTEND 1 2 On Off Job Training TRNOPP11 whether employer has offered any training or education on or away from job 1 Yes education or training offered 2 not offered FREQUENCY JM quarters only from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent in work and has not been on any job related training in the previous 3 months NOTES This variable replaces TRNOPP 265
79. 860 UZBEKISTAN 704 VIETNAM 275 WEST BANK INCLUDING EAST JERUSALEM AND GAZA STRIP 887 YEMEN ANTARCTICA AND OCEANIA 016 AMERIGAN SAMOA 010 ANTARCTICA 989 ANTARCTICA AND OCEANIA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 036 AUSTRALIA 074 BOUVET ISLAND 086 BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY 162 CHRISTMAS ISLAND 166 COCOS KEELING ISLANDS 184 COOK ISLANDS 242 FIJI 258 FRENCH POLYNESIA 260 FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES 316 GUAM 334 HEARD ISLAND AND MCDONALD ISLANDS 296 KIRIBATI 584 MARSHALL ISLANDS 583 MIGRONESIA 520 NAURU 540 NEW CALEDONIA 554 NEW ZEALAND 570 NIUE 574 NORFOLK ISLAND 580 NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS 585 PALAU 598 PAPUA NEW GUINEA 612 PITCAIRN HENDERSON DUCIE AND OENO ISLANDS 882 SAMOA 090 SOLOMON ISLANDS 239 SOUTH GEORGIA AND THE SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS 772 TOKELAU 776 TONGA 798 TUVALU 581 UNITED STATES MINOR OUTLYING ISLANDS 548 VANUATU 876 WALLIS AND FUTUNA OTHER COUNTRIES 991 AT SEA 992 IN THE AIR FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM07 COVERAGE From JM12 this applies to all respondents whose country of birth is not UK Irish Republic India Pakistan or Poland CRY12 997 Previous to JM12 this applied to all respondents whose country of birth was not UK Irish Republic Hong Kong or China CRY01 997 NOTES This variable replaces CRYO Country codes have changed and the list expanded Where respondent has dual nationality the first one is recorded CRYOX7 Country of bi
80. 92 to Winter 00 this variable was called NSTAT2 NSTAT2 was processed through the Census Matrix Edit which checks the respondents occupation and their employment status for inconsistencies With the removal of the edit STAT2 supersedes the variable NSTAT2 PDWG102 Employer s company that provides wage in second job 163 1 2 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 by the organisation or company you actually did the work for or by a different organisation or company Each quarter from JM12 Applies if respondent is an employee in their second job New for JM12 SELF2 Origin of income for those self employed in their second job 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 FREQUENCY COVERAGE Paid a salary or wage by an employment agency A sole director of your own limited business Running a business or professional practice A partner in a business or professional practice Working for yourself A sub contractor Or doing free lance work None of the above Each quarter from JM12 Applies if respondent is self employed or not paid a salary or wage by an employer in their second jobs NOTES New for JM12 Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable NITAX2 National Insurance and Tax Deduction for those in their second jobs 1 2 3 FR
81. 97 97 and over 99 Don t know No answer FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who may work paid or unpaid overtime EVEROT 1 NOTES This variable includes both paid and unpaid overtime As hours are not stored as whole numbers users should use 1 decimal place when ranging hours i e 1 30 hours should be ranged as 1 0 30 4 etc TOTAC1 Total actual hours worked no overtime 0 96 Hours of work 97 97 and over 99 Don t know No answer FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who never work overtime and actually worked in reference week NOTES Those respondents who did not work in the reference week even though they had a job i e on holiday or sick are coded as 0 This variable excludes meal breaks As hours are not stored as whole numbers users should use 1 decimal place when ranging hours i e 1 30 hours should be ranged as 1 0 30 4 etc 139 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Actual hours worked excluding overtime 0 96 Hours of work 97 97 or more 99 Don t know No answer FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who work overtime and actually worked in reference week NOTES Those respondents who did not work in the reference week even though they had a job i e on holiday or sick are coded as 0
82. Applies if respondent has an NVQ SVQ NOTES This variable replaces NVQOTH Between JM11 and JS13 respondents were routed to these questions if aged 16 64 or in work From OD13 respondents are routed to these questions if aged 16 69 or in work Please see user guide 2 for the definitive routing Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable NVOTLEA type of these NVQ SVQ qualifications 1 Award 2 Certificate 3 Diploma 4 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has an OTHER NVQ SVQ qualification NOTES Between JM11 and JS13 respondents were routed to these questions if aged 16 64 or in work From OD13 respondents are routed to these questions if aged 16 69 or in work Please see user guide 2 for the definitive routing Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable NVOTLEB level of NVQ SVQ qualifications 1 Level 1 2 Level2 3 Level3 4 Level 4 5 Level5 6 Level6 7 Level7 8 Level8 9 Entry level 10 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has an OTHER NVQ SVQ qualification NOTES Between JM11 and JS13 respondents were routed to these questions if aged 16 64 or in work From OD13 respondents are routed to these questions if aged
83. Applies to all households HLDCMP6X is not available on the person level datasets but is included on both household and ONS datasets from AJ 2010 This variable is direct replacement for HLDCMP6 72 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 HLDCMPB6Y Composition of household calculated using NEW pension age 01 1 male 65 with no children 02 1 female 65 with no children 03 1 adult under pensionable age with no children 04 1 adult with one child 05 1 adult with two or more children 06 married couple both under pensionable age with no children 07 cohabiting couple both under pensionable age with no children 08 married couple one or more over pensionable age with no children 09 cohabiting couple one or more over pensionable age with no children 10 Married couple with one child 11 Married couple with 2 children 12 Married couple with 3 or more children 13 Cohabiting couple with one child 14 Cohabiting couple with 2 children 15 Cohabiting couple with 3 or more children 16 2 adults not married or cohabiting both under pensionable age with no children 17 2 adults not married or cohabiting one or more over pensionable age with no children 18 2 adults not married or cohabiting with 1 or more children 19 3 or more adults with no children including at least one married cohabiting couple 20 3 or more adults with 1 or 2 children including at
84. At least 9 months but less than one year FREQUENCY JM quarters from JMO07 From JM13 onwards this will be asked in even years only It is therefore not included in the JM13 data set COVERAGE Applies to respondents who have suffered from an illness in last 12 months caused made worse by work and who are working or have left employment within the last 12 months NOTES Please see User guide 2 for the 2014 definitive routing ILCURR Time off caused by work related illness 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY JM quarters from 9 onwards From JM13 onwards this will be asked in even years only It is therefore not available on JM13 datasets COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who suffered an illness from work ILLWRK 1 and took time off work off ill on the day s they were scheduled to work TMEOFF 1 WCHJB3 Job caused or made illness worse previously mentioned 1 Occupation title main job OCCT 2 Occupation title second job OCCT2 3 Some other job FREQUENCY JM quarters from JM06 onwards Winter quarters from Winter 04 Winter 05 From JM13 onwards this will be asked in even years only It is therefore not available on JM13 datasets COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have suffered from an illness in last 12 months caused made worse by work ILLWRK 1 and who have provided details of their job or second job OCCT response or OCCT2 response NOTES Please see the note at the be
85. Away in hospital 521 Away in hospital notified HO 522 Away in hospital notified Interviewer 530 Physically mentally unable incompetent 531 Phys mentally unable incompetent nfd HO 532 Phys mentally unable incomp t nfd Intvr 540 Language difficulties 541 Language difficulties notified HO 542 Language difficulties notified Intvwr 550 Interview lost 561 Full Int data deleted at resp s request 562 Proxy Int data deleted at resp request 563 Other non response 611 Not issued to an interviewer 612 Issued but not attempted 620 Address Inaccessible 630 Unable to locate address 641 Info refused re whether addr is resid tl 642 Unknown whether addr is resid tl non cont 651 Info refused re whether eligible residents 652 Unknown whether eligible resids non cont 661 Refusal to complete screener 662 670 710 720 730 740 750 760 770 780 781 782 783 794 795 811 812 890 FREQUENCY Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Screener not complete non contact Other unknown eligibility Not yet built under construction Demolished Derelict Vacant empty Non residential address Address occupied but no resident HHId Communal Establishment Institution Resident HH s but not elig for survey Address out of sample Directed not to sample at address Scts pre sel shts told not to interview HHid limit on
86. BOLIVIA 076 BRAZIL 092 BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS 124 CANADA 988 CARIBBEAN NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 136 CAYMAN ISLANDS 986 CENTRAL AMERICA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 152 CHILE 170 COLOMBIA 188 COSTA RICA 192 CUBA 212 DOMINICA 214 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 218 ECUADOR 222 EL SALVADOR 238 FALKLAND ISLANDS 254 FRENCH GUIANA 304 GREENLAND 308 GRENADA 312 GUADELOUPE 320 GUATEMALA 328 GUYANA 332 HAITI 340 HONDURAS 388 JAMAICA 474 MARTINIQUE 484 MEXICO 500 MONTSERRAT 530 NETHERLANDS ANTILLES 558 NICARAGUA 985 NORTH AMERICA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 591 PANAMA 600 PARAGUAY 604 PERU 630 PUERTO RICO 987 SOUTH AMERICA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 659 ST KITTS AND NEVIS 662 ST LUCIA 666 ST PIERRE AND MIQUELON 670 ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES 740 SURINAM 780 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 796 TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS 840 UNITED STATES 850 UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS 858 URUGUAY 862 VENEZUELA AFRICA 982 AFRICA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 012 ALGERIA 024 ANGOLA 204 BENIN 072 BOTSWANA 854 BURKINA 108 BURUNDI 120 CAMEROON 912 CANARY ISLANDS 132 CAPE VERDE 140 CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 148 CHAD 174 COMOROS 178 CONGO 180 CONGO DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC 262 DJIBOUTI 818 EGYPT 226 EQUATORIAL GUINEA 232 ERITREA 231 ETHIOPIA 266 GABON 270 GAMBIA THE 288 GHANA 324 GUINEA 624 GUINEA BISSAU 384 IVORY COAST 404 KENYA 426 LESOTHO 430 LIBERIA 434 LIBYA 450 MADAGASCAR 454 MALAWI 478 MA
87. Barnsley CE Doncaster CF Rotherham CG Sheffield CH Gateshead CJ Newcastle upon Tyne CK North Tyneside CL South Tyneside CM Sunderland CN Birmingham CQ Coventry CR Dudley CS Sandwell CT Solihull CU Walsall CW Wolverhampton CX Bradford CY Calderdale CZ Kirklees DA Leeds FREQUENCY Each quarter from Autumn 2000 COVERAGE NOTES Applies to all respondents This variable is included on UA LA Unitary Authority Local Authority and ONS datasets only It is derived using UALAD99 For analysis for Spring and Summer 2000 use UACNTY DB Wakefield EB Hartlepool UA EC Middlesbrough UA EE Redcar and Cleveland UA EF Stockton on Tees UA EH Darlington UA ET Halton UA EU Warrington UA EX Blackburn with Darwen UA EY Blackpool UA FA City of Kingston upon Hull UA FB East Riding of Yorkshire UA FC North East Lincolnshire UA FD North Lincolnshire UA FF York UA FK Derby UA FN Leicester UA FP Rutland UA FY Nottingham UA GA County of Herefordshire UA GF Telford and Wrekin UA GL Stoke on Trent UA HA Bath and North East Somerset UA HB City of Bristol UA HC North Somerset UA HD South Gloucestershire UA HG Plymouth UA HH Torbay UA HN Bournemouth UA HP Poole UA HX Swindon UA JA Peterborough UA KA Luton UA KF Southend on Sea UA KG Thurrock UA LC Medway UA MA Bracknell Forest UA
88. Calendar Quarter previously asked in Seasonal Quarter January to March Q1 Winter December to February Q4 Winter April to June Q2 Spring March to May Q1 Spring July to September Q3 Summer June to August Q2 Summer October to December Q4 Autumn Sept to November Q3 Autumn Users should be particularly careful when analysing quarter specific questions over time as the historical calendar quarter estimates going back to 1997 will be based on two thirds of respondents For example let us consider the question LANG introduced in 2003 When this question was first asked on the LFS it was asked in the Summer quarter therefore in the months June July and August The calendar quarter that corresponds with the Summer quarter is JS July August and September It can be seen that there is an overlap of two months but the JS historical estimate will not include the responses of the people who answered the question in June The JS historical estimate will also not include September respondents as this question was not asked in this month As a result of the above users are advised to use percentages instead of levels when doing analysis Please note that after the move to calendar quarters in AJO6 this no longer applies NA s and DNA s Unless otherwise specified in this guide the coding for answer NA and does not apply DNA are 8 and 9 respectively Multi Response Variables Multiple response i
89. Certificate or Diploma at Entry level and Levels 1 to 8 31 Any other professional work related qualification FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent is currently studying towards a qualification NOTES This variable replaces QULHI9 DEGNOW Level of degree Spring 96 to Winter 02 1 Higher degree including PGCE 2 First degree 3 Other e g graduate member of a professional institute or chartered accountant 4 Don t know Spring 03 onwards 1 Higher degree incl PGCE 2 First degree 3 Foundation degree 4 Other e g graduate member of a professional institute or chartered accountant 5 Don t know FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters only from Spring 96 to Autumn 99 Each quarter from Spring 2000 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are studying for a degree level qualification or higher Spring 96 to Winter 03 QULHI 1 From Spring 04 QULHI4 1 NOTES Foundation degrees are employment related higher education qualifications and are offered full and part time taking two or three years to complete HGHNOW Type of higher degree studied for 255 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 1 Doctorate 2 Master 3 A Post Graduate Certificate in Education 4 Or some other kind of postgraduate or professional qualification 5 Don t know FREQUENCY AJ and OD quarters only from Spring 99 COVERAGE Applies to al
90. EAST JERUSALEM AND GAZA STRIP 887 YEMEN ANTARCTICA AND OCEANIA 016 AMERICAN SAMOA 010 ANTARCTICA 989 ANTARCTICA AND OCEANIA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 036 AUSTRALIA 074 BOUVET ISLAND 086 BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY 162 CHRISTMAS ISLAND 166 COCOS KEELING ISLANDS 184 COOK ISLANDS 242 FIJI 258 FRENCH POLYNESIA 260 FRENCH SOUTHERN 581 UNITED STATES MINOR TERRITORIES OUTLYING ISLANDS 316 GUAM 548 VANUATU 334 HEARD ISLAND AND 876 WALLIS AND FUTUNA MCDONALD ISLANDS 296 KIRIBATI OTHER COUNTRIES 584 MARSHALL ISLANDS 991 AT SEA 583 MICRONESIA 992 IN THE AIR 520 NAURU 540 NEW CALEDONIA 554 NEW ZEALAND 570 NIUE 574 NORFOLK ISLAND 580 NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS 585 PALAU 598 PAPUA NEW GUINEA 612 PITCAIRN HENDERSON DUCIE AND OENO ISLANDS 882 SAMOA 090 SOLOMON ISLANDS 239 SOUTH GEORGIA AND THE SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS 772 TOKELAU 776 TONGA 798 TUVALU 66 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Abbreviations pns part not stated nes not elsewhere stated FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who were living outside the UK 12 months ago OYCRY 2 NOTES Text labels are not available for this variable When filtering on a specific country also filter on Option 2 Somewhere else in OYCRY It should be noted that from Spring 92 to Winter 92 codes were from 1 95 then from Spring 93 they were increased to 116
91. Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has a BTEC TEC EDEXCEL LQL qualification NOTES This variable replaces BTECOTH Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable BTCOTLA type of BTEC TEC EDEXCEL LQL qualifications 1 Award 2 Certificate 3 Diploma 4 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has an OTHER BTEC TEC EDEXCEL LQL qualification Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable BTCOTLB levels of BTEC TEC EDEXCEL LQL qualifications 1 Level 1 2 Level2 3 Level3 4 Level4 5 Level 5 6 Level6 7 Level7 8 Level8 9 Entry level 10 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has an OTHER BTEC TEC EDEXCEL LQL qualification 236 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Please note that this is multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable VOCYRB when highest SCOTVEC SCOTEC SCOTBEC obtained 1 2009 or earlier 2 2010 or later FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has a SCOTVEC SCOTEC SCOTBEC SCTVC11 level of highest SCOTVEC SCOTEC SCOTBEC qualification 1 hi
92. Each quarter from Spring 97 68 COVERAGE Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Applies to all respondents 69 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS STRUCTURE 6 Type of household 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 FREQUENCY 1 person 2 or more persons all different family units Married couple no children no other family units Cohabiting couple no children no other family units Couple no children other family units Married couple all dependent children no other family units Cohabiting couple all dependent children no other family units Married couple dependent amp non dependent children no other family units Cohabiting couple dependent amp non dependent children no other family units Married couple all non dependent children no other family units Cohabiting couple all non dependent children no other family units Couple all dependent children other family units Couple dependent amp non dependent children other family units Couple all non dependent children other family units Lone parent all dependent children no other family units Lone parent dependent amp non dependent children no other family units Lone parent all non dependent children no o
93. Entry Level or Level 1 to 8 Award Certificate or Diploma qualifications below 1 Award 2 Certificate 3 Diploma 4 None 5 Don t know FREQUENGY Every quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has QCF qualifications NOTES Between JM11 and JS13 respondents were routed to these questions if aged 16 64 or in work From OD13 respondents are routed to these questions if aged 16 69 or in work Please see user guide 2 for the definitive routing Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable QCFOTHB level of Entry Level or Level 1 to 8 Award Certificate or Diploma qualifications 1 Level 1 2 Level2 3 Level3 4 Level 4 5 5 6 Level6 7 Level7 8 Level8 9 Entry level 10 Don t know 251 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENGY Every quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has more than one QCF qualification NOTES Between JM11 and JS13 respondents were routed to these questions if aged 16 64 or in work From OD 13 respondents are routed to these questions if aged 16 69 in work Please see user guide 2 for the definitive routing Please note that this is multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable TPQL11 type of other qualification 1
94. FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM08 COVERAGE Applies to respondents who answered CAMEYR NOTES This variable was introduced in 07 and was amended for 2008 It is intended to identify whether the respondent has lived continuously in the UK or not CAMEYR2 Year of last arrival the UK 1 Answer given as year FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM08 COVERAGE Applies to respondents who have not lived continuously in the UK CONTUK 2 NOTES This question was introduced in ODO7 and has been amended for 2008 Arrive refers to the date of arrival to take up residence CAMEMT Month of last arrival in the UK 1 12 Number for the month e g 1 for January 2 for February etc FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM08 COVERAGE Applies to respondents who entered the UK within the last two years It appears if the response to either CAMEYR or CAMEYR2 is less than 2 years from the current year NOTES This question was introduced in 07 and has been amended for 2008 WHYUK10 Main reason for coming to UK most recent arrival 1 Employment 2 Study 3 To get married form a civil partnership 4 As a spouse dependent of a UK citizen 5 As a spouse dependent of someone coming to the UK 6 Seeking asylum 7 As a visitor 8 Other reason FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM10 COVERAGE Applies to all those aged 16 or over who were born outside the UK NTLE11 1 6 National identity England 1 English 2 Welsh
95. FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM14 COVERAGE only Applies to all respondents who say they have been in the armed forces at VETSERV NOTES New for JM14 Available on ONS and Government only files VETYEARLFT Year left armed forces FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM14 COVERAGE only Applies to all respondents who say they have been in the armed forces at VETSERV and who say that they are not currently in the armed forces at VETCURR NOTES New for JM14 Available on ONS and Government only files RESIDENTIAL DETAILS COUNTRY Country within UK 1 England 2 Wales 3 Scotland 4 Scotland North of Caledonian Canal 5 Northern Ireland FREQUENCY Each quarter from Summer 2000 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents GB Great Britain 1 Great Britain 2 Northern Ireland FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This variable is only available on SPSS files from Autumn 02 onwards URESMC Region of usual residence 1 Tyne amp Wear 11 South West 2 Rest of Northern Region 12 West Midlands Metropolitan 3 South Yorkshire 13 Rest of West Midlands 4 West Yorkshire 14 Greater Manchester 5 Rest of Yorkshire amp Humberside 15 Merseyside 6 East Midlands 16 Rest of North West 7 East Anglia 17 Wales 41 8 9 10 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Inne
96. February 3 March 4 April 5 May 6 June 7 July 8 August 9 September 10 October 11 November 12 December FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who started work in the last 8 years except unpaid family workers CONMPY lt 8 or CONSEY lt 8 MSELFA 1 9 Why respondent self employed 1 Job after retirement 2 Redundancy 3 To maintain or increase income 4 Saw the demand or market 5 Could not find other employment 6 Started or joined a family business 7 Better work conditions or job satisfaction 8 Nature of job or chosen career 9 Other reasons FREQUENCY OD only from 2014 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents working self employed or away from self employed job in reference week WRKING 1 OR JBAWAY 1 AND STAT 2 114 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NOTES As with all new questions the reasons for self employment questions are subject to ONS monitoring of responses for several quarters and should therefore be treated with caution This is available for ONS and Government analysis only The order that the response categories are appearing in the question are not necessarily the order they will appear in an interview The answer categories have been randomised to remove order effect MSELFB Main reason for working self employed 1 Job after retirement 2 Redundancy 3 To main
97. Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Residents in England 921 Wales 924 Scotland 923 Northern Ireland 922 Jersey 832 and the Isle of Man 833 should all be coded to UK 1 OYCRYO Country of residence 12 months ago EUROPE 688 SERBIA 926 UNITED KINGDOM 974 SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO NOT 040 AUSTRIA OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 056 BELGIUM 744 SVALBARD AND JAN 100 BULGARIA MAYEN 901 CYPRUS EUROPEAN 756 SWITZERLAND UNION 792 TURKEY 203 CZECH REPUBLIC 804 UKRAINE 972 UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 971 CZECHOSLOVAKIA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 208 DENMARK 233 ESTONIA 336 VATICAN CITY 246 FINLAND 973 YUGOSLAVIA NOT 250 FRANCE OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 276 GERMANY 300 GREECE THE AMERICAS AND 348 HUNGARY THE CARIBBEAN 372 IRELAND REPUBLIC 660 ANGUILLA 380 ITALY 028 ANTIGUA AND 428 LATVIA BARBUDA 440 LITHUANIA 032 ARGENTINA 442 LUXEMBOURG 533 ARUBA 470 MALTA 044 BAHAMAS THE 528 NETHERLANDS 052 BARBADOS 616 POLAND 084 BELIZE 620 PORTUGAL 060 BERMUDA 642 ROMANIA 068 BOLIVIA 703 SLOVAKIA 076 BRAZIL 705 SLOVENIA 092 BRITISH VIRGIN 911 SPAIN EXCEPT ISLANDS CANARY ISLANDS 124 CANADA 913 SPAIN NOT OTHERWISE 988 CARIBBEAN NOT SPECIFIED OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 752 SWEDEN 136 CAYMAN ISLANDS i 986 CENTRAL AMERICA NOT 248 ALAND ISLANDS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 008 ALBANIA 152 CHILE 020 ANDORRA 170 COLOMBIA 051 ARMENIA 188 COSTA RICA 031 AZERBAIJAN 192 CUBA
98. Harmonisation Project Between Spring 1996 and Spring 2006 this variable was called TEN96 TIED Accommodation tied to job 1 2 FREQUENCY COVERAGE 5 NOTES Yes No Each quarter from Spring 06 Applies to all respondents to rent their accommodation or live their rent free TEN1 4 or This variable was introduced in Spring 2006 as result of the GSS Social Survey Harmonisation Project and replaces the variable RENT96 Tied accommodation is that which goes with the job household member Those living in tied accommodation may either pay rent or live rent free Between Spring 96 and Spring 2006 this variable was called RENT 96 LLORD Landlord of accommodation 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 FREQUENCY COVERAGE 5 LA council Scottish homes Housing association charitable trust or local housing company Employing organisation Another organisation Relative of household member Individual employer Other individual private landlord Each quarter from Spring 06 Applies to all respondents to rent their accommodation or live their rent free TEN1 4 or 84 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NOTES This variable was introduced in Spring 2006 as result of the GSS Social Survey Harmonisation Project and replaces the variable LAND96 Between Spring 1996 and Spring 2006 this variable was called LAND96 FURN Whether accommodation furnished
99. MB West Berkshire UA MC Reading UA MD Slough UA ME Windsor and Maidenhead UA MF Wokingham UA MG Milton Keynes UA ML Brighton and Hove UA MR Portsmouth UA MS Southampton UA MW Isle of Wight UA NA Isle of Anglesey NC Gwynedd NE Conwy NG Denbighshire NJ Flintshire NL Wrexham NN Powys NQ Ceredigion NS Pembrokeshire NU Carmarthenshire NX Swansea NZ Neath Port Talbot PB Bridgend PD The Vale of Glamorgan PF Rhondda Cynon Taff PH Merthyr Tydfil PK Caerphilly PL Blaenau Gwent PM Torfaen PP Monmouthshire PR Newport PT Cardiff QA Aberdeen City QB Aberdeenshire QC Angus QD Argyll amp Bute QE Scottish Borders QF Clackmannanshire QG West Dunbartonshire QH Dumfries amp Galloway QJ Dundee City QK East Ayrshire QL East Dunbartonshire QM East Lothian QN East Renfrewshire QP City of Edinburgh QQ Falkirk QR Fife QS City of Glasgow QT Highland QU Inverclyde QW Midlothian QX Moray QY North Ayrshire QZ North Lanarkshire RB Perth amp Kinross RC Renfrewshire RE South Ayrshire RF South Lanarkshire RG Stirling RH West Lothian 460 Northern Ireland 45 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 UALADGB Unitary Authorities and LADs of Great Britain FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 2000 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents
100. OD13 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who mainly work away from home HOME 1 or 2 and EvHm98 Yes or and EvHm98 Yes or 4 and EvHm98 Yes NOTES This variable is asked in all waves in AJ and wave 1 in all other quarters This was removed from the questionnaire JM14 onwards HOMED 1 3 Worked at least one FULL day at home in reference week in main job 1 In own home 2 In the same grounds or buildings as home 3 In different places using home as a base 4 Not worked at home during reference week FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters in 97 Spring quarters only from Spring 98 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who worked in the reference week but not on a Govt Scheme WRKING 1 or OWNBUS 1 or RELBUS 1 NOTES This question is asked in order to identify those people who do work at home occasionally although their main place of work may not be their home for example a respondent who spends four days a week working in the office and one day working at home Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable TELEQA Used both telephone and computer to carry out work at home 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters in 97 AJ quarters only from Spring 98 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who work at home or use it as a work base HOME 1 or 3 OR HOMED 1 or 3 NOTES Please see the note at th
101. Other Asian background 13 Black African 14 Black Caribbean 15 Other Black African Caribbean background 16 Other ethnic group includes respondents in England and Wales identifying themselves as White Gypsy or Irish Traveller includes respondents in England and Wales identifying themselves as FREQUENCY Every quarter from AJ11 onwards Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 COVERAGE Applies to respondents aged 16 and over living within England and Wales ETHEW 18 Ethnicity 18 categories England and Wales level 1 White British 2 White Irish 3 White Gypsy or Irish Traveller 4 Other White 5 White and Black Caribbean 6 White and Black African 7 White and Asian 8 Other Mixed multiple ethnic background 9 Indian 10 Pakistani 11 Bangladeshi 12 Chinese 13 Other Asian background 14 Black African 15 Black Caribbean 16 Other Black African Caribbean background 17 Arab 18 Other ethnic group FREQUENCY Every quarter from AJ11 onwards COVERAGE Applies to respondents aged 16 and over living in England or Wales RELIGE What is your religion 1 No religion 2 Christian including Church of England Catholic Protestant and all other Christian denominations 3 Buddhist 4 Hindu 5 Jewish 6 Muslim 7 Sikh 8 Any other religion FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to respondents aged 16 and over and live in Engl
102. REDACT users are advised to use the filter LIMACT 1 2 before carrying out any further analysis HEALYR Any other past health problems or disabilities that have lasted longer than a year 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 97 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents of working age or those aged 75 and under and first contact or those aged 75 and over and are not too ill distressed to continue NOTES These include continuous problems or those with only intermittent effects HEALYR and subsequent questions HEALPB and HEALYL are only asked at the first interview with a respondent and if it is a personal interview Only those problems or disabilities the respondent has had in the past but no longer has are included Any illnesses already mentioned at HEAL are not included HEALPB 01 10 Health problems disabilities that affected respondent in the past 1 Problems or disabilities including arthritis or rheumatism connected with arms or hands 2 legs or feet 3 back or neck 4 Difficulty in seeing while wearing spectacles or contact lenses 5 Difficulty in hearing 6 A speech impediment 7 Severe disfigurement skin conditions allergies 8 Chest or breathing problems asthma bronchitis 9 Heart blood pressure or blood circulation problems 10 Stomach liver kidney or digestive problems 11 Diabetes 12 Depression bad nerves or anxiety 13 Epilepsy 14 Severe or specific learn
103. This variable replaced WNLEFT from JM11 Although neither of the response options have changed an amendment was required to the derivation of the variable This derived variable changes have been made to the way it has been calculated 2012 in order to reflect the change in Government training scheme questions Please see Volume 4 user Guide for further detail WN2LFT11 When left last job 1 Less than 3 months 2 3 months but less than 6 months 3 6 months but less than 12 months 4 12 months but less than 18 months 5 18 months but less than 2 years 6 2 years but less than 3 years 7 3 years but less than 4 years 8 4 years but less than 5 years 9 5 years or more 10 Never had paid job FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who did no work in the reference week and were not away from any job or business but have worked in the past NOTES This variable replaced WNLEFT2 from JM11 Although neither of the response options have changed an amendment was required to the derivation of the variable This is a derived variable changes have been made to the way it has been calculated in 2012 in order to reflect the change in Government training scheme questions Please see Volume 4 user Guide for further detail LEFTYR Year left last job Year in which left last job last two digits 177 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 F
104. above variables into new variables representing these new classifications This syntax can be obtained by contacting the UK Data Archive This syntax will need to be used for all files up to AJ10 data From AJ10 data onwards we will be producing quarterly datasets with the new UA variables on them PLEASE NOTE The LFS data will be weighted based on the old UALAD codes until population estimates are provided on the new UALAD basis this change is likely to occur in JM12 Once this change occurs only the new UALAD variables will be provided and the old codes will no longer be produced for the data When this change occurs details will be published in the User Guide 43 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 UACNTY Unitary Authority County Level 09 Bedfordshire 11 Buckinghamshire 12 Cambridgeshire 13 Cheshire 15 Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly 16 Cumbria 17 Derbyshire 18 Devon 19 Dorset 20 Durham 21 East Sussex 22 Essex 23 Gloucestershire 24 Hampshire 26 Hertfordshire 29 Kent 30 Lancashire 31 Leicestershire 32 Lincolnshire 33 Norfolk 34 Northamptonshire 35 Northumberland 36 North Yorkshire 87 Nottinghamshire 38 Oxfordshire 39 Shropshire 40 Somerset 41 Staffordshire 42 Suffolk 43 Surrey 44 Warwickshire 45 West Sussex 46 Wiltshire 47 Worcestershire 48 Eilean Siar Orkney amp She
105. activities Work limiting disabled includes those who have a long term disability which affects the kind or amount of work they might do DISCURR13 was introduced in order to portray that the variables that feed into DISCURR changed in AJ13 Please see notes at LNGLST and LIMACT before carrying out analysis on this variable XDISDDA Unadjusted DDA disabled READ NOTES BEFORE USING THIS VARIABLE 1 Current disability only 2 Current and past disability 3 Past disability only 4 Not DDA disabled FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 98 to Winter 99 on ONS datasets only Each quarter from Spring 2000 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents of working age NOTES This variable is designed to help users estimate the number of people who meet the DDA definition of disability This definition has two parts current and past disability Current disability includes people who have a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long term adverse effect on a person s ability to carry out normal day to day activities and people with a progressive condition e g cancer multiple sclerosis from the moment any impairment resulting from it first has some effect on their ability to carry out normal day to day activities Past disability includes people who have had a disability within the DDA definition in the past even if they have since recovered The LFS data on past disabilities does not include any proxy response because it is
106. actual hours including overtime TOTAC2 TTACHR Actual hours second job Actual hours in second job including ACTHR2 overtime Actual hours main and second job Total hours worked in reference week TOTHRS in main and second jobs SUMHRS EVEROT Whether ever work paid or unpaid overtime 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees self employed and those on employer based government schemes NOTES This question is asked first so that respondents who never work overtime are not asked the overtime questions TOTUS1 Total usual hours worked excluding lunch breaks no overtime 0 96 Hours of work 97 97 or more 99 Don t know No answer FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who never work overtime or did any paid work during the reference week EVEROT 2 OR OWNBUS 1 OR RELBUS 1 NOTES As hours are not stored as whole numbers users should use 1 decimal place when ranging hours i e 1 30 hours should be ranged as 1 0 30 4 etc USUHR Usual hours worked excluding overtime 0 96 Hours of work 97 97 or more 99 Don t know No answer FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who may work paid or unpaid overtime EVEROT 1 NOTES This variable excludes meal breaks and any overtime worked As hours are not stored as whole numbers users should use 1 de
107. amalgamates the responses given at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL and OTQUAL in order to identify whether respondent has received this particular qualification QUAL 31 Whether Any other professional work related qualification obtained 1 Yes 0 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE This variable amalgamates the responses given at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL and OTQUAL in order to identify whether respondent has received this particular qualification QLYR1 1 all qualifications gained in the last 12 months 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Degree level Mualify Incl foundation degrees graduate memb ship of a profess institute PGCE or higher Diploma in Higher Education HNC HND ONC OND BTEC BEC TEC Edexcel LQL SCOTVEC SCOTEC or SCOTBEC Teaching Qualify excl PGCE Nursing or other medical Qualify Not yet mentioned Other Higher Education qualif s below degree level A Level Vocat A Level GCE in Applied Subjects or equivalent New Diploma Welsh Baccalaureate International Baccalaureate NVQ SVQ GNVQ GSVQ AS level Vocat AS Level or equiv Certificate of 6 Yr Studies CSYS or equiv Access to HE O Level or equiv Standard Ordinary O Grade Lower Scotland GCSE Vocat l GCSE CSE Advanced Higher Higher Intermediate Acc
108. and Art Galleries and prisons Armed forces were previously coded with central government civil service From Spring 03 they have their own code SECTROO3 coded 8 Public bodies with a greater degree of autonomy than the above SECTROO3 coded 2 a nationalised industry or state corporation This includes Post Office Royal Mint British Rail BBC Audit Commission Equal Opportunities Commission Civil Aviation Authority A private firm SECTOR coded 1 Deregulated bus service SECTRO03 coded 2 London Regional Transport and municipal bus companies are public corporations Magistrates Courts SECTRO03 coded 4 local government or council Probation Service SECTRO03 coded 4 local government or council Training and Enterprise Councils TECs SECTOR coded 1 private firm or business and Local Enterprise Councils LECs 101 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 PUBLICR Whether working in public or private sector reported 1 Private sector 2 Public sector FREQUENCY Each quarter from Autumn 93 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees NOTES With the removal of the Census Matrix Edit PUBLICR supersedes the variable PUBLIC This variable identifies the split between the public and private sector This is a derived variable please see Volume 4 User Guide for further guidance SECTOR Whether working for private firm or business Summer
109. and Employment Agency office Visit a Careers office Visit a Jobclub Have your name on the books of a private employment agency Advertise for jobs in newspapers or journals Answer advertisements in newspapers and journals Study situations vacant in newspapers or journals Apply directly to employers Ask friends relatives colleagues or trade unions about jobs Wait for the results of an application for a job Do anything else to find work Each quarter from Spring 92 Applies to all respondents looking for work as an employee or for a place on a government scheme in the last four weeks NOTES As with LKWFWM all the method of looking for work variables have been increased by one category 2 Careers office from Summer 94 This variable codes the main methods from the responses given in METHMP MAINMS Method of looking for work self employment Spring 92 to Spring 94 4 5 10 11 12 13 Advertise for jobs in newspapers or journals Answer advertisements in newspapers and journals Look for premises or equipment Seek any kind of permit Try to get a loan or other financial backing for a job or business Do anything else to find work Summer 94 onwards 5 6 11 12 13 14 FREQUENCY COVERAGE Advertise for jobs in newspapers or journals Answer advertisements in newspapers and journals Look for premises or equipment Seek any kind of permit Try to get a loan or other financial
110. backing for a job or business Do anything else to find work Each quarter from Spring 92 Applies to all respondents looking for self employed work in the last four weeks 188 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NOTES As with LKWFWM all the method of looking for work variables have been increased by one category 2 Careers office from Summer 94 This variable codes the main methods from the responses given in METHSE 189 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 MAINMA Method of looking for work no preference Spring 92 to Spring 94 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Visit a Jobcentre Visit a Jobclub Have your name on the books of a private employment agency Advertise for jobs in newspapers or journals Answer advertisements in newspapers and journals Study situations vacant in newspapers or journals Apply directly to employers Ask friends relatives colleagues or trade unions about jobs Wait for the results of an application for a job Look for premises or equipment Seek any kind of permit Try to get a loan or other financial backing for a job or business Do anything else to find work Summer 94 onwards 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 FREQUENCY COVERAGE four weeks NOTES Visit a Jobcentre Visit a Careers office Visit a Jobclub Have
111. coughs colds and flu sickness nausea and diarrhoea 7 Other respiratory conditions e g asthma Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease OPD bronchitis pneumonia 8 Other gastrointestinal problems e g irritable bowel syndrome IBS piles bowel cancer stomach ulcer 9 Headaches and migraines 10 Genito urinary to include urine infections menstrual problems pregnancy problems 11 Heart blood pressure amp circulation problems 12 Eye ear nose amp mouth dental to include sinusitis and toothache 13 Diabetes 14 Other accidents poisonings infectious diseases skin disorders and anything else not covered above 15 Prefers not to give details FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to those with more than one period of sickness absence This variable replaced ILLFST ILLST Illness start 1 1 day 2 2 days 3 3 days 4 4 days 5 5 days 6 6 days 7 7 days 8 more than 7 days but less than or equal to 2 weeks 9 more than 2 weeks but less than or equal to 1 month 10 more than 1 month but less than or equal to 2 months 134 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 11 more than 2 months but less than or equal to 3 months 12 more than 3 months but less than or equal to 6 months 13 more than 6 months but less than or equal to 9 months 14 more than 9 months but less than or equal to 1 year 15 more than 1 year FREQUENCY
112. derivation of this variable from Spring 05 onwards This variable is included on household datasets only 5 Number of people in household who are inactive 0 19 Number of people FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 05 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are inactive 5 6 33 80 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NOTES This variable is included on household datasets only This variable replaced in Spring 2005 HNFTSTUD Number of people in household who are full time students 0 19 Number of people FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 95 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are in full time education CURED8 1 2 3 NOTES This variable is derived using CURED8 From Spring 92 to Winter 96 this variable also includes those full time at polytechnic This variable is included on household datasets only HNOTSTUD Number of people in household who are not full time students 0 19 Number of people FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 95 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are not in full time education CURED8 1 2 3 NOTES This variable is derived using CURED8 and is included on household datasets only HNFTIME Number of people in household who are working full time 0 19 Number
113. derived from INDSCO070 207 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 208 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 SOCIAL MOBILITY SMHCOMP Household composition when respondent was 14 years old 1 living with one or both parents 2 living with other family members 3 not living with family FREQUENCY JS quarters only from JS14 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents aged 16 and over NOTES As with all new questions the social mobility questions are subject to ONS monitoring of responses for several quarters and should therefore be treated with caution SMEARNER Main wage earner when respondent was 14 years old mother father other family member joint earners no one was earning ARON FREQUENCY JS quarters only from JS14 COVERAGE Applies to those who answer 1 or 2 to SMHCOMP NOTES As with all new questions the social mobility questions are subject to ONS monitoring of responses for several quarters and should therefore be treated with caution SMOCCT Occupation of main wage earner when respondent was 14 years old FREQUENCY JS quarters only from JS14 COVERAGE Applies to those who answer 1 4 to SMEARNER NOTES As with all new questions the social mobility questions are subject to ONS monitoring of responses for several quarters and should therefore be treated with caution SMOCCD Occupation description of main wage earner when respond
114. diarrhoea 7 Other respiratory conditions e g asthma Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease OPD bronchitis pneumonia 8 Other gastrointestinal problems e g irritable bowel syndrome IBS piles bowel cancer stomach ulcer 9 Headaches and migraines 10 Genito urinary to include urine infections menstrual problems pregnancy problems 11 Heart blood pressure amp circulation problems 12 Eye ear nose amp mouth dental to include sinusitis and toothache 13 Diabetes 133 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 14 Other accidents poisonings infectious diseases skin disorders and anything else not covered above 15 Prefers not to give details FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to those with one period of sickness absence This variable replaced ILLNESS IL2BEF First period of sickness start day 1 on the first day of your working week 2 before that FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who had more than one period of sickness absence ILL1PD 2 ILLFST11 main condition that caused first sickness absence 1 Back pain 2 Neck and upper limb problems e g arthritis in hand joints stiff neck 3 Other musculoskeletal problems 4 Stress depression anxiety common mental health problems 5 Manic depression schizophrenia and other serious mental health problems 6 Minor illnesses
115. did respondent work on in past year 1 13 Number of days FREQUENCY Autumn quarters only from Autumn 99 to Autumn 03 OD quarters only odd years from Autumn 05 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have worked on at least one bank public holiday in the previous 12 months and country of work is NOT UK NOTES Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions BHPAID Whether paid for working on Public Holidays 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Autumn quarters only from Autumn 99 to Autumn 03 OD quarters only odd years from Autumn 05 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees and worked on a Public holiday over the last year NOTES Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions BHNOTA Whether paid at least basic rate for Public holidays not worked 1 All of them 2 Some of them 3 None of them FREQUENCY Autumn quarters only from Autumn 99 to Autumn 03 OD quarters only odd years from Autumn 05 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees and who did not work on a Public holiday over the last year 156 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NOTES Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions BHNOTB Whether paid at least basic rate for Public holiday not worked
116. digit of year e g 5 for 1995 FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 QRTR Quarter that address first entered survey 1 JM January to March 2 AJ April to June 3 JS July to September 4 OD October to December FREQUENCY Using seasonal quarters each quarter from Spring 92 to Autumn 95 Using calendar quarters each quarter from JM06 NUMHHLD Number of households at address 1 81 Household number FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 NOTES From Spring 92 to Summer 94 this variable was called NUMHLD on SPSS datasets From Autumn 94 this variable is called NUMHHLD on all formats ADD Address number on interviewer address list 1 80 Address number 309 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 NOTES This variable is for interviewers use and refers to the number of the address on their address list WAVFND Wave at which household was first found 1 5 Wave number FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 NOTES The household can change between waves because people houses move during their time in the survey This variable allows a change of household to be identified Note that this applies to the household not individuals in the household HHLD Household reference 1 81 Household reference FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 NOTES At some addresses more than one household can be found NUMHHLD identifies the
117. for End User License EUL Therefore these variables should not be released on EUL versions of datasets but can be included on Special License or other restricted access versions of datasets In order to calculate an accurate flag datasets would need age date of birth and reference date variables ONS can provide syntax to users who wish to create these variables on their data Please contact the LFS team in the Social Surveys Division Email lfs ons gov gsi uk The Government announced in its October 2010 Spending Review that it will speed up the pace of State pension age equalisation for women from April 2016 so that women s State pension age will reach 65 in November 2018 The State pension age will then increase to 66 for both men and women from December 2018 to April 2020 The current approach to recording and analysing those of State pension age will therefore need to be amended before 2016 in order to account for these further changes SIC2007 Implementation of Standard Industrial Classification SIC 2007 The industry class to which people in employment are coded in the LFS switched to SIC 2007 in January 2009 From then on all cases were assigned an industry code on the new basis This included respondents who had been surveyed in the previous quarter whose employment situation had not changed There was no dual coding The transition to the new classification was accompanied by the implementation of a new automa
118. from the questionnaire in JM13 HOW2CAUS How work caused the illness or made it worse 1 Workload tight deadlines too much work pressure responsibility 2 Role uncertainty lack of clarity about job uncertain what meant to do 295 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Lack of control no say over what how to do job Lack of support from management Changes at work management organisation work content use of new technology Violence threats or bullying 3 4 5 6 6 Other RIR 2 ID IO 2 wa FREQUENCY JM quarters only from 2010 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents for whom ILLWRK 1 and TYPILL 7 OR 9 This variable replaces HOWCAUSE from JM10 NOTES This question was removed from the questionnaire in JM13 HOW3CAUS How work caused the illness or made it worse 1 General work environment uncomfortable hot cold damp wet dry draughts enclosed space By breathing in airborne materials from spray painting or manufacturing foam products By breathing in dusts from flour or grain cereal animal feed or bedding straw By breathing in airborne materials while welding soldering or cutting grinding metals By breathing in dusts from stone cement brick or concrete e g during building construction quarrying or road maintenance work 6 By breathing in fumes from engine exhaust FREQUENCY JM quarters only from 2010 COVERAGE Applies to all respo
119. households for own use 21 U Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment who have regular additional job NOTES This variable is derived from INDSC07S LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives complete industry breakdown of both SIC92 amp SIC2007 EMPLOYMENT STATUS IN SECOND JOB SECJMBR Employment status in second job derived 1 Employee 2 Self employed 3 Status not stated 4 Changed jobs 5 No second job 6 No answer to second job 7 Does not apply FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are in employment with an regular additional job NOTES With the removal of the Census Matrix Edit SECJMBR supersedes the variable This is a derived variable please see Volume 4 for further guidance This variable should be used in preference to SECJOB for analysis of second jobs Adding categories 1 to 3 gives the total number of people with second jobs For the Winter 93 quarter when using this variable you should also filter on in employment to get the correct total as some inactive respondents were miscoded STAT2 Employment status in second job reported 1 Employee 2 Self employed FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment who have a regular additional job NOTES From Spring
120. married cohabiting civil partner Women non married Each quarter from 06 Applies to all respondents This is derived variable please see Volume 4 User guide for further guidance This variable was called MARSEX between Spring 2000 and Winter 2005 IREND2 Religious denomination 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES Catholic Presbyterian Church of Ireland Methodist Other Protestant Other religion No denomination Under 16 years Unwilling to answer Each quarter from Winter 94 Applies to all respondents in Northern Ireland This variable is only asked of people in Northern Ireland It is important to remember that this is a voluntary question Respondents who refuse to answer are coded as unwilling Other Protestant includes Baptist Free Presbyterian Unitarian Congregational Plymouth Brethren Church of Nazarene Church of England Pentecostal Mormon etc Other religions include Jewish Hindu Sikh Buddhist Muslim RELBUP May I just check then what religious denomination if any were you brought up in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES Catholic Presbyterian Church of Ireland Methodist Other Protestant Other religion No denomination Under 16 years Unwilling to answer Each quarter from JM10 Applies to all respondents in Northern Ireland This variable is only asked of people in Northern Ireland It is i
121. no qualifications at LEVQUL11 This problem would have been rectified from JS13 onwards HITQUA11 Highest qualification training leads to 1 Higher degree 2 NVQ level 5 3 Level 8 Diploma 4 Level 8 Certificate 5 Level 7 Diploma 6 Level 7 Certificate 7 Level 8 Award 274 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 First degree Other degree NVQ level 4 Level 6 Diploma Level 6 Certificate Level 7 Award Diploma in higher education Level 5 Diploma Level 5 Certificate Level 6 Award HNC HND BTEC higher etc Teaching qualification Nursing OGR higher Other higher education below degree Level 4 Diploma Level 4 certificate Level 5 award NVQ level 3 Progression or advanced diploma Level 3 Diploma Advanced Welsh Bac International Bac A level or equivalent OCR advanced Ond onc btec scotvec national level etc City amp Guilds advanced craft part 3 Scoitish sixth year certificate SCE higher or equivalent Access to Higher Education A S level or equivalent Trade apprenticeship Level 3 certificate Level 4 award NVQ level 2 or equivalent Intermed
122. not available in SPSS or on public datasets in Summer 1999 169 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 GORWK2ER Region of workplace for second job reported 1 Tyne amp Wear 2 Rest of North East 3 Greater Manchester 4 Merseyside 5 Rest of North West 6 South Yorkshire 7 West Yorkshire 8 Rest of Yorkshire amp Humberside 9 East Midlands 10 West Midlands met county 11 Rest of West Midlands 12 East of England 13 Central London 14 Inner London 15 Outer London 16 South East 17 South West 18 Wales 19 Strathclyde 20 Rest of Scotland 21 Northern Ireland 22 Workplace outside UK FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters only from Autumn 93 to Autumn 97 Each quarter from Spring 98 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment NOTES With the removal of the Census Matrix Edit GORWK2R supersedes the variable GORWK2 This variable is derived from STAT2 2 GOVTOR UALAD99 LADWAD UALDWK2 amp WKPL299 From Spring 2000 UALDWK2 is used in the derivation of this variable prior to this LADWK2 was used This variable is based on Government Office Regions Central London is defined by the Department of Transport as the area within the bounds of the main London British Rail train termini SEEKING NOT SEEKING WORK REASON FOR SEEKING REPLACEMENT ADDITIONAL PAID JOB DIFJOB Whether looking for different or additional p
123. of degree banded 1 Medicine and dentistry 2 Medical related subjects 3 Biological Sciences 4 Agricultural Sciences 5 Physical Environmental Sciences 6 Mathematical Sciences amp Computing 7 Engineering 8 Technology 9 Architecture and related studies 10 Social Studies 11 Law 12 Business amp Financial studies 13 Mass Communications and Documentation 14 Linguistics English Celtic and Ancient 15 European Languages 16 Eastern Asiatic African American and Australasian Languages literature 17 Humanities 18 Arts 19 Education FREQUENCY Every quarter COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have degree level or equivalent single subject NOTES This is derived variable please see user guide 4 for further guidance FDSNGDEG Coding frame for single subject undergraduate degrees FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM12 COVERAGE Applies to respondents whose undergraduate degree is single subject NOTES SNGDEGN FDSNGDEG and SNGHD replaced SNGDEG in JM12 From JM12 those who have an undergraduate qualification will be routed to this question SNGHD Coding frame for single subject higher degrees FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM12 COVERAGE Applies to respondents whose undergraduate degree is a single subject NOTES SNGDEGN FDSNGDEG and SNGHD replaced SNGDEG in JM12 From JM12 this collects information about higher degree qualifications only CMBDEGN Nu
124. of people FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 95 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employed full time FTPT 1 amp INECAC05 1 2 3 4 NOTES The variable INECACR is replaced by in the derivation of this variable from Spring 05 onwards This variable is included on household datasets only HNPTIME Number of people in household who are working part time 0 19 Number of people FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 95 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are in employment FTPT 2 amp INECAC05 1 2 3 4 NOTES The variable INECACR is replaced by in the derivation of this variable from Spring 05 onwards This variable is included on household datasets only HNIWSTU Number of people in household who are inactive would like work but currently students 0 19 Number of people FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 95 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are inactive and students INECAC05 6 13 81 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NOTES The variable INECACR is replaced by INECAGC05 in the derivation of this variable from Spring 05 onwards This variable is included on household datasets only HNIWSKD Number of people in household w
125. on labour force survey pdf Disability Discurr Discontinuity was identified in disability rates reported in the LFS between quarter four 2009 and quarter one 2010 Analysis generally showed that the characteristics of those who were disabled and those already in the survey who became disabled did not change significantly over time The few characteristics that might have been associated with the initial increase in disability were found in subsequent quarters not to be associated with the sustained high levels of disability and were therefore thought to be random Examination of the survey design questionnaire wording and routing and anecdotal evidence from interviewers did not reveal any significant changes over time The only change to the administration of the questionnaire was the addition of a short introduction at the start of the disability module I should now like to ask you a few questions about your health These questions will help us estimate the number of people in the country who have health problems The impact of this introduction is thought to be positive in that it prepares respondents for the set of disability questions Any increase caused by this change should result more complete measure of actual disability This change to the introduction added to the disability module in quarter one 2010 is thought to be the key driver of the step increase in disability The earlier estimates can still be conside
126. only COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees NOTES Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions BNKH11 Bank holidays worked 1 Late Aug B Hol Mon 29 Aug 2011 Not Scotland 2 Early Aug B Hol Mon 01 Aug 2011 Scotland 3 July 12 holiday Tues 12 July 2011 NI 4 Spring B Hol Mon 30 May 2011 5 May B Hol Mon 02 May 2011 6 Royal Wedding Fri 29 April 2011 7 Easter Monday Mon 25 Apr 2011 8 Good Friday Fri 22 Apr 2011 9 St Patrick s Day Thur 17 Mar 2011 NI 10 on Day New Year s Day Tues 04 Jan 2011 Scotland 11 New Year s Day Mon 03 Jan 2011 155 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 12 Boxing Day Tues 28 Dec 2010 13 Christmas Day Mon 27 Dec 2010 FREQUENCY OD quarters only from OD11 odd years only COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have worked on at least one bank public holiday in the previous 12 months and country of work is UK NOTES The number of categories in this variable depends on the number of public holidays for the year This variable was called BNKHOL 1 12 up to and including Autumn 2009 This variable is called BNKHL 1 12 in Autumn 01 Please note that this is multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable BNKHOLF How many Bank or Public Holidays
127. only available on ONS datasets This variable is only available in SPSS format on ONS datasets from Spring 99 50 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 LEA Local Education Authorities 201 City of London 202 Camden 203 Greenwich 204 Hackney 205 Hammersmith and Fulham 206 Islington 207 Kensington and Chelsea 208 Lambeth 209 Lewisham 210 Southwark 211 Tower Hamlets 212 Wandsworth 213 Westminster 301 Barking and Dagenham 302 Barnet 303 Bexley 304 Brent 305 Bromley 306 Croydon 307 Ealing 308 Enfield 309 Haringey 310 Harrow 311 Havering 312 Hillingdon 313 Hounslow 314 Kingston upon Thames 315 Merton 316 Newham 317 Redbridge 318 Richmond upon Thames 319 Sutton 320 Waltham Forest 330 Birmingham 331 Coventry 332 Dudley 333 Sandwell 334 Solihull 335 Walsall 336 Wolverhampton 340 Knowsley 341 Liverpool 342 St Helens 343 Sefton 344 Wirral 350 Bolton 351 Bury 352 Manchester 353 Oldham 354 Rochdale 355 Salford 356 Stockport 357 Tameside 358 Trafford 359 Wigan 370 Barnsley 371 Doncaster 372 Rotherham 373 Sheffield 380 Bradford 381 Calderdale 382 Kirklees 383 Leeds 384 Wakefield 390 Gateshead 391 Newcastle upon Tyne 392 North Tyneside 393 South Tyneside 394 Sund
128. or 3 or 4 or PRELBUS 1 and respondent has been with their current employer self employed for 12 months or less CONYRLES lt 1 and CONMLES lt 12 CONPRY Year started working continuously for previous employer or as self employed 7 Answer given as year FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM08 As of 2014 this is asked of OD main respondents only COVERAGE Applies if currently working as an employee government scheme or unpaid family worker Stat 1 or 3 or 4 or PRELBUS 1 and has been with their current employer self employed for 12 months or less CONYRLES lt 1 and CONMLES lt 12 and was in paid employment or self employed before current job CONPRE 1 or 2 CONPRM Month started working continuously for previous employer or as self employed 8 Answer given as month FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM08 As of 2014 this is asked of OD main respondents only 116 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 COVERAGE Applies if currently working as an employee government scheme or unpaid family worker STAT 1 or 3 or 4 or PRELBUS 1 and has been with their current employer self employed for 12 months or less CONYRLES lt 1 and CONMLES lt 12 and was in paid employment or self employed before current job CONPRE 1 or 2 CONPRR Main reason for not being in paid employment or self employed 1 Unemployed looking for work 2 Student training 3 Looking after family hom
129. or above 2 CSE s grade 1 3 Standards grade 3 or above O grades or above 4 Intermediate 1 grade or above 5 Intermediate 2 grade D or above 6 None of these FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 04 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have standard O grades GCSE or CSE qualification or Scottish National Qualifications Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable 233 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NUMOL5 Number of O level GCSE passes etc already held 1 Fewer than five 2 Or five or more 3 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 05 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who said they had GCSEs grade or above CSEs grade 1 Standards grades 3 or above O grades or above Intermediate Scottish National Qualifications or O levels NOTES This variable replaces NUMOL4 from Spring 05 Analysts of this variable should be aware that prior to JS13 there was minor routing error with this variable Respondents who answered the following way were not routed to this question when they should have been SCQUAL UNIQUAL W OQUAL GSQUAL OTQUAL 21 and 22 QGCSE4 2 or 1 GCSE4 6 Please note that this routing error will subsequently have affected MEGCSE NUMOL50 amd NUMOL5F It may also have an impact the derived variable LEVQUL11 This err
130. or in work From OD13 respondents are routed to these questions if aged 16 69 or in work Please see user guide 2 for the definitive routing NVLEV level of Award Certificate Diploma NVQ SVQ qualification 1 Level 1 2 Level2 3 Level3 4 Level 4 5 Level5 6 Level6 7 Level7 8 Level8 9 Entry level 10 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent s NVQ or SVQ is categorised as OTHER at NVQ11 NOTES Between JM11 and JS13 respondents were routed to these questions if aged 16 64 or in work From OD13 respondents are routed to these questions if aged 16 69 or in work Please see user guide 2 for the definitive routing NVQSUB subject title awarding body of NVQ SVQ qualification Free text input max 250 characters FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent s NVQ SVQ is categorised as OTHER or DON T KNOW at NVQ11 ONS datasets only NOTES Between JM11 and JS13 respondents were routed to these questions if aged 16 64 or in work From OD13 respondents are routed to these questions if aged 16 69 or in work Please see user guide 2 for the definitive routing NVQO11 NVQs SVQs qualifications below 1 Level 1 2 Level 2 3 Level 3 4 Level 4 5 Level 5 6 Other NVQ SVQ qualification 248 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 7 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM1 1 COVERAGE
131. or supervisor FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees STAT 1 NOTES This is a derived variable please see Volume 4 user guide for further guidance MANAGER is analogous to NMANAGE with the employment edit removed MANAGER supersedes the variables MANAGE amp NMANAGE The filter EVERWK 9 is applied to the questionnaire variable MANAGE to distinguish between current last job MANAGER is managerial status in current job as reported If respondents have both managerial and supervisory duties then their main duty is recorded MPNRO2 Number of employees at workplace reported 1 1 10 2 11 19 3 20 24 4 Don t know but under 25 5 25 49 6 50 249 7 250 499 8 Don t know but between 50 and 499 9 500 or more FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 02 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents currently in work or who have worked in the last 8 years NOTES With the removal of the Census Matrix Edit MPNR02 supersedes the variables MPNE02 amp MPNS02 This is a derived variable please see Volume 4 User Guide for further guidance The filter EVERWK 9 is applied to the questionnaire variables MPNO amp MPN to distinguish between current last job MPNRO2 is number of employees in current job as reported MPNLRO02 is number of employees in last job as reported This variable refers to the total number of employees at the respondent s workplace not just the part
132. or took voluntary redundancy REDYLFT 1 or 2 NOTES As of 2014 this variable is asked of OD main respondents only HTHRET Health reason for early retirement 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from 9 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who took early retirement REDYLFT 6 NOTES As of 2014 this variable is asked of OD main respondents only HTHRES Health reason for resigning 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from 9 120 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who resigned from last job REDYLFT 4 NOTES As of 2014 this variable is asked of OD main respondents only REDYRS Reason regarding care services for leaving job 1 Looking after children or an adult in need of care 2 Some other personal or family reason FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 05 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who gave up work for family or personal reasons or some other reason REDYLFT 8 or 9 NOTES This variable is included on ONS datasets only HTHOTH Health reason for leaving last job 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who left paid job for some other personal or family reason REDYLFT 9 and REDYRS 1 REDANY Whether made redundant from any other job in last 3 months 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 95 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who l
133. other way 115 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 From Winter 94 to OD07 1 Replying to a job advertisement 2 Jobcentre jobmarket etc 3 Careers office 4 Jobclub 5 Private employment agency or business 6 Hearing from someone who worked there 7 Direct application 8 Some other way From JM08 1 Replying to a job advertisement 2 Jobcentre jobmarket or Training amp Employment Agency Office 3 Careers office Connexions Office 4 Job club 5 Private employment agency or business 6 Hearing from someone who worked there 7 Direct application 8 Some other way FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees and people on government schemes who have been with their current employer for less than one year 12 months NOTES From Winter 94 the category 4 Jobclub has been added From Spring 05 the routing reference period changed from 3 months or less to one year 12 months or less From JM08 Connexions is included in response category 3 CONPRE Whether in paid employment or self employed immediately before starting current job 1 In paid employment 2 Self employed 3 Not in paid employment or self employed FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM08 As of 2014 this is asked of OD main respondents only COVERAGE Applies if currently working as an employee government scheme or unpaid family worker STAT 1
134. quarter from Spring 92 to Winter 97 not Spring 93 Spring quarters only from Spring 96 to Spring 08 Every quarter from JS08 For 2014 onwards this questions is now asked to JM main respondents only COVERAGE Applies to all respondents that have found a part time job LKFTPC 2 NOTES Respondents are asked whether they would have accepted a full time job if they had been unable to find a part time one It differs from AXFA which asks a similar question of those who are still looking for a part time job UNDER EMPLOYMENT UNDEMP Whether would like to work longer hours at current basic rate of pay given the opportunity 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 96 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are not looking for a different or additional job DIFJOB 2 UNDHRS Number of extra hours would like to work 0 96 Hours of work 97 97 or more FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 96 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who would like to work longer hours UNDEMP 1 OR LOOKM8 5 OR PREFHR 1 OR ADDJOB 2 174 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 UNDY98 1 9 Reasons for not looking for additional or different job with longer hours 1 Would like to work longer hours in existing job 2 Feel that there is no work available given qualifications and or experience 3 Believe that no work is available nearby 4 Waiting for the results of examinations alrea
135. question changes is more than compensated for by the increased depth and accuracy of the data now provided 195 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Comparison between the data collected by the LFS and administrative data collected by other Government departments shows that the LFS consistently undercounts benefit claimants BENFTS Whether claiming any State Benefits Tax credits 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 98 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents that in paid or unpaid work or are aged between 16 and 69 NOTES From 2001 those receiving Child Benefit are included 09 1 9 Type of benefit claimed 1 Unemployment related benefits NI credits or Universal Credit 2 Income support not as unemployed person 3 Sickness or disability including Personal Independence Payment PIP or Employment and Support Allowance excluding Disabled Persons Tax Credit 4 State pension 5 Family related benefits excluding child benefit amp tax credits 6 Child benefit 7 Housing Council tax GB Rent rate rebate NI 8 Tax credits 9 Other FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 JM14 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are claiming benefits BENFTS 1 NOTES For 2009 Sickness or disability benefit includes Employment and Support Allowance This variable replaces TPBENOS Please note that the references to Universal Credit and Personal Inde
136. replaces ETHOTH 2 Coding frame Numeric value between 001 and 997 FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 01 NOTES See notes for ETHMX This variable saw a minor amendment to the routing for JM11 The variable was amended so as to appear on government datasets from AJ11 onwards ETHUKEUL Ethnicity 9 categories UK level 1 White 2 Mixed Multiple ethnic groups 3 Indian 4 Pakistani 5 Bangladeshi 6 Chinese 7 Any other Asian background 8 Black African Caribbean Black British 9 Other ethnic group 34 NOTES Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 White includes respondents in England Wales and Scotland identifying themselves as White Gypsy or Irish Traveller and respondents in Scotland identifying themselves as White Polish Other includes respondents in Northern Ireland identifying themselves as Irish Traveller and respondents in all UK countries identifying themselves as FREQUENCY Every quarter from AJ11 onwards COVERAGE Applies to respondents aged 16 and over ETHUK11 Ethnicity 11 categories UK level 1 White 2 Gypsy Traveller or Irish Traveller 3 Mixed Multiple ethnic groups 4 Indian 5 Pakistani 6 Bangladeshi 7 Chinese 8 Any other Asian background 9 Black African Caribbean Black British 10 Arab 11 Other ethnic group FREQUENCY Every quarter from AJ11 onwards COVERAGE Applies to resp
137. sample already reached Prev ineligible now eligible Prev residents left Prev Ineligible now Eligible Household moved out Address not finished with Each quarter from Spring 97 LSTHO Previous household outcome 11 12 20 31 36 37 41 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 59 60 61 62 89 FREQUENCY RTYPHH Type 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Full interview Economically inactive Partially co operating household Refusal to HQ letter Outright refusal Circumstantial refusal Non contact No trace of address Not yet built or under construction Demolished or derelict Vacant or being refurbished Non residential or business only Institution Temporary accommodation second residence Directed not to sample at this address Holiday home Household no longer resident Previously ineligible now eligible Household not finished with Each quarter from Spring 97 ADDRESS FEATURES BLOCK of Household Single person household not retired Elderly retired household Lone parent Couple 1 or both working age with children Couple 1 or both working age no children or not sure about dependants Multi person household students sharers Other 314 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 8 Not known Uncertain FREQUENCY Wave 1 and Face to Face Only NOTES This is an outcome coding variable As it is only asked in FTF wave one inte
138. see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable HOURS IN SECOND JOB ACTHR2 Actual hours in second job including overtime 0 96 Hours 97 97 or more hours 99 Don t know or refusal FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies if Y2Job 2 NOTES This variable includes both paid and unpaid overtime HOME WORKERS AND SELF EMPLOYED SECOND JOB HOME2 Whether working from home in additional job 1 In your home 2 In the same grounds or buildings as your home 3 In different place using home as a base 4 Or somewhere quite separate from home FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters only from Spring 92 to Winter 96 Each quarter from Spring 97 COVERAGE Applies if Y2Job 2 166 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 SSELFA 1 9 Reason for self employed second job 1 Job after retirement 2 Redundancy 3 To maintain or increase income 4 Saw the demand or market 5 Could not find other employment 6 Started or joined a family business 7 Better work conditions or job satisfaction 8 Nature of job or chosen career 9 Other reasons FREQUENCY OD quarters only from 2014 COVERAGE Applies if respondent is self employed in their second job STAT2 2 NOTES As with all new questions the reasons for self employment questions are subject to ONS monitoring of responses for several quarters and should therefore be treat
139. the reference week even though they had a job i e on holiday or sick are coded as 0 As hours are not stored as whole numbers users should use 1 decimal place when ranging hours i e 1 30 hours should be ranged as 1 0 30 4 etc TOTAC2 Actual hours worked including paid and unpaid overtime 140 0 96 97 99 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Hours of work 97 or more Don t know No answer Each quarter from Spring 92 Applies to all respondents who work overtime and actually worked in reference week Those respondents who did not work in the reference week even though they had a job i e on holiday or sick are coded as 0 As hours are not stored as whole numbers users should use 1 decimal place when ranging hours i e 1 30 hours should be ranged as 1 0 30 4 etc BUSHR Total usual hours worked in main job excluding overtime 0 96 97 FREQUENCY COVERAGE schemes NOTES Number of usual hours 97 or more hours Each quarter from Winter 92 Applies to all respondents in employment excluding those on certain government This variable is derived from AGE EVEROT TOTUS amp USUHR TTUSHR Total usual hours worked in main job including overtime 0 96 97 FREQUENCY COVERAGE schemes NOTES Hours of work 97 or more Each quarter from Spring 92 Applies to all respon
140. the type may fall into one of several categories For example a local authority school SECTRO03 coded 4 at an opted out school SECTRO03 coded 5 a FE college is also 5 a private school SECTRO03 coded 7 Most private schools including so called public schools are charities Private contractors SECTOR coded 1 this applies even if they work exclusively for the public sector e g a cleaning firm catering firm or freelance consultant working for a government department or local authority Self employed individuals SECTOR coded 1 Sole traders SECTOR coded 1 Businesses owned by an individual SECTOR coded 1 Doctors and dentists and others working in their practices are coded according to whether the practice is mainly NHS or private GPs are technically self employed even when they work exclusively for the NHS but for the purpose of this question they are to be treated as working for the NHS if that is what they mainly do This means mainly private work SECTOR coded 1 mainly NHS work SECTOR coded 2 and SECTRO03 coded 6 Health authority or NHS Trust Private Hospital SECTOR coded 1 Churches SECTRO03 coded 9 some other kind of organisation Charities SECTRO03 coded 7 Trade Unions SECTRO03 coded 7 Government funded bodies and agencies SECTRO03 coded 3 central government civil service This includes the Benefits Agency the Employment Service Research Councils the British Council National Museums
141. was introduced in Spring 96 to provide additional information about the total number of family units within the household This is a derived variable please see Volume 4 User Guide for further guidance TOTXFU Total number of extended families in household 1 16 Total number of extended families in household FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 96 on household datasets only Each quarter from Spring 2000 on both household and ONS datasets COVERAGE Applies to all family units 76 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NOTES TOTXFU is only included on the household datasets prior to Spring 2000 It is included on both household and ONS datasets from Spring 2000 This variable was introduced in Spring 96 to provide additional information about the total number of family units within the household This is a derived variable please see Volume 4 User Guide for further guidance XFMDC Total number of extended family units in household with dependent children only 1 16 Total number of extended family units in household with dependent children only FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 96 on household datasets only Each quarter from Spring 2000 on both household and ONS datasets COVERAGE Applies to all family units NOTES XFMDC is only included on the household datasets prior to Spring 2000 It is included on both household and ONS datasets from Spring 200
142. work no reason given 23 Inactive not seeking not like work waiting results of job application 24 Inactive not seeking not like work student 25 Inactive not seeking not like work looking after family home 26 Inactive not seeking not like work temporarily sick or injured 27 Inactive not seeking not like work long term sick or disabled 28 Inactive not seeking not like work believes no jobs available 29 Inactive not seeking not like work not yet started looking 30 Inactive not seeking not like work does not need or want employment 31 Inactive not seeking not like work retired from paid work 32 Inactive not seeking not like work other reason 33 Inactive not seeking not like work no reason given 34 Under 16 FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 05 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES The inactive categories for this variable have been expanded to give a better indication as to the reasons behind inactivity The underlying variables NOLOOK and NOWANT have also been replaced by the new variable NOLWM This variable is the standard economic activity variable and should be used for consistency with current ONS practice as it gives the International Labour Organisation ILO standard definitions of employment unemployment and economic activity and inactivity This is a derived variable and due to the changes in Government Training schemes has been updated for
143. your name on the books of a private employment agency Advertise for jobs in newspapers or journals Answer advertisements in newspapers and journals Study situations vacant in newspapers or journals Apply directly to employers Ask friends relatives colleagues or trade unions about jobs Wait for the results of an application for a job Look for premises or equipment Seek any kind of permit Try to get a loan or other financial backing for a job or business Do anything else to find work Each quarter from Spring 92 Applies to all respondents looking for work as an employee or self employed in the last As with LKWFWM all the method of looking for work variables have been increased by one category 2 Careers office from Summer 94 This variable codes the main responses given in METHAL 190 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Main method of looking for work Spring 92 to Spring 94 1 Visit a Jobcentre 2 Visit Jobclub 3 Have your name on the books of a private employment agency 4 Advertise for jobs in newspapers or journals 5 Answer advertisements in newspapers and journals 6 Study situations vacant in newspapers or journals 7 Apply directly to employers 8 Ask friends relatives colleagues or trade unions about jobs 9 Wait for the results of an application for a job 10 Look for premises or equipment 11 Seek any kind of permit 12 Tr
144. 0 This variable was introduced in Spring 96 to provide additional information about the total number of family units within the household This is a derived variable please see Volume 4 User Guide for further guidance XFMNDC Total number of extended family units in household with non dependent children only 1 16 Total number of extended family units in household with non dependent children only FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 96 on household datasets only Each quarter from Spring 2000 on both household and ONS datasets COVERAGE Applies to all family units NOTES XFMNDC is only included on the household datasets prior to Spring 2000 It is included on both household and ONS datasets from Spring 2000 This variable was introduced in Spring 96 to provide additional information about the total number of family units within the household This is a derived variable please see Volume 4 User Guide for further guidance HDPCH19 Number of dependent children in household aged under 19 0 10 Number of dependent children in household aged under 19 FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all households NOTES Dependent children are all those aged 0 15 and those aged 16 18 who are in full time education Text labels are not available for this variable This variable is derived from CAIND amp AGE HDPCH4 Number of children in household aged 4 years or less 0 16 Number of children FREQ
145. 0 124 1 14 7000 7999 2 14 600 649 3 14 125 149 1 15 8000 8999 2 15 650 699 3 15 150 174 1 16 9000 9999 216 700 799 3 16 175 199 1 17 10000 10999 2 17 800 899 3 17 200 224 1 18 11000 11999 2 18 900 999 3 18 225 249 1 19 12000 12999 2 19 1000 1099 3 19 250 274 1 20 13000 13999 2 20 1100 1199 3 20 275 299 1 21 14000 14999 2 21 1200 1299 3 21 300 324 1 22 15000 15999 2 22 1300 1399 3 22 325 349 1 23 16000 16999 2 23 1400 1499 3 23 350 374 1 24 17000 17999 2 24 1500 1599 3 24 375 399 1 25 18000 18999 2 25 1600 1699 3 25 400 424 1 26 19000 19999 2 26 1700 1799 3 26 425 449 1 27 20000 22999 2 27 1800 1899 3 27 450 474 1 28 23000 25999 2 28 1900 1999 3 28 475 499 1 29 26000 28999 2 29 2000 2199 3 29 500 549 1 30 29000 31999 230 2200 2499 3 30 550 599 1 31 32000 34999 2 31 2500 2999 3 31 600 649 1 32 35000 37999 2 32 3000 3499 3 32 650 699 1 33 38000 40999 2 33 3500 3999 3 33 700 749 1 34 41000 or more 2 34 4000 or more 3 34 750 or more GROSS INCOME INCNOW Prompt to ask income questions 1 Now 2 Later 3 Non contact proxy interview not possible 8 Answer state benefit questions only 9 Refusal FREQUENCY Each quarter from Winter 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents aged 16 69 or those in employment in the reference week GROSS99 Gross pay before deductions 1 99994 1 to 99994 self assessment 99995 Paid 99995 or more
146. 1 Furnished 2 Partly furnished 3 Unfurnished FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE From Spring 92 to Winter 95 Applies to all respondents to rent their accommodation or live their rent free TENURE 2 From Spring 96 onwards Applies to all respondents to rent their accommodation or live their rent free TEN96 4 or 5 NOTES The terms furnished partly furnished and unfurnished have not been defined and rely solely on the respondents assessment Only furnishing provided by the landlord is taken into consideration not furnishing provided by the tenants The coverage was amended in Spring 96 due to TENURE being replaced by TEN96 as a result of the GSS Social Survey Harmonisation Project NRMS2 Number of Bedrooms 0 20 Numeric value between 0 and 20 FREQUENCY Each quarter from JS09 until JM14 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in waves 1 and 5 for the main LFS and in all waves for the Boost survey NOTES This includes any room that when built was intended to be a bedroom even if it is not used as such at present and even if it does not have a bed in it It must have a window There must be at least one bedroom It includes bedsits boxrooms and attic bedrooms Excludes rooms that are not habitable such as halls landings and alcoves and rooms used solely for business Excludes living rooms used for sleeping This question replaced NRMS1 JS09 This variable was removed from the questionnaire JM14 on
147. 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Autumn quarters only from Autumn 99 to Autumn 03 OD quarters only odd years from Autumn 05 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees and who did not work on a Public holiday over the last year NOTES Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions BHNOTC Reason for not being paid at least basic rate on public holidays not worked in last year 1 Only receive pay for actual days worked 2 Do not usually work on those days 3 Had not started current job 4 Other reason FREQUENCY Autumn quarters only from Autumn 99 to Autumn 03 OD quarters only odd years from Autumn 05 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees and who did not work on a Public holiday over the last year NOTES Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions UNION REPRESENTATION UNION Whether trade union or staff association member 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Autumn quarters only from Autumn 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment excluding those on certain government schemes and unpaid family workers NOTES From Autumn 92 to Autumn 94 only GB data is available The variable IRTUSA records NI data for this period Northern lreland data has been amended to a quarterly basis from Winter 94 This ensures that both GB and NI trade union staff association data a
148. 19 Hertfordshire 921 Isle of Wight 925 Lincolnshire 926 Norfolk 928 Northamptonshire 929 Northumberland 931 Oxfordshire 933 Somerset 935 Suffolk 936 Surrey 937 Warwickshire 938 West Sussex Applies to all respondents in Great Britain NA Isle of Anglesey NC Gwynedd NE Conwy NG Denbighshire NJ Flintshire NL Wrexham NN Powys NQ Ceredigion NS Pembrokeshire NU Carmarthenshire NX Swansea NZ Neath Port Talbot PB Bridgend PD Vale of Glamorgan PF Rhondda Cynon Taff PH Merthyr Tydfil PK Caerphilly PL Blaenau Gwent PM Torfaen PP Monmouthshire PR Newport PT Cardiff QA Aberdeen City QB Aberdeenshire QC Angus QD Argyll amp Bute QE Scottish Borders QF Clackmannanshire QG West Dunbartonshire QH Dumfries amp Galloway QJ Dundee City QK East Ayrshire QL East Dunbartonshire QM East Lothian QN East Renfrewshire QP City of Edinburgh QQ Falkirk QR Fife QS City of Glasgow QT Highland QU Inverclyde QW Midlothian QX Moray QY North Ayrshire QZ North Lanarkshire RA Orkney Islands RB Perth amp Kinross RC Renfrewshire RD Shetland Islands RE South Ayrshire RF South Lanarkshire RG Stirling RH West Lothian RJ Eilean Siar This variable is included only on annual local area datasets which are available only to ONS and those government departments which sponsor th
149. 2 Somewhere else FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 to Winter 95 Spring quarters only from Spring 96 COVERAGE Spring quarters only Spring 92 Spring 94 Applies to all respondents who have lived at their address less than 3 months RESLNO 6 Non Spring quarters Summer 92 Winter 94 Applies to all respondents who have lived at their address less than 3 months RESLEN 2 Each quarter from Spring 95 Winter 95 Applies to all respondents who have lived at their address less than 3 months RESLNO 6 Each quarter from Spring 96 onwards Applies to all respondents who have lived at their address less than months AND they are not a baby born within the last 3 months RESMTH lt 3 AND RESBBY 1 NOTES If filtering on a specific country other than the UK then the relevant category of MICRYO should also be filtered on RESMTH and RESBBY were introduced in Spring 96 to identify babies born less than 3 months ago i e between survey waves Residence in England 921 Wales 924 Scotland 923 Northern Ireland 922 Jersey 832 and the Isle of Man 833 should all be coded to UK 1 Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions 58 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 M3CRYO Country of residence 3 months ago 792 TURKEY 804 UKRAINE 972 UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 336 VATICA
150. 2011 etc COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have suffered from an illness in last 12 months caused made worse by work ILLWRK 1 the job that caused or worsened the illness was not their main or second job WCHJB3 and who have not provided details of their job or second job OCCT empty or OCCT2 empty NOTES This question was removed from the questionnaire in JM13 WOCCD Main duties of the job What did you mainly do in your job FREQUENCY JM quarters every 2 years 2007 2009 2011 etc COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have suffered from an illness that was caused or made worse by work in past 12 months ILLWRK 1 the job that caused or worsened the illness was not their main or second job WCHJB3 and who have not provided details of their job or second job OCCT empty or OCCT2 empty NOTES This question was removed from the questionnaire in JM13 HOW 1CAUS How work caused the illness or made it worse Manual handling lifting carrying pushing pulling Keyboard work or repetitive action repeating a series of movements e g assembly work Awkward tiring positions Workplace accident Stress related e g job demands control support stress at work Other RR et TROND ED ID II FREQUENCY JM quarters only from 2010 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents for whom ILLWRK 1 and TYPILL 1 OR 2 OR 3 This variable replaces HOWCAUSE from JM10 NOTES This question was removed
151. 2012 please see Volume 4 User Guide for further information 91 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 ILODEFR Basic economic activity ILO definition reported 1 In employment 2 ILO unemployed 3 Inactive 4 Under 16 FREQUENCY Each quarter from Autumn 93 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES With the removal of the Census Matrix Edit ILODEFR supersedes the variable ILODEFA This variable is derived from AGE amp 5 The variable INECACR is replaced by INECACO5 in the derivation of this variable from Spring 05 onwards This variable amalgamates the main headings of INECACO5 From Spring 96 when analysing economic activity at family unit or household level INECACR should be used because ILODEFR does not have a DNA category The ILO unemployment rate is ILO unemployed as a percentage of the economically active 92 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 GOVERNMENT TRAINING SCHEMES SCHM12 Work schemes 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 50 66 97 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES Work Club or Enterprise Club New Enterprise Allowance Work Experience Work Trial Work Programme Training for Success Northern Ireland only option Steps to Work Northern Ireland only option Training for Work Scotland only option Get ready for work Scotland only option Any other training scheme or
152. 2014 STRUCTURE 6 Type of family unit 1 1 person male 2 1 person female 3 Same sex couple 4 Married couple with no children 5 Married couple with non dependent children only 6 Married couple with dependent children 7 Cohabiting couple with no children 8 Cohabiting couple with non dependent children only 9 Cohabiting couple with dependent children 10 Male lone parent with dependent children 11 Male lone parent with non dependent children only 12 Female lone parent with dependent children 13 Female lone parent with non dependent children only 14 sex cohabiting couple with no children 15 Same sex cohabiting couple with non dependent children only 16 Same sex cohabiting couple with dependent children 17 Civil partners same sex marriage couple with no children 18 Civil partners same sex marriage couple with non dependent children only 19 Civil partners couple same sex marriage with dependent children FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 06 on household datasets only Each quarter from Spring 2006 on household and ONS datasets COVERAGE Applies to all family units NOTES Between Spring 1996 and Spring 2006 this variable was called FUTYPE This variable is derived from SEX RELHFU MARSTA LIVWTH LIV12W amp FDPCH19 EXTFU Extended family unit 1 17 Extended family unit number FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 96 COVERAGE Applies to all house
153. 392 JAPAN 400 JORDAN 398 KAZAKHSTAN 408 KOREA NORTH 410 KOREA SOUTH 414 KUWAIT 417 KYRGYZSTAN 418 LAOS 422 LEBANON 446 MACAO SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION OF CHIINA 458 MALAYSIA 462 MALDIVES 983 Middle East NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 496 MONGOLIA 18 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 682 SAUDI ARABIA 702 SINGAPORE 144 SRI LANKA 760 SYRIA 762 TAJIKISTAN 764 THAILAND 795 TURKMENISTAN 784 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 860 UZBEKISTAN 704 VIETNAM 275 WEST BANK INCLUDING EAST JERUSALEM AND GAZA STRIP 887 ANTARCTICA AND OCEANIA 016 AMERIGAN SAMOA 010 ANTARCTICA 989 ANTARCTICA AND OCEANIA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 036 AUSTRALIA 074 BOUVET ISLAND 086 BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY 162 CHRISTMAS ISLAND 166 COCOS KEELING ISLANDS 184 COOK ISLANDS 242 FIJI 258 FRENCH POLYNESIA 260 FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES 316 GUAM 334 HEARD ISLAND AND MCDONALD ISLANDS 296 KIRIBATI 584 MARSHALL ISLANDS 583 MIGRONESIA 520 NAURU 540 NEW CALEDONIA 554 NEW ZEALAND 570 NIUE 574 NORFOLK ISLAND 580 NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS 585 PALAU 598 PAPUA NEW GUINEA 612 PITCAIRN HENDERSON DUCIE AND OENO ISLANDS 882 SAMOA 090 SOLOMON ISLANDS 239 SOUTH GEORGIA AND THE SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS 772 TOKELAU 776 TONGA 798 TUVALU 581 UNITED STATES MINOR OUTLYING ISLANDS 548 VANUATU 876 WALLIS AND FUTUNA OTHER COUNTRIES 991 AT SEA 992 IN THE AIR 19
154. 40 44yrs 10 45 49yrs 11 50 54yrs 12 55 59yrs 13 60 64 14 65 69yrs 15 70 and over Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 to Winter 99 on ONS datasets only Spring 00 only Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This variable is only available on ONS datasets from Spring 92 to Winter 99 AGEEUL Age bands 1 0 4yrs 2 5 9yrs 3 10 14yrs 4 15 yrs 5 16 yrs 6 17 yrs 7 18 yrs 8 19 yrs 9 20 yrs 10 21yrs 11 22 yrs 12 23 yrs 13 24 yrs 14 25 29yrs 15 30 34yrs 16 35 39yrs 17 40 44yrs 18 45 49yrs 19 50 54yrs 20 55 59yrs 21 60 64yrs 22 65 69yrs 23 70 74 yrs 24 75 79 yrs 25 80 84 yrs 26 85 89 yrs 27 90 94 yrs 28 95 99 yrs FREQUENCY Every quarter from ODO7 MF5964 Males 16 64 and Females 16 59 1 Male 16 64 2 Female 16 59 FREQUENCY Each quarter from AJ 2010 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This is a derived variable please see Volume 4 user guide for further guidance This replaced WRKAGE from AJ10 MF1664 Males and females aged 16 64 1 Aged 16 64 inclusive 2 Not aged 16 64 FREQUENCY Each quarter from AJ 2010 10 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This is a derived variable please see Volume 4 user gui
155. 50 249 7 250 499 8 Don t know but between 50 and 499 9 500 or more FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 02 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment with a regular additional job NOTES With the removal of the Census Matrix Edit MPNSRO2 supersedes the variables MPNES02 amp MPNSS02 MPNSRO2 is the number of employees in second job as reported This variable is derived from STAT2 amp SOLO2 This variable records the total number of employees at the respondent s workplace not just the number employed within the particular section department he she works in SOLO2 Working alone or employees in second job reported 1 Alone or with partner s but not employee 2 With employees FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who self employed and who have regular additional job STAT2 2 NOTES From Spring 92 to Winter 00 this variable was called NSOLO2 NSOLO2 was processed through the Census Matrix Edit which checks the respondents occupation and their employment status for inconsistencies With the removal of the edit SOLO2 supersedes the variable NSOLO2 Self employed people who use only other self employed people in the business they run e g builders are coded 1 JOBTYP2 Permanency of second job 1 Permanent 2 Some way not permanent FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have a regular additional job and didn
156. 50 characters FREQUENGY Every quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if foreign qualification is an other work related or professional qualification UK Gained Qualifications QULCHUK source of any qualifications from UK 1 from school or home schooling 2 from college or university 3 related to work 4 from government schemes 5 gained in your leisure time or by teaching yourself 6 in some other way 7 no qualifications 8 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM 2011 COVERAGE Applies to those aged between 16 and 69 or those aged 69 who are working NOTES This variable replaces QUALCH9 1 7 Users should be aware that up until AJ13 respondents were able to answer QUALUK 1 and QULCHUK 7 From AJ13 onwards this is no longer possible Analysts of this variable should be aware that from JS13 onwards there is check in the questionnaire that won t allow respondents to state at QUALUK that their highest qualifications are from the UK and then say at QULCHUK that they have no UK qualifications QULCH11 1 6 Qualifications currently held from UK and abroad 1 From school or home schooling 2 From college or university 3 Related to work 4 From Government schemes 5 Leisure Time 6 Obtained in some other way 7 None 8 Don t know FREQUENGY Each quarter from JM 2011 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have gained either UK or foreign qualifications NOTES This variable rep
157. 6 year studies CSYS or equivalent obtained 1 Yes 0 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE This variable amalgamates the responses given at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL and OTQUAL in order to identify whether a respondent has received this particular qualification QUAL_18 Whether Access to HE obtained 1 Yes 0 No 220 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE This variable amalgamates the responses given at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL OTQUAL in order to identify whether respondent has received this particular qualification QUAL 19 Whether O level or equivalent obtained 1 Yes 0 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE This variable amalgamates the responses given at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL and OTQUAL in order to identify whether a respondent has received this particular qualification QUAL_20 Whether Standard Ordinary O Grade Lower Scotland obtained 1 Yes 0 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE This variable amalgamates the responses given at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL and OTQUAL in order to identify whether a respondent has received this particular qualification QUAL_21 Whether GCSE Vocational GCSE obtained 1 Yes 0 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE This variable amalgamates the responses given at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL an
158. 6 69 or in work Please see user guide 2 for the definitive routing Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable GNVQOLB level of GNVQ GSVQ qualifications 1 Level 1 2 Level2 3 Level 3 4 Level 4 5 Level5 6 Level6 7 Level7 8 Level8 9 Entry level 10 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has an OTHER GNVQ GSVQ qualification Between JM11 and JS13 respondents were routed to these questions if aged 16 64 or in work From OD13 respondents are routed to these questions if aged 16 69 or in work Please see user guide 2 for the definitive routing Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable 246 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NVQSVQ Whether respondent has any full NVQs or SVQs 1 Yes 2 No 3 Don t know 4 Never heard of NVQs SVQs FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 93 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have qualifications and have not previously stated that they have NVQs SVQs NOTES Code 4 Never heard of NVQs SVQs is only available for personal not proxy interviews If a proxy respondent has never heard of them code 3 Don t know is entered Between JM11 and JS13 respondents were routed to th
159. 7 Number of days 148 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENCY AJ OD or wave 1 only from Spring 97 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment excluding those on certain government schemes FLEX10 1 2 3 4 7 or 9 Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions USUWRKM 1 3 Usual work pattern 1 During the day 2 During the evening 3 At night FREQUENCY AJ quarters only from Spring 2000 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment NOTES From Spring 2000 the coding structure of this variable changed and USUWRK was set to YES 1 if respondents usually worked during the relevant period and NO 2 to those who did not work during the relevant period Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions Analysts are advised to use USUWRK1 3 for analysis purposes if they are interested in this area Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable USUWRK 1 3 Respondents usual pattern of work 1 Usual to work during day 2 Usual to work during evening 3 Usual to work at night FREQUENCY AJ quarters only from Spring 2000 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment NOTES From Spring 2000 the coding structure of this variable cha
160. 93 to Winter 96 1 Private firm or business 2 A limited company 3 Some other kind of organisation Spring 97 onwards 1 A private firm or business or a limited company 2 Some other kind of organisation FREQUENCY Each quarter from Summer 93 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents currently in work or on work training NOTES This variable is used to help identify the split between public and private sector employment Note that the emphasis is on the organisation the person works not the individual roles jobs carried out by the individual SECTRO03 of non private organisation 4 Public company pic 2 Nationalised industry or state corporation 5 Central Government Civil Service 6 Local government or council incl police fire services amp local authority controlled schools or colleges 5 University or other grant funded educational establishment 6 Health authority or NHS trust 7 Charity voluntary organisation or trust 8 Armed forces 9 Other kind of organisation FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 03 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who don t work for a private firm or business or a limited company SECTOR 2 NOTES This variable replaces SECTRO This variable expands on Other kind of organisation from SECTOR It is one of the variables used to create a split between public amp private sector employment see PUBLIC The aim is to get a split between the public amp
161. A 204 BENIN 072 BOTSWANA 854 BURKINA 108 BURUNDI 120 CAMEROON 912 CANARY ISLANDS 132 CAPE VERDE 140 CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 148 CHAD 174 COMOROS 178 CONGO 180 CONGO DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC 262 DJIBOUTI 818 EGYPT 226 EQUATORIAL GUINEA 232 ERITREA 231 ETHIOPIA 266 GABON 270 GAMBIA THE 288 GHANA 324 GUINEA 624 GUINEA BISSAU 384 IVORY COAST 404 KENYA 426 LESOTHO 20 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 430 LIBERIA 512 OMAN 434 LIBYA 586 PAKISTAN 450 MADAGASCAR 608 PHILIPPINES 454 MALAWI 634 QATAR 466 MALI 478 MAURITANIA 480 MAURITIUS 175 MAYOTTE 504 MOROCCO 508 MOZAMBIQUE 516 NAMIBIA 562 NIGER 566 NIGERIA 638 R UNION 646 RWANDA 678 SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE 686 SENEGAL 690 SEYCHELLES 694 SIERRA LEONE 706 SOMALIA 710 SOUTH AFRICA 654 ST HELENA 736 SUDAN 748 SWAZILAND 834 TANZANIA 768 TOGO 788 TUNISIA 800 UGANDA 732 WESTERN SAHARA 894 ZAMBIA 716 ZIMBABWE MIDDLE EAST AND ASIA 004 AFGHANISTAN 984 ASIA EXCEPT MIDDLE EAST NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 048 BAHRAIN 050 BANGLADESH 064 BHUTAN 096 BRUNE 104 BURMA 116 CAMBODIA 156 CHINA 158 CHINA TAIWAN 626 EAST TIMOR 344 HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION OF CHIINA 356 INDIA 360 INDONESIA 364 IRAN 368 IRAQ 376 ISRAEL 392 JAPAN 400 JORDAN 398 KAZAKHSTAN 408 KOREA NORTH 410 KOREA SOUTH 414 KUWAIT 417 KYRGYZSTAN 418 LAOS 422 LEBAN
162. A Office for MEN National Statistics Labour Force Survey User Guide VOLUME DETAILS OF LFS VARIA BLES 2014 Version 4 February 2015 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 DETAILS OF LFS VARIABLES 2014 CONTENTS INFORMATION ABOUT THIS GUIDE ssesesesseesseseeensesssensesnsesnsensesnsesnssnsesnsenssensesnsensssnseensensssnsesnsenessnsesnssnessnsesnsene 3 INDIVIDUAL DEMOGRAPHICS ji 22055665 09555599 9 MAIN CHARACTERISTICS sanne 9 ETHNICITY RELIGION ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE rrrsrvvrnnssssrnnsssrnnsssvrensssvvnnsssvrnnssvnrenssvvrenssvnre 31 RESIDENTIAL DETAIES Lnr 41 RESPONSE DETAILS vissa see 68 8 8 70 STRUCTURE Re 70 79 HOUSING FENURE 84 8 8 5 50 86 STRUCTURE aS 87 ECONOMIC A
163. AGE Each quarter from Spring 92 to Spring 93 on ONS datasets only Each quarter from Applies to all respondents in employment excluding certain government schemes EMPLEN Length of time continuously employed 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 FREQUENCY Summer 93 COVERAGE NOTES Less than 3 months Between 3 and 6 months Between 6 and 12 months Between 1 and 2 years Between 2 and 5 years Between 5 and 10 years Between 10 and 20 years 20 years or more Each quarter from Spring 92 to Spring 93 on ONS datasets only Each quarter from Applies to all respondents in employment excluding certain government schemes This is a derived variable please see Volume 4 User Guide for further guidance 113 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 CONMPY Year started working with current employer Year last 2 digits FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees those on Government schemes or persons doing unpaid work for relative s business STAT 1 or 3 OR RELBUS 1 AND EVERWK 9 CONSEY Year started as continuously self employed Year last 2 digits from Spring 98 4 digits FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are self employed or doing unpaid work for their own business STAT 2 OR OWNBUS 1 AND EVERWK 9 CONMON Month started current job 1 January 2
164. AND MCDONALD ISLANDS 296 KIRIBATI 584 MARSHALL ISLANDS 583 MICRONESIA 520 NAURU 540 NEW CALEDONIA 554 NEW ZEALAND 570 NIUE 574 NORFOLK ISLAND 580 NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS 585 PALAU 598 PAPUA NEW GUINEA 612 PITCAIRN HENDERSON DUCIE AND OENO ISLANDS 882 SAMOA 090 SOLOMON ISLANDS 239 SOUTH GEORGIA AND THE SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS 772 TOKELAU 776 TONGA 798 TUVALU 581 UNITED STATES MINOR OUTLYING ISLANDS 548 VANUATU 876 WALLIS AND FUTUNA OTHER COUNTRIES 991 AT SEA 992 IN THE AIR Abbreviations pns part not stated nes not elsewhere stated FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 to Winter 95 AJ quarters only from Spring 96 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who were living outside the UK 3 months ago M3CRY 2 NOTES Text labels not available for this variable When filtering on a specific country also filter on Option 2 Somewhere else in M3CRY It should be noted that from Spring 92 to Winter 92 codes were from 1 95 then from Spring 93 they were increased to 116 from Spring 98 to 135 and from Spring 99 to 144 this is for SOEC purposes as a 60 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 number of countries were not uniquely identifiable Note the change in coding for At sea in the air and Stateless in from Spring 93 Spring 98 and Spring 99 Updated list of countries from Spring 07 Note that residents of in England Wales Scotland North
165. ANTARCTICA AND OCEANIA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 036 AUSTRALIA 074 BOUVET ISLAND 086 BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY 162 CHRISTMAS ISLAND 166 COCOS KEELING ISLANDS 184 COOK ISLANDS 242 FIJI 258 FRENCH POLYNESIA 260 FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES 316 GUAM 334 HEARD ISLAND AND MCDONALD ISLANDS 296 KIRIBATI 584 MARSHALL ISLANDS 583 MICRONESIA 520 NAURU 540 NEW CALEDONIA 554 NEW ZEALAND 570 NIUE 574 NORFOLK ISLAND 580 NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS 585 PALAU 598 PAPUA NEW GUINEA 612 PITCAIRN HENDERSON DUCIE AND OENO ISLANDS 882 SAMOA 090 SOLOMON ISLANDS 239 SOUTH GEORGIA AND THE SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS 772 TOKELAU 776 TONGA 798 TUVALU 581 UNITED STATES MINOR OUTLYING ISLANDS 548 VANUATU 876 WALLIS AND FUTUNA OTHER COUNTRIES 991 AT SEA 992 IN THE AIR FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM07 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This is a derived variable please see User Guide 4 for further guidance This variable replaces CRYOX From JM12 it is derived from CRY12 amp CRYO7 926 UNITED KINGDOM NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED includes all respondents born in the UK including those who don t know which country in the UK all respondents born in the Channel Islands and all respondents born in the Isle of Man The difference between CRYOX7 and CRYO7 is that CRYOX7 groups together Wales England Scotland Northern Ireland Channel Islands and Isle of Man into one group UK GB CRYOX7 926 whilst CRYO7 separa
166. ANZANIA 768 TOGO 788 TUNISIA 800 UGANDA 732 WESTERN SAHARA 894 ZAMBIA 716 ZIMBABWE MIDDLE EAST AND ASIA 004 AFGHANISTAN 984 ASIA EXCEPT MIDDLE EAST NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 048 BAHRAIN 050 BANGLADESH 064 BHUTAN 096 BRUNEI 104 BURMA 116 CAMBODIA 156 CHINA 158 CHINA TAIWAN 626 EAST TIMOR 344 HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION OF CHIINA 356 INDIA 360 INDONESIA 364 IRAN 368 IRAQ 376 ISRAEL 392 JAPAN 400 JORDAN 398 KAZAKHSTAN 408 KOREA NORTH 410 KOREA SOUTH 414 KUWAIT 417 KYRGYZSTAN 418 LAOS 422 LEBANON 446 MACAO SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION OF CHIINA 458 MALAYSIA 462 MALDIVES 983 Middle East and Asia NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 496 MONGOLIA 524 NEPAL 512 OMAN 586 PAKISTAN 608 PHILIPPINES 634 QATAR 682 SAUDI ARABIA 702 SINGAPORE 144 SRI LANKA 760 SYRIA 762 TAJIKISTAN 764 THAILAND 795 TURKMENISTAN 784 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 860 UZBEKISTAN 704 VIETNAM 275 WEST BANK INCLUDING EAST JERUSALEM AND GAZA STRIP 887 ANTARCTICA AND OCEANIA 016 AMERICAN SAMOA 59 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 010 ANTARCTICA 989 ANTARCTICA AND OGEANIA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 036 AUSTRALIA 074 BOUVET ISLAND 086 BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY 162 CHRISTMAS ISLAND 166 COCOS KEELING ISLANDS 184 COOK ISLANDS 242 FIJI 258 FRENCH POLYNESIA 260 FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES 316 GUAM 334 HEARD ISLAND
167. AR 558 NICARAGUA 352 ICELAND 985 NORTH AMERICA NOT 438 LIECHTENSTEIN OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 807 MACEDONIA 591 PANAMA 498 MOLDOVA 600 PARAGUAY 492 MONACO 604 PERU 499 MONTENEGRO 630 PUERTO RICO 578 NORWAY 987 SOUTH AMERICA NOT 643 RUSSIA OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 674 SAN MARINO 659 ST KITTS AND NEVIS 688 SERBIA 662 ST LUCIA 974 SERBIA AND 666 ST PIERRE AND MONTENEGRO NOT MIQUELON OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 670 ST VINCENT AND THE 744 SVALBARD AND JAN GRENADINES MAYEN 740 SURINAM 756 SWITZERLAND 780 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 796 TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS 840 UNITED STATES 850 UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS 858 URUGUAY 862 VENEZUELA AFRICA 982 AFRICA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 012 ALGERIA 024 ANGOLA 204 BENIN 072 BOTSWANA 854 BURKINA 108 BURUNDI 120 CAMEROON 912 CANARY ISLANDS 132 CAPE VERDE 140 CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 148 CHAD 174 COMOROS 178 CONGO 180 CONGO DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC 262 DJIBOUTI 818 EGYPT 226 EQUATORIAL GUINEA 232 ERITREA 231 ETHIOPIA 266 GABON 270 GAMBIA THE 288 GHANA 324 GUINEA 624 GUINEA BISSAU 384 IVORY COAST 404 KENYA 426 LESOTHO 430 LIBERIA 434 LIBYA 450 MADAGASCAR 454 MALAWI 466 MALI 478 MAURITANIA 480 MAURITIUS 175 MAYOTTE 504 MOROCCO 508 MOZAMBIQUE 516 NAMIBIA 562 NIGER 566 NIGERIA 638 REUNION 646 RWANDA 678 SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE 686 SENEGAL 690 SEYCHELLES 694 SIERRA LEONE 706 SOMALIA 710 SOUTH AFRICA 654 ST HELENA 736 SUDAN 748 SWAZILAND 834 T
168. C BEC TEC EDEXCEL LQL qualification 6 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has a BTEC TEC EDEXCEL LQL NOTES This variable replaces 8 BTACD Was your highest BTEC TEC EDEXCEL LQL qualification an 1 Award 2 Certificate 3 Diploma 4 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent s BTEC TEC EDEXCEL LQL is categorised as OTHER at BTE11 BTLEV level of Award Certificate Diploma BTEC TEC EDEXCEL LQL qualification 1 Level1 2 Level 2 3 Level3 4 Level 4 5 5 6 Level6 7 Level7 8 Level8 9 Entry level 10 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent s BTEC TEC EDEXCEL LQL is categorised as OTHER at BTE11 BTSUBJ subject title awarding body of BTEC TEC EDEXCEL qualification Free text input max 250 characters 235 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent s BTEC TEC EDEXCEL LQL is categorised as OTHER or DON T KNOW at BTE11 11 any BTEC TEC EDEXCEL LQL qualifications below 1 at National Certificate or National Diploma level level 3 2 a first diploma or general diploma level 2 3 a first certificate or general certificate below level 2 4 other BTEC TEC EDEXCEL LQL qualification 5 None of these 6 Don t know FREQUENCY
169. C SCOTBEC qualification Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable STCOTLB levels of SCOTVEC SCOTEC SCOTBEC qualifications 1 Level 1 2 Level2 3 Level3 4 Level 4 5 5 6 Level6 7 Level7 8 Level8 9 Entry level 10 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has an OTHER SCOTVEC SCOTEC SCOTBEC qualification Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable VOCYRC year of highest RSA OCR qualification 1 2009 or earlier 2 2010 or later FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has an RSA OCR qualification QDIPTYP Level of New Diploma 1 Advanced level 3 2 Progression Diploma level 3 3 Higher Diploma level 2 4 Foundation Diploma level 1 FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM10 COVERAGE Applies to those respondents who have a New Diploma VOCYRA year of highest BTEC TEC EDEXCEL LQL qualification 1 2009 or earlier 2 2010 or later FREQUENCY Every quarter from JM11 239 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has a BTEC TEC EDEXCEL LQL RSA11 Type of highest RSA OCR qualification 1 a higher diploma OCR Level 4 2 ad
170. CTIVITY ssssesssscsdesicscadessibssdesscessdessdeessastasecacssduassostdasscassdeascsssceoscassdeaseesbacesccssbsssesscesscesaceossessceuadesteess 91 BASICECONOMIGACTIVIIY sie 91 GOVERNMENT TRAINING SCHEMES 1 cccccccccssssccessssccsssssccsscsccessssccesseccsssusccesssecesssecesssecessusecessssecesssseeess 93 MAIN JOB Se 95 WORKING IN REFERENCE 95 INDUSTRY CONVERSION VARIABLE reearorvvrrnrnrnnsssernnsssnrnnssvnrnnsssvrnnsssvrnnsssvrnnsssnrnnssvnrnnssvnvnnssvnrnnsssnvnnsssnvnssssnre 96 INDUS ERY SIC 20075 98 PRIVATE OR PUBLIC SECTOR 25055 100 OCCUPATION gt 103 104 CURRENT FEMP OY M N 113 WORKING PAST STATE PENSION iii a a shay eier oS E ose 117 REDUNDANCY WITHIN EAST 3 MONTHS unni 119 HOME WORKERS rressorvorvnsssvrnnessnrnnsssnrnnsssnrnnsssnrnnsssnrnnsssnrnnsssnvnnsssnvnnsssnvnnsssnrnnnssnvnnsssnvnnsssnvnnsssnvnnsssnvnnnssnvnnsssnvssssee 127 LOCATION aar ARR 129 TRAVEETO WORK esse ae 131 SICKNESS Lise ERE 132 137 EMPEOYMENT PATTERNS NE 144 5
171. CY AJ quarters only from Spring 99 107 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who self employed STAT 2 NOTES Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions FTPTW Whether working full or part time employees and self employed people only 1 Part time student 2 Part time ill or disabled 3 Part time could not find full time job 4 Part time did not want full time job 5 Part time no reason given 6 Full time FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees or self employed NOTES Unpaid family workers are not included in this variable but are included in FTPTWK FTPT Whether working full or part time 1 Full time 2 Part time 3 Full time work additional to Government Training Scheme From Summer 98 4 Part time Government Training Scheme From Summer 98 FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents aged 16 who are in employment NOTES From Summer 98 FTPT includes those on New Deal FTPT differs from FTPTWK in that it includes only those in employment whilst FTPTWK also includes those who are unemployed but have had a job in the last 8 years FTPTWK Whether full or part time in main job 1 Full time 2 Part time FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 C
172. Classifications gives a complete breakdown of occupation codes SC2KSMN Minor occupation group second job 111 999 Range of occupation codes FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment who have a regular additional job NOTES This variable replaces SOCMINS and is derived from SOC2KS 159 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives complete breakdown of occupation codes INDUSTRY IN SECOND JOB CONVERSION VARIABLE To convert SIC92 codes to SIC2007 codes SIC 2007 industry coding frame has been introduced to replace the existing SIC 1992 version In order to maintain some continuity the following variables are available to convert SIC92 codes to SIC2007 codes 920705 01 99 Range of values FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment who have regular additional job NOTES This conversion variable gives reasonable comparisons not exact conversions SIC92 to SIC2007 conversion variables are also available for 3 years 2006 2008 of back series data in SPSS and SAS This variable derives from INDSC07S LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives full industry breakdowns for both SIC92 amp SIC2007 IN9207SS SIC07 92 Conversion DV Industry Section Second Job 1 A Agriculture forestry and fishing 2 B Mining and quarry
173. D TOBAGO 796 TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS 840 UNITED STATES 850 UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS 858 URUGUAY 862 VENEZUELA AFRICA 982 AFRICA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 012 ALGERIA 024 ANGOLA 204 BENIN 072 BOTSWANA 854 BURKINA 108 BURUNDI 120 CAMEROON 912 CANARY ISLANDS 132 CAPE VERDE 140 CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 148 CHAD 174 COMOROS 178 CONGO 180 CONGO DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC 262 DJIBOUTI 818 EGYPT 226 EQUATORIAL GUINEA 232 ERITREA 231 ETHIOPIA 266 GABON 270 GAMBIA THE 288 GHANA 324 GUINEA 624 GUINEA BISSAU 384 IVORY COAST 404 KENYA 426 LESOTHO 430 LIBERIA 434 LIBYA 450 MADAGASCAR 454 MALAWI 524 NEPAL 512 OMAN 586 PAKISTAN 608 PHILIPPINES 634 QATAR 466 MALI 478 MAURITANIA 480 MAURITIUS 175 MAYOTTE 504 MOROCCO 508 MOZAMBIQUE 516 NAMIBIA 562 NIGER 566 NIGERIA 638 REUNION 646 RWANDA 678 SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE 686 SENEGAL 690 SEYCHELLES 694 SIERRA LEONE 706 SOMALIA 710 SOUTH AFRICA 654 ST HELENA 736 SUDAN 748 SWAZILAND 834 TANZANIA 768 TOGO 788 TUNISIA 800 UGANDA 732 WESTERN SAHARA 894 ZAMBIA 716 ZIMBABWE MIDDLE EAST AND ASIA 004 AFGHANISTAN 984 ASIA EXCEPT MIDDLE EAST NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 048 BAHRAIN 050 BANGLADESH 064 BHUTAN 096 BRUNEI 104 BURMA 116 CAMBODIA 156 CHINA 158 CHINA TAIWAN 626 EAST TIMOR 344 HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION OF CHIINA 356 INDIA 360 INDONESIA 364 IRAN 368 IRAQ 376 ISRAEL
174. Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 05 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents aged 16 69 who think they will work in the future or don t know FUTWK 1 2 or 5 As of 2014 this variable is asked of JM main respondents only DETAILS OF JOB SEARCH LKTIMA How long looking for work 1 Not yet started 2 Less than 1 month 3 1 month but less than 3 months 4 3 months but less than 6 months 5 6 months but less than 12 months 6 12 months but less than 18 months 7 18 months but less than 2 years 8 2 years but less than 3 years 9 3 years but less than 4 years 10 4 years but less than 5 years 194 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 11 5 years or more FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are looking for paid work or a place government scheme but not waiting to take up a new job business already obtained NOTES LKTIMA applies to respondents who are looking for work Asks how long they have been looking for work applies to those who are not working in the ref week but have found job that they are waiting to start Asks how long they were looking for work prior to finding a job LKTIMB How long looking for work 1 Not yet started 2 Less than 1 month 3 1 month but less than 3 months 4 3 months but less than 6 months 5 6 months but less than 12 months 6 12 mon
175. E Applies to all respondents who did no paid or unpaid work in the reference week and were not away from any job or business in which they are employed or own RELBUS 2 or YTETJB 2 NOTES This variable excludes casual and holiday jobs CASWRK Casual holiday work 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM12 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has never had paid work NOTES New for JM12 INDUSTRY CONVERSION VARIABLE To convert SIC92 codes to SIC2007 codes The SIC 2007 industry coding frame has been introduced to replace the existing SIC 1992 version In order to maintain some continuity the following variables are available to convert SIC92 codes to SIC2007 codes IN9207DM 01 99 Range of values FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment other than those in certain government schemes NOTES This conversion variable gives reasonable comparisons not exact conversions SIC92 to SIC2007 conversion variables are also available for 3 years 2006 2008 of back series data in SPSS and SAS LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives full industry breakdowns for both SIC92 amp SIC2007 IN9207SM A Agriculture forestry and fishing B Mining and quarrying C Manufacturing D Electricity gas air cond supply E Water supply sewerage waste F Construction G Wholesale retail repair of vehicles H Transport and storage 1 Accommodation and food s
176. EQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES Pay your own National Insurance and Tax Pay your own National Insurance or Tax but not both National Insurance and tax deducted by your own organisation s you work for for example your client employer agency etc Each quarter from JM12 Applies to the self employed or those who are not paid directly by their employer New for JM12 SUPVIS2 Supervisory responsibility in second job 1 2 FREQUENCY COVERAGE Yes No Each quarter from Spring 01 Applies to all respondents who have an additional regular job STAT2 1 MANAG2 Managerial duties in second job reported 1 2 3 FREQUENCY Manager Foreman or supervisor Not manager or supervisor Each quarter from Spring 92 164 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees and who have regular additional job STAT2 1 NOTES From Spring 92 to Winter 00 this variable was called 2 NMANAGE2 was processed through the Census Matrix Edit which checks the respondents occupation and their employment status for inconsistencies With the removal of the edit MANAG2 supersedes the variable NMANAGE2 If respondents have both managerial and supervisory duties then their main duty is recorded MPNSR02 Number of employees second job reported 1 1 10 2 11 19 3 20 24 4 Don t know but under 25 5 25 49 6
177. ERAGE Applies to all respondents who work at home or use it as a work base HOME 1 or 3 OR HOMED 1 or 3 NOTES Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions SMESIT Type of work done from home 1 Own or rent a business 2 Have living in job 3 Accommodation provided by employer FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 92 to Autumn 98 AJ quarters only from Spring 99 From 2014 these questions were reduced in frequency and are asked in wave one every quarter i e not asked all waves in AJ COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who mainly work at home HOME 2 or HOMED 2 NOTES Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions LOCATION REGWKR Region of place of work reported Spring 92 amp Autumn 92 Spring 93 onwards 1 Tyne amp Wear 1 Tyne amp Wear 2 Rest of Northern region 2 Rest of North East 3 South Yorkshire 3 South Yorkshire 4 West Yorkshire 4 West Yorkshire 5 Rest of Yorks amp Humberside 5 Rest of Yorks amp Humberside 6 East Midlands 6 East Midlands 7 East Anglia 7 East Anglia 8 Inner London 8 Central London 9 Outer London 9 Inner London 10 Rest of South East 10 No Code 10 11 South West 11 Outer London 129 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 12 West Midlands met county
178. From JM12 those who have higher qualification will be routed to this question CMBMAINN Nursing main subject area 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 FREQUENCY COVERAGE Medicine Medical related Subjects Biological Sciences Agricultural Sciences Physical Environmental Sciences Mathematical I Sciences and Computing Engineering Technology Architecture and related studies Social Sciences including Law Business and Financial Studies Librarianship and Information Studies Linguistics English Celtic and Ancient Languages European Languages Other Languages Humanities Arts Education Each quarter from JM12 Applies to respondents whose qualification spans more than one subject area 228 NOTES Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 In JM12 FDCMBMA CMBHDMA and CMBMAINN replaced CMBMAIN From JM12 those who have nursing qualification will be routed to this question FDCMBMA Undergraduate main subject area 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES Medicine Medical related Subjects Biological Sciences Agricultural Sciences Physical Environmental Sciences Mathematical I Sciences and Computing Engineering Technology Architecture and related studies Social Sciences including Law Business and Financial
179. GE Applies if respondent has QCF qualifications NOTES Between JM11 and JS13 respondents were routed to these questions if aged 16 64 or in work From OD13 respondents are routed to these questions if aged 16 69 or in work Please see user guide 2 for the definitive routing QCFLEV level of Entry Level or Level 1 to 8 Award Certificate or Diploma qualification 1 Level 1 2 Level2 3 Level3 4 Level 4 5 Level5 6 Level6 7 Level7 8 Level8 9 Entry level 10 Don t know 250 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENGY Every quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has an OTHER qualification NOTES Between JM11 and JS13 respondents were routed to these questions if aged 16 64 or in work From OD 13 respondents are routed to these questions if aged 16 69 in work Please see user guide 2 for the definitive routing QCFSUBJ subject title awarding body of this Entry Level or Level 1 to 8 Award Certificate or Diploma qualification Free text input max 250 characters FREQUENGY Every quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondents is categorised as OTHER or DON T KNOW at QCFACD ONS datasets only NOTES Between JM11 and JS13 respondents were routed to these questions if aged 16 64 or in work From OD13 respondents are routed to these questions if aged 16 69 or in work Please see user guide 2 for the definitive routing QCFOTHA any
180. Guilds YT Certificate Key skills Core skills Scotland Basic skills Skills for life literacy numeracy lang Entry Level Qualifications Award Certificate or Diploma at Entry level and Levels 1 to 8 Any other professional work related qualification FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM 2011 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has UK gained qualifications related to work NOTES This variable replaces QULS10 01 20 Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable GSQUAL all qualifications form Government schemes Degree level qualify Incl foundation degrees graduate memb ship of a profess institute PGCE or higher Diploma in Higher Education HNC HND ONC OND BTEC BEC TEC Edexcel LQL SCOTVEC SCOTEC or SCOTBEC Teaching qualify excl PGCE Nursing or other medical qualify Not yet mentioned Other Higher Education qualif s below degree level A Level Vocat A Level GCE in Applied Subjects or equivalent New Diploma Welsh Baccalaureate International Baccalaureate NVQ SVQ GNVQ GSVQ AS level Vocat AS Level or equiv Certificate of 6 Yr Studies CSYS or equiv Access to HE O Level or equiv Standard Ordinary Grade Lower Scotland GCSE Vocat I GCSE CSE Advanced Higher Higher Intermediate Access qualif s Scotland RSA OCR City and Guilds YT Certificate Key skills Core skills Scotland Basic sk
181. H11NI Ethnic group Northern Ireland 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 FREQUENCY COVERAGE Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 White Irish Traveller Mixed Multiple ethnic groups Asian Asian British Black African Caribbean Black British Chinese Arab Other ethnic group Every quarter from AJ11 Applies to all living in Northern Ireland This variables replaces ETHNI 11 ETHWHE White Ethnic Group England 1 2 3 4 FREQUENCY COVERAGE English Welsh Scottish Northern Irish British Irish Gypsy or Irish Traveller Any other White background Every quarter from JM11 Applies to respondents who are of white ethnicity and living in England This variable replaced ETHWH The variable was agreed for insertion on government alongside ONS only datasets ETHWHW White Ethnic Group Wales 1 2 3 4 FREQUENCY COVERAGE Welsh English Scottish Northern Irish British Irish Gypsy or Irish Traveller Any other White background Every quarter from JM11 Applies to respondents who are of white ethnicity and living in Wales The variable was agreed for insertion on government alongside ONS only datasets ETHWSC White Ethnic Group Scotland 1 2 3 4 5 6 FREQUENCY COVERAGE Scottish Other British Irish Gypsy traveller Polish Any other white ethnic group Every qua
182. ICAUS 295 10 1 3 146 16 HOW2CAUS 295 147 515 77 HOW3CAUS 296 10 148 HDINST 230 HOWGET 115 2 147 8 78 HPRMB 280 3 02 147 9 77 2 280 4 00 2 147 4 00 77 74 5 147 HDSINCOM 225 FIRPID 84 148 HDSUBICT 225 HRRATE 304 148 79 2 305 148 HEAHEAD 79 4 0 311 FLEXW9 148 01 17 281 HSERTALP 311 2 2 22 315 20222221 283 1 2 200 FMDP de 76 01 10 285 HSNGNI eects 201 FMNDP e 76 0 224222 283 232 FMPLUS
183. IVORY COAST 404 KENYA 426 LESOTHO 430 LIBERIA 434 LIBYA 450 MADAGASCAR 454 MALAWI 466 MALI 478 MAURITANIA 480 MAURITIUS 175 MAYOTTE 504 MOROCCO 508 MOZAMBIQUE 516 NAMIBIA 562 NIGER 566 NIGERIA 638 REUNION 646 RWANDA 678 SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE 686 SENEGAL 690 SEYCHELLES 694 SIERRA LEONE 706 SOMALIA 710 SOUTH AFRICA 654 ST HELENA 736 SUDAN 748 SWAZILAND 834 TANZANIA 768 TOGO 788 TUNISIA 800 UGANDA 732 WESTERN SAHARA 894 ZAMBIA 716 ZIMBABWE MIDDLE EAST AND ASIA 004 AFGHANISTAN 984 ASIA EXCEPT MIDDLE EAST NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 048 BAHRAIN 050 BANGLADESH 064 BHUTAN 096 BRUNEI 104 BURMA 116 CAMBODIA 156 CHINA 158 CHINA TAIWAN 626 EAST TIMOR 344 HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION OF CHIINA 356 INDIA 360 INDONESIA 364 IRAN 368 IRAQ 376 ISRAEL 392 JAPAN 400 JORDAN 398 KAZAKHSTAN 408 KOREA NORTH 410 KOREA SOUTH 414 KUWAIT 417 KYRGYZSTAN 418 LAOS 422 LEBANON 446 MACAO SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION OF CHIINA 458 MALAYSIA 462 MALDIVES 65 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 983 Middle East and Asia NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 496 MONGOLIA 524 NEPAL 512 OMAN 586 PAKISTAN 608 PHILIPPINES 634 QATAR 682 SAUDI ARABIA 702 SINGAPORE 144 SRI LANKA 760 SYRIA 762 TAJIKISTAN 764 THAILAND 795 TURKMENISTAN 784 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 860 UZBEKISTAN 704 VIETNAM 275 WEST BANK INCLUDING
184. MOGRAPHICS MAIN CHARACTERISTICS SEX Sex of respondent 1 Male 2 Female FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents AGE Age of respondent 0 99 Age of respondent FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES Ages over 99 are coded as 99 Text labels are not available for this variable The person s age at the end of the reference week is calculated by the computer at the time of the interview If a person s birthday occurs in the month in which the interview takes place any discrepancies are resolved by checking whether their birthday falls before or after the end of the reference week Babies under 1 year of age are coded as 0 Age is not re asked after wave one but it is automatically updated by the laptop based on the date of birth The one occasion checking is done is when some element of the household box was estimated at the previous wave AGEDFE Age of respondent at preceding 31 August 0 99 Age at preceding 31 August FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This is a derived variable please see volume 4 for further guidance It is used for education purposes schooling age It is quarter specific in that the precise derivation differs each quarter AGES Age groups in 5 year intervals 1 0 4yrs 2 5 9yrs 3 10 15yrs 4 16 19yrs 5 20 24yrs 6 25 29yrs 7 30 34yrs 8 35 39yrs 9
185. N CITY 973 YUGOSLAVIA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED EUROPE 926 UNITED KINGDOM 040 AUSTRIA 056 BELGIUM 100 BULGARIA 901 CYPRUS EUROPEAN UNION 203 CZECH REPUBLIC 971 CZECHOSLOVAKIA NOT THE AMERICAS AND OTHERWISE SPECIFIED THE CARIBBEAN 208 DENMARK 660 ANGUILLA 233 ESTONIA 028 ANTIGUA AND 246 FINLAND BARBUDA 250 FRANCE 032 ARGENTINA 276 GERMANY 533 ARUBA 300 GREECE 044 BAHAMAS THE 348 HUNGARY 052 BARBADOS 372 IRELAND 084 BELIZE 380 ITALY 060 BERMUDA 428 LATVIA 068 BOLIVIA 440 LITHUANIA 076 BRAZIL 442 LUXEMBOURG 092 BRITISH VIRGIN 470 MALTA ISLANDS 528 NETHERLANDS 124 CANADA 616 POLAND 988 CARIBBEAN NOT 620 PORTUGAL OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 642 ROMANIA 136 CAYMAN ISLANDS 703 SLOVAKIA 986 CENTRAL AMERICA NOT 705 SLOVENIA OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 911 SPAIN EXCEPT 152 CHILE CANARY ISLANDS 170 COLOMBIA 913 SPAIN NOT OTHERWISE 188 COSTA RICA SPECIFIED 192 CUBA 752 SWEDEN 212 DOMINICA 214 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 248 ALAND ISLANDS 218 ECUADOR 008 ALBANIA 222 EL SALVADOR 020 ANDORRA 238 FALKLAND ISLANDS 051 ARMENIA 254 FRENCH GUIANA 031 AZERBAIJAN 304 GREENLAND 112 BELARUS 308 GRENADA 070 BOSNIA AND 312 GUADELOUPE HERZEGOVINA 320 GUATEMALA 191 CROATIA 328 GUYANA 902 CYPRUS NON 332 HAITI EUROPEAN UNION 340 HONDURAS 903 CYPRUS NOT 388 JAMAICA OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 474 MARTINIQUE 981 EUROPE NOT 484 MEXICO OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 500 MONTSERRAT 234 FAROE ISLANDS 530 NETHERLANDS 268 GEORGIA ANTILLES 292 GIBRALT
186. OC10R Occupation made redundant from 1111 9279 Range of occupation codes FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who were made redundant in the three months prior to interview NOTES This variable replaces RDOCOD This variable is derived from REDOCC OCOD10M STATR OCOD10R amp REDSTAT HOME WORKERS HOME Whether working from home in main job 1 In own home 2 In the same grounds or buildings as home 3 In different places using home as a base 4 Somewhere quite separate from home FREQUENCY Spring amp Autumn quarters from Spring 92 to Autumn 96 Each quarter from Spring 97 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees self employed or unpaid family workers WRKING 1 or JBAWAY 1 or OWNBUS 1 or RELBUS 1 EVHM98 Whether doing paid or unpaid work at home in main job 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY AJ quarters only from Spring 98 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who mainly work away from home HOME 2 3 or 4 NOTES This variable replaces PUHOME Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions 127 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 HM4WK Paid or unpaid work at home 1 on at least half of the days worked 2 for at least one hour but less than half of the days worked 3 not at all or for less than one hour FREQUENCY AJ quarters only from 2010 to
187. ON 446 MACAO SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION OF CHIINA 458 MALAYSIA 462 MALDIVES 983 Middle East NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 496 MONGOLIA 524 NEPAL 682 SAUDI ARABIA 702 SINGAPORE 144 SRI LANKA 760 SYRIA 762 TAJIKISTAN 764 THAILAND 795 TURKMENISTAN 784 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 860 UZBEKISTAN 704 VIETNAM 275 WEST BANK INCLUDING EAST JERUSALEM AND GAZA STRIP 887 YEMEN ANTARCTICA AND OCEANIA 016 AMERICAN SAMOA 010 ANTARCTICA 989 ANTARCTICA AND OCEANIA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 036 AUSTRALIA 074 BOUVET ISLAND 086 BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY 162 CHRISTMAS ISLAND 166 COCOS KEELING ISLANDS 184 COOK ISLANDS 242 FIJI 258 FRENCH POLYNESIA 260 FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES 316 GUAM 21 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 334 HEARD ISLAND AND MCDONALD ISLANDS 296 KIRIBATI 584 MARSHALL ISLANDS 583 MICRONESIA 520 NAURU 540 NEW CALEDONIA 554 NEW ZEALAND 570 NIUE 574 NORFOLK ISLAND 580 NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS 585 PALAU 598 PAPUA NEW GUINEA 612 HENDERSON DUCIE AND ISLANDS 882 SAMOA 090 SOLOMON ISLANDS 239 SOUTH GEORGIA AND THE SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS 772 TOKELAU 776 TONGA 798 TUVALU 581 UNITED STATES MINOR OUTLYING ISLANDS 548 VANUATU 876 WALLIS AND FUTUNA OTHER COUNTRIES 991 AT SEA 992 IN THE AIR CRYO7 Country of birth EUROPE 926 UNITED KINGDOM NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 931 CHANNEL ISLANDS Not o
188. OVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives a full breakdown of the NUTS levels 46 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NUTS3 NUTS level 3 Range of codes FREQUENCY Each quarter from Summer 93 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This variable is only available on ONS datasets This variable is only available in SPSS format on ONS datasets from Autumn 03 LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives a full breakdown of the NUTS levels OACODE Census output areas Range of codes FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 05 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This variable is only available on ONS datasets PCA Parliamentary constituency area 001 750 Range of codes FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 04 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This variable is only available on ONS datasets This variable is only available in SPSS format on ONS datasets from Winter 04 5 1 Lower layer super output area Range of codes FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 05 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This variable is only available on ONS datasets SOA2 Middle layer super output area Range of codes FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 05 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This variable is only available on ONS datasets TTWA Travel to work area 001 243 Range of codes FRE
189. OVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees self employed and unpaid family workers plus those on work based government training schemes plus those currently unemployed or inactive who have had a previous job within the last 8 years NOTES This variable can be used to identify full or part time employment for a previous job if left within the last 8 years for currently unemployed or inactive people as well as for a current job You should filter the economic category required YPTJOB Reason for part time job 1 Student still at school 2 3 Could not find full time job 4 Did not want full time job FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 108 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are currently working part time or worked part time in their last job if held during the last 8 years FTPTWK 2 NOTES The interviewer accepts the first response that applies This question was not asked in Northern Ireland in 1993 so data for all quarters in 1993 are GB only PTNCRE7 Reasons for part time work 1 Suitable care services for children are not available or affordable 2 Suitable care services for ill disabled or elderly adults are not available or affordable 3 Care facilities do not influence your decision for working part time FREQUENCY JS quarters only from 507 Wave 1 all quarters from JM 2010 COVERAGE App
190. Oldham 812 Rochdale 813 South and East Cheshire 814 Stockport and High Peak FREQUENCY Every year from 2000 COVERAGE NOTES Applies to all respondents in Great Britain 901 County Durham 902 Northumberland 903 Tees Valley 904 Tyneside 905 Sunderland City S01 Ayrshire S02 Borders S03 Dunbartonshire S04 Dumfries and Galloway 505 Fife S06 Forth Valley S07 Glasgow Development Agency S08 Grampian S09 Lanarkshire S10 Lothian and Edinburgh S11 Renfrewshire S12 Tayside S13 Argyll Bute Arran and the Cumbraes S14 Caithness and Sutherland S15 Inverness and Nairn S16 Lochaber S17 Moray Badenoch and Strathspey S18 Orkney S19 Ross and Cromarty S20 Shetland S21 Skye and Lochalsh S22 Eilean Siar W11 Celtec W12 Mid Wales W13 South East Wales W14 West Wales This variable is included only on annual local area datasets which are available only to ONS and those government departments which sponsor the local area enhancements 52 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 LSC Learning and skills councils 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 FREQUENCY
191. Other 28 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in Northern Ireland Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable NATIDB11 British National Identity 1 British 0 Not British FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents over the age of 16 NATIDE11 English National Identity 1 English 0 Not English FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents over the age of 16 NATIDW11 Welsh National Identity 1 Welsh 0 Not Welsh FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents over the age of 16 NATIDS11 Scottish National Identity 1 Scottish 0 Not Scottish FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents over the age of 16 NATIDO11 Other National Identity 1 Other National Identity 0 Not Other National Identity FREQUENGY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents over the age of 16 NATIDNI Northern Irish National Identity 1 Northern Irish 29 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 0 Not Northern Irish FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents over the age of 16 Please note tha
192. P Kent LP Medway LP Surrey LP East Sussex LP West Sussex LP Brighton amp Hove LP Isle of Wight LP Hampshire amp Portsmouth LP Southampton LP Milton Keynes LP West Berkshire LP Reading LP Wokingham LP Bracknell Forest LP Slough LP Royal Windsor Maidenhead LP Buckingham LP Oxfordshire LP Bristol amp South Gloucestershire LP North Somerset LP Bath amp North East Somerset LP Gloucestershire LP Wiltshire amp Swindon LP Somerset LP Bournemouth Dorset amp Poole LP FREQUENCY Spring amp Autumn quarters only from Spring 99 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in England Cornwall amp Isles of Scilly LP Devon amp Torbay LP Plymouth LP Birmingham LP Solihull LP Hereford LP Worcestershire LP Shropshire LP Telford amp Wrekin LP Staffordshire amp Stoke LP Dudley LP Coventry amp Warwickshire LP Sandwell LP Walsall LP Wolverhampton LP North Yorkshire LP York LP Bradford LP Leeds LP Wakefield LP Calderdale LP Kirklees LP East Riding LP Hull LP North Lincolnshire LP North East Lincolnshire LP Sheffield LP Barnsley LP 100 Rotherham LP 101 Doncaster LP 55 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 CCET Community Consortia for Education and Training 1 Blaenau Gwent 2 Bridgend 3 Caerphilly 4 Cardiff 5 Carmarthenshire 6 Ceredigion 7 Cwlwm conway 8 Denbighshire 9 Flintshire 10 Ygamfa
193. Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable HIGHO Type of higher degree 1 Doctorate 2 Masters 3 Postgraduate Certificate in Education 4 Other postgraduate degree or professional qualification 5 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 93 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have a higher degree SINCOMN Whether nursing qualification is single or combined subject 1 Single Subject 2 Combined Subject in one subject area 3 Combined Subject in more than one subject area FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM12 COVERAGE Applies to respondents who have undergraduate or first degree NOTES SINCOMN FDSINCOM and HDSINCOM replaced in SINCOM in JM12 From JM12 those who have a nursing qualification will be routed to this question FDSINCOM Whether undergraduate degree is single or combined subject 224 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 1 Single Subject 2 Combined Subject in one subject area 3 Combined Subject in more than one subject area FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM12 COVERAGE Applies to respondents who have an undergraduate or first degree NOTES SINCOMN FDSINCOM and HDSINCOM replaced in SINCOM in JM12 From JM12 those who have an undergraduate qualification will be routed to this question HDSINCOM Whether higher degree is single or combin
194. QUALIFICATIONS sr rss SG 211 UK GAINED QUALIFICATIONS r r a a r a a aar r aaas Or EEr e EE 213 PRESENT STUDY side 254 APPRENTIGESHIP arie ts 263 LEARNING ACTIVITIES IN THE LAST THREE MONTHG ccsssscccsssssccsssssccesssccessssccesssccessusccessssecesusesesusecesuseeesesees 269 HIGHEST QUALIFICATION passene ie nine eien eien ie 272 CURRENTS TU DIYs ET 277 TYPE OF COURSE biene rennene eee 278 RECENTLY COMPLETED TRAINING revororervorvvsesnrnnsssnrnnsssnrnnsssnrnnsssnrnnsssnrnnsssnrnnssvnrnnsssnrnnsnnnrnnssvnvenssvnrnnssnnrenssee 278 QUALIFICATIONS FROM 5 6 22 20 220 20 00000 000000000000 279 555 280 HEAL TH PROBLEMS sirene reservere 280 ACCIDENTS AT WORK AND WORK RELATED HEALTH PROBLEMS ccccccesssscessssccessssceesssseeesseees 288 5356506 297 GROSS INCOME 298 TG 300 GROSS INCOME SECOND JOB resnvrvversnrvnnssrvnsssvrrnnssvrnnsssvrnnsssnrnnsssnrnnsssnrnnsssnvnnsssnvnnsssnvnenssnvnnsssnvnnsssnvnnsssnvseseee 305 5
195. QUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 99 to Spring 00 Spring amp Autumn quarters only from Spring 01 All quarters from Spring 2005 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents 47 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NOTES This variable is only available on ONS datasets up to Spring 2005 and is available on all but public datasets from Spring 05 48 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 URIND Urban Rural indicator 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 England amp Wales Urban gt 10k sparse England amp Wales Town amp Fringe sparse England amp Wales Village sparse England amp Wales Hamlet amp Isolated Dwelling sparse England amp Wales Urban gt 10k less sparse England amp Wales Town amp Fringe less sparse England amp Wales Village less sparse England amp Wales Hamlet amp Isolated Dwelling less sparse Scotland large urban area settlements of over 125 000 people Scotland other urban area settlements of 10 000 to 125 000 people Scotland accessible small town settlements of between 3 000 and 10 000 people and within 30 minutes drive of a settlement of 10 000 or more Scotland remote small town settlements of between 3 000 and 10 000 people and with drive of over 30 minutes to settlement of 10 000 o
196. REQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who did no work in the reference week and were not away from any job or business but have had a paid job in the past EVERWK 1 YRLESS Compute Variable YrLess 97 NOTES This variable is derived from LEFTYR and computes the year in which employees left their last paid job LEFTM Month left last job 1 January 2 February 3 March 4 April 5 May 6 June 7 July 8 August 9 September 10 October 11 November 12 December FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents did no work in the reference week and who left their last job within eight years of the reference week LEFTYR lt 8 LEFTW Whether left last job in reference week 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who left their last job within the last month NOTES The coverage of this variable implies that the respondent left their last job within the last four weeks OCCUPATION IN LAST JOB SOC10L Occupation last job 1111 9279 Range of occupation codes FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who did no work in the reference week and were not away from any job or business but have worked in the past 8 years NOTES This variable replaces SOC2KL and is derived from STAT EVERWK amp OCOD10M LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classificatio
197. RTR ADD WAVFND amp LFSSAMP Telephone or face to face interview 1 Telephone 2 Face to face FREQUENCY Each quarter from Summer 97 NOTES This is a questionnaire variable and feeds into the derived variable TYPINT This is available on ONS and Client data sets only TELFTF Telephone or face to face interview 1 Telephone 2 Face to face FREQUENCY Each quarter from Summer 97 NOTES ONS datasets only TYPINT Telephone or face to face interview 1 Telephone 2 Face to face FREQUENCY Each quarter from Summer 97 NOTES This is a derived variable please see Volume 4 for further guidance TYPINT relates to the current interview Some questions are asked only at wave 1 with information rolled forward or checked at subsequent interviews so users should be careful about attributing data to a telephone or face to face interview without checking first how the data are collected See LFS User Guide volume 1 Background and Methodology section on Fieldwork HOUT Household outcome 11 Full interview 12 Economically inactive 20 Partially co operating household 31 Refusal to HQ letter 36 Outright refusal 37 Circumstantial refusal 41 Non contact 51 No trace of address 52 Not yet built or under construction 53 Demolished or derelict 54 Vacant or being refurbished 55 Non residential or business only 56 Institution 57 Temporary accommodation second residence
198. S Only asked of Welsh respondents living in Wales not those living elsewhere in the UK whose first language is Welsh CYMR Read Welsh 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 01 30 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in Wales NOTES Only asked to Welsh respondents living in Wales not those living elsewhere in the UK whose first language is Welsh See notes on CYMU CYMW Write Welsh 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in Wales NOTES Only asked to Welsh respondents living in Wales not those living elsewhere in the UK whose first language is Welsh See notes on CYMU ETHNICITY RELIGION ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE ETH11EW Ethnic group England Wales 1 White 2 Mixed Multiple ethnic groups 3 Asian Asian British 4 Black African Caribbean Black British 5 Chinese 6 Arab 7 Other ethnic group FREQUENCY Every quarter from AJ11 COVERAGE Applies to all living in England or Wales This variables replaces ETH11 ETH11S Ethnic group Scotland 1 White 2 Mixed Multiple ethnic groups 3 Asian Asian Scottish Asian British 4 African 5 Caribbean or Black 6 Arab 7 Other ethnic group FREQUENCY Every quarter from AJ11 COVERAGE Applies to all living in Scotland This variables replaces 11 ET
199. SIND Whether working for same firm twelve months ago 1 Yes the same 2 No different FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who had a paid job or were laid off on short time work or worked unpaid in own relatives business 12 months ago OYCIRC 1 2 or 5 NOTES Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions OYSOCC Whether current occupation same as twelve months ago 1 Yes exactly the same 2 No different FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 2000 Spring quarters only from Spring 01 on ONS datasets only COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who had a paid job or were laid off on short time work 12 months ago OYCIRC 1 or 2 NOTES Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions OYSTAT Employee or self employed 1 year ago reported 1 Working as employee 2 Self employed FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who had a paid job or were laid off on short time work 12 months OYCIRC 1 or 2 NOTES From Spring 92 to Winter 00 this variable was called NOYSTAT NOYSTAT was processed through the Census Matrix Edit which checks the respondents occupation and their employment status for inconsistencies With the removal of the edit OYSTAT supersedes the variable NOYSTAT
200. Spring 1996 and Winter 2005 this variable was called MARDY MARCHK Whether spouse is household member 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 96 COVERAGE Applies to respondents who are married and living with husband wife XMARSTA 2 3 NOTES This variable was introduced in Spring 96 to check whether spouses were included as part of the household This question has been included to identify married couples who are legally married but do not live together and are therefore not included as members of the household e g spouse working away from home spouse in prison Married couples who have legally separated will not be included here LIV12W Whether living together as couple 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from AJ12 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents aged 16 in multi person households not married in a civil partnership and living with spouse partner XMARSTA 2 3 NOTES This question will apply to all households containing more than one person and to all respondents who do not describe themselves as married living with a spouse not in a civil partnership This variable replaces LIVWTH Please note that household derived variables will continue to reference LIVWTH not LIV12W Please see User Guide 4 for further guidance 13 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 MARSEXE6 Sex and marital status 1 2 3 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES Men Women
201. Spring 2000 on household and ONS datasets COVERAGE Applies to all family units NOTES FMDP is only included on the household datasets prior to Spring 2000 It is also included on both household and ONS datasets from Spring 2000 This variable was introduced in Spring 96 to provide additional information about the total number of family units within the household This is a derived variable please see Volume 4 User Guide for further guidance FMNDP Number of family units in household with non dependent children only 1 16 Number of family units in household with non dependent children only FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 96 on household datasets only Each quarter from Spring 2000 on household and ONS datasets COVERAGE Applies to all family units NOTES FMNDP is only included on the household datasets prior to Spring 2000 It is also included on both household and ONS datasets from Spring 2000 This variable was introduced in Spring 96 to provide additional information about the total number of family units within the household This is a derived variable please see Volume 4 User Guide for further guidance FMPLUS Total number of family units with more than one person 1 16 Total number of family units with more than one person FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 96 COVERAGE Applies to all family units NOTES FMPLUS is available on both the person level datasets and the household datasets This variable
202. Studies Librarianship and Information Studies Linguistics English Celtic and Ancient Languages European Languages Other Languages Humanities Arts Education Each quarter from JM12 Applies to respondents whose qualification spans more than one subject area In JM12 FDCMBMA CMBHDMA and CMBMAINN replaced CMBMAIN From JM12 those who have an undergraduate qualification will be routed to this question CMBHDMA Higher degree main subject area 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES Medicine Medical related Subjects Biological Sciences Agricultural Sciences Physical Environmental Sciences Mathematical I Sciences and Computing Engineering Technology Architecture and related studies Social Sciences including Law Business and Financial Studies Librarianship and Information Studies Linguistics English Celtic and Ancient Languages European Languages Other Languages Humanities Arts Education Each quarter from JM12 Applies to respondents whose qualification spans more than one subject area In JM12 FDCMBMA CMBHDMA and CMBMAINN replaced CMBMAIN From JM12 those who have higher degree qualification will be routed to this question 229 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 UGINST Institution coding frame undergraduate FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM12 COVERAGE Applies to r
203. Summer quarter every 3 years e g 2003 2006 2009 etc Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions LANGD2 Language difficulties causing problems with education 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Summer 02 only Summer quarters only every 3 year from Summer 03 COVERAGE From Summer 02 Summer 03 Applies to all respondents who said their first language at home was Other LANGESW 3 or LANGNI 4 or LANGSNC 4 From Summer 06 Applies to all respondents who said their first language at home was Other LANG 5 NOTES This question is only asked in the Summer quarter every 3 years e g 2003 2006 2009 etc Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions INTUSE Last used internet 1 Within the last 3 months 2 Between 3 months and a year ago 3 More than 1 year ago 39 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 4 Never used it 5 Don t know proxy only FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 onwards COVERAGE Applies to all respondents over the age of 15 NOTES Available on ONS datasets only for JM11 Available ONS and Government only files only from AJ11 onwards INTPROB Problems with the internet 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM12 JM14 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has never used the internet is giving a personal response to the surve
204. THE AMERICAS AND THE CARIBBEAN 660 ANGUILLA 028 ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 032 ARGENTINA 533 ARUBA 044 BAHAMAS THE 052 BARBADOS 084 BELIZE 060 BERMUDA 068 BOLIVIA 076 BRAZIL 092 BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS 124 CANADA 988 CARIBBEAN NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 136 CAYMAN ISLANDS 986 CENTRAL AMERICA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 152 CHILE 170 COLOMBIA 188 COSTA RICA 192 CUBA 212 DOMINICA 214 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 218 ECUADOR 222 EL SALVADOR 238 FALKLAND ISLANDS 254 FRENCH GUIANA 304 GREENLAND 308 GRENADA 312 GUADELOUPE 320 GUATEMALA 328 GUYANA 332 HAITI 340 HONDURAS 388 JAMAICA 474 MARTINIQUE 484 MEXICO 500 MONTSERRAT 530 NETHERLANDS ANTILLES 558 NICARAGUA 985 NORTH AMERICA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 591 PANAMA 600 PARAGUAY 604 PERU 630 PUERTO RICO 987 SOUTH AMERICA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 659 ST KITTS AND NEVIS 662 ST LUCIA 666 ST PIERRE AND MIQUELON 670 ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES 740 SURINAM 780 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 796 TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS 840 UNITED STATES 850 UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS 858 URUGUAY 862 VENEZUELA AFRICA 982 AFRICA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 012 ALGERIA 024 ANGOLA 204 BENIN 072 BOTSWANA 854 BURKINA 108 BURUNDI 120 CAMEROON 912 CANARY ISLANDS 132 CAPE VERDE 140 CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 148 CHAD 174 COMOROS 178 CONGO 180 CONGO DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC 262 DJIBOUTI 818 EGYPT 226 EQUATORIAL GUINEA 232 ERITREA 231 ETHIOPIA 266 GABON
205. This variable excludes meal breaks and any overtime worked As hours not stored as whole numbers users should use 1 decimal place when ranging hours 1 30 hours should be ranged as 1 0 30 4 etc PAIDHRA Paid Hours based on actual hours per week 0 96 Number of hours 97 97 or more hours FREQUENCY Each quarter from Autumn 93 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees self employed and those on employer based government schemes NOTES This is a derived variable please see Volume 4 User Guide for further guidance PAIDHRA is not included on datasets for all quarters in 1999 ACTPOT Actual hours of paid overtime 0 96 Hours of overtime 97 97 or more 99 Don t know No answer FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who work overtime and actually worked in reference week NOTES Those respondents who did not work in the reference week even though they had a job i e on holiday or sick are coded as 0 As hours are not stored as whole numbers users should use 1 decimal place when ranging hours i e 1 30 hours should be ranged as 1 0 30 4 etc ACTUOT Actual hours of unpaid overtime 0 96 Hours of overtime 97 97 or more 99 Don t know No answer FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who work overtime and actually worked in reference week NOTES Those respondents who did not work in
206. Time in minutes FREQUENCY Autumn quarters only from Autumn 92 to Autumn 06 and every quarter waves 1 amp 5 every three years COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment excluding those on government schemes and those working from home or using their home as a working base NOTES This question is only asked where respondents have said they work somewhere separate from their home Time is recorded in minutes and travel time over three hours is recorded as 180 minutes Those working outside the UK are recorded as 0 From Autumn 06 all Travel to work questions are asked in Autumn every year and in waves 1 and 5 every quarter every 3 years e g 2006 2009 etc Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions TRVMTH Usual method of travel to work 1 Car van minibus works van 2 Motorbike moped scooter 3 Bicycle 4 Bus coach private bus 5 Taxi 6 Railway train 7 Underground train light railway tram GB only 8 Walk 9 Other way of travelling FREQUENCY Autumn quarters from Autumn 92 to Autumn 99 Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 00 to Spring 01 Autumn quarters only from Autumn 01 to Autumn 06 OD quarters only from OD06 and every quarter waves 1 amp 5 every three years COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment excluding those on government schemes and hose working from home or using their home as a working b
207. Too ill distressed to answer Visible problem 3 Too ill distressed to answer Other FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 2000 to Autumn 2000 on ONS datasets only Each quarter from Winter 2000 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents aged 75 and over HPRMBz2 Prompt to ask health questions 1 Continue FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM10 COVERAGE Applies to those who are under the age of 75 QHEALTH1 State of respondent s health 1 very good 2 good 3 fair 4 bad 5 or very bad FREQUENCY Every quarter from JS09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents over the age of 15 at wave 1 or wave 5 for main LFS interviews and all waves for all LLFS Boost Enhancement cases NOTES This variable is provided on ONS datasets only and will be published as part of the IHS Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions LNGLIM Whether health problem lasting more than 12 months 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENGY Summer and Winter quarters only from Winter 93 to Winter 95 Each quarter from Spring 96 COVERAGE From Spring 92 to Winter 96 Applies to all respondents of working age whose health problems or disabilities limit the kind of paid work they can do 280 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 From Spring 97 to Winter 99 Applies to all respondents of working age From Spring 2000 Applies to all respondents of w
208. UALUK highest qualification in or outside the UK 1 Inthe UK 2 Outside the UK 3 Don t know FREQUENCY Every quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has foreign qualifications NOTES Analysts of this variable should be aware that from JS13 onwards there is a check in the questionnaire that won t allow respondents to state at QUALUK that their highest qualifications are from the UK and then say at QULCHUK that they have no UK qualifications QUALRE is highest qualification recognised outside the UK 1 Yes 2 No 3 Recognition being applied for process underway 4 Recognition not attempted FREQUENCY Every quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent gained their highest qualification outside of the UK FORTYP11 type of qualification 1 Degree level qualification or higher 2 Higher qualification below degree level 3 A level Vocational A level or equivalent 4 AS level Vocational AS level or equivalent 5 International Baccalaureate 6 O levels or equivalent 7 GCSE Vocational GCSE or equivalent 8 Other work related or professional qualification 9 School Leavers Certificate 10 Don t know FREQUENCY Every quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if qualification is or may be recognised in the UK 212 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FORSUB subject title awarding body of this qualification Free text input max 2
209. UENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has an RSA OCR qualification NOTES This variable replaces RSAOTH Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable RSAOTH 1 3 Other RSAO OCR qualifications FREQUENCY COVERAGE 1 2 3 4 5 An advanced diploma or advanced certificate Level 3 A diploma Level 2 Or some other RSA including Stage I Il amp 1 Level 1 None of these Don t know Each quarter from JM07 to OD10 Applies to all respondents who have an RSAO OCR qualification RSAOTLA type of other RSA OCR qualifications 1 2 3 4 Award Certificate Diploma Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has an OTHER RSA OCR qualification Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable RSAOTLB level of other RSA OCR qualifications 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6 Level 7 Level 8 Entry level Don t know 241 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has an OTHER RSA OCR qualification Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the not
210. UENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 95 COVERAGE Applies to all households NOTES This variable is derived from AGE amp CAIND This variable is included on household datasets only HDC515 Number of children in household aged between 5 and 15 years 77 0 10 FREQUENCY Spring 95 COVERAGE NOTES datasets only Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Number of children Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Spring and Autumn quarters from Applies to all households This variable is derived from AGE amp CAIND This variable is included on household HDPCH18 Number of children in household aged between 16 and 18 years 0 10 FREQUENCY Spring 95 COVERAGE NOTES datasets only Number of children Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Spring and Autumn quarters from Applies to all households This variable is derived from AGE amp CAIND This variable is included on household AOHL16 Age of oldest dependent child in household aged under 16 0 15 16 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES Age of oldest dependent child in household aged 0 15 No dependent children aged under 16 Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Each quarter from Spring 95 Applies to all households Dependent children are all those aged 0 15 and those aged 16 18 who are in full time education Text lab
211. URITANIA 480 MAURITIUS 175 MAYOTTE 504 MOROCCO 508 MOZAMBIQUE 516 NAMIBIA 562 NIGER 566 NIGERIA 638 REUNION 646 RWANDA 678 SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE 686 SENEGAL 690 SEYCHELLES 694 SIERRA LEONE 706 SOMALIA 710 SOUTH AFRICA 654 ST HELENA 736 SUDAN 748 SWAZILAND 834 TANZANIA 768 TOGO 788 TUNISIA 800 UGANDA 732 WESTERN SAHARA 894 ZAMBIA 716 ZIMBABWE MIDDLE EAST AND ASIA 004 AFGHANISTAN 984 ASIA EXCEPT MIDDLE EAST NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 048 BAHRAIN 050 BANGLADESH 064 BHUTAN 096 BRUNEI 104 BURMA 116 CAMBODIA 156 CHINA 158 CHINA TAIWAN 626 EAST TIMOR 344 HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION OF CHIINA 356 INDIA 360 INDONESIA 364 IRAN 368 IRAQ 376 ISRAEL 392 JAPAN 400 JORDAN 398 KAZAKHSTAN 408 KOREA NORTH 410 KOREA SOUTH 414 KUWAIT 417 KYRGYZSTAN 418 LAOS 422 LEBANON 446 MACAO SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION OF CHIINA 458 MALAYSIA 462 MALDIVES 983 Middle East and Asia NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 496 MONGOLIA 524 NEPAL 512 OMAN 586 PAKISTAN 608 PHILIPPINES 634 QATAR 682 SAUDI ARABIA 702 SINGAPORE 144 SRI LANKA 760 SYRIA 762 TAJIKISTAN 764 THAILAND 795 TURKMENISTAN 25 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 784 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 860 UZBEKISTAN 704 VIETNAM 275 WEST BANK INCLUDING EAST JERUSALEM AND GAZA STRIP 887 ANTARCTICA AND OCEANIA 016 AMERIGAN SAMOA 010 ANTARCTICA 989
212. VERAGE Applies if respondent s City amp Guilds is categorised as OTHER or DONT KNOW at CAG11 ONS datasets only CAGOT11 any City amp Guilds qualifications below following levels 1 craft part 2 2 foundation part 1 3 other City amp Guilds qualification 4 None 5 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has a City amp Guilds qualification NOTES This variable replaces CANDGO Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable CAGOTLA type of City amp Guilds qualifications 1 Award 2 Certificate 3 Diploma 4 Don t know FREQUENCY Every quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has an OTHER City amp Guilds qualification Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable CAGOTLB level of RSA OCR qualifications 1 Level 1 2 Level2 3 Level3 4 Level 4 5 Level5 6 Level6 7 Level7 8 Level8 243 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 9 Entry level 10 Don t know FREQUENGY Every quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has an OTHER City amp Guilds qualification Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of v
213. able NITAX Payment of NI and Tax 1 Pay own NI and Tax 2 Pay own NI or Tax but not both 3 NI and Tax are deducted by organisation FREQUENCY Each quarter from JMO7 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are self employed STAT 2 or those not directly paid by their employers PDWAGE 2 HWLNG Time respondent has been away from job 1 Less than 3 months 2 Or 3 months or more FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 05 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who were away from their job business in the reference week JBAWAY 1 NOTES This variable is included on ONS datasets only FIFSAL Amount of wage receiving when away from job 1 Less than half of your salary 2 Or half of your salary or more FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 05 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees and HWLNG 2 NOTES This variable is included on ONS datasets only SUPVIS Responsible for supervising 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees STAT 1 MANAGE Managerial status 1 Manager 2 Foreman or supervisor 3 Not manager or supervisor FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees STAT 1 105 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 MANAGER Managerial status reported 1 Manager 2 Foreman or supervisor 3 Not manager
214. activities while taking medication For example Respondent A suffers from asthma In JM13 they answer yes to HEALIM as without their medication they would suffer breathlessness and would struggle to carry out day to day tasks However AJ13 they answer not at to LIMACT because if they use their inhaler they can go about their daily life whilst experiencing no health problems When analysing LIMACT users are advised to use the filter LNGLST 1 before carrying out any further analysis ILLLNG For how long has your ability to carry out normal day to day activities been reduced 1 Less than six months 2 Between six months and 12 months 3 Twelve months or more FREQUENCY New question from AJ11 COVERAGE Applies to respondents who have indicated that their health problems limit their ability to carry out normal day to day activities NOTES When analysing ILLLNG users advised to use the filter HEALIM 1 before carrying out any further analysis REDACT Period that day to day activities have been reduced 1 Less than six months 2 Between six months and 12 months 3 Twelve months or more FREQUENCY Every quarter from AJ13 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who answered yes lot or yes a little to LIMACT LIMACT 1 2 284 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NOTES This is a harmonised question that replaces ILLLNG from AJ13 onwards When analysing
215. address 3 months ago they could still be living in the same town or county GOR3 Region of residence months ago Spring 92 Autumn 99 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Tyne amp Wear Rest of North East Greater Manchester Merseyside Rest of North West South Yorkshire West Yorkshire Rest of Yorkshire amp Humberside East Midlands West Midlands Met County Rest of West Midlands Spring 00 onwards 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 FREQUENCY Spring 2000 COVERAGE Tyne amp Wear Rest of North East Greater Manchester Merseyside Rest of North West South Yorkshire West Yorkshire Rest of Yorkshire amp Humberside East Midlands West Midlands Met County Rest of West Midlands 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 22 23 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Eastern Inner London Outer London South East South West Wales Strathclyde Rest of Scotland Northern Ireland Outside UK Baby under 3 months East of England Inner London Outer London South East South West Wales Strathclyde Rest of Scotland Northern Ireland Outside UK Baby under 3 months Spring 92 only Each quarter from Spring 93 to Autumn 99 Spring quarters only from Applies to all respondents in employment 62 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NOTES This variable is based on G
216. administration and defence compulsory social security 16 P Education 17 Q Human health and social work activities 18 R Arts entertainment and recreation 19 5 Other service activities 20 T Activities of households as employers undifferentiated goods and services producing activities of households for own use 21 U Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who did no work in the reference week and were not away from any job or business but have worked in the past 8 years NOTES This variable is derived from INDSCO07L LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives a full industry breakdown of both SIC92 amp SIC2007 codes EMPLOYMENT STATUS IN LAST JOB STATLR Employment status last job reported 1 Employee 2 Self employed 3 Government scheme 4 Unpaid family worker FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who did no work in the reference week and were not away from any job or business but have worked in the past 8 years NOTES From Spring 92 to Winter 00 this variable was called NSTATL NSTATL was processed through the Census Matrix Edit which checks the respondents occupation and their employment status for inconsistencies With the removal of the edit STATLR supersedes the variable NSTATL The filter EVERWK 1 is applied to the questionnaire variable STAT to dis
217. ago OYSTAT 1 NOTES With the removal of the Census Matrix Edit OYMPRO2 supersedes the variables 2 amp OYMPS02 OYMPR02 is number of employees at workplace one year ago as reported This is derived variable please see Volume 4 User Guide for further guidance This variable records the total number of employees at the respondent s workplace not just the number employed within the particular section department he she works in Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions OYMPE02 Number of employees where worked 1 year ago 1 1 10 2 11 19 3 20 24 4 Don t know but under 25 5 25 49 6 50 249 7 250 499 8 Don t know but between 50 and 499 9 500 or more 203 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 02 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who were employees 12 months ago OYSTAT 1 NOTES With the removal of the Census Matrix Edit OYMPRO2 supersedes the variables 2 amp 502 The notes for OYMPR02 also apply to this variable Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions OYSOLO On own or with employees 1 year ago reported 1 Alone or with partner s but not employees 2 With employees FREQUENCY AJ quarters only from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies
218. aid job or business 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment NOTES Looking for different or additional paid job or business may cover wide range of activities from looking through newspaper advertisements to actively writing to prospective employers and attending interviews represents something more than simply feeling dissatisfied with the present job but beyond the respondent deciding whether he or she was looking for work Self employed people may interpret looking for additional business as trying to increase their present business They are coded 1 only if they were looking for a different business last week and not just for additional clients 170 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 ADDJOB Whether seeking replacement or additional job 1 new job to replace your present main job 2 An additional job FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who were looking for an additional or different job or business in the reference week DIFJOB 1 LOOKM11 1 3 reasons for looking for another job 1 Present job may come to an end 2 Present job is to fill in time before finding another job 3 unsatisfactory in present job 4 Journey to work unsatisfactory in present job 5 Respondent wants to work longer hours than in present job 6 Responde
219. al pay bands 2nd job Winter 92 to Winter 96 See Volume 5 LFS Classifications for band details Spring 97 onwards See start of Income section in this volume FREQUENCY Each quarter from Winter 92 307 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees in second job and do not know their net pay NOTES BANDN2 was changed from numeric to a text variable in Autumn 1997 but the bands are coded using two decimal places NETWK2 Net weekly pay in 2nd job Amount FREQUENCY Each quarter from Winter 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees second job NOTES This is a derived variable please see Volume 4 User Guide for further guidance SYSTEM VARIABLES System variables are included within the LFS questionnaire to aid the flow of the interview and provide additional information which is necessary for the procedure of the survey at subsequent waves but is not collected for data purposes Unless otherwise specified they apply to all persons households NURSE Whether living in NHS accommodation 1 Persons in NHS accommodation 9 Persons not in NHS accommodation FREQUENCY Each quarter from Winter 92 NOTES This variable should be used as a filter for an either or response only HALLRES Whether living in hall of residence 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Summer 96 COVERAGE Ap
220. and From JM14 onwards this variable is asked in wave one first contact and not asked again but rotated in the background for waves 2 5 This means that a respondent s religion will not change throughout the waves JM14 onwards NOTES This variable replaces RELIG RELIGW What is your religion 37 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 1 No religion 2 Christian all denominations 3 Buddhist 4 Hindu 5 Jewish 6 Muslim 7 Sikh 8 Any other religion FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to respondents aged 16 and over and live in Wales NOTES This variable replaces RELIG From JM14 onwards this variable is asked in wave one first contact and not asked again but rotated in the background for waves 2 5 This means that a respondent s religion will not change throughout the waves JM14 onwards RELIGS Religion Scotland No Religion Church of Scotland Roman Catholic Other Christian Buddhist Hindu Jewish Muslim Sikh Any other Religion SOONODOORWN ee ee em o FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to respondents aged 16 and over and live in Scotland NOTES This variable replaces RELIG From JM14 onwards this variable is asked in wave one first contact and not asked again but rotated in the background for waves 2 5 This means that respondent s religion will not change through
221. andchild 5 Foster child 17 Grandparent 6 Child in law 18 Other relation 7 Parent 19 Other non relative 8 Step parent 20 Civil Partner 10 Foster parent 21 Same sex cohabite 11 Parent in law 22 Undefined FREQUENCY Each quarter from AJO6 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES There are a lot of changes taking place in the make up of households families and the purpose of the relationship grid is to calculate family units by defining household members relationship to each other Between Spring 01 and AJO6 this variable was called RELHRP HRP Household reference person 1 Respondent is HRP 2 Respondent is not HRP FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 2000 to Winter 2000 on ONS datasets only Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents aged 16 NOTES This variable is derived from PERSNO and DVHRPNUM is used to determine Household Reference Person This variable is only on ONS datasets in 2000 DVHRPNUM Person number of HRP FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents HOHID Head of household identification 1 Head of household 2 Not head of household FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 96 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES HOHID was introduced in Spring 96 to provide additional information about the total number of people and family units within the household 74 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3
222. ariable QGNVQ Whether respondent has any GNVQs GSVQs 1 Yes 2 No 3 Don t know 4 Never heard of GNVQs FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 96 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have a qualification but a GNVQ GSVQ NOTES Code 4 Never heard of GNVQs is only available for personal not proxy interviews If a proxy respondent has never heard of them code 3 Don t know is entered Between JM11 and JS13 respondents were routed to these questions if aged 16 64 or in work From OD13 respondents are routed to these questions if aged 16 69 or in work Please see user guide 2 for the definitive routing VOCYRE period when highest GNVQ GSVQ qualification was obtained 1 2009 or earlier 2 2010 or later FREQUENCY Every quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has GNVQs GSVQs NOTES Between JM11 and JS13 respondents were routed to these questions if aged 16 64 or in work From OD13 respondents are routed to these questions if aged 16 69 or in work Please see user guide 2 for the definitive routing GNVQ1 1 level of highest GNVQ GSVQ 1 Advanced level 2 Full Intermediate level 3 Part One Intermediate level 4 Full Foundation level 5 Part One Foundation level 6 Other GNVQ GSVQ qualification 7 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has GNVQs GSVQs NOTES This variable replaces GNVQ4 Between JM11 and JS13 res
223. arters from JM06 onwards Winter quarters from Winter 93 Winter 05 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have had a work related accident in the past 12 months ACCDNT 1 288 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NOTES DNA 9 will include people who were not contacted in the quarter this question was asked See LFS User Guide Volume 1 Background and Methodology Imputation in the LFS for full details Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions ACCY Year of accident in last 12 months Enter year FREQUENCY quarters from JMO9 From OD11 this is asked odd years only COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have been injured at work in the last 12 months ACCDNT 1 NOTES This question was removed from the questionnaire in JM13 ACCM Month of accident in last 12 months Enter month 1 12 FREQUENCY quarters from JMO9 From OD11 this is asked odd years only COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have been injured at work in the last 12 months ACCDNT 1 and responded to ACCY NOTES This question was removed from the questionnaire in JM13 WCHJB Job title check 1 Occupation title main job OCCT 2 Occupation title second job OCCT2 or N A 4 Some other job FREQUENCY JM quarters from JM06 onwards Winter quarters from Winter 93 to Winter 05 From
224. as decreased in size in particular losing people to various services within Sections M and N and also to Distribution G e Education Section P has gained mostly from people formerly coded to Public Admin O Arts Entertainment amp Recreation R and Health amp Social Work Q e Section T Households as Employers reduced by 55 losing people mostly to Admin amp Support Services Section N Time series adjustments The percentage changes in the table above represent primarily the impact of the new coding tool They can be used in the calculation of simple adjustments to address the step changes in time series of employment estimates on a SIC 2007 basis This has been done for the estimates of employment by industry as published in the LFS Historical Quarterly Supplement 50 2010 In the development of SOC2010 there is a significant decrease the numbers coded to the Managers and Senior Officials major group SOC 2010 Volume 1 structure and definition The increase in the Professional Occupations major group is likely to be the corollary of this decrease Ethnicity National Identity and Religion Changes were made to the ethnicity national identity and religion questions in January 2011 to bring them in line with the census data collection on these topics In April 2011 further changes were made to the ethnicity questions to bring them in line with the Scottish Census data collection The new Ethnicity questions intr
225. ase NOTES This variable is only available on ONS datasets in Spring 2000 From Autumn 06 all Travel to work questions are asked in Autumn every year and in waves 1 and 5 every quarter every 3 years e g 2006 2009 etc Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions TRVDRV Use of car van minibus works van to travel to work 1 As a driver 2 As a passenger 3 Sometimes as a passenger sometimes as a driver 131 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENCY Autumn quarters from Autumn 96 to Autumn 99 Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 00 to Spring 01 Autumn quarters only from Autumn 01 to Autumn 06 and every quarter waves 1 amp 5 every three years COVERAGE Applies to respondents who use car van minibus works van to travel to work TRVMTH 1 This variable is only available on ONS datasets in Spring 2000 From Autumn 06 all Travel to work questions are asked in Autumn every year and in waves 1 and 5 every quarter every 3 years e g 2006 2009 etc NOTES Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions SICKNESS ACTWKDY 1 7 Days scheduled to work 1 Monday 2 Tuesday 3 Wednesday 4 Thursday 5 Friday 6 Saturday 7 Sunday 8 Not working at all 9 Scheduled working days not relevant FREQUENCY Each quart
226. at these qualifications such as QGNVQ As a result of this HIQUAL11 coded these people as 8s This has been rectified from OD13 onwards HIQUL11D Highest qualification detailed grouping 1 Degree or equivalent 2 Higher education 3 GCE A level or equivalent 4 GCSE grades A C or equivalent 5 Other qualifications 6 No qualification 7 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents 16 69 or those in employment with qualifications NOTES This variable replaces HIQUAL8D This variable is derived from HIQUAL11 Please refer to the NOTES section of HIQUAL11 before carrying out any analysis on this variable LEVQUL11 Level of highest qualification held 1 NQF Level 4 and above 2 NOF Level 3 3 Trade Apprenticeships 4 NOF Level 2 5 Below NQF Level 2 6 Other Qualifications 7 No Qualifications FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents aged 16 69 or those in employment with qualifications This variable replaces LEVQUAL8 From JM11 more information on foreign qualifications was collected Therefore a large number of respondents who previously ended up as other on the HIQUAL and LEVQUAL DV s are now assigned to appropriate qualifications levels NOTES The issue identified with QUALUK and QULCHUK has an impact on LEVQUL11 please see QUALUK for more information The cases associated with this issue would have been coded as
227. because they are looking after family home NOWLM 3 NOTES This variable replaces NOLOKF and NOWNTF Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions NWNCRE 1 2 Reasons for not looking for work 1 Care services for children are not available or affordable 2 Care services for ill disabled or elderly adults are not available or affordable 3 Care facilities do not influence your decision for working part time FREQUENCY From JM10 NWNCRE is asked of wave 1 respondents only all quarters Autumn 05 09 asked in OD quarters all waves only COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who did not look for work as they were looking after the family home NOLWF 1 2 or 3 NOTES This variable is included on ONS datasets only The need for care services can be need for normal working hours or for special periods of the day e g early morning or special periods of the year e g school holidays Please note that this is multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable START Whether could start work within the next two weeks 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who were looking for work or a place on a government scheme in the last 4 weeks those waiting to start a new job those not seeking but would like a job and those who are seekin
228. but between 50 and 499 9 500 or more FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 02 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees who have been made redundant from a job during the three months before interview STAT 1 NOTES This variable replaces REDMPNO This variable records the total number of employees at the respondent s workplace not just the number employed within the particular section or department he she works in INDUSTRY MADE REDUNDANT FROM CONVERSION TABLE To convert SIC92 codes to SIC2007 codes The SIC 2007 industry coding frame has been introduced to replace the existing SIC 1992 version In order to maintain some continuity the following variables are available to convert SIC92 codes to SIC2007 codes IN9207DR 01 99 Range of values FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents made redundant in the three months prior to interview NOTES This conversion variable gives reasonable comparisons not exact conversions This variable is derived from Redcls EVERWK REDIND INDM92M IMDM92L RDIC92 LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives full industry breakdowns for both SIC92 amp SIC2007 IN9207ER A Agriculture forestry and fishing B Mining and quarrying C Manufacturing D Electricity gas air cond supply E Water supply sewerage waste F Construction G Wholesale retail repair of vehicles H Transport and storage 1 Accommodation and food services
229. cal College of Further Education or Specialist Further Education College State System Sixth Form College Sixth Form School Adult Education Centre or WEA Institute College or University Independent privately run Training Centre either privately or employer run State School Independent School Other Don t know 262 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 COVERAGE Applies if respondent is aged 16 or above and is attending course or waiting for one to restart NOTES This variable replaces EDINS APPRENTICESHIP APPR12 Completed apprenticeships 1 Yes 2 No 3 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM12 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents still doing an apprenticeship or have completed one and now doing another APPR8 2 or 3 NOTES APRR12 and APPRCURR replaced APPR8 in JM12 APPRCURR Current apprenticeships 1 Yes 2 No 3 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM12 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents still doing an apprenticeship or have completed and now doing another APPR8 2 or 3 NOTES APRR12 and APPRCURR replaced APPR8 in JM12 APPRLEV Completed apprenticeships 1 Apprenticeship Level 2 or Intermediate Apprenticeship formerly foundation modern apprenticeship 2 Advanced Apprenticeship Level 3 formerly advanced modern apprenticeships 3 Higher Apprenticeship Level 4 or 5 4 Don t know FREQUENCY
230. can vary their daily start and finish times each day Over an accounting period usually four weeks or a calendar month debit and credit hours can be carried over into another accounting period Variable start and finish times on their own are not enough for a flexitime system There must also be a formal accounting period Annualised hours contract The number of hours an employee has to work are calculated over a full year Instead of say 40 hours per week employees are contracted to say 1900 hours per year after allowing for leave and other entitlements Longer hours are worked over certain parts of the year and shorter hours at other periods Variations in hours are related to seasonal factors or fluctuation in demand for the companies goods or services 145 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Term time working Respondents work during the school or college term Unpaid leave is taken during the school holidays although their pay may be spread equally over the year Job sharing This is a type of part time working full time job is divided between usually two people job sharers work at different times although their may be changeover period Both nine day fortnights and four and half day weeks working arrangements involve the 5 day working week being compressed into fewer full days Such arrangements refer to full time working only Nine day fortnight involve
231. cate they are in work that they are looking for work or that they would like a regular paid job NOTES Disabled current disability includes those who have a long term disability which substantially limits their day to day activities Work limiting disabled includes those who have a long term disability which affects the kind or amount of work they might do Please see notes on a discontinuity between Q4 2009 and Q1 2010 and changes made to this derived variable in 20110n page 5 of this user guide Users should be aware that the variables that feed into DISCURR and also the way DISCURR was calculated changed in AJ13 Users should be aware that they cannot do any comparisons of DISCURR before and after AJ13 as the definition of this variable changed Please see notes at LNGLST and LIMACT before carrying out analysis on this variable 286 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 DISCURR13 Current disability 1 Both current disability and work limiting disabled 2 disabled current disability only 3 Work limiting disabled only 4 Not disabled FREQUENCY Each quarter from OD 13 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents of working age and those above working age who indicate they are in work that they are looking for work or that they would like a regular paid job NOTES Disabled current disability includes those who have a long term disability which substantially limits their day to day
232. cation training in the last 4 weeks ED4WK 1 OR FUTUR4 1 NOTES Here the total length of the course was recorded not just the part that has so far been completed For persons engaged on day or block release the total length of training is given For persons who have dropped out of a course the time spent on the course not the length is recorded Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions TRHR11 time hours spent on education or training including private study Number of hours if more than 97 97 used FREQUENCY AJ quarters from 2011 COVERAGE Applies if ED4WK 1 taken part in job related education training in 4 wks before ref wk NOTES This variable replaces TRHR93 Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions TRONJB Time spent training on the job 0 96 Hours spent training 97 97 or more hours spent training FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 93 to Winter 98 AJ quarters only from Spring 99 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who taken part in any on or off the job related education or training in the reference week ED1FUT 1 AND JOBTRN 1 or 3 NOTES This identifies the number of training hours that on the job training In Spring 93 this variable was incorrectly routed to JOBTRN 2 and 3 instead of 1 and 3 and so the data should not be used This was corrected from Au
233. ce or Personal Independence Payment PIP 8 Attendance Allowance 9 Industrial Injuries Disablement Allowance FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 JM14 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are claiming sickness or disability benefit TPBEN3 3 NOTES This variable replaces SKDSBN3 1 7 with options 3 now valid with Employment and Support Allowance option However 6 is still no longer valid Please note that the reference to Personal Independence Payment was introduced in AJ13 Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable As of AJ14 this variable has been replaced with DISBEN DISBEN 1 9 Type of sickness or disability benefit claimed 1 Employment and Support Allowance 2 Incapacity Benefit 3 Severe Disablement Allowance 4 Personal Independence Payment 5 Disability Living Allowance 6 Attendance Allowance 7 Statutory Sick Pay 8 Industrial Injuries Disablement benefit 9 None of these 10 SPONTANEOUS one of these more than one of these but I don t know which FREQUENCY Each quarter from AJ14 NOTES Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable PENBEN3 1 3 Type of state pension claimed 1 Retirement or Old Age Pension 2 Widowed Parent s Allowance 3 Bereavement Allowance or Widow s Pension
234. ce their present one LOOKM8 6 or PREFHR 2 WHETHER LOOKING LOOK4 Whether looking for paid work in last four weeks 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who did unpaid work in the reference week or have no current job EVERWK 1 or 2 OR OWNBUS 1 OR RELBUS 1 LKYT4 Whether looking for a place on a Government scheme in last four weeks 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents not seeking work in the four weeks prior to the reference week and are aged between 16 and 59 LOOK4 2 AND AGE 16 59 EMPLOYMENT STATUS TYEMPS Type of employment sought 1 Self employment 2 Full time employee 3 Part time employee 4 Employee no preference 5 Employee time not stated 6 Full time no preference 7 Part time no preference 8 No preference no preference 9 No preference time not stated 10 Type of employment not stated 11 Looking for a place on a government scheme being assessed by ET training agent FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are looking for employment NOTES Time not stated refers to respondents who did not state whether they were seeking full or part time work For analysis purposes codes 2 4 5 6 8 amp 9 are usually treated as full time and codes 3 amp 7 as part time LKSELA W
235. ch quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to those with more than one period of sickness absence and the reason for the second absence was different from the first This variable replaced ILLNXT ILLOFF Number of days off sick in reference week 1 One day 2 Two days 3 Three days 4 Four days 5 Five days 6 Six days 7 Seven days 135 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who had days off due to sickness injury ILLDAYS 1 7 NOTES Only days where respondent was scheduled to work but was unable to do so because of sickness or injury are recorded ILLMON Whether off work sick Monday 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who had days off due to sickness injury ILLWK 2 NOTES Only days where respondent was scheduled to work but was unable to do so because of sickness or injury are recorded ILLTUE Whether off work sick on Tuesday 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who had days off due to sickness injury ILLWK 2 NOTES Only days where respondent was scheduled to work but was unable to do so because of sickness or injury are recorded ILLWED Whether off work sick on a Wednesday 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies
236. cheme follow up Free Text FREQUENCY AJ13 OD13 only COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who answered some other situation or don t know at TYPSCH12 NOTES ONS datasets only This was removed from the questionnaire JM14 onwards HELPSE12 period when self employed receiving help 1 prior to starting a business as self employed or 2 after setting up as business as self employed COVERAGE Applies to respondents getting help as self employed NOTES New for JM12 Whether had paid job in addition to scheme 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all men aged 16 64 and women aged 16 59 62 from Spring 94 on a government scheme or at college or at a training centre From JM12 this applies to people where TYPSCH12 4 6 7 9 10 11 97 NOTES Respondents with a paid job in addition to a place on a scheme are included in the Government employment amp training programmes category of economic activity not as employees or self employed NI schemes are applicable to Spring quarters only from Spring 92 94 and in all quarters from Winter 94 94 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 MAIN JOB WORKING IN REFERENCE WEEK WRKING Whether did paid work in reference week 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 GB Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Each quarter from Winter 94
237. cimal place when ranging hours i e 1 30 hours should be ranged as 1 0 30 4 etc PAIDHRU Paid hours based on usual hours per week 0 96 Number of hours 97 97 or more hours FREQUENCY Each quarter from Autumn 93 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees self employed and those on employer based government schemes 138 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NOTES This variable is derived from AGE TOTUS1 POTHR USUHR amp EVEROT PAIDHRU is not included on datasets for all quarters in 1999 POTHR Usual hours of paid overtime 0 96 Hours of overtime 97 97 or more 99 Don t know No answer FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who may work paid or unpaid overtime EVEROT 1 NOTES As hours are not stored as whole numbers users should use 1 decimal place when ranging hours i e 1 30 hours should be ranged as 1 0 30 4 etc UOTHR Usual hours of unpaid overtime 0 96 Hours of overtime 97 97 or more 99 Don t know No answer FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who may work paid or unpaid overtime EVEROT 1 NOTES As hours are not stored as whole numbers users should use 1 decimal place when ranging hours 1 30 hours should be ranged as 1 0 30 4 etc TOTUS2 Usual hours worked including overtime 0 96 Hours of work
238. d JOBTMP in JM 2010 From JM11 this variable became multi coded allowing respondents the opportunity to code five possible options Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable WHYTMPS6 Reason for taking non permanent job 1 Contract which includes period of training 2 Had contract for probationary period 3 Could not find a permanent job 110 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 4 Did not want a permanent job 5 Some other reason FREQUENCY Each quarter from Winter 2005 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who said their job was not permanent in some way JOBTYP 2 NOTES The permanency of a job relates to the job itself not the respondent s intentions about that job The interviewer accepts the first response that applies Between Spring 1992 and Winter 2005 this variable was called WHYTMP TEMLEN Length of non permanent job 1 Less than 1 month 2 1 month but less than 3 months 3 3 months but less than 6 months 4 6 months but less than 12 months 5 12 months but less than 18 months 6 18 months but less than 2 years 7 2 years but less than 3 years 8 3 years but less than 4 years 9 4 years but less than 5 years 10 5 years or more 11 Time not fixed yet FREQUENCY quarters only from Spring 92 Every quarter from 8 COVERAGE Appl
239. d OTQUAL in order to identify whether a respondent has received this particular qualification QUAL_22 Whether CSE obtained 1 Yes 0 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE This variable amalgamates the responses given at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL and OTQUAL in order to identify whether respondent has received this particular qualification QUAL 23 Whether Advanced Higher Higher Intermediate Access qualifications Scotland obtained 1 Yes 0 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE This variable amalgamates the responses given at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL and OTQUAL in order to identify whether a respondent has received this particular qualification QUAL_24 Whether Advanced RSA OCR qualification obtained 221 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 1 Yes 0 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE This variable amalgamates the responses given at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL and OTQUAL in order to identify whether respondent has received this particular qualification QUAL 25 Whether Advanced City and Guilds qualification obtained 1 Yes 0 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE This variable amalgamates the responses given at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL and OTQUAL in order to identify whether respondent has received this particular qualification QUAL 26 Whether YT Certificate qualification obtained
240. d accident in the past 12 months ACCDNT 1 and their injuries have included fractured broken bones TYPINJ 2 Please note that this is multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable SITEDI Dislocated joints 1 2 3 4 5 6 FREQUENCY COVERAGE Shoulder Other joint in arm e g wrist elbow Hip Knee Other joint in leg e g ankle Or spine JM quarters from JMO07 Applies to all respondents who have had a work related accident in the past 12 months ACCDNT 1 and their injuries have included dislocated joints TYPINJ 3 Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable ACCURH Effects of the accident 1 2 3 4 5 Lose consciousness even briefly Suffer from hypothermia or heat induced illness Need resuscitation Stay in hospital for more than 24 hours Not experience any of the above 291 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENCY JM quarters from JMO07 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have had work related accident in the past 12 months ACCDNT 1 ACCKIND Cause of accident 1 Hit by a moving flying or falling object 2 Hit by a moving vehicle 3 Hit something fixed or stationary 4 Injured while handling lifting or carrying 5 Slip
241. d covered by last net pay 1 One week 2 Two weeks 3 Three weeks 4 Four weeks 5 Calendar month 7 Two calendar months 8 Eight times a year 9 Nine times a year 10 Ten times a year 13 Three months 13 weeks 26 Six months 26 weeks 52 One year 12 months 52 weeks 90 Less than one week 301 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 95 One off lump sum 97 None of these FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 99 Waves 1 and 5 only COVERAGE Applies to all respondents giving figure for their actual last payment as an employee or on government scheme NOTES This question replaces NETGA from Spring 99 USNET99 Whether last net pay was usual net pay for period covered by payment 1 Yes 2 No 3 No usual amount FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 99 waves 1 and 5 only COVERAGE Applies to all respondents giving a figure for their actual last net pay as an employee or from government scheme or whose net pay was the same as their gross pay or have not yet received any pay from their employer NOTES This question replaces USEMPN from Spring 99 USUNPAY What would usual amount of net pay for period be 1 99994 1 to 99994 99995 99995 or more 99997 Same as Gross 99998 Don t know 99999 Refusal FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 99 Waves 1 and 5 only COVERAGE Applies to all respondents giving a figure for their ac
242. de for further guidance This replaced WKAG1664 from AJ10 PENFLAG Whether of pensionable age 0 Not of pensionable age 1 Of pensionable age FREQUENCY Each quarter from AJ 2010 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES Introduced in AJ 2010 this marker identifies those who are of pensionable age during the 10 year pension age transition period NOPENFLG Whether 16 but below pensionable age 1 16 but not of pensionable age 2 Pensionable age 9 Under 16 FREQUENCY Each quarter from AJ 2010 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES Introduced in AJ 2010 this marker identifies those who are of pensionable age during the 10 year pension age transition period DOBD Date of birth day 1 31 Date of birth day FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 to Autumn 02 Each quarter from Winter 02 on ONS Govt datasets only COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This variable is only available on ONS Government datasets from Winter 2002 03 This variable was removed from the public datasets for confidentiality reasons DOBM Date of birth month 1 12 Month of birth FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents DOBY Date of birth year 0 99 Last 2 digits of year of birth FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents 11 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NOTES From Spring 98 year of birt
243. dency where none in fact exist 90 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 ECONOMIC ACTIVITY BASIC ECONOMIC ACTIVITY INECAC05 Basic economic activity ILO definition reported 01 Employee 02 Self employed 03 Government employment amp training programmes 04 Unpaid family worker 05 ILO unemployed 06 Inactive seeking unavailable student 07 Inactive seeking unavailable looking after family home 08 Inactive seeking unavailable temporarily sick or injured 09 Inactive seeking unavailable long term sick or disabled 10 Inactive seeking unavailable other reason 11 Inactive seeking unavailable no reason given 12 Inactive not seeking would like work waiting results of job application 13 Inactive not seeking would like work student 14 Inactive not seeking would like work looking after family home 15 Inactive not seeking would like work temporarily sick or injured 16 Inactive not seeking would like work long term sick or disabled 17 Inactive not seeking would like work believes no jobs available 18 Inactive not seeking would like work not yet started looking 19 Inactive not seeking would like work does not need or want employment 20 Inactive not seeking would like work retired from paid work 21 Inactive not seeking would like work other reason 22 Inactive not seeking would like
244. dents in employment excluding those on certain government This variable is derived from AGE TOTUS1 TOTUS2 amp EVEROT TTUSHR includes paid and unpaid overtime As hours are not stored as whole numbers users should use 1 decimal place when ranging hours i e 1 30 hours should be ranged as 1 0 30 4 etc BACTHR Basic actual hours in main job per week 0 96 97 FREQUENCY COVERAGE schemes NOTES Number of hours 97 hours or more Each quarter from Autumn 93 Applies to all respondents in employment excluding those on certain government This variable is derived from AGE TOTAC1 ACTHR amp EVEROT TTACHR Total actual hours worked in main job in reference week 0 96 97 FREQUENCY COVERAGE schemes Hours of work 97 or more Each quarter from Spring 92 Applies to all respondents in employment excluding those on certain government 141 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NOTES This is derived variable please see Volume 4 User Guide for further guidance includes any paid or unpaid overtime worked in the reference week Those respondents who did not work in the reference week even though they had job i e on holiday or sick coded as 0 As hours not stored as whole numbers users should use 1 decimal place when ranging hours i e 1 30 hours should be ranged as 1 0 30 4 etc TOTHRS Total hour
245. doing college based training or those not in work or full time education who have taken part in a job related education training course in the 4 weeks prior to the reference week and the course is connected to a job that the respondent might be able to do in the future FUTUR4 1 NOTES This variable replaces TRSITE7 with wording changes to categories 8 and 10 This question is only asked to respondents in Great Britain TRNI10 Main place of education or training in work NI only 1 On premises belonging to your employer 2 On premises belonging to another employer 3 Private training centre 4 Training centre Government run 5 Employment Rehabilitation Centre 6 Action for Community Employment ACE 7 Community Workshop 9 At home OU Open Tech Correspondence 10 Learn Direct 11 College of Further Education 12 University 13 Other educational institution 14 None of these 266 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENCY JM and AJ quarters only from 2010 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment or of working age or in receipt of education training who have taken part in job related education training in the 4 weeks prior to the reference week and this training has not been solely based in the workplace JOBTRN 2 3 Also applies to all respondents aged 16 69 who are doing college based training or those not in work or full time education w
246. dundancies made in the last three months you should also filter on the variable REDUND 1 made redundant This variable was coded as REDP 0 3 from Spring 95 to Winter 96 Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable REDIND Whether industry made redundant from is same as previously stated 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 95 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who were made redundant from last job REDPAID 1 AND REDYLFT 2 OR REDANY 1 NOTES Assumes industry is that described at INDT If analysing data on redundancies made in the last three months you should also filter on the variable REDUND 1 made redundant REDOCC Whether occupation made redundant from is same as previously stated 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 95 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who were made redundant from last job REDPAID 1 AND REDYLFT 2 OR REDANY 1 NOTES Assumes occupation is that described at OCCT If analysing data on redundancies made in the last three months you should also filter on the variable REDUND 1 made redundant RDMPNO2 Number of employees at work redundant 122 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 1 1 10 2 11 19 3 20 24 4 Don t know but under 25 5 25 49 6 50 249 7 250 499 8 Don t know
247. dy taken 5 Waiting for the results of job application 6 Waiting for the outcome of measures to start up business 7 Have health problems 8 Do no want to look for work immediately 9 Other reason FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 98 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who not seeking another job but wants longer hours UNDEMP 1 Please note that this is multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable UNDST Whether available to start working longer hours or start a job with longer hours within next two weeks 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 97 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents looking for a replacement job with longer hours or who would work longer hours in their current job given the opportunity LESPAY2 Whether prefer to work shorter hours than at present in current job 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 2000 to Winter 2000 on ONS datasets only Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are not looking for another job and do not want a job with more hours DIFJOB 2 AND UNDEMP 2 LESPAY3 Whether would work shorter hours for less pay 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 2000 to Winter 2000 on ONS datasets only Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who would prefer to work shorter hours LESPAY2 1
248. e at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable VOCYRD time period when highest City amp Guilds qualification was obtained 1 2009 or earlier 2 2010 or later FREQUENCY Every quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has a City amp Guilds qualification CAG11 type of highest City amp Guilds qualification 1 advanced craft part 3 2 craft part 2 3 foundation part 1 4 other City amp Guilds qualification 5 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM1 1 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has City amp Guilds qualification NOTES This variable replaces CANDG CAGACD Was your highest City amp Guilds qualification an 1 Award 2 Certificate 3 Diploma 4 Don t know FREQUENCY Every quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent s City amp Guilds is categorised as OTHER at CAG11 CAGLEV level of Award Certificate Diploma City amp Guilds qualification 1 Level 1 2 Level2 3 Level3 4 Level 4 5 5 6 Level6 7 Level7 8 Level8 9 Entry level 10 Don t know 242 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENCY Every quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent s City amp Guilds is categorised as OTHER at CAG11 CGSUBU subject title awarding body of this City amp Guilds qualification Free text input max 250 characters FREQUENCY Every quarter from JM11 CO
249. e beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions As of 2014 this is asked of AJ main respondents only TELEQB Whether possible to work at home without using both telephone and computer 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters in 97 AJ quarters only from Spring 98 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who use a telephone and a computer for work at home TELEQA 1 NOTES TELEQA and TELEQB are asked to establish whether the use of a telephone AND computer are essential for the work performed at home i e they are tele workers Some respondents 128 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 may use them together e g for telephone canvassing using computerised database while others may use them independently To be coded Yes at TELEQB they have to be able to carry out their work without using a telephone and a computer Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions As of 2014 this is asked of AJ main respondents only ATFROM Who working for from home 1 Family business 2 Outside firm or organisation 3 Own account FREQUENCY Spring 92 only Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 93 to Autumn 97 AJ quarters only from Spring 98 From 2014 these questions were reduced in frequency and are asked in wave one every quarter i e not asked all waves in AJ COV
250. e children 4 Caring for disabled or elderly person 5 Temporarily sick or disabled 6 Long term sick or disabled 7 Didn t need employment 8 Retired 9 Made redundant 10 Other reason FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM08 As of 2014 this is asked of OD main respondents only COVERAGE Applies if currently working as an employee government scheme or unpaid family worker STAT 1 or 3 or 4 or PRELBUS 1 and has been with their current employer self employed for 12 months or less CONYRLES lt 1 and CONMLES lt 12 and was not in paid employment or self employed before current job CONPRE 3 TMPCON Whether respondent has contract with employment agency 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 05 Spring AJ quarters only from 2010 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who got their current work through a private employment agency or business HOWGET 5 NOTES This variable is included on ONS datasets only Respondents working directly for a temporary employment agency and are not performing any work for and under the supervision of another organisation should be coded 2 No Working past state pension age WRKLNG Why a respondent is working past state pension age 1 To pay for essential items Such as bills 2 To pay for desirable items such as holidays 3 To boost pension pot 4 Not ready to stop work 5 Employer needs your experience or you are needed in the family busi
251. e is only available in 2010 ADLRN38Y Type of adult learning based NEW pension 1 Formal and or non formal learning only 2 Informal learning only 3 Both informal and formal and or non formal learning 4 No adult learning in the last 12 months FREQUENCY JM10 0D10 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents aged 16 and not still in education NOTES This variable is included only on annual local area datasets which are available only to ONS and those government departments which sponsor the local area enhancements The reference period for adult learning is 3 years for England and Northern Ireland and one year for Scotland and Wales Please note this variable is only available in 2010 279 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 HEALTH AND INJURY HEALTH PROBLEMS The focus and number of questions on health and disability changed in Spring 1997 to reflect the provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 They are now concerned with all health problems whilst previously the emphasis had been on problems which affect respondents work See the June 1998 issue of Labour Market Trends for guidance about disability data From Spring 96 the frequency of disability health questions were changed from half yearly to quarterly This discontinuity affected data in Spring 96 which is not consistent with any other quarters HPRMB Prompt to ask health questions 1 Continue 2
252. e local area enhancements 51 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 TLEC99 Training and enterprise councils 101 Hampshire 102 Heart of England 103 Isle of Wight 104 Kent 105 Milton Keynes North Buckinghamshire 106 Surrey 107 Sussex Enterprise 108 Thames Valley Enterprise 201 Bedfordshire 202 Cambstec 203 Essex 204 Greater Peterborough 205 Hertfordshire 206 Norfolk and Waveney 207 Suffolk 301 Aztec 304 London East 305 North London 306 North West London 309 West London 311 Solotec 312 Focus Central London 401 Devon and Cornwall 402 Dorset 403 Gloucestershire 404 Somerset 405 Western 406 Wiltshire 501 Birmingham 503 Coventry and Warwickshire 504 Dudley 505 Hawtec 506 Sandwell 507 Shropshire 508 Staffordshire 509 Walsall 510 Wolverhampton 601 Greater Nottingham 602 Leicestershire 603 Lincolnshire 604 North Derbyshire 605 North Nottinghamshire 606 Northamptonshire 607 South Derbyshire 701 Barnsley and Doncaster 702 Bradford and District 703 Calderdale and Kirklees 704 Humberside 705 Leeds 706 North Yorkshire 707 Rotherham 708 Sheffield 709 Wakefield 801 Cewtec 802 Merseyside 803 St Helens 804 Bolton Bury 805 Cumbria 806 Eltec 807 Lawtec 808 Manchester 809 Metrotec 810 Normidtec 811
253. e month every two months From August 2010 ONS will publish headline employment and inactivity rates based on the 16 64 population No change was made concerning the unemployment rate which was and is still based on the population aged 16 and over The LFS definition of pension age has changed from 65 plus for men and 60 plus for women to 65 plus for men and women all children under 16 years are classified as economically inactive Therefore from April 2010 any routing that previously used the population males 16 64 and females 16 59 should change to all those aged 16 64 and routing that previously used the population males 65 and females 60 pension age should change to all those aged 65 A detailed flag can be calculated over the course of the incremental change to the female State pension age This will be needed if detailed analysis concerning state pension age is intended It is recommended that datasets contain two flag variables These derived variables should be called PENFLAGP which indicates an individual who is actually of State pension age at the time of interview and NOPENFLG which indicates individuals who are aged 16 and not actually of State pension age at the time of interview PENFLAGP and NOPENFLG are both potentially disclosive variables as they can allow for certain respondents affected by the change to have their year and month of birth identified This goes against ONS standards
254. ed subject 1 Single Subject 2 Combined Subject in one subject area 3 Combined Subject in more than one subject area FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM12 COVERAGE Applies to respondents who have a higher qualification NOTES SINCOMN FDSINCOM and HDSINCOM replaced in SINCOM in JM12 From JM12 those who have a higher qualification will be routed to this question FDSUBJ Subject studied at undergraduate degree Free Text FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM12 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has an undergraduate degree NOTES From JM12 FDSUBJ HDSUBJCT and SUBJCTN replaced SUBJCT HDSUBUJCT Subject studied at higher level Free Text FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM12 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has a higher degree NOTES From JM12 FDSUBJ HDSUBJCT and SUBJCTN replaced SUBJCT SUBJCTN Subject studied for nursing qualification Free Text FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM12 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has a nursing qualification NOTES From JM12 FDSUBJ HDSUBJCT and SUBJCTN replaced SUBJCT SNGDEGN Coding frame for single subject nursing qualifications FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM12 COVERAGE Applies to respondents whose undergraduate degree is a single subject 225 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NOTES SNGDEGN FDSNGDEG and SNGHD replaced SNGDEG in JM12 From JM12 those who have nursing qualification will be routed to this question SNGDEGB single subject
255. ed with caution This is available for ONS and Government analysis only The order that the response categories are appearing in the question are not necessarily the order they will appear in an interview The answer categories have been randomised to remove order effect SSELFB Main reason for self employed second job 1 Job after retirement 2 Redundancy 3 To maintain or increase income 4 Saw the demand or market 5 Could not find other employment 6 Started or joined a family business 7 Better work conditions or job satisfaction 8 Nature of job or chosen career 9 Other reasons FREQUENCY OD quarters only from 2014 COVERAGE Applies if respondent provided more than one answer to SSELFA 1 9 NOTES As with all new questions the reasons for self employment questions are subject to ONS monitoring of responses for several quarters and should therefore be treated with caution This is available for ONS and Government analysis only The order that the response categories are appearing in the question are not necessarily the order they will appear in an interview The answer categories have been randomised to remove order effect HOMED2 1 3 Work at least one day at home in reference week 1 Own home 2 Same grounds or buildings 3 Different places using home as a base 4 Not worked at home during reference week FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters only from Spring 97 to Autumn 99 AJ quarters only from
256. ed within the last three months or who are currently enrolled on government scheme training programme considered as employment NOTES New for JM12 HWWRET Return to work 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM12 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has had a period of illness or injury lasting four weeks or longer NOTES New for JM12 INCOME Up to Winter 96 all questions in the income section were asked of respondents in wave 5 From Spring 97 they have been asked in wave 1 as well Coverage of the following questions includes only people aged 16 69 plus those aged 70 and over who are in employment which means that data for old age pensions etc will be distorted The income questions are not addressed to respondents who are self employed INCOME PAY BANDS Pay Bands are used in the variables BANDG BANDN BANDG2 amp BANDN2 ANNUAL MONTHLY WEEKLY 110 21 0 si 0 12 1 499 22 1 49 3 2 1 9 1 3 500 999 2 3 50 99 3 3 10 19 1 4 1000 1499 2 4 100 149 3 4 20 29 1 5 1500 1999 2 5 150 199 3 5 30 39 297 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 1 6 2000 2499 2 6 200 249 3 6 40 49 1 7 2500 2999 2 7 250 299 3 7 50 59 1 8 3000 3499 2 8 300 349 3 8 60 69 1 9 3500 3999 2 9 350 399 3 9 70 79 1 10 4000 4499 2 10 400 449 3 10 80 89 1 11 4500 4999 2 11 450 499 3 11 90 99 1 12 5000 5999 2 12 500 549 3 12 100 109 1 13 6000 6999 2 13 550 599 3 13 11
257. education training NOTES ED13WK and FUTUR13 were introduced in Summer 94 and for that quarter only JOBTRN TRSITE TRNFEE YTRAIN and TRNLEN were linked to these questions ED4WK Job related training or education in the last 4 weeks 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 but not summer 94 use ED4FUT COVERAGE Applies to all respondents aged 16 69 who are in employment or in receipt of education training and who have taken part in job related education training in the 3 months prior to the reference week ED13WK 1 NOTES See note above about problem with Spring 97 data FUTUR13 Job related training or education in the last 3 months 264 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Summer 94 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents aged 16 69 who are doing college based training and those not in work or full time education The course is connected to a job that the respondent might be able to do in the future NOTES FUTUR13 applies to respondents 16 69 who are not at school to whom ED13WK does not apply ED13WK and FUTUR13 were introduced in Summer 94 and for that quarter only JOBTRN TRSITE TRNFEE YTRAIN and TRNLEN were linked to these questions FUTUR4 Job related training or education in the last 4 weeks 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 not Summer 94 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents aged 16
258. ee months or has not taken part in any other learning activities in the last 4 weeks NEETS Main reason not in work education or training 1 In custody 2 Caring for a dependant adult relative 3 Pregnant or caring for own children 4 Disability or ill health 5 Doing unpaid voluntary work 6 Waiting to start a job you have already obtained or a course on which you have been accepted 7 Taking a gap year before entering higher education 8 Looking for work or a suitable course 9 You are a refugee or asylum seeker 10 Other reason 271 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents age 16 24 and not in paid work education or training NOTES The routing of this variable changed in JS11 This is available on ONS and Government data sets only Please see the following article that explains how the LFS data is used to measure NEETS Users are advised to use the methods outlined in this article to calculate the level of NEETs HIGHEST QUALIFICATION HIQUAL11 Highest qualification trade apprenticeship 1 Higher degree 2 NVQ level 5 3 Level 8 Diploma 4 Level 8 Certificate 5 Level 7 Diploma 6 Level 7 Certificate 7 Level 8 Award 8 First degree foundation degree 9 Other degree 10 NVQ level 4 11 Level 6 Diploma 12 Level 6 Certificate 13 Level 7 Award 14 Diploma in higher educatio
259. eft last paid job in last 3 months REDYLFT 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 or 9 AND REDPAID 1 NOTES If analysing data on redundancies made in the last three months you should also filter on the variable REDUND 1 made redundant REDSTAT Status in job made redundant from 1 Working as employee 2 Self employed FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 95 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who were made redundant from last job REDYLFT 2 AND REDPAID 1 OR REDANY 1 NOTES If analysing data on redundancies made in the last three months you should also filter on the variable REDUND 1 made redundant REDCLOS Reason for leaving job left in last three months 1 Closing down 2 Cutting back on staff 3 Other reason 121 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 95 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who were made redundant from last job REDYLFT 2 AND REDPAID 1 OR REDANY 1 NOTES If analysing data on redundancies made in the last three months you should also filter on the variable REDUND 1 made redundant REDP 1 3 Type of payment received 1 Redundancy pay 2 Pay in lieu of notice 3 Some other kind of payment 4 No payment FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 95 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who were made redundant from last job REDYLFT 2 AND REDPAID 1 OR REDANY 1 NOTES If analysing data on re
260. el 3 Or advanced level 4 Don t know 232 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM08 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have Welsh Baccalaureate QUALS4 12 NOTES This variable replaces WLSHBC QGCSE4 1 5 Type of GCSE or equivalent held below grade C 1 1 GCSE s below grade C 2 CSE s below grade 1 3 Standard grades 4 7 0 grades below C 4 Scottish NQ s Intermediate 1 below grade 5 Scottish NQ s Intermediate 2 below grade D 6 None of these FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 04 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have standard O grades GCSE CSE or Scottish National qualifications NOTES This variable replaces QGCSE Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable GCSEFUL 1 5 Type of GCSE or equivalent held above grade C 1 1 GCSE s grade C or above 2 CSE s grade 1 3 Standards grade 3 or above O grades C or above 4 Scoitish NQ s Intermediate 1 grade A or above 5 Scoitish NQ s Intermediate 2 grade D or above 6 None of these FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 04 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have a standard O grades GCSE CSE or Scottish National Qualifications NOTES This variable replaces GSCE GCSE4 Whether respondent has following qualifications 1 GCSE s grade C
261. els are not available for this variable This variable is derived from CAIND amp AGE AOHL19 Age of oldest dependent child in household aged under 19 0 18 19 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES Age of oldest dependent child in household aged 0 18 No dependent children aged under 19 Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Each quarter from Spring 95 Applies to all households Dependent children are all those aged 0 15 and those aged 16 18 who are in full time education Text labels are not available for this variable This variable is derived from CAIND amp AGE AYHL19 Age of youngest dependent child in household aged under 19 0 18 19 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES Age of youngest dependent child in household aged 0 18 No dependent children aged under 19 Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Each quarter from Spring 95 Applies to all households Dependent children are all those aged 0 15 and those aged 16 18 who are in full time education Text labels are not available for this variable This variable is derived from CAIND amp AGE 78 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION HNMF5964 Number of people in household either male 16 64 or female 16 59 0 19 Number of people FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters from AJ10 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This variable replaced HNWKAGE in AJ10 HNMF 1664 Numbe
262. ence Spring 92 to Spring 94 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Visit a Jobcentre Visit a Jobclub Have your name on the books of a private employment agency Advertise for jobs in newspapers or journals Answer advertisements in newspapers and journals Study situations vacant in newspapers or journals Apply directly to employers Ask friends relatives colleagues or trade unions about jobs Wait for the results of an application for a job Look for premises or equipment Seek any kind of permit Try to get a loan or other financial backing for a job or business Do anything else to find work Summer 94 onwards 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 FREQUENCY COVERAGE four weeks NOTES Visit a Jobcentre Visit a Careers office Visit a Jobclub Have your name on the books of a private employment agency Advertise for jobs in newspapers or journals Answer advertisements in newspapers and journals Study situations vacant in newspapers or journals Apply directly to employers Ask friends relatives colleagues or trade unions about jobs Wait for the results of an application for a job Look for premises or equipment Seek any kind of permit Try to get a loan or other financial backing for a job or business Do anything else to find work Each quarter from Spring 92 Applies to all respondents looking for work as an employee or self employed in the las
263. ent was 14 years old FREQUENCY JS quarters only from JS14 COVERAGE Applies to those who answer 1 4 to SMEARNER NOTES As with all new questions the social mobility questions are subject to ONS monitoring of responses for several quarters and should therefore be treated with caution SMSOC10 Coding frame Occupation of main wage earner when respondent was 14 years old FREQUENCY JS quarters only from JS14 COVERAGE Applies to those who answer 1 4 to SMEARNER NOTES As with all new questions the social mobility questions are subject to ONS monitoring of responses for several quarters and should therefore be treated with caution This is available for ONS and Government analysis only 209 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 SMSOC101 Coding frame one digit only Occupation of main wage earner when respondent was 14 years old FREQUENCY JS quarters only from JS14 COVERAGE Applies to those who answer 1 4 to SMEARNER NOTES As with all new questions the social mobility questions are subject to ONS monitoring of responses for several quarters and should therefore be treated with caution SMSOC103 Coding frame three digit only Occupation of main wage earner when respondent was 14 years old FREQUENCY JS quarters only from JS14 COVERAGE Applies to those who answer 1 4 to SMEARNER NOTES As with all new questions the social mobility questions are subject to ONS monitoring
264. ently studying for an RSA OCR NOTES This variable replaces OCRN10 OCRNACD Is this an 1 Award 2 Certificate 3 Diploma 4 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM 2011 COVERAGE Applies if respondent is currently studying for an OTHER RSA OCR OCRNLEV level of Award Certificate Diploma 1 Level 1 2 Level 2 3 Level 3 4 Level 4 5 Level 5 6 Level 6 7 Level 7 8 Level 8 9 Entry level 10 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM 2011 COVERAGE Applies if respondent is currently studying for an OTHER RSA OCR CGNW 11 level of City amp Guilds qualification being studied 1 part 3 advanced craft 2 part 2 craft 3 part 1 foundation 4 other 5 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM 2011 258 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 COVERAGE Applies if respondent is currently studying for an City amp Guilds NOTES This variable replaces CGNW10 CGNWACD type of City amp Guilds qualification 1 Award 2 Certificate 3 Diploma 4 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM 2011 COVERAGE Applies if respondent is currently studying for an OTHER City amp Guilds CGNWLEV What level was your Award Certificate Diploma Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6 Level 7 Level 8 Entry level Don t know OONOORWODND FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM 2011 COVERAGE Applies if respondent
265. er from Spring 2000 to Autumn 2000 on ONS datasets only Each quarter from Winter 2000 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents working during reference week or on government scheme NOTES In AJ10 some amendments were made to the LFS questionnaire in order to improve the collection of data on days taken off due to sickness absence Prior to AJ10 respondents who were employed but had been off for the whole reference week or longer were stating at ACTWKDY that they were not working and so didn t get asked ILLWK or ILLDAYS1 7 A check was introduced at the question ACTWKDY with the purpose of increasing the number of people either self employed or off work for reasons of sickness or injury disclosing their scheduled work days Despite improving the accuracy of the data collected the required changes resulted in a discontinuity in the time series The introduction of the check has led to an increase in people reporting five days or more sickness absence who were previously being missed Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable ILLWK Had days off work because sick or injured 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 2000 to Autumn 2000 on ONS datasets only Each quarter from Winter 2000 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who were scheduled to work any day in reference week ACTWKDY 8 or 9 NOTES This variable replaces SICK
266. erland 420 Isles of Scilly 800 Bath and North East Somerset 801 Bristol 802 North Somerset 803 South Gloucestershire 805 Hartlepool 806 Middlesbrough 807 Redcar and Cleveland 808 Stockton on Tees 810 Kingston upon Hull 811 East Riding of Yorkshire 812 North East Lincolnshire 813 North Lincolnshire 815 North Yorkshire 816 York 820 Bedfordshire 821 Luton 825 Buckinghamshire 826 Milton Keynes 830 Derbyshire 831 Derby 835 Dorset 836 Poole 837 Bournemouth 840 Durham 841 Darlington 845 East Sussex 846 Brighton and Hove 850 Hampshire 851 Portsmouth 852 Southampton 855 Leicestershire 856 Leicester FREQUENCY Every year from 2000 COVERAGE NOTES 857 Rutland 860 Staffordshire 861 Stoke on Trent 865 Wiltshire 866 Swindon 867 Bracknell Forest 868 Windsor and Maidenhead 869 West Berkshire 870 Reading 871 Slough 872 Wokingham 873 Cambridgeshire 874 Peterborough 875 Cheshire 876 Halton 877 Warrington 878 Devon 879 Plymouth 880 Torbay 881 Essex 882 Southend on Sea 883 Thurrock 884 Herefordshire 885 Worcestershire 886 Kent 887 Medway 888 Lancashire 889 Blackburn with Darwen 890 Blackpool 891 Nottinghamshire 892 Nottingham 893 Shropshire 894 Telford and Wrekin 908 Cornwall 909 Cumbria 916 Gloucestershire 9
267. ern Ireland Jersey and Isle of Man were coded as 1 UK in M3GRY Interviewers are advised not to code UK 926 England 921 Wales 924 Scotland 923 Northern Ireland 922 Jersey 832 and Isle of Man 833 for M3CRYO 61 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 REGB3 Region of residence months ago 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES Tyne amp Wear Rest of Northern Region South Yorkshire West Yorkshire Rest of Yorkshire amp Humberside East Midlands East Anglia Inner London Outer London Rest of South East South West 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 22 23 West Midlands Met County Rest of West Midlands Greater Manchester Merseyside Rest of North West Wales Strathclyde Rest of Scotland Northern Ireland Outside UK Baby under 3 months Each quarter from Spring 92 to Winter 95 Spring quarters only from Spring 96 Applies to all respondents who were living at a different address 3 months ago From Spring 92 to Winter 95 this variable was derived from RESLEN RESLNO M3CRY amp LAD3 RESLNO was replaced by RESTME in Spring 96 LAD3 was replaced by UALD3 in Spring 2000 In all quarters between Spring 92 amp Winter 93 and in Spring 94 Summer 95 Autumn 95 amp Spring 96 option 23 is Baby under 1 year It should be noted that although respondent was living at a different
268. ersions SIC92 to SIC2007 conversion variables are also available for 3 years 2006 2008 of back series data in SPSS and SAS LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives full industry breakdowns for both SIC92 amp SIC2007 To convert SIC2007 codes to SIC92 codes 07920 01 60 Range of values FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment other than those in certain government schemes NOTES This conversion variable gives reasonable comparisons not exact conversions LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives full industry breakdowns for both SIC92 amp SIC2007 07925 97 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 01 A Agriculture hunting amp forestry 02 B Fishing 03 C Mining quarrying 04 D Manufacturing 05 E Electricity gas amp water supply 06 F Construction 07 G Wholesale retail amp motor trade 08 H Hotels amp restaurants 09 I Transport storage amp communication 10 J Financial intermediation 11 K Real estate renting amp business activities 12 L Public administration amp defence 13 M Education 14 N Health amp social work 15 O Other community social amp personal 16 P Private households with employed persons 17 Q Extra territorial organisations bodies FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employme
269. ervices J Information and communication 96 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 K Financial and insurance activities L Real estate activities M Prof scientific technical activities N Admin and support services Public admin and defence P Education Q Health and social work R Arts entertainment and recreation S Other service activities T Households as employers U Extraterritorial organisations FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment other than those in certain government schemes NOTES This conversion variable gives reasonable comparisons not exact conversions SIC92 to SIC2007 conversion variables are also available for 3 years 2006 2008 of back series data in SPSS and SAS LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives full industry breakdowns for both SIC92 amp SIC2007 IN9207EM 1 Agriculture forestry and fishing 2 B D E Energy and water 3 C Manufacturing 4 F Construction 5 Distribution hotels and restaurants 6 H J Transport and communication 7 K L M N Banking and finance 8 O P Q Public admin education and health 9 R S T U Other services FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment other than those in certain government schemes NOTES This conversion variable gives reasonable comparisons not exact conv
270. es 2014 FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 99 Waves 1 and 5 only COVERAGE Applies to all respondents giving a figure for their actual last gross pay as an employee or a government scheme and those who did not know the amount YVARY99 Reason pay varies 1 Number of hours days of work vary 2 Amounts of bonuses tips commission varies 3 Number of hours of overtime varies 4 Other reason FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 99 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have no usual level of net or gross pay from an employer NOTES This variable replaces YVARY and is asked of both employees and those on a government scheme BANDN Weekly monthly annual pay bands Winter 92 to Winter 96 See Volume 5 LFS Classifications for band details Spring 97 onwards See start of Income section in this volume FREQUENCY Each quarter from Winter 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are on government scheme or employees who do not know their net pay NOTES BANDN was changed from a numeric to a text variable in Autumn 1997 but the bands are coded using two decimal places NETWK Net weekly pay in main job Amount FREQUENCY Each quarter from Winter 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees and those on a government scheme NOTES In Winter 96 and Spring 97 some records were coded as zero instead of 8 Users should filter on HOURPAY gt 0 to exclude these records NETPRD Perio
271. es to SIC2007 codes The SIC 2007 industry coding frame has been introduced to replace the existing SIC 1992 version In order to maintain some continuity the following variables are available to convert SIC92 codes to SIC2007 codes IN9207DL Industry division in last job 01 99 Range of values FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who did no work in the reference week and were not away from any job or business but have worked in the past 8 years NOTES This conversion variable gives reasonable comparisons not exact conversions SIC92 to SIC2007 conversion variables are also available for 3 years 2006 2008 of back series data in SPSS and SAS This variable is derived from INDSCO7L LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives full industry breakdowns for both SIC92 amp SIC2007 To convert SIC2007 codes to SIC92 codes 179 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 INO792DL Industry division in last job 01 60 Range of values FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who did no work in the reference week and were not away from any job or business but have worked in the past 8 years NOTES This conversion variable gives reasonable comparisons not exact conversions This variable is derived from INDSCO7L LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives full industry breakdowns for both SIC92 amp SIC2007
272. ese questions if aged 16 64 or in work From OD13 respondents are routed to these questions if aged 16 69 or in work Please see user guide 2 for the definitive routing VOGYRF period highest NVQ SVQ qualification as obtained 1 2009 or earlier 2 2010 or later FREQUENCY Every quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has NVQs SVQs NOTES Between JM11 and JS13 respondents were routed to these questions if aged 16 64 or in work From OD13 respondents are routed to these questions if aged 16 69 or in work Please see user guide 2 for the definitive routing NVQ11 highest level of full NVQ SVQ 1 Level 1 2 Level 2 3 Level 3 4 Level 4 5 Level 5 6 Other NVQ SVQ qualification 7 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has NVQs SVQs NOTES This variable replaces NVQLEV Between JM11 and JS13 respondents were routed to these questions if aged 16 64 or in work From OD13 respondents are routed to these questions if aged 16 69 or in work Please see user guide 2 for the definitive routing NVACD type of highest NVQ SVQ 1 Award 247 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 2 Certificate 3 Diploma 4 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent s NVQ or SVQ is categorised as OTHER at NVQ1 1 NOTES Between JM11 and JS13 respondents were routed to these questions if aged 16 64
273. esivsesdessessessodssstsvessveistossssssteesdeseseccesssdussvessdssueesvossveletossvesssssseesctessvessduiseessUovssossvoieses 176 WHEN LEFFLASTJOB i enveis tee E eiernes bun teen cute desu ckte 176 OCCUPATION IN LAS DJ OB savnes keisere 178 INDUSTRY IN LAST JOB CONVERSION 4000040 4 22 0 0 00 0000000 179 INDUSTRY IN LAST JOB SIC2007 oo cccessccccsssccessssccessssccessssecessesccessssececsssecessesecessesecessesecessesecessesess 180 EMPLOYMENT STATUS IN LAST 182 MAIN METHODS OF SEEKING WORK hesite e r a r e ar E EO OE ar r oesie 183 AVAILABILITY TOSTARTWORK ii 191 DETAILS OF JOB SEARCH iinei reee E EEEE EEE EEEE EEE TEE EEE EIEEE E EEEE E E E E a iaia 194 BENEFIT ENTITEEMEN Thvvseeevevrreerseendevesrnrkerveendeesssendvessendaseneendaeeseerssventnsaeenesnvesensensdnenssnsasenenedanensensanentnskekneses 195 EMPLOYMENT TWELVE MONTHS 4 201 OCCUPATION TWEL VEMON THS A CO 206 INDUSTRY TWELVE MONTHS AGO CONVERSION 206 MOBILITY sosssessssssssistsstessecicasatecsssessssscssccasesasssassiasssuassaassccesesasscsssisssecsssssasasasecaseibessaassassdasesbesssacasesassbesees 209 EDUCATION AND TRAINING i sisscscscisccsesssesscccsecssecssccesvessesciesscussssscsssscess scsssccsecsbecsscccsdschsssicsssuscssscesss cesesisssseeess 210 FOREIGN
274. espondents who have an undergraduate degree NOTES New for JM12 Available on ONS and government data sets only PGINST Institution coding frame higher FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM12 COVERAGE Applies to respondents who higher degree NOTES New for JM12 Available on ONS and government data sets only FDINST Institution studied at undergraduate Free text FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM12 COVERAGE Applies to respondents who have an undergraduate degree NOTES New for JM12 HDINST Institution studies at higher Free Text FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM12 COVERAGE Applies to respondents who higher degree NOTES New for JM12 DEGCLS7 Class of first degree achieved 1 First 2 Upper Second 2i 2 1 3 Lower Second 2ii 2 2 4 Third 5 Pass 6 Other 7 Don t Know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM07 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have a first degree qualification DEGREE7 2 NOTES This variable replaces DEGCLS If respondents have more than one first degree details of the highest degree class they achieved are recorded CRYDEG UK country where highest degree was obtained 1 England 2 Wales 3 Scotland 230 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 4 Northern Ireland 5 Other country not UK 6 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM08 COVERAGE Applies if the respondent has a higher de
275. ess qualif s Scotland RSA OCR City and Guilds YT Certificate Key skills Core skills Scotland Basic skills Skills for life literacy numeracy lang Entry Level Qualifications Award Certificate or Diploma at Entry level and Levels 1 to 8 Any other professional work related qualification 223 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 32 None in last 12 months FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM 2011 COVERAGE Applies to respondents aged 19 who have UK gained qualifications NOTES This variable replaces QLYR10 Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable DEGREE7 of degree already held 1 A higher degree including PGCE 2 A first degree 3 A foundation degree 4 A graduate membership of a professional institution 5 Other 6 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM07 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have a degree qualification QUALS6 1 NOTES This variable replaces DEGREE4 This question has changed from a single code to a multiple response question If respondents have more than degree details regarding the highest level degree they have are recorded If respondents have more than one degree at the same level details regarding the first degree obtained at that level i e the earliest degree they obtained are recorded
276. estaurants 6 H J Transport and communication 7 K L M N Banking and finance 8 O P Q Public admin education and health 9 R S T U Other services FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment other than those on certain government schemes NOTES This variable is derived from INDSCO7M LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives full industry breakdowns for both SIC92 amp SIC2007 PRIVATE OR PUBLIC SECTOR For this survey the public sector is defined as that owned funded or run by central or local government and the private sector as everything else The private sector includes Public limited companies PLC companies that are quoted on the stock market and have shareholders Limited companies Ltd Small businesses often owned by one or more individuals These may also be referred to as private limited companies Self employed individuals sole traders or owners of small shops or businesses Charities private trusts housing associations or other voluntary organisations 100 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Trade Unions employees of Some respondents may not know whether their industry is in the public or private sector and for certain types of activity there may be no clear answer The following guidelines are used to help sort out some common confusions Schools depending on
277. et started Spring 97 onwards 1 Still attending 2 Waiting for term to re start 3 Stopped going FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 93 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are currently at school or enrolled on a full time part time course ENROLL 1 NOTES The aim is to check that the respondent is not only enrolled but still actually attending the course For distance learning going to means taking part in or using Respondents who have enrolled on a course but have not started at the time of interview are coded 2 Waiting for term to The introduction of this category in Spring 97 caused a discontinuity in data on full time students see Labour Market Trends June 1998 Those who are on holiday breaks are coded 1 261 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 COURSE Type of course all persons are enrolled Spring 92 to Winter 96 1 sandwich course 2 Studying at university polytechnic college full time 3 Training for a qualification in nursing physiotherapy or a similar medical subject 4 Part time course at university polytechnic or college including day release and block release 5 Open college 6 Open University 7 Any other correspondence course or open learning method Spring 97 onwards 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 School full time School part time A sandwich course Studying at university
278. ewer to identify the family groupings within the household RELHFU Relationship to head of family 1 Head of family 2 Wife partner of head of family 3 Child of head of family other person FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This variable was derived from MARCON amp SEX up to Winter 94 From Spring 95 it is derived from MARSTT MARSTA LIVTOG LIVWTH LIV12W amp SEX AOFL16 Age of oldest dependent child in family under 16 0 15 Age of oldest dependent child in family aged 0 15 16 No dependent children aged under 16 FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Each quarter from Spring 95 COVERAGE Applies to all family units NOTES Dependent children are all those aged 0 15 and those aged 16 18 who are in full time education Text labels are not available for these variables This variable is derived from FUTYPE FUTYPE6 RELHFU CAIND amp AGE AOFL19 Age of oldest dependent child in family under 19 0 18 Age of oldest dependent child in family aged 0 18 19 No dependent children aged under 19 FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Each quarter from Spring 95 COVERAGE Applies to all family units NOTES Dependent children are all those aged 0 15 and those aged 16 18 who are in full time education Text labels are not available for these variables This variable is derived from FUTYPE FUTYPE6 RELHFU CAIND amp AGE
279. from Spring 97 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents with health problems HEAL 1 17 NOTES This variable records the main problem ONLY For analysis before Spring 97 please see HEALTH 0 2 When analysing HEALTH users advised to use the filter LNGLIM LNGLST 1 before carrying out any further analysis HEALIM Whether health problem limits activity 1 Yes 2 No 3 Don t know 283 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 97 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents with a health problem lasting more than 12 months LNGLIM 1 NOTES Users are advised to always filter on working age when using this variable to ensure comparability over a time series This question was replaced with the harmonised variable LIMACT in AJ13 When analysing HEALIM users are advised to use the filter LNGLIM 1 before carrying out any further analysis LIMACT ability to carry out day to day activities 1 Yes a lot 2 Yes a little 3 Not at all FREQUENCY Every quarter from AJ13 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who answered yes to LNGLST LNGLST 1 NOTES This is a harmonised question that replaces HEALIM from Aj13 onwards HEALIM asked respondents to consider the impact of their health problem or disabilities on their day to day activities without medication or treatment LIMACT replacing HEALIM asks respondents to consider the impact to day to day
280. ft working Continental shifts Two shift system with earlies and lates double day shifts Sometimes night and sometimes day shifts Split shifts Morning shifts Evening or twilight shifts Night shifts Weekend shifts Other type of shift work AJ quarters only from Spring 92 Applies to all respondents in employment who may do shift work SHFTWK99 1 or 2 The shift work categories are defined below 144 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Three shift working the day is divided into three working periods morning afternoon and night This kind of shift work usually but not always involves one or more weeks of mornings followed by one or more weeks of afternoons followed by one or more weeks of nights Continental shifts this is continuous three shift system that rotates rapidly e g three mornings then two afternoons then two nights Usually there is break between shift changes Two shift system with earlies and lates or double day shifts normally two shifts of eight hours each e g 0600 1400 and 1400 2200 Shifts are usually alternated weekly or over longer intervals Split shifts these are full shifts divided into two distinct parts with of several hours in between Used in industries where peak demands are met at different times of the day e g catering passenger transport and service industries Morning shift if this is full time
281. g 95 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who AS level qualification TYPHST 1 5 Highest National Qualification 1 Access level 2 Intermediate Level 1 3 Intermediate Level 2 4 Higher 5 Advanced Higher FREQUENCY Autumn and Winter quarters only in 2000 on ONS datasets Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have Scottish National qualification NOTES From Spring 04 respondents can record up to 5 options Prior to this only a single response was recorded Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable ADVHST Whether respondent has one or more Advanced Higher 1 One Advanced Higher 2 or more than one 3 Don t know FREQUENCY Autumn and Winter quarters only in 2000 on ONS datasets Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have an advanced Scottish National qualification TYPHST 5 HST Whether respondent has three or more Highers 1 Three or more highers 2 or fewer than three 3 Don t know FREQUENCY Autumn and Winter quarters only in 2000 on ONS datasets Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have a higher Scottish National qualification or an advanced higher Scottish national qualification WLSHBC8 Level of Welsh Baccalaureate 1 At the foundation level 2 At the intermediate lev
282. g an additional or different paid job YSTART Reason could not start work within two weeks 1 Must complete education 193 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 2 Cannot leave present job within 2 weeks 3 Looking after the family home 4 Temporarily sick injured 5 Long term sick injured 6 Other reason FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are not available to start work or take up a place on government scheme in the 2 weeks after the reference week START 2 NOTES This variable only includes people in employment and inactive people Due to change the routing from 1993 onwards the variable DIFJOB should be filtered on not 1 to achieve continuity with 1992 data FUTWK Whether respondent thinks they will work in the future 1 Definitely will work in future 2 Probably will work in future 3 Probably not work in future 4 Definitely not work in future 5 Don t know can t say FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 05 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents aged 16 69 who were not looking for paid work or waiting to start a new job or able to start a job in the next two weeks had they been looking LOOK4 2 AND WAIT 2 OR LOOK4 1 AND START 2 FWKWEN When respondent might work in the future 1 Within the next year 2 More than one year but less than five 3 More than five years 4
283. g course 9 Started changed jobs 10 Ended job 11 Bad weather 12 Labour dispute 13 Economic other causes 143 14 15 16 17 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Personal family Other reasons No reason given Same as usual hours Each quarter from Winter 2005 Applies to all persons in employment Options 17 amp 18 were removed from Summer 94 onwards Between Spring 1992 and Winter 2005 this variable was called DIFFHR SUMHRS Total actual hours worked in main and second job 0 97 Number of hours worked FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES Each quarter from Winter 94 Applies to all respondents who worked during reference week This variable is derived from TTACHR amp ACTHR2 EMPLOYMENT PATTERN SHFTWK99 Whether shift work done in respondents main job 1 2 3 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES Most of the time Occasionally Never AJ quarters only from Spring 99 Applies to all respondents in employment excluding college based government schemes This variable replaced SHFTWK The wording of the response categories has been altered in order to obtain better quality data Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions SHFTYP Type of shift pattern 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES Three shi
284. gher level level 4 2 a full National Certificate level 3 3 a first diploma or general diploma level 2 4 a first certificate or general certificate below level 2 5 modules towards a National Certificate 6 other SCOTVEC SCOTEC SCOTBEC qualification 7 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has a SCOTVEC SCOTEC SCOTBEC NOTES This variable replaces SCTVEC SCACD type of highest SCOTVEC SCOTEC SCOTBEC qualification 1 Award 2 Certificate 3 Diploma 4 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent s SCOTVEC SCOTEC SCOTBEC is categorised as OTHER at SCTVC11 SCLEV level of Award Certificate Diploma SCOTVEC SCOTEC SCOTBEC qualification 1 Level 1 2 Level2 3 Level3 4 Level4 5 Level 5 6 Level6 7 Level7 8 Level8 9 Entry level 10 Don t know 237 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent s SCOTVEC SCOTEC SCOTBEC is categorised as OTHER at SCTVC11 SCSUBJ subject title awarding body of this SCOTVEC SCOTEC SCOTBEC qualification Free text input max 250 characters FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent s SCOTVEC SCOTEC SCOTBEC is categorised as OTHER at SCTVC11 STCOT11 any SCOTVEC SCOTEC SCOTBEC qualifications below 1 a full National Certificate
285. ghest qualification 1 Answer given as year FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who give the year at which they obtained their highest qualification YERQAL1 2 Present Study Education refers to continuous full time education that is education without a break Holiday jobs do not count as a break provided that the person intended to complete the course In addition a gap of up to a year between going to school and going to college or university would not count as a break in continuous full time education Similarly National Service between school or college would not count as a break A sandwich course begun immediately after school finishes would be counted as continuous full time education Nursing training and similar vocational training undertaken while receiving a wage are not counted as part of the continuous education process EDAGE Age when completed full time education 0 95 Age left school 96 Still in education 97 Never had education FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment or of working age QULNOW Whether working or studying towards a qualification 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 93 to Spring 94 Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 95 to Autumn 99 Each quarter from Spring 2000 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment or of working age NOTES This variable replaced TRGAIN It
286. ginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions WIND Main outputs of firm organisation that you worked for when your job caused or worsened your illness Thinking about the job which caused or made your illness worse what did the firm organisation you worked for mainly make or do FREQUENCY JM quarters every 2 years 2007 2009 2011 etc COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have suffered from an illness that was caused made worse by work in past 12 months ILLWRK 1 the job that caused or worsened the illness was not their main or second job WCHJB3 and who have not provided details of their job or second job OCCT empty or OCCT2 empty NOTES This question was removed from the questionnaire in JM13 WINDT Title of the industry 294 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Enter short title for the industry FREQUENCY JM quarters every 2 years 2007 2009 2011 etc COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have suffered from an illness that was caused made worse by work in past 12 months ILLWRK 1 the job that caused or worsened the illness was not their main or second job WCHJB3 and who have not provided details of their job or second job OCCT empty or OCCT2 empty NOTES This question was removed from the questionnaire in JM13 WOCCT Job description What was your job FREQUENCY JM quarters every 2 years 2007 2009
287. gree first degree foundation degree or other degree DEGREE7 1 2 3 or 5 TEACHA4 1 6 Type of teaching qualifications already held 1 Further education 2 Key stage 4 3 Key stage 3 4 Key stage 2 5 Key stage 1 6 Foundation stage 7 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter form Spring 04 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have a teaching qualification or a PGCE QUALS4 7 OR HIGHO 3 NOTES This variable replaces TEACH 1 3 Key stage terminology may be unfamiliar to those trained in Scotland and those who trained a long time ago and are no longer teaching The table below helps translate Key stages England amp Wales Age Key Stage Early Years Education 3 5 Foundation Primary Education 5 7 Key Stage 1 7 11 Key Stage 2 Secondary Education 11 14 Key Stage 3 14 16 Key Stage 4 Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable NUMAL Number of A levels or equivalent 1 One A level or equivalent 2 Or more than one 3 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 93 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have an A level qualification NUMAS Number of AS levels 1 1 AS level 231 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 2 2 or 3 AS levels 3 4 or more passes at this level 4 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from Sprin
288. h is the full 4 digits DTEOFBTH Date of birth YYYMMDD where Y is year M is month D is day e g 9961225 for 25 December 1996 FREQUENCY Each quarter from Autumn 96 to Autumn 02 Each quarter from Winter 02 on ONS Govt datasets only COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This variable is only available on ONS Government datasets from Winter 2002 03 This variable was removed from the public datasets for confidentiality reasons This variable is an alternative presentation of the information contained in DOBD DOBM and DOBY MARSTA Marital status 1 Single never married 2 Married living with husband wife 3 Married separated from husband wife 4 Divorced 5 Widowed 6 A civil partner in a legally recognised Civil Partnership 7 In a legally recognised Civil Partnership and separated from his her civil partner 8 Formerly a civil partner the Civil Partnership now legally dissolved 9 A surviving civil partner his her partner having since died FREQUENCY Each quarter from AJO6 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES From Spring 1995 Winter 2005 this variable was called MARSTT More information can be found in the 2008 version of the User Guide This variable is calculated using XMARSTA XMARSTA Marital status 1 Single that is never married 2 Married and living with husband wife 3 a civil partner in a legally recognised Civil Partnership 4 Married and separated from husband wife
289. han place It may be possible that an individual is living at a different address from 12 months ago but is living in the same town and county Babies under a year are code 1 ALL students living in Halls of Residence should be given the same code as the head of household This question must be asked of economically inactive respondents aged 70 and over Absences from the address which by their nature are temporary i e without permanent intent are ignored For example a person now ages 22 who was born at this address and whose only absence was when he went to university for three years at the age of 18 is recorded as having lived at the address for 22 years code 6 10 years or longer RESMTH Months at this address 0 11 Months FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 96 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have lived at their address less than 12 months RESTME 1 NOTES RESMTH and RESBBY are used to identify babies born less than 3 months ago i e between survey waves RESBBY Whether respondent is baby 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 96 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have lived at their address less than 3 months RESMTH lt 3 NOTES RESMTH and RESBBY are used to identify babies born less than 3 months ago i e between survey waves 57 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 M3CRY Place of residence months ago 1 UK
290. have worked in the past 8 years NOTES This variable is derived from INDSCO7L LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives a full industry breakdown of both SIC92 amp SIC2007 codes INDDO7L Industry division in last job 01 99 Range of industry codes 8 Not Applicable NA 9 Did Not Answer DNA FREQUENCY Each quarter from 9 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who did no work in the reference week and were not away from any job or business but have worked in the past 8 years NOTES This variable is derived from INDSCO7L LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives a full industry breakdown of both SIC92 amp SIC2007 codes INDSO7L Industry section in last job 1 A Agriculture forestry and fishing 2 B Mining and quarrying 181 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 3 C Manufacturing 4 D Electricity gas steam and air conditioning supply 5 E Water supply sewerage waste management and remediation activities 6 F Construction 7 G Wholesale and retail trade repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles 8 H Transportation and storage 9 I Accommodation and food service activities 10 J Information and communication 11 K Financial and insurance activities 12 L Real estate activities 13 Professional scientific and technical activities 14 Administrative and support service activities 15 Public
291. head LP Slough LP Southampton LP Surrey LP West Berkshire LP West Sussex LP Wokingham LP Bath amp North East Somerset LP Bournemouth Dorset amp Poole LP Bristol amp South Gloucestershire LP Cornwall and Isles of Scilly LP Devon amp Torbay LP Gloucestershire LP North Somerset LP Plymouth LP 100 Somerset LP 101 Wiltshire amp Swindon LP This variable is included only on annual local area datasets which are available only to ONS and those government departments which sponsor the local area enhancements 54 LPCODE Learning Partnerships 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Norfolk LP Suffolk LP Hertfordshire LP Bedfordshire amp Luton LP North Essex LP South Essex LP Thurrock LP Cambridgeshire LP Greater Peterborough LP Lincolnshire LP Northamptonshire LP Greater Nottingham LP North Nottinghamshire LP Leics Leicester City amp Rutland LP Derbyshire LP East London LP East South East London LP Central London LP East Thames LP North London LP North West London LP West London LP South London LP Northumberland LP County Durham LP Sunderland ETTAG Tyneside LP Tees Valley LP Cumbria LP Cheshire LP Wirral LP Halton LP Warrington LP Liverpool LP Sefton LP Knowsley LP St Helens LP Manchester LP Oldham LP Rochdale LP Bury LP Bolton LP Wigan LP East Lancashire LP West Lancashire LP Stockport L
292. hether looking for work as employee or self employed 1 As an employee 2 As self employed 3 No preference FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 172 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents looking for paid work in the last four weeks DIFJOB 1 OR LOOK4 1 AND JBAWAY LKSELC Will be starting work as an employee or self employed 1 As an employee 2 As self employed FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are waiting to take up a job WAIT 1 OR JBAWAY LKFTPA Whether looking for full or part time work 1 Full time 2 Part time 3 No preference FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who were seeking work as an employee or had no preference over working as an employee or self employed LKSELA 1 or 3 LKFTPC Will be starting full or part time work 1 Full time 2 Part time FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who would be willing to work as an employee LKSELC 1 AXPA Whether would accept part time work 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 to Winter 97 not Spring 93 Spring quarters only from Spring 98 to Spring 08 Every quarter from JS08 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents that would like a full time job LKFTPA 1 NOTES Respondents are asked whether they wou
293. hi Scottish Bangladeshi British 4 Chinese Chinese Scottish Chinese British 5 Any other Asian background FREQUENCY Each quarter from AJ11 COVERAGE Applies to respondents who are of an Asian Asian Scottish Asian British ethnicity and living in Scotland The variable was agreed for insertion on government alongside ONS only datasets ETHBL11 Black ethnic group FREQUENCY All quarters from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to respondents who are of Black ethnicity Black African Caribbean Black British From AJ11 onwards the variable was agreed for insertion on government alongside ONS only datasets ETHAFS African Ethnic Group Scotland 33 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 1 African African Scottish African British 2 Any other African ethnic group FREQUENCY Each quarter from AJ11 COVERAGE Applies to respondents who are of an African ethnicity and living in Scotland ETHCBS Ethnic Group Scotland 1 Caribbean Caribbean Scottish Caribbean British 2 Black Black Scottish Black British 3 Any other Caribbean or Black ethnic group FREQUENCY Each quarter from AJ11 COVERAGE Applies to respondents who are of an African ethnicity and living in Scotland 11 Other Ethnic Group Enter description of ethnic group FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to respondents who are of Other ethnicity NOTES This variable
294. ho are inactive would like work but currently sick injured disabled 0 19 Number of people FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 95 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are inactive and sick injured or disabled INECACO5 8 9 15 16 NOTES The variable INECACR is replaced by INECACO5 in the derivation of this variable from Spring 05 onwards This variable is included on household datasets only HNIWDSC Number of people in household who are inactive and would like work but discouraged from seeking work 0 19 Number of people FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 95 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are inactive would like work believes no job available 5 17 NOTES The variable INECACR is replaced by in the derivation of this variable from Spring 05 onwards This variable is included on household datasets only HNIWFAM Number of people in household who are inactive would like work but looking after family home 0 19 Number of people FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 95 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are inactive looking after family home 5 7 14 NOTES The variable INECACR is replaced by INECACO5 in the derivation of this variable from Spring
295. ho have taken part in a job related education training course in the 4 weeks prior to the reference week and the course is connected to a job that the respondent might be able to do in the future FUTUR4 1 NOTES This question is only asked to respondents in Northern Ireland This variable replaces TRATIR7 TFEE10 1 5 Who pays the fees for training 1 Employer or potential employer 2 ELWa LEC LSC 3 Other government or local authority organisation 4 Self or family or relative 5 Other 6 No fees 7 Don t know FREQUENCY JM and AJ quarters from 2010 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have taken part in job related education training in the last 4 weeks and this training has not been solely based in the workplace JOBTRN 2 3 OR FUTUR4 1 NOTES This question is only asked to respondents in Great Britain This variable replaces TRNFEE 1 5 Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable FEEIR 1 5 Who pays fees for training NI 1 Employer or potential employer 2 Government YTP 3 Government Adult scheme 4 Self or family or relative 5 Other 6 No fees 7 Don t know FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Winter 94 only Each quarter from Spring 95 to Winter 95 Spring and Autumn quarters in 96 Spring and Winter quarters from Spring 97 to Spring 98 JM quarter
296. holds NOTES This variable identifies where distinct family units are related with one another A missing value 10 at this variable represents an individual who is not related to anyone else in the household Respondents belonging to the same extended family unit will share the same valid response value This variable is derived from XR 00 15 TOTFU SMSXFU amp FAMUNIT SMSXFU Same sex family unit 1 11 Family unit number FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 96 COVERAGE Applies to all family units NOTES This variable redefines the family unit to include same sex partners in the same family unit Thus using this variable results in fewer family units in total than if using FAMUNIT 87 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 The family hierarchical structure is based on FAMUNIT Those people who have been coded as same sex co habitees are put into separate family units at FAMUNIT Therefore when any analysis is done of same sex co habitees at family level it shows the number of individuals rather than couples This variable is derived from LIVTOG LIVWTH LIV12W amp XR 00 15 FAMUNIT Family unit number 1 17 Family unit number FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES With the introduction of XR 00 15 from Spring 96 FAMUNIT unique identifier for family unit is now generated automatically Previously it was coded by the intervi
297. however are asked for more information about their second job OCCUPATION IN SECOND JOB SOC10S Occupation in second job 1111 9279 Range of occupation codes FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment who have an additional regular job NOTES This variable replaces SOCSEC LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives a complete breakdown of occupation codes SC10SM J Major occupation group second job 10 Managers Directors And Senior Officials 2 Professional Occupations 3 Associate Professional And Technical Occupations 4 Administrative And Secretarial Occupations 5 Skilled Trades Occupations 6 Caring Leisure And Other Service Occupations 7 Sales And Customer Service Occupations 8 Process Plant And Machine Operatives 9 Elementary Occupations FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment who have a regular additional job NOTES This variable replaces SC2KSMJ and is derived from SOC10S LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives a complete breakdown of occupation codes SC10SMN Minor occupation group second job 111 927 Range of occupation codes FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment who have a regular additional job NOTES This variable replaces SC2KSMN and is derived from SOC2KS LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS
298. iate Welsh baccalaureate OCR intermediate City and Guilds craft part 2 Btec scotvec first or general diploma etc Higher Diploma 14 19 Level 2 diploma Level 2 certificate O level GCSE or equiv Level 3 award NVQ level 1 or equiv Foundation Welsh baccalaureate Foundation Diploma Level 1 Diploma Btec scotvec first or general certificate etc Scotvec modules or equiv OCR basic City and Guilds foundation part 1 Level 1 certificate Level 2 award 275 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 62 Key skills qualification 63 Basic skills qualification 64 Entry level qualification 65 Entry level diploma 66 Entry level certificate 67 Level 1 award 68 Entry level award 69 Other qualification 70 No qualification 71 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to respondents of working age 16 69 or those in employment with qualifications including respondents aged 70 99 NOTES This variable replaces HITQUA9 There are new response categories VOCQPL11 How highest vocational qualification obtained 1 solely through school college or some other education institution 2 through a combination of workplace and academic institution 3 solely at a place of work yours or somebody else s 4 self directed open learning 5 or was it some other way 6 don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to all
299. ical quarterly specific questions 154 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 HOLS Number of days of paid holiday entitlement number of days FREQUENCY OD quarters only from Autumn 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees NOTES The number of days paid holiday excludes Public Bank holidays As these days are not stored as whole numbers users should use 2 decimal places when ranging days of paid holiday 5 10 days should be ranged as 4 50 10 49 etc Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions Please note a the value 97 refers to those who have 97 days or more of paid holiday entitlement b that all values over 97 should be classed as a don t know refusal HOLSB How many days of paid holiday are you entitled to per year Enter number of days 97 97 days or more FREQUENCY OD quarters only from 2011 COVERAGE Applies to employees who don t know holiday entitlement excluding public holidays NOTES Please note that all values over 97 should be classed as a don t know refusal Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions BANK Whether respondent worked in their main job on any Bank or Public holidays during the period 1 Dec to 31 Aug 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY OD quarters only from Autumn 99 odd years
300. icular section department People employed by employment services who may work during the course of a week at a number of locations are required to refer to the place where they worked the longest number of hours during the reference week SOLOR Self employed with or without employees reported 1 On own with partner s but no employees 2 With employees FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents currently in work or who have worked in the last 8 years NOTES With the removal of the Census Matrix Edit SOLOR supersedes the variables NSOLO amp SOLO The filter EVERWK 9 is applied to the questionnaire variable SOLO to distinguish between current last job SOLOR is whether self employed with without employee in current job as reported SOLOLR is whether self employed with without employee in last job as reported Self employed people who use only other self employed people in the business they run e g builders are coded 1 106 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 ONETEN Number 1 10 of employees working for self employed person 1 1 employee 2 2 employees 3 3 employees 4 4 employees 5 5 employees 6 6 employees 7 7 employees 8 8 employees 9 9 employees 10 10 employees FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 to Winter 97 Spring quarters only from Spring 98 to Spring 2000 Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to a
301. ide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 WKMON Whether worked on Monday 1 2 FREQUENCY COVERAGE scheme NOTES Yes No Spring and Autumn quarters only from Spring 01 Applies to all respondents in employment during reference week or on government This variable is derived from ACTWKDY 1 7 WKTUE Whether worked on Tuesday 1 2 FREQUENCY COVERAGE scheme NOTES Yes No Spring and Autumn quarters only from Spring 01 Applies to all respondents in employment during reference week or on government This variable is derived from ACTWKDY 1 7 WKWED Whether worked on a Wednesday 1 2 FREQUENCY COVERAGE scheme NOTES Yes No Spring and Autumn quarters only from Spring 01 Applies to all respondents in employment during reference week or on a government This variable is derived from ACTWKDY 1 7 WKTHU Whether worked on a Thursday 1 2 FREQUENCY COVERAGE scheme NOTES Yes No Spring and Autumn quarters only from Spring 01 Applies to all respondents in employment during reference week or on a government This variable is derived from ACTWKDY 1 7 WKFRI Whether worked on a Friday 1 2 FREQUENCY Yes No Spring and Autumn quarters only from Spring 01 153 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment during reference week or on
302. identifies those respondents who are working towards a qualification DNA 9 will include people who were not contacted in the quarter this question was asked See Volume 1 Background and Methodology Imputation in the LFS for full details QULHI11 qualifications studied 1 Degree level qualif incl foundation degrees graduate memb ship of a profess l institute PGCE or higher 2 Diploma in Higher Education 3 HNC HND 4 ONC OND 254 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 5 BTEC BEC TEC Edexcel LQL 6 5 SCOTEC or SCOTBEC 7 Teaching qualif excl PGCE 8 Nursing or other medical qualif not yet mentioned 9 Other Higher Education qualif s below degree level 10 A Level GCE in Applied Subjects or equivalent 11 New Diploma 12 Welsh Baccalaureate 13 International Baccalaureate 14 NVQ SVQ 15 GNVQ GSVQ 16 AS level Vocat l AS Level or equiv 17 Certificate of 6th Yr Studies CSYS or equiv 18 Access to HE 19 O Level or equiv 20 Grade Lower Scotland 21 GCSE Vocat l GCSE 22 CSE 23 Advanced Higher Higher Intermediate Access qualif s Scotland 24 RSA OCR 25 City and Guilds 26 YT Certificate 27 Key skills Core skills Scotland 28 Basic skills Skills for life literacy numeracy lang 29 Entry Level Qualifications 30 Award
303. ies to all respondents who said their job was not permanent in some way JOBTYP 2 NOTES This variable details the total duration of the temporary job not just up to the time of the interview RESTMR6 Reason job is temporary reported 1 Permanent 2 Seasonal job includes training periods 3 Seasonal job contract for probationary period 4 Seasonal job could not find permanent job 5 Seasonal job did not want permanent job 6 Seasonal job other reason 7 Seasonal job no reason given 8 Fixed contract includes training period 9 Fixed contract contract for probationary period 10 Fixed contract could not find permanent job 11 Fixed contract did not want permanent job 12 Fixed contract other reason 13 Fixed contract no reason given 14 Agency temp includes training period 15 Agency temp contract for probationary period 16 Agency temp could not find permanent job 17 Agency temp did not want permanent job 18 Agency temp other reason 19 Agency temp no reason given 20 Casual includes training period 21 Casual contract for probationary period 22 Casual could not find permanent job 111 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Casual did not want permanent job Casual other reason Casual no reason given Other temp includes trai
304. ign qualifications that are recognised in the UK we can use this to assign more accurate levels of highest qualification Therefore a large number of respondents who previously ended up as other on the HIQUAL and LEVQUAL DV s are now assigned to appropriate qualifications levels This means that there is a clear break in the education time series as we see the numbers classified as other dropping and from JM11 and certain qualification levels absorbing these cases which are now assigned to a qualification level This should improve the accuracy of the data but affects the comparability of qualifications over time Foreign Qualifications FORQUAL whether any qualifications outside the UK 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Every quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to those aged between 16 and 69 or those aged 69 who are working QLFOR11 where the qualifications outside the UK were gained 211 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 1 from school or home schooling 2 from college or university 3 related to work 4 from government schemes 5 gained your leisure time or by teaching yourself 6 in some other way 8 Don t know FREQUENCY Every quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has foreign qualifications Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable Q
305. ills Skills for life literacy numeracy lang Entry Level Qualifications Award Certificate or Diploma at Entry level and Levels 1 to 8 Any other professional work related qualification 216 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM 2011 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has UK gained qualifications from Government Schemes NOTES This variable replaces QULS10 01 20 Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable OTQUAL qualifications gained from leisure time 1 Degree level Qualify Incl foundation degrees graduate memb ship of a profess institute PGCE or higher 2 Diploma in Higher Education 3 HNC HND 4 ONC OND 5 BTEC BEC TEC EdexcelLQL 6 SCOTVEC SCOTEC or SCOTBEC 7 Teaching ualify excl PGCE 8 Nursing or other medical Qualify Not yet mentioned 9 Other Higher Education qualif s below degree level 10 A Level Vocat A Level GCE in Applied Subjects or equivalent 11 New Diploma 12 Welsh Baccalaureate 13 International Baccalaureate 14 NVQ SVQ 15 GNVQ GSVQ 16 AS level Vocat AS Level or equiv 17 Certificate of 6 Yr Studies CSYS or equiv 18 Access to HE 19 O Level or equiv 20 Standard Ordinary O Grade Lower Scotland 21 GCSE Vocat l GCSE 22 CSE 23 Advanced Highe
306. ined These people are classed as unemployed on the ILO definition if available to start work within 2 weeks This variable also covers people up to 5 years above retirement age JOBBEG Whether will be starting new job 191 1 2 FREQUENCY COVERAGE Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Within three months Later than three months Each quarter from Spring 01 Applies to all respondents aged 16 69 who were waiting to take up a job already obtained WAIT 1 OR JBAWAY 3 NOTES This variable is only available on ONS datasets in Summer 02 This variable identifies when person is due to begin their new job LIKEWK Whether would like work 1 2 FREQUENCY COVERAGE Yes No Each quarter from Spring 92 Applies to all respondents aged 16 69 who are not looking for work or place on government scheme in the last 4 weeks and not waiting to start work WAIT 2 NOLOWA 01 10 Reasons for not looking for work in last 4 weeks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 FREQUENCY COVERAGE WAIT 2 NOTES Waiting for the results of an application for job being assessed by ET training agent Student Looking after the family home Temporarily sick or injured Long term sick or disabled Believes no jobs available Not yet started looking Doesn t need employment Retired from paid work Any other reason Each quarter from Spri
307. ing 3 C Manufacturing 4 D Electricity gas steam and air conditioning supply 5 E Water supply sewerage waste management and remediation activities 6 F Construction 7 G Wholesale and retail trade repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles 8 H Transportation and storage 9 I Accommodation and food service activities 10 J Information and communication 11 K Financial and insurance activities 12 L Real estate activities 13 M Professional scientific and technical activities 14 N Administrative and support service activities 15 O Public administration and defence compulsory social security 16 P Education 17 Q Human health and social work activities 18 R Arts entertainment and recreation 19 S Other service activities 20 T Activities of households as employers undifferentiated goods and services producing activities of households for own use 21 U Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment who have regular additional job 160 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NOTES This conversion variable gives reasonable comparisons not exact conversions SIC92 to SIC2007 conversion variables are also available for 3 years 2006 2008 of back series data in SPSS and SAS This variable derives from INDSC07S LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Cla
308. ing difficulties mental handicap 15 Mental illness or suffer from phobia panics or other nervous disorders 16 Progressive illness not included elsewhere e g cancer multiple sclerosis symptomatic HIV Parkinson s disease muscular dystrophy 17 Other health problems or disabilities FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 97 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have had a long term health problem disability that has lasted longer than a year HEALYR 1 NOTES The notes for HEAL also apply here Respondents can give up to 10 problems From Spring 97 to Spring 99 this variable was coded HEALPB 01 17 From Summer 99 this variable is coded HEALPB 01 10 Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable LERNDB Learning difficulty or learning disability 285 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 1 Learning difficulty 2 Learning disability 3 Both FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 2006 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have said that they have severe or specific learning difficulty HEALPB 14 HEALYL Whether past health problems or disabilities limited activity 1 Yes 2 No 3 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 97 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have had a long term health problem disability that has lasted longer than a
309. ining in nursing 6 Part time at university or college 7 Open college 8 Open university 9 Other correspondence course 10 Course not stated 11 Enrolled but not attending 12 Enrolled but not stated if attending 13 Not enrolled on course FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM08 COVERAGE Up until JMO8 this variable applied to all respondents who were in employment or of working age From JMOB8 it applies only to those aged between 16 and 69 NOTES This is derived variable please see Volume 4 user Guide for further guidance DNAs are quite variable over time This variable replaced CURED STUCUR Whether full time student 1 Full time student 2 Not full time student FREQUENCY Each quarter from Winter 92 to Summer 93 on ONS datasets only Each quarter from Autumn 93 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are defined as full time students CURED8 1 2 or 3 RECENTLY COMPLETED TRAINING ATRAIN Training 1 Job related training in last four weeks 2 No job related training in last four weeks FREQUENCY Every year from 2000 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents of working age who have done some job related education or training in last 4 weeks before the reference week Includes those on college based government training programmes and excludes those still at school NOTES This variable is included only on annual local area datasets which are available only to ONS and those government depar
310. ion or attend any taught classes as part of other learning 1 yes 2 no FREQUENCY Every quarter from 2011 269 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 COVERAGE APPLIES IF AGED 16 TSUBJ4WK main subject received during this tuition FREQUENCY Every quarter from 2011 COVERAGE APPLIES IF AGED 16 TSUB4COD coding frame for subject studied FREQUENCY Every quarter from 2011 COVERAGE APPLIES IF AGED 16 NOTES This variable replaces T4CODE T4CODE Main subject of course 1 00 9 99 Area of study FREQUENCY Each quarter from Summer 03 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents aged 16 69 who have attended a taught course in past 4 weeks TAUT4 1 NOTES LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives a full breakdown of subject codes T4PURP Main purpose of training 1 Mostly related to a job you have 2 Mostly personal or social reasons FREQUENCY Each quarter from Summer 03 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents aged 16 69 who have attended a taught course in past 4 weeks TAUT4 1 T4WORK Whether training during work hours 1 Only during paid working hours 2 Mostly during paid working hours 3 Mostly outside paid working hours 4 Only outside paid working hours 5 Not employed at that time FREQUENCY Each quarter from Summer 03 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have attended a taught course in past 4 weeks TAUT4 1 TAUTHRS to
311. is currently studying for an OTHER City amp Guilds HSTNOW Level at which studying for National qualification 1 Access level 2 Intermediate level 1 3 Intermediate level 2 4 Higher 5 Advanced Higher FREQUENCY Autumn and Winter quarters only in 2000 on ONS datasets Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are studying for a Scottish National Qualification NVQKN2 Whether working towards any NVQs or SVQs 1 Yes 2 No 3 Don t know FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 93 to Spring 94 Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 95 to Autumn 99 Each quarter from Spring 2000 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are studying for a qualification 259 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NVQLE11 highest level of NVQ SVQ being working towards 1 Level 1 2 Level 2 3 Level 3 4 Level 4 5 Level 5 6 Other 7 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM 2011 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has or is currently working towards an NVQ SVQ NOTES This variable replaces NVQLE2 NVNWACD type of NVQ SVQ being worked towards 1 Award 2 Certificate 3 Diploma 4 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM 2011 COVERAGE Applies if respondent is working towards an OTHER NVQ SVQ NVNWLEV level of Award Certificate Diploma 1 Level 1 2 Level 2 3 Level 3 4 Level 4 5 Level 5 6 Level 6 7 Leve
312. is user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions EVDAY Whether respondent ever works during the day 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY AJ quarters only from Spring 99 From 2014 these questions were reduced in frequency and are asked in wave one every quarter i e not asked all waves in AJ COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment who do not usually work during the day NOTES Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions EVEVE Whether respondent ever works during the evening 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY AJ quarters only from Spring 99 From 2014 these questions were reduced in frequency and are asked in wave one every quarter i e not asked all waves in AJ COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment who do not usually work during the evening Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions EVNGHT Whether respondent ever works at night 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY AJ quarters only from Spring 99 From 2014 these questions were reduced in frequency and are asked in wave one every quarter i e not asked all waves in AJ COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment who do not usually work at night NOTES Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions 150 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume
313. king less hours and they work either flexi time or annualised hours YLESS 1 4 12 or 13 AND FLEX10 1 or 2 NOTES This variable relates to reasons for the respondent not having worked in the reference week although they have job Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions FLEXW1 Whether respondent works flexi time 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters only from Spring 2000 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment on certain government schemes FLEXWe Whether respondent works to annualised hours contract 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters only from Spring 2000 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment and on certain government schemes FLEXW3 Whether respondent works to a term time working agreement 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters only from Spring 2000 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment and on certain government schemes FLEXW4 Whether respondent s work involves job sharing 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters only from Spring 2000 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment and on certain government schemes FLEXW5 Whether respondent works a nine day fortnight 1 Yes 2 No 147 FREQUENCY COVERAGE Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Spring and Autumn quarter
314. l 7 8 Level 8 9 Entry level 10 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM 2011 COVERAGE Applies if respondent is working towards an OTHER NVQ SVQ QCFNOW type of other qualification being studied for 1 Award 2 Certificate 3 Diploma 4 Other 5 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM 2011 260 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 COVERAGE Applies if respondent is working towards an Entry Level or Level 1 to 8 Award Certificate or Diploma qualification QCFLVNW level of Entry Level or Level 1 to 8 Award Certificate or Diploma qualification 1 Level 1 2 Level 2 3 Level 3 4 Level 4 5 Level 5 6 Level 6 7 Level 7 8 Level 8 9 Entry level 10 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM 2011 COVERAGE Applies if respondent is working towards an Entry Level or Level 1 to 8 Award Certificate or Diploma qualification ENROLL Whether enrolled on education course 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Up until JMO8 this variable applied to all respondents who were in employment or of working age From JMOB8 it applies only to those aged between 16 and 69 NOTES This variable also includes those who are temporarily absent or on vacation from the course but who still intend to return to the course ATTEND Whether still attending education course Spring 93 to Winter 96 1 Yes 2 No not y
315. l respondents who are studying for a higher degree DEGNOW 1 TCNW11 level of BTEC TEC EDEXCEL LQL being studied for 1 Level 4 or above higher level 2 Level 3 National Certificate or National Diploma level 3 Level 2 First general diploma level 4 Below Level 2 First general certificate level 5 Other 6 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM12 COVERAGE Applies if respondent is currently studying for BTEC TEC EDEXCEL LQL NOTES This variable replaced TCNW10 in JM 2012 TCNWACD type of BTEC TEC EDEXCEL LQL being studied for 1 Award 2 Certificate 3 Diploma 4 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM 2011 COVERAGE Applies if respondent is currently studying for an OTHER BTEC TEC EDEXCEL LQL TCNWLEV What level was your Award Certificate Diploma Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6 Level 7 Level 8 Entry level Don t know OONOORWODND FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM 2011 COVERAGE Applies if respondent is currently studying for an OTHER BTEC TEC EDEXCEL LQL 256 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 SCNOW 1 1 level of being studied for 1 at higher level level 4 2 for full National Certificate level 3 3 at first diploma or general diploma level level 2 4 at first certificate or general certificate level below level 2 5 modules towards a National Certificate 6 other 7 D
316. laces QUALCH9 1 7 This is a derived variable and amalgamates responses to QLFOR11 and QUALCHUK Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable 213 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 SCQUAL qualifications gained from school home schooling 5 BTEC BEC TEC Edexcel LQL 6 SCOTVEC SCOTEC or SCOTBEC 9 Other Higher Education qualif s below degree level 10 A Level Vocat A Level GCE in Applied Subjects or equivalent 11 New Diploma 12 Welsh Baccalaureate 13 International Baccalaureate 14 NVQ SVQ 15 GNVQ GSVQ 16 AS level Vocat AS Level or equiv 17 Certificate of 6 Yr Studies CSYS or equiv 18 Access to HE 19 O Level or equiv 20 Standard Ordinary O Grade Lower Scotland 21 GCSE Vocat l GCSE 22 CSE 23 Advanced Higher Higher Intermediate Access qualif s Scotland 24 RSA OCR 25 City and Guilds 26 YT Certificate 27 Key skills Core skills Scotland 28 Basic skills Skills for life literacy numeracy lang 29 Entry Level Qualifications 30 Award Certificate or Diploma at Entry level and Levels 1 to 8 31 Any other professional work related qualification FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM 2011 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has UK gained qualifications from school NOTES This variable replaces QULS10 01 20 Plea
317. lated qualification FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has UK gained qualifications from college or university NOTES This variable replaces QULS10 01 20 Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable WOQUAL all qualifications related to work 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Degree level Incl foundation degrees graduate memb ship of a profess institute PGCE or higher Diploma in Higher Education HNC HND ONC OND BTEC BEC TEC Edexcel LQL SCOTVEC SCOTEC or SCOTBEC Teaching Qualify excl PGCE Nursing or other medical Mualify Not yet mentioned Other Higher Education qualif s below degree level A Level Vocat A Level GCE in Applied Subjects or equivalent New Diploma Welsh Baccalaureate International Baccalaureate NVQ SVQ GNVQ GSVQ AS level Vocat l AS Level or equiv Certificate of 6 Yr Studies CSYS equiv Access to HE O Level or equiv Standard Ordinary O Grade Lower Scotland GCSE Vocat l GCSE 215 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 CSE Advanced Higher Higher Intermediate Access qualif s Scotland RSA OCR City and
318. ld accept a part time job if they could not find a full time one It differs from AXPB which asks a similar question of those who have already found a full time job AXPB Whether would have accepted part time work 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 to Winter 97 not Spring 93 Spring quarters only from Spring 96 to Spring 08 Every quarter from JS08 For 2014 onwards this questions is now asked to JM main respondents only 173 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents that have found a full time job LKFTPC 1 NOTES Respondents are asked whether they would have accepted part time job if they had been unable to find a full time one It differs from AXPA which asks similar question of those who are still looking for a full time job AXFA Whether would accept full time work 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 to Winter 97 not Spring 93 Spring quarters only from Spring 98 to Spring 08 Every quarter from JS08 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents that would like a part time job LKFTPA 2 NOTES Respondents are asked whether they would have accepted a full time job if they had been unable to find a part time one It differs from AXFB which asks a similar question of those who have already found a part time job Whether would have accepted full time work 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each
319. ldren 2 Looking after incapacitated adult 3 Some other reason 109 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENCY AJ OD or wave 1 only from Spring 01 From 2014 these questions were reduced in frequency and are asked in wave one every quarter i e not asked all waves in AJ and OD COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who don t want a full time job because they want to spend more time with their family have domestic commitments or some other reason YNOTFT 3 4 or 6 JOBTYP Whether job permanent 1 Permanent 2 Not permanent in some way FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees NOTES The permanency of job relates to the job itself not the respondent s intentions about that job AGWRK Whether agency worker 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to respondents whose job is not permanent JBTP10 1 5 Way in which job was not permanent 1 Working for an employment agency 2 Casual type of work 3 Seasonal work 4 Under contract for a fixed period or fixed task 5 Some other reason for not being permanent FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM10 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who said their job was not permanent in some way JOBTYP 2 NOTES The permanency of a job relates to the job itself not the respondent s intentions about that job This variable replace
320. ldren in family aged between 10 amp 15 0 5 Number of dependent children in family aged between 10 amp 15 FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Each quarter from Spring 95 NOTES The notes for FDPCH19 also apply to this variable FDPCH16 Number of dependent children in family aged under 16 0 10 Number of dependent children in family aged under 16 FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Each quarter from Spring 95 NOTES The notes for FDPCH19 also apply to this variable FDPCH19 Number of dependent children in family aged under 19 0 10 Number of dependent children in family aged under 19 FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Each quarter from Spring 95 89 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 COVERAGE Applies to all family units NOTES This variable should be used at the family level or at the person level selecting on heads and wives of heads of families and are derived from CAIND amp AGE Dependent children are all those aged 0 15 and those aged 16 18 who are in full time education Dependency of a child is a family concept If this variable is run at a household level it is not certain on whom the child is dependent By running this variable at the family level or at the person level selecting on heads and wives of heads of family units both of whom the child is dependent on there is no chance of making claims of depen
321. least one married cohabiting couple 21 3 or more adults with or more children including at least one married cohabiting couple 22 3 or more adults with no children 23 3 or more adults with one or more children 24 Same sex cohabiting couple 25 Same sex civil partnership couple FREQUENCY Each quarter from AJ10 on household and ONS datasets COVERAGE Applies to all households NOTES HLDCMP6Y is not available on the person level datasets but is included on both household and ONS datasets from AJ 2010 RELHO6 Relationship to head of household 0 Head of household 12 Brother sister 1 Spouse 13 Step brother sister 2 Cohabitee 14 Foster brother sister 3 Child 15 Brother sister in law 4 Step child 16 Grandchild 5 Foster child 17 Grandparent 6 Child in law 18 Other relation 7 Parent 19 Other non relative 8 Step parent 20 Civil Partner 10 Foster parent 21 Same sex cohabitee 11 Parent in law 22 Undefined FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 2006 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This variable was called RELH96 between Spring 1996 and Spring 2006 RELHRP6 Relationship to HRP 73 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 0 Household Reference Person 12 Brother or sister 1 Spouse 13 Step brother or sister 2 Cohabitee 14 Foster brother or sister 3 Child 15 Brother or sister in law 4 Step child 16 Gr
322. level 3 2 a first diploma or general diploma level 2 3 a first certificate or general certificate below level 2 4 modules towards a National Certificate 5 other SCOTVEC SCOTEC SCOTBEC qualification 6 None of these 7 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has a SCOTVEC SCOTEC SCOTBEC qualification NOTES This variable replaces STECOTH Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable STECOTH Other SCTVEC qualifications 1 A full National Certificate level level 3 2 A first diploma or general diploma level 2 3 A first certificate or general certificate below level 2 4 Modules towards a National Certificate 5 None of these 6 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM07 to OD10 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have a SCOTVEC SCOTEC or SCOTBEC qualification and their highest SCOTVEC qualification is at the higher level National Certificate or National Diploma level a first diploma or general diploma or a first certificate or general certificate STCOTLA type of SCOTVEC SCOTEC SCOTBEC qualifications an 1 Award 2 Certificate 3 Diploma 4 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 238 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has an OTHER SCOTVEC SCOTE
323. lies to all respondents who did not want a full time job YPTJOB 4 NOTES This variable replaced PTNCRE from JS07 and is included ONS datasets only The need for care services can be a need for normal working hours or for special periods of the day e g early morning or special periods of the year e g school holidays This variable is also asked in wave 1 in all other quarters in 2008 Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable YNOTFT Reason not wanting full time job 1 Financially secure but work s because want s to 2 Earn s enough working part time 3 Want s to spend more time with family 4 Have domestic commitments which prevent full time working 5 There are insufficient childcare facilities available 6 Another reason FREQUENCY Autumn quarters only from Autumn 94 to Autumn 99 AJ and OD quarters from Spring 01 From 2014 these questions were reduced in frequency and are asked in wave one every quarter i e not asked all waves in AJ and OD COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who did not want a full time job YPTJOB 4 NOTES The interviewer accepts the first response that applies This question is asked wave 1 for JM08 and JS08 Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions YPTCIA Reason part time work 1 Looking after chi
324. ll respondents who work with between 1 and 10 other employees NOTES When running tabulations with this variable it is advisable to filter on 5 2 Self employed to ensure accuracy OMCONT Whether owns business or has controlling interest in company worked for 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 95 to Spring 04 AJ quarters only every 274 year from Spring 06 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents employed as managers with private companies or self employed SECTOR 1 or SECTRO03 1 and MANAGE 1 or STAT 2 NOTES This question is only asked in the Spring quarter every 2 years e g 2004 2006 etc Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions OMROLE Whether having authority to hire or dismiss employees 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 95 to Spring 04 AJ quarters only every 27 year from Spring 06 to OD13 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have a controlling interest in the company they work for OMCONT 1 NOTES This question is only asked in the Spring quarter every 2 years e g 2004 2006 etc Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions This was removed from the questionnaire JM14 onwards NOCUST Number of customers which a self employed respondent has 1 One 2 More than one 3 Don t know FREQUEN
325. lness or suffer from phobia panics or other nervous disorders 16 Progressive illness not included elsewhere e g cancer multiple sclerosis symptomatic HIV Parkinson s disease muscular dystrophy 17 Other health problems or disabilities FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 to Winter 92 Summer and Winter quarters only from Summer 93 to Winter 95 Each quarter from Spring 96 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment and all other men aged 16 64 and women aged 16 59 who said that health or disability problems limit the kind of paid work they can do Spring 92 to Winter 94 LIMITT 1 AND LNGLIM 1 From Spring 95 LNGLIM 1 NOTES For more accurate results always use the variable HEALTH as it gives the respondent s main most significant health problem and not a general problem It should be noted that the order of health problems at HEAL does not necessarily give the most problematic first Again use HEALTH for this information Respondents can give up to 17 problems This variable was coded HEAL 00 10 from Spring 92 to Summer 93 HEAL 00 12 from Winter 93 to Winter 95 HEAL 00 14 from Spring 96 to Winter 96 and HEAL 01 17 from Spring 97 DNA 9 will include people who were not contacted in the quarter this question was asked See LFS User Guide Volume 1 Background and Methodology Imputation in the LFS for full details Code 4 difficulty in seeing should not be considered a disability if it is effecti
326. loyed 2 Unemployed 3 Inactive FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 95 COVERAGE Applies to all family units NOTES This variable is included on household datasets only and is derived from INECACO5 HEAWIFE Economic activity of wife of family unit 1 Employed 2 Unemployed 3 Inactive FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 95 COVERAGE Applies to all family units NOTES This variable is only coded where the wife partner of the head of the family unit is present This variable is included on household datasets only This variable is derived from INECACO5 Number of people in household who are employed 0 19 Number of people FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 95 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employed INECAC05 1 2 3 4 NOTES The variable INECACR is replaced by INECACO5 in the derivation of this variable from Spring 05 onwards This variable is included on household datasets only HNUNEMP Number of people in household who are unemployed 0 19 Number of people FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 95 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are unemployed 5 5 NOTES The variable INECACR is replaced by INECACO5 in the
327. ltand 49 Tyne amp Wear Met County 50 Greater Manchester Met county 51 Merseyside Met County 52 South Yorkshire Met County 53 West Yorkshire Met County 54 West Midlands Met County 55 Inner London 56 Outer London EB Hartlepool UA EC Middlesbrough UA EE Redcar and Cleveland UA EF Stockton on Tees UA EH Darlington UA ET Halton UA EU Warrington UA EX Blackburn with Darwen UA EY Blackpool UA FA City of Kingston upon Hull UA FB East Riding of Yorkshire UA FC North East Lincolnshire UA FD North Lincolnshire UA FF York UA FK Derby UA FN Leicester UA FP Rutland UA FY Nottingham UA GA County of Herefordshire UA GF Telford and Wrekin UA GL Stoke on Trent UA HA Bath and North East Somerset UA HB City of Bristol UA North Somerset UA HD South Gloucestershire UA HG Plymouth UA HH Torbay UA HN Bournemouth UA HP Poole UA HX Swindon UA JA Peterborough UA KA Luton UA KF Southend on Sea UA KG Thurrock UA LC Medway UA MA Bracknell Forest UA MB West Berkshire UA MC Reading UA MD Slough UA ME Windsor and Maidenhead UA MF Wokingham UA MG Milton Keynes UA ML Brighton and Hove UA MR Portsmouth UA MS Southampton UA MW Isle of Wight UA FREQUENCY Each quarter from Autumn 00 NA Isle of Anglesey NC Gwynedd NE Conwy NG Denbighshire NJ Flintshire NL Wrexham NN Po
328. lume 4 user guide for further guidance UNEMBN 1 2 Type of unemployment related benefit claiming 1 Job Seeker s Allowance or Universal Credit 2 National Insurance Credits FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 98 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are claiming unemployment related benefits or National Insurance credits Spring 98 to Winter 2000 TYPBEN 1 Spring 01 to Winter 02 TPBNO1 1 From Spring 03 TPBEN3 1 NOTES Please note that the reference to Universal Credit was introduced in AJ13 Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable UCREDIT Reason for claiming Universal Credit 1 Unemployed and looking for work 2 Not working because you were sick injured or disabled 3 Not working because of being a lone parent of a child under 5 4 Not working because of caring for someone who was sick or disabled 5 Working but entitled to Universal Credit on top of your earnings 6 Some other reason FREQUENCY Each quarter from AJ14 JSATYP Type of Job Seeker s Allowance 1 Coniributory JSA 2 Income based JSA or Universal Credit 3 Both 4 Don t know 197 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Each quarter from Autumn 96 Applies to all respondents who are claiming job seeker s allowance Autumn 96 to Winter 97 UNBENA
329. ly sewerage waste management and remediation activities 6 F Construction 7 G Wholesale and retail trade repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles 8 H Transportation and storage 9 I Accommodation and food service activities 10 J Information and communication 99 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 11 K Financial and insurance activities 12 L Real estate activities 13 Professional scientific and technical activities 14 Administrative and support service activities 15 Public administration and defence compulsory social security 16 P Education 17 Q Human health and social work activities 18 R Arts entertainment and recreation 19 5 Other service activities 20 T Activities of households as employers undifferentiated goods and services producing activities of households for own use 21 U Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment other than those on certain government schemes NOTES This variable is derived from INDSCO7M LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives full industry breakdowns for both SIC92 amp SIC2007 INDE07M Industry sectors in main job 1 Agriculture forestry and fishing 2 B D E Energy and water 3 C Manufacturing 4 F Construction 5 G I Distribution hotels and r
330. m 6 Guard dog patrol animal 7 Warden controlled 315 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENCY Wave 1 and Face to Face Only NOTES This is an outcome coding variable 316 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 WEIGHTS PERSON LEVEL WEIGHTS PWT11 Person weight FREQUENCY Each quarter from JS 2009 NOTES Person weight for quarterly files PIWT11 Person income weight FREQUENCY Each quarter from JS 2009 NOTES Person income weight for quarterly files HOUSEHOLD LEVEL WEIGHTS PHHWT111 Person household weight FREQUENCY amp OD quarters only from OD 2009 NOTES Person household weight for household quarterly files only This variable should be used when analysing the number of people in a household 317 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 INDEX 156 CRYT2 16 157 230 290 157 CRY OF risset 22 ACEDNT 288 156 24 ACCKIND 292 155 277 289
331. mberside 6 East Midlands 6 East Midlands 7 East Anglia 7 East Anglia 8 Inner London 8 Central London 9 Outer London 9 Inner London not central 10 Rest of South East 10 Outer London 11 South West 11 Rest of South East 12 West Midlands met county 12 South West 13 Rest of West Midlands 13 West Midlands met county 14 Greater Manchester 14 Rest of West Midlands 15 Merseyside 15 Greater Manchester 16 Rest of North West 16 Merseyside 17 Wales 17 Rest of North West 18 Strathclyde 18 Wales 19 Rest of Scotland 19 Strathclyde 20 Northern Ireland 20 Rest of Scotland 21 Workplace outside UK 21 Northern Ireland 22 Workplace outside UK FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 93 on ONS datasets only Spring amp Autumn quarters only from Autumn 93 to Autumn 96 Each quarter from Spring 97 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment with a regular additional job NOTES With the removal of the Census Matrix Edit REGWK2R supersedes the variable REGWK2 This variable is derived from STAT2 HOME URESMC UALDWK2 LADWAD UALAD99 amp WKPL299 From Spring 2000 UALDWK2 is used in the derivation of this variable prior to this LADWK2 is used Central London is defined by the Department of Transport as the area within the bounds of the main London British Rail train termini REGWK2 and REGWK2T have been combined from 1993 onwards This variable is
332. means that for both members RELHFU 1 i e both members are heads of a family Any analysis that uses RELHFU 1 to estimate the number of families will therefore double the number of same sex cohabiting couples This is currently true for all LFS and APS household datasets In order to obtain accurate estimates of the number of families including same sex cohabiting couples it is best to separately identify all same sex family types and include RELHFU in the analysis same sex family types are those where FUTYPEG6 3 14 15 or 16 It is then possible to half the number of adults in same sex cohabiting couples i e excluding any children in same sex couple families to give the number of same sex cohabiting couples Of course any analysis of people in same sex couples adults children or both will not require the total to be halved From JM10 onwards this approach will not be required because the code used to derive RELHFU has been corrected to account for adults in same sex couples From JM10 onwards the standard method can be used It is recommended to check each dataset and the above approach will continue to be required for datasets from 2006 and 2009 To summarise from JM10 RELHFU is derived more accurately which will impact FUTYPE6 and family unit analysis Data from 2006 through to 2009 must be adjusted when looking at same sex cohabiting couples 86 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables
333. mp JSATYP INCSUP Whether claiming income support in reference week Spring 92 to Autumn 96 1 2 Yes No Spring 98 onwards 1 2 3 4 FREQUENCY Sick Person Pensioner Lone Parent Any other form of Income Support Each quarter from Spring 92 to Autumn 96 Each quarter from Spring 98 198 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are claiming income support but not as unemployed person Spring 92 to Winter 97 UNBENA 2 or UNBENB 2 Spring 98 to Winter 00 TYPBEN 2 Spring 01 to Winter 02 TPBNO1 2 From Spring 03 TPBENS 2 NOTES This question identifies people who are registered as ILO unemployed and are claiming Income Support but not Unemployment Benefit This variable should not be used on its own or with UNBENA or NICRED to identify individual benefits All these variables are used to give a total number of claimants from the series of questions see CLAIM INCSUP is not asked after 7 October 1996 when it was replaced by JSATYP however from Spring 98 the categories in INCSUP changed and only applies to people who are receiving Income Support not as an unemployed person SKDSBN9 1 7 of sickness or disability benefit claimed 1 Incapacity Benefit 2 Severe Disablement Allowance 3 Employment and Support Allowance 4 Statutory Sick Pay 5 Invalid Care Allowance 7 Disability Living Allowan
334. mployer GROSS99 99996 NOTES This question replaces GOEMEX as of Spring 99 BANDG Weekly monthly annual pay bands Winter 92 to Winter 96 See Volume 5 LFS Classifications for band details Spring 97 onwards See start of Income section in this volume FREQUENCY Each quarter from Winter 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents on government scheme or employee who do not know their gross pay NOTES BANDG was changed from numeric to text variable in Autumn 97 but the bands are coded using two decimal places GRSSWK Gross weekly pay in main job Amount FREQUENCY Each quarter from Winter 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees and those on a government scheme 299 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NOTES If GRSSWK is greater than 3 500 or GRSSWK is greater than 1 000 and the respondent is manual worker then the case is not given income weight Non response to this question will also be zero weighted In Winter 96 97 and Spring 97 some records were coded as zero instead of 8 Users should filter on GRSSWK gt 0 to exclude these records Standard filters used to calculate average gross weekly earnings GRSSWK gt 0 HOURPAY gt 0 and HOURPAY lt 100 HOURPAY Average gross hourly pay Amount FREQUENCY Each quarter from Autumn 93 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees and those on a gover
335. mportant to remember that this is voluntary question Respondents who refuse to answer are coded as unwilling 14 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Between JM10 and OD10 the variable appeared only on ONS datasets From JM11 onwards the variable will also appear on client and government files SIDFTFQN Sexual Identity Face to Face Interview 9 99 Range of values Answer Categories includes coding 1 4 FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to respondents aged 16 and over Personal and telephone interviews only NOTES This variable is available on ONS RESEARCH datasets only Most ONS social surveys ask questions about people s ethnicity age disability gender religion and sexuality This information is used to see if different types of people have different experiences in life for example in employment and health The purpose of the new sexual identity question is to provide such evidence in relation to the lesbian gay and bisexual community and used for equality monitoring purposes SIDTUQN Sexual Identity Telephone Unit Interview 1 Heterosexual Straight 2 Gay Lesbian 3 Bisexual 4 Other FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to respondents aged 16 and over Personal and telephone interviews only NOTES This variable is available on ONS RESEARCH datasets only Refer to notes from SIDFTFQN SUBJECTIVE WELL BEING SATIS
336. n 15 Level 5 Diploma 16 Level 5 Certificate 17 Level 6 Award 18 HNC HND BTEC higher etc 19 Teaching D further education 20 Teaching D secondary education 21 Teaching D primary education 22 Teaching D foundation stage 23 Teaching level not stated 24 Nursing etc 25 RSA higher diploma 26 Other higher education below degree 27 Level 4 Diploma 28 Level 4 Certificate 29 Level 5 Award 30 NVQ level 3 31 Advanced Progression 14 19 Diploma 32 Level 3 Diploma 33 Advanced Welsh Baccalaureate 34 International Baccalaureate 35 GNVQ GSVQ advanced 36 A level or equivalent 37 RSA advanced diploma 38 OND ONC BTEC SCOTVEC National etc 39 City amp Guilds Advanced Craft Part 1 40 Scottish 6 year certificate CSYS 272 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 41 SCE higher or equivalent 42 Access qualifications 43 AS level or equivalent 44 Trade apprenticeship 45 Level 3 Certificate 46 Level 4 Award 47 NVQ level 2 or equivalent 48 Intermediate Welsh Baccalaureate 49 GNVQ GSVQ intermediate 50 RSA diploma 51 City amp Guilds Craft Part 2 52 BTEC SCOTVEC First or General diploma etc 53 Higher 14 19 Diploma 54 Level2 Diploma 55 Level2 Certificate 56 O level GCSE grade A C or equivalent 57 Level 3 Award 58 NVQ level 1 or equivalent 59 Foundation Welsh Baccalaureate 60 GNVQ GSVQ foundation level
337. n Ireland 10 West Midlands met county 21 Outside UK 11 Rest of West Midlands 22 Baby under 3 months FREQUENCY Spring 92 only Each quarter from Spring 93 to Autumn 99 Spring quarters only from Spring 00 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment NOTES This variable is based on Government Office Regions It is derived from RESTME AGE OYCRY amp UALDO OYCRY Country of residence 12 months ago 1 UK 2 Somewhere else 3 Baby under 1 year Spring 93 onwards FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 COVERAGE From Spring 92 to Spring 93 Applies to all respondents who have lived at their current address between 3 amp 12 months OR if they were not living at their current address 12 months ago RESLNO 5 OR OYEQMS 2 OR FOR NI RESLNO 6 From Spring 94 to Spring 95 Applies to all respondents who have lived at their current address between 3 amp 12 months OR if they were not living at their current address 12 months ago RESLNO 5 OR OYEQMS 2 From Spring 96 onwards Applies to all respondents who have lived at their current address between 3 amp 12 months OR if they were not living at their current address 12 months ago RESMTH lt OR OYEQMS 2 NOTES It should be noted that when filtering on OYCRY 2 the relevant category of OYCRYO should also be filtered in order to ensure accuracy Category 3 Baby under 1 year is not available for the Spring 92 quarter 64 Labour
338. n in this volume FREQUENCY COVERAGE gross pay Each quarter from Winter 92 Applies to all respondents who are employees in a second job and do not know their 306 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NOTES BANDG2 was changed from a numeric to a text variable in Autumn 1997 but the bands are coded using two decimal places GRSSWK2 Gross weekly pay in second job Amount FREQUENCY Each quarter from Winter 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees in second job NOTES This variable is derived from STAT2 INCNOW SECGRO SECGA SECGB SECEX amp BANDG2 INCOME SECOND JOB SECNET Net pay after deductions 1 99994 1 99994 self assessment 99995 Paid 99995 or more 99998 Don t know 99999 Refusal FREQUENCY Each quarter from Winter 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees in second job SCNTGA Net pay period of earnings Spring 96 onwards 01 One week 02 Two weeks 03 Three weeks 04 Four weeks 05 Calendar month 07 Two calendar months 08 Eight times a year 09 Nine times a year 10 Ten times a year 13 Three months 13 weeks 26 Six months 26 weeks 52 One year 12 months 52 weeks 90 Less than one week 95 One off lump sum 97 None of these FREQUENCY Each quarter from Winter 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees in a second job BANDN2 Weekly monthly annu
339. nce Care should be taken as these are mainly proxy responses RESPNO Person number of the person who completed the interview 0 97 Person number FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 NOTES At the end of each individuals interview the interviewer records the PERSNO of the person who completed the interview Often proxy interviews are conducted where someone else in the household will answer on behalf of the individual HSERIAL Number that uniquely identifies household FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 95 COVERAGE Applies to all households NOTES This variable is only available on SPSS household datasets This variable is derived using QUOTA WEEK W1YR QRTR ADD WAVFND amp HHLD Please note this is not available on EUL data sets from 2011 onwards HSERIALP Pseudonymous number that uniquely identifies a household FREQUENCY JM11 onwards COVERAGE Applies to all households NOTES This variable is only available on EUL SPSS household datasets FUSERIAL Number that uniquely identifies a family unit 311 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 95 COVERAGE Applies to all family units NOTES This variable is only available on SPSS household datasets This variable is derived using QUOTA WEEK W1YR Q
340. ndents for whom ILLWRK 1 and TYPILL 4 This variable replaces HOWCAUSE from JM10 NOTES This question was removed from the questionnaire in JM13 REASOFF9 Reasons for not working 1 This illness caused or made worse by work 2 The workplace injury you told me about 3 Or for some other reason FREQUENCY quarters every 2 years from 9 onwards 2009 2011 etc From JM13 onwards this will be asked in even years only It is therefore not available on JM13 datasets COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who suffered from an illness in last 12 months caused made worse by work OR respondents injured at work in the last 12 months AND Respondents not currently working but have worked in the past 12 months This was previously called REASOFF from JM07 NOBACK9 Expected return to work 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Prior JM13 JM quarters every 2 years 2009 2011 etc From JM13 onwards this will be asked in JM quarters even years only It is therefore not included in the JM13 data set COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are not currently in work because of illness that was caused or made worse by work NOTES Please see User guide 2 for the 2014 definitive routing 296 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 HWWA4WK Illness preventing work 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM12 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are working who have work
341. nerally included in the North West region in published data GOVTOF Government Office Regions Summary 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 North East North West Merseyside Yorkshire amp Humberside East Midlands West Midlands Eastern London South East 42 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 10 South West 11 Wales 12 Scotland 13 Northern Ireland FREQUENCY Each quarter from 2000 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This variable conforms to the standard presentation of Government Office Regions It is derived from UALAD99 Merseyside is generally included in the North West region in published data LOCAL GOVERNMENT REORGANISATION IN APRIL 2009 In April 2009 there was a reorganisation of local government that created nine new unitary authorities UAs Five of these UAs were created from existing county councils and their district councils The remaining four were created by splitting Cheshire and Bedfordshire into two each along existing district council boundaries All nine unitary authorities will therefore be aggregates of existing local authorities Note Isles of Scilly also changes from 15UH to OOHF at this time Currently these variables are produced on the LFS using UA LAD data UALA UACNTY UALADGB UALD3 UALDO UALDWK UALDWK2 UALD3 is only on ONS datasets To apply these changes to back data syntax can be used to recode the
342. ness 6 Due to opportunities to work more flexible hours 7 Other FREQUENCY JM14 onwards Main waves one and 5 every quarter Boost all waves every quarter COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are in work past state pension age NOTES This variable is included on ONS datasets only 117 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 MAINRET Main reason why respondent is working past state pension age 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES To pay for essential items such as bills To pay for desirable items such as holidays To boost pension pot Not ready to stop work Employer needs your experience or you are needed in the family business Due to opportunities to work more flexible hours Other JM14 onwards Main waves one and 5 every quarter Boost all waves every quarter Applies to all respondents who are in work past state pension age This variable is included on ONS datasets only 118 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 REDUNDANCY WITHIN LAST 3 MONTHS REDUND Whether made redundant in last three months 1 Made redundant 2 Not made redundant FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents aged 16 NOTES This variable combines all the questionnaire variables and should be used in all analysis of redundancies This is a derived variable plea
343. ng 05 Applies to respondents aged 16 69 who are not waiting to take up a job already obtained NOLOWA and NOLWM replace the variables NOLOOK and NOWANT from Spring 05 Please note that this is multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable NOLWM Main reason not looking for work in last 4 weeks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Waiting for the results of an application for job being assessed by an ET training agent Student Looking after the family home Temporarily sick or injured Long term sick or disabled Believes no jobs available Not yet started looking Doesn t need employment Retired from paid work 192 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 10 Any other reason FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 05 COVERAGE Applies to respondents aged 16 69 who are not waiting to take up a job already obtained and more than one response is given at NOLOWA NOTES NOLOWA and NOLWM replace the variables NOLOOK and NOWANT from Spring 05 NOLWF Not looking for work because of looking after family home 1 You were caring for children below school age 2 You were caring for other children 3 You were caring for a dependent adult relative 4 Or some other reason FREQUENCY OD or wave 1 only from Autumn 05 COVERAGE Applies to respondents aged 16 69 whose main reason for not looking for work is
344. ng more weekly hours 1 Variable hours worked 2 Overtime 3 Other reasons FREQUENCY Spring only in 98 All quarters in 99 Spring only in 2000 Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment except those on certain government schemes who worked more hours than usual MATLVE Status of maternity leave 1 A legal entitlement statutory maternity leave absence 2 Leave employer has allowed contractual maternity leave 3 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 96 to Winter 97 AJ quarters only from Spring 98 COVERAGE Applies to all women respondents on maternity leave YLESS 3 and SEX 2 VARYHR Whether weekly hours tend to vary 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 98 to Spring 2000 Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in work and whose usual hours were not worked in reference week but variable hours not previously stated NOTES Applies particularly to self employed people or shift workers It also includes respondents working flexible hours in a flexi time system if they said that their hours varied It may also be due to the respondent working varying amounts of paid or unpaid overtime DIFFHR6 Whether hours different from usual in reference week 1 More than usual hours 2 Hours vary 3 Bank holiday 4 Maternity paternity leave 5 Parental leave 6 Other leave holiday 7 Sick or injured 8 Trainin
345. nged and USUWRK was set to YES 1 if respondents usually worked during the relevant period and NO 2 to those who did not work during the relevant period Analysts are advised to use USUWRK1 3 for analysis purposes if they are interested in this area Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions EVENG Evening work in last 4 weeks 1 Half or more of the total time you worked was at night 2 Less than half 3 No time worked at night in past 4 weeks FREQUENCY quarters only from 7 From 2014 these questions were reduced in frequency and are asked in wave one every quarter i e not asked all waves in AJ COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who usually work in the evening USUWRK 2 NOTES Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions 149 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NIGHT Night work in the last 4 weeks 1 Half or more of the total time you worked was in the night 2 Or less than half 3 No time worked in evening in past 4 weeks FREQUENCY quarters only from 7 From 2014 these questions were reduced in frequency and are asked in wave one every quarter i e not asked all waves in AJ COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who usually work in the night USUWRK 3 NOTES Please see the note at the beginning of th
346. ning period Other temp contract for probationary period Other temp could not find permanent job Other temp did not want permanent job Other temp other reason Other temp no reason given Type of temporary job not stated Each quarter from Winter 2005 Applies to all respondents who are employees job which is not permanent RESTEMR is analogous to RESTEM with the employment edit removed This variable is derived from STATR JOBTYP WHYTMP6 amp JBTP101 Between Spring 1992 and Winter 2005 this variable was called RESTEMR NSECM10 1 0 2 0 3 1 3 2 3 3 3 4 4 1 4 2 4 3 4 4 5 0 6 0 7 1 7 2 7 3 7 4 8 1 8 2 9 1 9 2 10 0 11 1 11 2 12 1 12 2 12 3 12 4 12 5 12 6 12 7 13 1 13 2 13 3 13 4 13 5 14 1 14 2 NS SEC category 50 2010 based Employers in large organisations Higher managerial occupations Higher professional traditional employee Higher professional new employee Higher professional traditional self emp Higher professional new self emp Lower professional traditional employee Lower professional new employee Lower professional traditional self emp Lower professional new self emp Lower managerial occupations Higher supervisory occupations Intermediate clerical and administrative Intermediate sales and service Intermediate technical and auxiliary Intermediate engineering Employers in small orgs non professional Emplo
347. nment scheme NOTES This variable is derived from GRSSWK POTHR amp BUSHR Occasionally there are records with abnormally high levels for HOURPAY Users may wish to filter out such records for example by specifying HOURPAY 0 99 This method is used for published LFS income data In Winter 96 97 and Spring 97 some records were coded as zero instead of 8 Users should filter on HOURPAY gt 0 to exclude these records USGRS99 Whether gross pay last received is the same as that received each similar period 1 Yes 2 No 3 No usual amount FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 1999 Waves 1 and 5 only COVERAGE Applies to all respondents giving a figure for their actual last payment as an employee or a government scheme excluding those giving an annual amount USUGPAY What is usual pay received for period covered by last pay 1 99994 1 to 99994 self assessment 99995 Paid 99995 or more self assessment 99998 Don t know 99999 Refusal FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 99 Waves 1 and 5 only COVERAGE Applies to all respondents giving a figure for their actual last payment as an employee or on government scheme excluding those giving an annual amount NET INCOME NET99 What is take home pay after deductions 1 99994 1 to 99994 99995 99995 or more 99997 Same as Gross 99998 Don t know 99999 Refusal 300 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variabl
348. none of these Just 16 and non response this time Each quarter from JM12 Applies if aged between 16 and 64 This question replaced SCHM08 in JM12 FUND12 Funding of work schemes 1 a scheme in England funded by the Skills Funding Agency or the Young People s Learning Agency 2 a scheme in Wales funded by the Department for Education and Skills 3 4 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES a programme in Scotland run by Skills Development Scotland or was it some other scheme Each quarter from JM12 Applies if aged between 16 and 64 This question broadly replacesTECLEC4 in JM12 TYPSCH12 Employer of Work scheme 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 97 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES working for an employer temporarily away from an employer working for voluntary organisation charity undertaking some other form of voluntary or community work working for an environmental taskforce in full time or part time study temporarily away from full time or part time study receiving help setting up as self employed on a project providing work experience or practical training undertaking some other form of employment training or some other situation not listed Don t Know Every quarter from JM12 Applies to respondents on Government Training Schemes New for JM12 93 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 TSCHOTH Government Training S
349. ns gives a complete breakdown of occupation codes 178 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 SC10LM J Major occupation group last job 11 Managers Directors And Senior Officials Professional Occupations Associate Professional And Technical Occupations Administrative And Secretarial Occupations Skilled Trades Occupations Caring Leisure And Other Service Occupations Sales And Customer Service Occupations Process Plant And Machine Operatives Elementary Occupations WP FREQUENCY Each quarter from 1 1 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who did no work in the reference week and were not away from any job or business but have worked in the past 8 years NOTES This variable replaces SC2KLMJ and is derived from SOC10L LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives complete breakdown of occupation codes SC10LMN Minor occupation group last job 111 927 Range of Occupation Codes FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who did no work in the reference week and were not away from any job or business but have worked in the past 8 years NOTES This variable replaces SC2KLMN and is derived from SOC10L LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives complete breakdown of occupation codes INDUSTRY IN LAST JOB CONVERSION VARIABLE To convert SIC92 cod
350. ns for both SIC92 amp SIC2007 INDUSTRY IN SECOND JOB SIC2007 INDSCO07S Industry sub class in second job 01 62 1 93 19 9 Range of industry codes 8 Not Applicable NA 9 Did Not Answer FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment who have a regular additional job 161 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NOTES This variable is derived from Y2JOB YTETJB amp ICD2 LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives complete industry breakdown of both SIC92 amp SIC2007 INDCO7S Industry class in second job 01 11 99 00 Range of industry codes 8 Not Applicable NA 9 Did Not Answer DNA FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment who have a regular additional job NOTES This variable is derived from INDSCO7S LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives complete industry breakdown of both SIC92 amp SIC2007 INDGO7S Industry group in second job 01 1 99 0 Range of industry codes 8 Not Applicable NA 9 Did Not Answer DNA FREQUENCY Each quarter from 9 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment who have a regular additional job NOTES This variable is derived from INDSC07S LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives a complete industry breakdown of both SIC92 amp SIC2007 INDDO7S Industry division in second job
351. nt other than those in certain government schemes NOTES This conversion variable gives reasonable comparisons not exact conversions LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives full industry breakdowns for both SIC92 amp SIC2007 0792 1 Agriculture forestry and fishing 2 B D E Energy and water 3 C Manufacturing 4 F Construction 5 G I Distribution hotels and restaurants 6 H J Transport and communication 7 K L M N Banking and finance 8 O P Q Public admin education and health 9 R S T U Other services FREQUENCY Each quarter from 9 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment other than those in certain government schemes NOTES This conversion variable gives reasonable comparisons not exact conversions LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives full industry breakdowns for both SIC92 amp SIC2007 INDUSTRY SIC 2007 INDSCO7M Industry sub class in main job 01 62 1 93 13 9 Range of industry codes 8 No Answer NA 9 Did Not Ask DNA FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment other than those on certain government schemes 98 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NOTES This variable is derived from STAT EVERWK amp ICDM LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives full industry breakdowns for both SIC92 amp SIC2007 INDCO7M Indu
352. nt wants to work shorter hours than in present job 7 Other aspects of present job unsatisfactory 8 Respondent wants to change occupation 9 Respondent wants to change sector 10 Other reasons FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent looking replacement for main job in ref wk NOTES Respondents may give up to three responses This variable replaces LOOKM8 Please note that this is multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable PREFHR Preferred working hours in new job being looked for 1 Longer 2 Shorter 3 The same 4 Don t know no preference FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 to Winter 92 Summer and Winter quarters from Summer 93 to Winter 95 Each quarter from Spring 96 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who did not give longer shorter hours as their reason for looking for another job LOOKM8 5 or 6 LESPAY Whether accept less pay for shorter hours in new job being sought 1 Would still prefer shorter hours 2 Would not prefer shorter hours 3 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 to Winter 92 Summer and Winter quarters from Summer 93 Summer only in 98 amp 99 Each quarter from Spring 2000 171 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who were looking for a different job with shorter hours to repla
353. nt was scheduled to work but was unable to do so because of sickness or injury are recorded HOURS Structure of LFS hours variables hours worked per week When conducting analysis of hours worked there are three elements to consider 9 whether to use usual or actual hours worked ii whether to include or exclude paid and unpaid overtime iii whether to include hours worked in second jobs The table below shows which LFS variables are available to provide this information Second job information is only available for actual hours including overtime In general it is recommended that the derived variables are used because these include all respondents The derived variables TOTHRS and SUMHRS both measure total hours worked in main and second jobs but are derived in different ways and give slightly different results SUMHRS is available from Spring 1995 onwards and should be used in preference to TOTHRS People who People who Derived variables Never work overtime work overtime all people Usual hours main job Total usual hours excluding overtime TOTUS1 USUHR BUSHR Usual paid overtime POTHR Usual unpaid overtime UOTHR Total usual hours including overtime TOTUS2 TTUSHR Actual hours main job Total actual hours excluding overtime TOTAC1 ACTHR BACTHR Actual paid overtime ACTPOT 137 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Actual unpaid overtime ACTUOT Total
354. obaccos Exclude e cigarettes By ever smoked we mean even just once in their life CIGNOW Smoke at all nowadays 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Every Quarter from 9 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents aged and over and when response in SMOKEVER is Yes NOTES This variable appears on ONS RESEARCH datasets only and will be published as part of the IHS Includes only ordinary tobacco which is smoked Exclude any reference to snuff tobacco or tobacco products that are chewed or sucked or herbal tobaccos Exclude e cigarettes ACCIDENTS AT WORK AND WORK RELATED HEALTH PROBLEMS ACCDNT Accidents resulting in injury at work or in the course of work in the last 12 months 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY JM quarters from JM06 onwards Winter quarters from Winter 93 Winter 05 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment and all other men aged 16 64 and women aged 16 59 who have left a job in the past 12 months NOTES DNA 9 will include people who were not contacted in the quarter this question was asked See LFS User Guide Volume 1 Background and Methodology Imputation in the LFS for full details Please note that the routing for this question changed in JM13 Please see User Guide 2 for more detail Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions ROAD How injury was caused 1 A road accident 2 Some other way FREQUENCY JM qu
355. ocal Authority 09 Bedfordshire 11 Buckinghamshire 12 Cambridgeshire 13 Cheshire 15 Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly 16 Cumbria 17 Derbyshire 18 Devon 19 Dorset 20 Durham 21 East Sussex 22 Essex 23 Gloucestershire 24 Hampshire 26 Hertfordshire 29 Kent 30 Lancashire 31 Leicestershire 32 Lincolnshire 33 Norfolk 34 Northamptonshire 35 Northumberland 36 North Yorkshire 37 Nottinghamshire 38 Oxfordshire 39 Shropshire 40 Somerset 41 Staffordshire 42 Suffolk 43 Surrey 44 Warwickshire 45 West Sussex 46 Wiltshire 47 Worcestershire 48 Eilean Siar Orkney amp Sheltand AB Barking and Dagenham AC Barnet AD Bexley AE Brent AF Bromley AG Camden AH Croydon AJ Ealing AK Enfield AL Greenwich AM Hackney AN Hammersmith and Fulham AP Haringey AQ Harrow AR Havering AS Hillingdon AT Hounslow AU Islington AW Kensington and Chelsea AX Kingston upon Thames AY Lambeth AZ Lewisham BA Merton BB Newham BC Redbridge BD Richmond upon Thames BE Southwark BF Sutton BG Tower Hamlets BH Waltham Forest BJ Wandsworth BK Westminster BL Bolton BM Bury BN Manchester BP Oldham BQ Rochdale BR Salford BS Stockport BT Tameside BU Trafford BW Wigan BX Knowsley BY Liverpool BZ St Helens CA Sefton CB Wirral CC
356. oduced in 2011 were asked afresh rather than having data rotated into them as is common practice with all new questions However where there is a non contact in JM11 after a successful interview in the previous quarter OD10 data is usually rotated forward for one wave these are the data brought forward DBF cases where IOUTCOME 6 These DBF cases in JM11 have no ethnicity national identity or religion data to bring forward as we did not ask in the question in OD10 We therefore had to impute values for the DBF cases in JM11 We used their OD10 responses and mapped them across the new JM11 questions as best as possible Some of the new JM11 questions have no equivalent in OD11 so no data could be imputed Cases that were IOUTCOME 6 in JM11 had the following variables corrected Ethnicity DV s Identity Religion DV ETH11 ETHGB16 NATIDB11 RELIG11 ETHAS11 ETHGB18 NATIDE11 ETHBL11 ETHUK8 NATIDO11 ETHMX11 ETHUK9 NATIDS11 ETHNI11 ETHUK14 NATIDW11 ETHWHE ETHUK16 ETHWHW ETHWHS Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 No imputation was done for the ethnicity national identity or religion variables DV s not listed above Please follow the below link for report that looks at the changes made to ethnicity on the LFS 2011 http Awww ons gov uk ons guide method method quality specific labour market articles and reports 201 1 changes to how ethnicity is asked
357. of responses for several quarters and should therefore be treated with caution SMSOC104 Coding frame four digit only Occupation of main wage earner when respondent was 14 years old FREQUENCY JS quarters only from JS14 COVERAGE Applies to those who answer 1 4 to SMEARNER NOTES As with all new questions the social mobility questions are subject to ONS monitoring of responses for several quarters and should therefore be treated with caution This is available for ONS and Government analysis only EDUCATION AND TRAINING As part of the wider Education and Training Review the LFS education section has been subject to various workshops user consultation and testing over the past 18 months with the aim of redeveloping the education section and improving data collection BIS commissioned the National Centre for Social Research NatCen to conduct some testing and the results from this work fed into the annual testing conducted by ONS in a cognitive interviewing exercise and a full dress rehearsal The 2011 Dress Rehearsal sees the inclusion of a revised education and qualifications section The new section has been ordered chronologically and will broadly cover Qualification gained from outside the UK Qualifications gained from school or home schooling Qualifications gained from college or university Qualifications gained from work Qualifications gained from a government scheme Qualifications gained in some othe
358. om Spring 2000 to AJ13 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who work mainly from home in their regular additional job or did so during the reference week HOME2 1 or 3 OR HOMED2 1 or 3 NOTES Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions This variable was removed from the questionnaire as of 2014 SMEST2 Type of work done from same grounds etc in additional job 1 Own or rent a business 2 Have living in job 3 Accommodation provided by employer FREQUENCY Spring only in 92 Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 93 to Autumn 99 Spring quarters only from Spring 2000 to AJ13 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who work mainly in the same grounds or buildings as their home in their regular additional job or did so during the reference week HOME2 2 or HOMED2 2 NOTES Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions This variable was removed from the questionnaire as of 2014 168 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 LOCATION OF SECOND JOB REGWK2R Region of workplace for second job reported 1992 only 1993 onwards 1 Tyne amp Wear 1 Tyne amp Wear 2 Rest of Northern region 2 Rest of Northern region 3 South Yorkshire 3 South Yorkshire 4 West Yorkshire 4 West Yorkshire 5 Rest of Yorkshire amp Humberside 5 Rest of Yorkshire amp Hu
359. on t know FREQUENCY Every quarter from JM 2011 COVERAGE Applies if respondent is currently studying for a SCOTVEC SCOTEC SCOTBEC NOTES This variable replaced SCNOW SCNWACD type of SCOTVEC SCOTEC SCOTBEC 1 Award 2 Certificate 3 Diploma 4 Don t know FREQUENCY Every quarter from JM 2011 COVERAGE Applies if respondent is currently studying for an OTHER SCOTVEC SCOTEC SCOTBEG SCNWLEV level of Award Certificate Diploma 1 Level 1 2 Level 2 3 Level 3 4 Level 4 5 Level 5 6 Level 6 7 Level 7 8 Level 8 9 Entry level 10 Don t know FREQUENCY Every quarter from JM 2011 COVERAGE Applies if respondent is currently studying for an OTHER SCOTVEG SCOTEG SCOTBEGC DIPTYP Level diploma current study towards 1 Advance Diploma Level 3 2 Progression Diploma Level 3 3 Higher Diploma Level 2 4 Foundation Diploma Level 1 FREQUENCY Each quarter from 9 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are studying for the new diploma QULHI9 11 NOTES This variable replaces GNVNOW GNVQ Advanced level has been replaced by Vocational A level 257 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 OCRN11 level OCR is being studied for 1 Level 4 or above 2 Level 3 Advanced 3 Level 2 Intermediate 4 Level 1 Basic 5 Other 6 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM 2011 COVERAGE Applies if respondent is curr
360. ondents aged 16 and over ETHGBEUL Ethnicity 11 categories GB level 1 White British 2 White Irish 3 Other White 4 Mixed Multiple ethnic groups 5 Indian 6 Pakistani 7 Bangladeshi 8 Chinese 9 Any other Asian background 10 Black African Caribbean Black British 11Other ethnic group includes respondents in all GB countries identifying themselves as White Gypsy or Irish Traveller and respondents in Scotland identifying themselves as White Polish includes respondents in all GB countries identifying themselves as Arab FREQUENCY Every quarter from AJ11 onwards COVERAGE Applies to respondents aged 16 and over living with Great Britain 35 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 ETHGB13 Ethnicity 13 categories GB level NI excluded 1 White British 2 White Irish 3 Other White 4 Gypsy or Irish Traveller 5 Mixed Multiple ethnic groups 6 Indian 7 Pakistani 8 Bangladeshi 9 Chinese 10 Any other Asian background 11 Black African Caribbean Black British 12 Arab 13 Other ethnic group FREQUENCY Every quarter from AJ11 onwards COVERAGE Applies to respondents aged 16 and over ETHEWEUL Ethnicity 16 categories England and Wales level 1 White British 2 White Irish 3 Other White 4 White and Black Caribbean 5 White and Black African 6 White and Asian 7 Other Mixed multiple ethnic background 8 Indian 9 Pakistani 10 Bangladeshi 11 Chinese 12
361. ons gives full industry breakdowns for both SIC92 amp SIC2007 INDUSTRY IN LAST JOB SIC2007 INDSCO7L Industry sub class in last job 180 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 01 62 1 93 19 9 Range of industry codes 8 Not Applicable NA 9 Did Not Answer DNA FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who did no work in the reference week and were not away from any job or business but have worked in the past 8 years NOTES This variable is derived from EVERWK ICDM and STAT LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives full industry breakdowns for both SIC92 amp SIC2007 INDCO7L Industry class in last job 01 11 99 00 Range of industry codes 8 Not Applicable NA 9 Did Not Answer DNA FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who did no work in the reference week and were not away from any job or business but have worked in the past 8 years NOTES This variable is derived from INDSCO7L LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives a full industry breakdown of both SIC92 amp SIC2007 codes INDGO7L Industry group in last job 01 1 99 0 Range of industry codes 8 Not Applicable NA 9 Did Not Answer DNA FREQUENCY Each quarter from 9 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who did no work in the reference week and were not away from any job or business but
362. or has been rectified for JS13 onwards NUMOL50 Number of O level GCSE etc passes held if less than 5 1 One or two 2 Three or four 3 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 05 COVERAGE Applies to respondents who have fewer than 5 O level GCSE etc passes NOTES Please see the notes section of NUMOL5 for a note on a minor routing error that will have affected this variable NUMOL5F Number of O level GCSE etc passes held if 5 or more 1 Five to seven 2 Eight or more 3 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 05 COVERAGE Applies to respondents who have more than 5 O level GCSE etc passes Please see the notes section of NUMOL5 for a note on a minor routing error that will have affected this variable MEGCSE GCSE including Maths and English 234 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 1 Maths 2 English 3 Both 4 Neither FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to respondents who 5 or more O level GCSE etc passes Please see the notes section of NUMOL5 for a note on a minor routing error that will have affected this variable 11 Is your highest BTEC BEC TEC EDEXCEL LQL qualification 1 at higher level level 4 or higher 2 at National Certificate or National Diploma level level 3 3 afirst diploma or general diploma level 2 4 afirst certificate or general certificate below level 2 5 Other BTE
363. orking age or those aged 75 and under and first contact or those aged 75 and over and are not too ill distressed to continue NOTES DNA 9 will include people who were not contacted in the quarter this question was asked See LFS User Guide Volume 1 Background and Methodology Imputation in the LFS for full details From 1997 all health sections start with LNGLIM To get a comparison with earlier quarters prior to Spring 1997 use LIMITK yes and LNGLIM yes Users are advised to always filter on working age when using this variable to ensure comparability over time series This question was replaced with the harmonised variable LNGLST in AJ13 LNGLST health conditions illnesses lasting 12 months or more 1 Yes 2 No 3 Don t know spontaneous only 4 Refusal spontaneous only FREQUENCY Every quarter from AJ13 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents of working age or those aged 75 and under and first contact or those aged 75 and over and are not too ill distressed to continue NOTES This is harmonised question that replaces LNGLIM from AJ13 onwards LIMITK Whether health problem affects the kind of paid work respondent might have done 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 97 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents with health problems and those of working age or pensioners looking for work or wanting work NOTES The respondents decide whether health problem disability limits the paid
364. ot UK Irish Republic India Pakistan or Poland CRY12 997 Previous to JM12 this applied to all respondents whose country of birth was not UK Irish Republic Hong Kong or China CRY01 997 NOTES This variable replaces NATO Country codes have changed and the list expanded The variable lists all countries and also combines them under main headings Where a respondent has a dual nationality the first one is recorded EUROPE 926 UNITED KINGDOM NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 931 CHANNEL ISLANDS Not otherwise specified 921 ENGLAND 831 GUERNSEY 833 ISLE OF MAN 832 JERSEY 922 NORTHERN IRELAND 923 SCOTLAND 924 WALES 925 GREAT BRITAIN NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 040 AUSTRIA 056 BELGIUM 100 BULGARIA 901 CYPRUS EUROPEAN UNION 203 CZECH REPUBLIC 971 CZECHOSLOVAKIA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 208 DENMARK 233 ESTONIA 246 FINLAND 250 FRANCE 276 GERMANY 300 GREECE 348 HUNGARY 372 IRELAND 380 ITALY 428 LATVIA 440 LITHUANIA 442 LUXEMBOURG 470 MALTA 528 NETHERLANDS 616 POLAND 620 PORTUGAL 642 ROMANIA 703 SLOVAKIA 705 SLOVENIA 911 SPAIN EXCEPT CANARY ISLANDS 913 SPAIN NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 752 SWEDEN 248 ALAND ISLANDS 008 ALBANIA 020 ANDORRA 051 ARMENIA 031 AZERBAIJAN 112 BELARUS 070 BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 191 CROATIA 902 CYPRUS NON EUROPEAN UNION 903 CYPRUS NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 981 EUROPE NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 234 FAROE ISLANDS 268 GEORGIA 292 GIBRALTAR 352 ICELAND
365. out the waves JM14 onwards RELIG11 Religion GB level NI excluded 1 No Religion 2 Christian all denominations 3 Buddhist 4 Hindu 5 Jewish 6 Muslim 7 Sikh 8 Any other Religion 8 No Answer FREQUENGY Each quarter JM11 38 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in Great Britain new derived variable which amalgamates the responses at RELIGE W S to give GB indicator LANG First language at home 1 English 2 Welsh 3 Gaelic 4 Ulster Scots Ullans 5 Other FREQUENCY Summer quarters only every 3 year from Summer 03 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents aged 16 NOTES The variables LANGESW LANGNI amp LANGSNC have been replaced by this single variable This question is only asked in the Summer quarter every 3 years e g 2003 2006 2009 etc Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions LANGD1 Language difficulties keeping finding job 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Summer 02 only Summer quarters only every 3 year from Summer 03 COVERAGE From Summer 02 Summer 03 Applies to all respondents who said their first language at home was Other LANGESW 3 or LANGNI 4 or LANGSNC 4 From Summer 06 Applies to all respondents who said their first language at home was Other LANG 5 NOTES This question is only asked in the
366. overnment Office Regions It is derived from RESTME RESMTH RESBBY M3CRY amp UALD3 OYEQMS Whether living at same address 12 months ago 1 Yes same place 2 No somewhere else 3 Baby under 1 year FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 COVERAGE From Spring 92 to Spring 95 Applies to all respondents who have lived at their address less than 3 months RESLNO 6 Each quarter from Spring 96 onwards Applies to all respondents who have lived at their address less than 3 months AND they are not a baby born within the last 3 months RESMTH lt 3 AND RESBBY 1 NOTES Although the coverage of this variable seems contradictory at first glance it is in fact referring to the address the respondent was living at prior to their current address For example if the respondent is currently living in Bristol but three months ago was living in Bognor this variable checks whether the respondent was living in Bognor 12 months ago It should also be noted that the same circumstances apply if the respondent is living at a different address from 12 months ago but is still living in the same town or county REGONE Region of residence 12 months ago 1 Tyne amp Wear 12 West Midlands Met County 2 Rest of Northern Region 13 Rest of West Midlands 3 South Yorkshire 14 Greater Manchester 4 West Yorkshire 15 Merseyside 5 Rest of Yorkshire amp Humberside 16 Rest of North West 6 East Midlands 17 Wales 7 Ea
367. ped tripped or fell on the same level 6 Fell from a height 7 Trapped by something collapsing or overturning 8 Drowned or asphyxiated 9 Exposed to or in contact with a harmful substance 10 Exposed to fire 11 Exposed to an explosion 12 Coniact with electricity or an electrical discharge 13 Injured by an animal 14 Physically assaulted by a person 15 Another kind of accident FREQUENCY JM quarters from JMO07 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have had a work related accident in the past 12 months ACCDNT 1 NOTES Respondents are asked not to select the first option that applies but to choose the one that best describes how the incident occurred ILLWRK Whether in past 12 months has suffered any other illness disability or physical or mental problem caused or made worse by job or work done in the past 1 Yes 2 No 3 Don t know proxy respondents only FREQUENCY JM quarters from JMO06 onwards Winter quarters from Winter 04 Winter 05 A routing error for JM08 and JMO9 rendered the ILLWRK variable for these quarters inaccurate The variable was rerun in AJ10 to account for this and users are advised to use data from the quarter only The variable frequency will return to JM quarters only from JM11 From JM13 onwards this will be asked in even years only It is therefore not included in the JM13 data set COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are working have ever been emplo
368. pendence Payment were introduced in AJ13 Council Tax reduction is referenced in the questionnaire from JS13 onwards This replaces council tax benefit Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable As of AJ14 this variable has been replaced with TPBN13 TPBN13 1 10 Type of benefit claimed 1 Universal Credit 2 Housing Benefit or Council Tax Reduction 3 Tax Credits 4 Income support 5 Job Seeker s Allowance 6 Sickness or Disability benefits 7 Child benefits 8 Pension benefits 9 Carer s allowance 10 SPONTANEOUS Other 196 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENGY Each quarter from AJ14 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are claiming benefits BENFTS 1 NOTES This variable replaces 09 Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable BENOTH Other type of benefit claimed FREQUENCY Each quarter from AJ14 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are say other to TPBN13 NOTES This variable is only available to Government Users TPBEN9 1 8 Type of benefit claimed NOTES This variable is derived from XTPBNO9 1 9 This excludes tax credits XTBNO9 1 9 Type of benefit claimed NOTES this is a derived variable Please see Vo
369. people who were not contacted in the quarter this question was asked See LFS User Guide Volume 1 Background and Methodology Imputation in the LFS for full details Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions GOBCK9 How soon able to start work after the accident 1 Still off paid work 2 Same day 3 The day after the accident 4 On the second day after the accident 5 On third day after the accident 6 On fourth day after the accident 7 On fifth day or longer after the accident 8 Don t know FREQUENCY quarters every 2 odd years from JMO9 onwards COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who had work related accident in the past 12 months ACCDNT 1 TIMEDAYS TIMECODE How many days after the accident did you return to work FREQUENCY JM quarters from JMO6 onwards Winter quarters from Winter 04 Winter 05 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have had a work related accident in the past 12 months ACCDNT 1 and who have returned to work on or after the fifth day after the accident GOBACK 8 Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions ACCDAY4 How soon after accident did you go back to work 0 365 Days FREQUENCY quarters only from JMO6 onwards Winter quarters only from Winter 04 to Winter 05 COVERAGE This variable is only available on ONS datasets Ap
370. permit Try to get a loan or other financial backing for job or business Do anything else to find work Not looked in last 4 weeks Summer 94 onwards 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES Visit a Jobcentre Jobmarket or Training and Employment Agency office Visit a Careers office Visit a Job club Have your name on the books of a private employment agency Advertise for jobs in newspapers and journals Answer advertisements in newspapers and journals Studying situations vacant in newspapers or journals Apply directly to employers Ask friends relatives colleagues or trade unions about jobs Wait for the results of an application for a job Look for premises or equipment Seek any kind of permit Try to get a loan or other financial backing for job or business Do anything else to find work Not looked in last 4 weeks Each quarter from Spring 92 Applies to all respondents who are looking for work or place on government scheme The category 2 Visit Careers office was introduced in the Summer 94 quarter 184 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 METHMP 01 11 Method of looking for work employees or Government scheme Spring 92 to Spring 94 1 Visit a Jobcentre Jobmarket or Jobs amp Benefit Centres 2 Visit a Jobclub 3 Have your name on the books of a private employment agency 4 Adver
371. plies to all respondents aged 16 or over NOTES This is an interviewer check question not asked of the respondent to confirm whether there are any household members currently living in hall of residence and therefore eligible to be interviewed as part of this household CASENO person unique identifier NOTES this is not available on EUL data sets from 2011 onwards CASENOP pseudonymous person unique identifier FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 NOTES this is available on EUL data sets only QUOTA Stint number where interview took place 308 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 1 960 Stint number FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 NOTES The LFS sample is divided into 960 stints each week to be allocated to face to face interviews See LFS User Guide volume 1 Background and Methodology for further information Please note that this variable was removed from EUL datasets from JM11 onwards QUOTAP Pseudonymous stint number where interview took place 1 960 Stint number FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 NOTES This is available on EUL data sets only WEEK Week number when interview took place 1 13 Week number FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 NOTES There are 13 weeks in each LFS quarter and this variables identifies which week in the quarter the interview took place W1YR Year that address first entered survey Single digit number corresponds to last
372. plies to all respondents who said they returned to work on or after the fifth day after the accident GOBACK 8 NOTES This variable is calculated using TIMECODE TYPINJ Type of injury incurred through accident 1 Amputation NOT loss of fleshy finger tips teeth or nails count as superficial 2 Fracture broken bones NOT cartilage in nose count as superficial 3 Dislocation of joints without fracture 4 Strain sprain 5 Superficial inc bruising abrasions scratches foreign body in eye 6 Lacerations open wounds 7 Loss of sight temporary or permanent 290 8 9 10 11 12 FREQUENCY COVERAGE ACCDNT 1 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Chemical or hot metal burn to the eyeball or any penetrating injury to the eyeball NOT the eye area of the face generally Burns scalds NOT to the eye Lack of oxygen asphyxia or poisoning Other type of injury Multiple injuries no one injury type obviously more severe JM quarters from JMO07 Applies to all respondents who have had a work related accident in the past 12 months SITEFR Fractured broken bones 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 FREQUENCY COVERAGE Fingers or thumbs Toes Wrist or ankle Other bones in hand or foot Other bones in arm or leg Head neck spine or pelvis Or other bones JM quarters from JMO07 Applies to all respondents who have had a work relate
373. pondents were routed to these questions if aged 16 64 or in work 244 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 From OD13 respondents are routed to these questions if aged 16 69 or in work Please see user guide 2 for the definitive routing GNACD level of highest GNVQ GSVQ 1 Award 2 Certificate 3 Diploma 4 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM1 1 COVERAGE Applies if respondent s GNVQ GSVQ is categorised as OTHER at GNVQ1 1 NOTES Between JM11 and JS13 respondents were routed to these questions if aged 16 64 or in work From OD 13 respondents are routed to these questions if aged 16 69 or in work Please see user guide 2 for the definitive routing level of Award Certificate Diploma GNVQ GSVQ qualification 1 Level 1 2 Level2 3 Level3 4 Level4 5 Level 5 6 Level6 7 Level7 8 Level8 9 Entry level 10 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent s GNVQ or GSVQ is categorised as OTHER at GNVQ11 NOTES Between JM11 and JS13 respondents were routed to these questions if aged 16 64 or in work From OD13 respondents are routed to these questions if aged 16 69 or in work Please see user guide 2 for the definitive routing GNVQSUBU subject title awarding body of this GNVQ GSVQ qualification Free text input max 250 characters FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent
374. r 96 Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable METHSE 1 6 Method of looking for work self employment Spring 92 to Spring 94 4 Advertise for jobs in newspapers or journals 5 Answer advertisements in newspapers and journals 10 Look for premises or equipment 11 Seek any kind of permit 12 Try to get a loan or other financial backing for a job or business 13 Do anything else to find work Spring 97 onwards 5 Advertise for jobs in newspapers or journals 6 Answer advertisements in newspapers and journals 11 Look for premises or equipment 12 Seek any kind of permit 13 Try to get a loan or other financial backing for a job or business 185 14 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Do anything else to find work Each quarter from Spring 92 Applies to all respondents looking for self employed work in the last four weeks Respondents can give as many responses as there are categories but these are not recorded in any order of priority this is done in the variable MAINMS From Spring 92 to Winter 96 this variable was called METHSE 0 5 Please note that this is multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable METHAL 01 14 Method of looking for work no prefer
375. r Higher Intermediate Access qualif s Scotland 24 RSA OCR 25 City and Guilds 26 YT Certificate 27 Key skills Core skills Scotland 28 Basic skills Skills for life literacy numeracy lang 29 Entry Level Qualifications 30 Award Certificate or Diploma at Entry level and Levels 1 to 8 31 Any other professional work related qualification FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM 2011 COVERAGE If respondent has UK gained other qualifications NOTES This variable replaces QULS10 01 20 QUAL_1 Whether Degree level qualification including foundation degrees graduate membership of a professional institute PGCE or higher obtained 1 Yes 217 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 0 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM1 1 COVERAGE This variable amalgamates the responses given at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL and OTQUAL order to identify whether respondent has received this particular qualification Please note that this is multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable QUAL 2 Whether Diploma in higher education obtained 1 Yes 0 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE This variable amalgamates the responses given at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL and OTQUAL in order to identify whether a respondent has received this particular qualification
376. r London 18 Strathclyde Outer London 19 Rest of Scotland Rest of South East 20 Northern Ireland Each quarter from Spring 92 Applies to all respondents This variable is derived from UALAD99 which is not directly available from the database for confidentiality reasons although UA County Level indicator i e UACNTY is available from Spring 2000 on ONS datasets only In 1996 URESMC showed DNA cases when tables were run at household level These were for non responding individuals in responding household From 1997 these non responders were given the URESMC value of the household so that no DNA s showed up GOVTOR Government Office regions 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES Tyne amp Wear Rest of North East Greater Manchester Merseyside Rest of North West South Yorkshire West Yorkshire Rest of Yorkshire amp Humberside East Midlands West Midlands Metropolitan County Rest of West Midlands East of England Inner London Outer London South East South West Wales Strathclyde Rest of Scotland Northern Ireland Each quarter from Spring 92 Applies to all respondents This variable replaces GOR It was renamed due to the re ordering of categories From Spring 2000 it is derived from UALAD99 prior to this it was derived from COUNTY which has been removed from all datasets Merseyside is ge
377. r more Scotland very remote small town Scotland accessible rural settlements of less than 3 000 people and within 30 minutes drive of a settlement of 10 000 or more Scotland remote rural settlements of less than 3 000 people and with a drive time of over 30 minutes to a settlement of 10 000 or more Scotland very remote rural To condense the variable into direct split of rural and urban the variable should be recoded as follows 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES England amp Wales Urban gt 10k sparse URBAN England amp Wales Town amp Fringe sparse RURAL England amp Wales Village sparse RURAL England amp Wales Hamlet amp Isolated Dwelling sparse RURAL England amp Wales Urban gt 10k less sparse URBAN England amp Wales Town amp Fringe less sparse RURAL England amp Wales Village less sparse RURAL England amp Wales Hamlet amp Isolated Dwelling less sparse RURAL Scotland large urban area settlements of over 125 000 people URBAN Scotland other urban area settlements of 10 000 to 125 000 people URBAN Scotland accessible small town settlements of between 3 000 and 10 000 people and within 30 minutes drive of a settlement of 10 000 or more RURAL Scotland remote small town settlements of between 3 000 and 10 000 people and with a dri
378. r of eligible people in household FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 96 on household datasets only Each quarter from Spring 2000 on household and ONS datasets COVERAGE Applies to all households NOTES TOTNUM is only included on the household datasets prior to Spring 2000 It is also included on both household and ONS datasets from Spring 2000 TOTNUM was introduced in Spring 96 to provide additional information about the total number of people within the household This variable is derived from IOUTCOME TOTFU Total number of family units in household 1 16 Total number of family units in household FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 96 on household datasets only Each quarter from Spring 2000 on household and ONS datasets COVERAGE Applies to all households 75 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NOTES TOTFU is only included on the household datasets prior to Spring 2000 It is also included on both household and ONS datasets from Spring 2000 TOTFU was introduced in Spring 96 to provide additional information about the total number of family units within the household This variable is derived from IOUTCOME FMDP Number of family units in household with dependent children only 1 16 Number of family units in household with dependent children FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 96 on household datasets only Each quarter from
379. r of people in household aged 16 64 0 19 Number of people FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters from AJ10 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents HNPENY Number of people in household aged 65 0 19 Number of people FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters from AJ10 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents HNPENX Number of people in household either male 65 or female 60 0 19 Number of people FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters from AJ10 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES Replaced HNPEN in AJ 2010 Household economic activity 1 All persons in the household are employed 2 All persons in the household are either employed or unemployed 3 All persons in the household are either employed or inactive 4 All persons in the household are either employed unemployed or inactive 5 All persons in the household are unemployed 6 All persons in the household are either unemployed or inactive 7 All persons in the household are inactive FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 to Spring 94 Spring and Autumn quarters from Spring 95 COVERAGE Applies to all households NOTES This is a derived variable please see Volume 4 User Guide for further detail This variable is included on household datasets only and is available from Spring 05 onwards HEAHEAD Economic activity of head of family unit 79 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 1 Emp
380. r to identify whether respondent has received this particular qualification QUAL 8 Whether Nursing or other medical qualification not yet mentioned obtained 1 Yes 0 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE This variable amalgamates the responses given at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL and OTQUAL in order to identify whether respondent has received this particular qualification QUAL 9 Whether Other Higher Education qualification below degree level obtained 1 Yes 0 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE This variable amalgamates the responses given at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL and OTQUAL in order to identify whether a respondent has received this particular qualification QUAL_10 Whether A level Vocational A level GCE in applied subjects or equivalents obtained 1 Yes 0 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE This variable amalgamates the responses given at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL and OTQUAL in order to identify whether a respondent has received this particular qualification QUAL 11 Whether New Diploma obtained 1 Yes 0 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE This variable amalgamates the responses given at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL and OTQUAL in order to identify whether a respondent has received this particular qualification QUAL_12 Whether Welsh Baccalaureate obtained 1 Yes 0 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 219 Labo
381. r way Qualifications that the respondent is currently working towards A new Qualifications and Credits Framework QCF was introduced in late 2008 The QCF is replacing all existing vocational qualifications with re named qualifications QCF qualification titles are branded only in terms of Level level 1 8 and Size award certificate diploma of achievement as well as the subject There is no mention of the QCF However some qualification titles may make reference to the previous 210 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 branding e g BTEG NVQ City and Guilds etc Education questions have been changed to allow these new qualifications to be recorded Degree qualifications First degrees including Bachelor of Arts BA and Bachelor of Science BSc Some first degrees are awarded with honours and classified as first class second class etc These remain as first degrees and should not be confused with higher degrees Mas PhDs etc However Mas from Scottish Universities other than Strathclyde Oxford and Cambridge are classified as first degrees and Certificates and Diplomas Business Education Council and Technical Education Council qualifications have replaced ONC OND and HNC HND qualifications CSE GCSE Note that a CSE grade 1 is the equivalent of an O level and is coded as such All GCSE s irrespective of grade are coded as such Scotti
382. re standard on an Autumn quarter only basis from Autumn 95 In Autumn 97 incorrect routing of Northern Ireland respondents meant that only those who answered yes to TUPRES were asked UNION Therefore there was under response of unknown size to UNION Those who should have been asked UNION but were not have been coded 9 Not answered 1 350 cases Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions 157 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 TUPRES Whether other people at workplace are members of trade union or staff association 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Autumn quarters only from Autumn 93 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment who are not a member of a staff association of trade union NOTES From Autumn 99 onwards this question was altered from whether there were unions etc present at the workplace to whether others employed at the workplace were members of such organisations and also asked only to those who are not members of such organisations themselves rather to all in paid employment excluding government schemes Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions TUCOV Whether agreements between trade union and employer affect pay and conditions 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Autumn quarters only from Autumn 96 COVERAGE Applies to all responden
383. red best estimates for those periods and should give a robust picture of changes over time however direct comparisons between pre and post Q1 10 estimates should not be made Please note that from JM12 the method calculating the group 4 not disabled changed this will therefore create a discontinuity in the data Please see Volume 4 for more information Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Layout of Variable Information All variables in this guide are laid out using the same format as follows Category code Variable name and description Variable categories or coding options AIS Period at which variable is available from for analyses 1 2 Women married cohabiting civil partner 3 Women non married Summary of what or who the variable covers i e the routing In cases where the routing is complex FREQUENCY Each quarter from 06 the full routing of the variable is COVERAGE Applies to all oe NOTES This is a derived variable please see Volume 4 User Guide for further guidance This variable was called MARSEX between Spring 2000 and Winter 2005 This section gives some additional information about the variable and instructs you where to find further guidance All users should read this information first before continuing with their analysis Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 INDIVIDUAL DE
384. respondents of working age with vocational qualifications This variable replaces VOCQPL This is only available for AJ quarters SUBCOD 1 8 Area of study 1 00 9 99 Codes for Area of Study FREQUENCY Each quarter from Summer 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have a vocational qualification NOTES This is the subject of study of the highest level 2 qualifications and above already held excludes degrees and GCSE O level A level and equivalents A new coding frame was introduced in Spring 04 LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives a complete breakdown of codes This variable replaces SUBCODE from Summer 01 SUBNO 1 8 Qualification at subcod1 8 1 Higher degree 2 NVQ SVQ level 5 3 First degree 4 Other degree level qualification 5 5 level 4 6 Diploma in higher education 7 HNC HND 276 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 8 Higher level of BTEC BEC or TEC 9 Higher level of SCOTBEC etc 10 Teaching qualification 11 Nursing or medical qualification 12 RSA higher diploma 13 Higher education below degree qualification 14 NVQ SVQ level 3 15 Advanced GNVQ GSVQ 16 A level Scot advanced higher 17 RSA advanced diploma certificate 18 National certificate diploma 19 5 SCOTEC SCOTVEC National 20 ONC OND 21 City amp Guilds craft part 3 22 Certificate of
385. resulting from the substance being prescribed for the respondent should not be included Please note that this is multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable LERND Learning difficulty or learning disability 1 Learning difficulty 2 Learning disability 3 Both FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 2006 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have said that they have severe or specific learning difficulty at HEAL i e HEAL 14 HEALTH Main health problem 01 Problems or disabilities including arthritis or rheumatism connected with arms or hands 02 legs or feet 03 or neck 04 Difficulty in seeing while wearing spectacles or contact lenses 05 Difficulty in hearing 06 speech impediment 07 Severe disfigurement skin conditions allergies 08 Chest or breathing problems asthma bronchitis 09 Heart blood pressure or blood circulation problems 10 Stomach liver kidney or digestive problems 11 Diabetes 12 Depression bad nerves or anxiety 13 Epilepsy 14 Severe or specific learning difficulties mental handicap 15 Mental illness or suffer from phobia panics or other nervous disorders 16 Progressive illness not included elsewhere e g cancer multiple sclerosis symptomatic HIV Parkinson s disease muscular dystrophy 17 Other health problems or disabilities FREQUENCY Each quarter
386. rsing subject areas 226 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 1 Medicine 2 Medical related Subjects 3 Biological Sciences 4 Agricultural Sciences 5 Physical Environmental Sciences 6 Mathematical I Sciences and Computing 7 Engineering 8 Technology 9 Architecture and related studies 10 Social Sciences including Law 11 Business and Financial Studies 12 Librarianship and Information Studies 13 Linguistics English Celtic and Ancient Languages 14 European Languages 15 Other Languages 16 Humanities 17 Arts 18 Education FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM12 COVERAGE Applies to respondents whose undergraduate degree is a combined subject in one or more subject areas NOTES In JM12 CMBDEGN FDCMBD and CMBHD replaced CMBDEG From JM12 those who have a nursing qualification will be routed to this question Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable FDCMBD Undergraduate subject areas 1 Medicine 2 Medical related Subjects 3 Biological Sciences 4 Agricultural Sciences 5 Physical Environmental Sciences 6 Mathematical Sciences and Computing 7 Engineering 8 Technology 9 Architecture and related studies 10 Social Sciences including Law 11 Business and Financial Studies 12 Librarianship and Information Studies
387. rter from AJ11 Applies to respondents who are of white ethnicity and living in Scotland This variable replaces ETHWHS 32 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 11 Mixed ethnic group 1 White and Black Caribbean 2 White and Black African 3 White and Asian 4 Any other mixed multiple ethnic background FREQUENCY All quarters from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to respondents who are of Mixed ethnicity Mixed Multiple ethnic groups JM11 Applies to respondents who are of Mixed ethnicity and living in England Wales or Northern Ireland AJ11 onwards This variable saw a minor routing amendment for AJ11 From AJ11 onwards the variable was agreed for insertion on government alongside ONS only datasets ETHAS11 Asian Ethnic Group 1 Indian 2 Pakistani 3 Bangladeshi 4 Any other Asian background FREQUENCY All quarters from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to respondents who are of an Asian ethnicity Asian Asian British JM11 Applies to respondents who are of an Asian ethnicity and living in England Wales or Northern Ireland 11 This variable saw minor routing amendment for AJ11 From AJ11 onwards the variable was agreed for insertion on government alongside ONS only datasets ETHAS11S Asian Ethnic Group Scotland 1 Pakistani Pakistani Scottish Pakistani British 2 Indian Indian Scottish Indian British 3 Bangladeshi Banglades
388. rters from JM06 onwards Winter quarters from Winter 04 to Winter 05 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have suffered from an illness in last 12 months that was caused made worse by work ILLWRK 1 NOTES If more than one code applies the one which the respondent says is the most serious or affects them the most is recorded Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions AWARE When first aware of this illness 1 Within the last 12 months i e since date one year ago 2 More than one year ago i e before date one year ago FREQUENCY JM quarters from JMO07 From JM13 onwards this will be asked in even years only It is therefore not available on JM13 datasets COVERAGE This variable is only available on ONS datasets Applies to all respondents who have suffered from an illness in last 12 months caused made worse by work ILLWRK 1 TMEOFF Total time off work in last 12 months as a result of illness caused or aggravated by work 1 No time off work 2 less than 1 day 3 1 to 3 days WORK DAYS 4 4 to 6 days WORK DAYS 5 At least 1 week but less than 2 weeks 6 At least 2 weeks but less than 1 month 7 At least 1 month but less than 3 months 8 At least 3 months but less than 6 months 9 At least 6 months but less than 9 months 293 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 10
389. rth other EUROPE 926 UNITED KINGDOM 040 AUSTRIA 056 BELGIUM 100 BULGARIA 901 CYPRUS EUROPEAN UNION 203 CZECH REPUBLIC 971 CZECHOSLOVAKIA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 208 DENMARK 233 ESTONIA 246 FINLAND 250 FRANCE 276 GERMANY 300 GREECE 348 HUNGARY 372 IRELAND 380 ITALY 428 LATVIA 440 LITHUANIA 442 LUXEMBOURG 470 MALTA 528 NETHERLANDS 616 POLAND 620 PORTUGAL 642 ROMANIA 703 SLOVAKIA 705 SLOVENIA 911 SPAIN EXCEPT CANARY ISLANDS 913 SPAIN NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 752 SWEDEN 248 ALAND ISLANDS 008 ALBANIA 020 ANDORRA 051 ARMENIA 031 AZERBAIJAN 112 BELARUS 070 BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 191 CROATIA 902 CYPRUS NON EUROPEAN UNION 903 CYPRUS NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 981 EUROPE NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 234 FAROE ISLANDS 268 GEORGIA 292 GIBRALTAR 352 ICELAND 438 LIECHTENSTEIN 807 MACEDONIA 498 MOLDOVA 492 MONACO 499 MONTENEGRO 578 NORWAY 643 RUSSIA 674 SAN MARINO 688 SERBIA 974 SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 744 SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN 756 SWITZERLAND 24 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 792 TURKEY 804 UKRAINE 972 UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 336 VATICAN CITY 973 YUGOSLAVIA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED THE AMERICAS AND THE CARIBBEAN 660 ANGUILLA 028 ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 032 ARGENTINA 533 ARUBA 044 BAHAMAS THE 052 BARBADOS 084 BELIZE 060 BERMUDA 068
390. rviews it should not be used for analysis purposes Users advised to reference HHTYPE6 on household dataset if they are interested in the different types of household RTYPOTH Composition of Household Enter text at most 100 characters FREQUENCY Wave 1 and Face to Face Only Applies if the household does not neatly fall into any of the given categories at RTypHH NOTES This is an outcome coding variable DWELLTYP Type of accommodation 1 House or bungalow detached 2 House or bungalow semi detached 3 Terraced end of terrace 4 Flat or maisonette purpose built 5 Flat or maisonette Part house Converted house Other 6 Mobile home caravan or houseboat 7 Some other kind of accommodation FREQUENCY Wave 1 and Face to Face Only NOTES This is an outcome coding variable FLOORN On which floor level is the accommodation 1 Basement Semi Basement 2 Ground Floor Street level 3 1 Floor floor above street level 4 2 Floor 5 3 Floor 6 4 Floor 7 5 to 9 Floor 8 10 Floor or higher FREQUENCY Wave 1 and Face to Face Only Applies to divided accommodation such as flats and maisonettes NOTES This is an outcome coding variable ENTRYN Gaining Access to the property 1 No physical impediments or barriers 2 Locked common entrance 3 Locked gates 4 Security staff concierge or other gatekeeper 5 Entry phone access interco
391. s GNVQ GSVQ is categorised as OTHER or DON T KNOW at GNVQ11 NOTES Between JM11 and JS13 respondents were routed to these questions if aged 16 64 or in work From OD13 respondents are routed to these questions if aged 16 69 or in work Please see user guide 2 for the definitive routing GNVQO11 any GNVQs GSVQs qualifications below 1 Full Intermediate level 2 Part One Intermediate level 3 Full Foundation level 245 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 4 Part One Foundation level 5 other GNVQ GSVQ qualification 6 None 7 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has GNVQs GSVQs NOTES This variable replaces GNVQ40 Between JM11 and JS13 respondents were routed to these questions if aged 16 64 or in work From OD13 respondents are routed to these questions if aged 16 69 or in work Please see user guide 2 for the definitive routing Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable GNVQOLA type of GNVQ GSVQ qualifications 1 Award 2 Certificate 3 Diploma 4 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has an OTHER GNVQ GSVQ qualification Between JM11 and JS13 respondents were routed to these questions if aged 16 64 or in work From OD13 respondents are routed to these questions if aged 1
392. s but less than 3 years 7 3 years but less than 4 years 8 4 years but less than 5 years 9 5 years or more FREQUENCY Each quarter from Autumn 2000 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are unemployed NOTES This is a derived variable changes have been made to the way it has been calculated in 2012 in order to reflect the change in Government training scheme questions Please see Volume 4 user Guide for further detail It shows the minimum of the length of time looking for work and the length of time since the respondent s last job The difference between DURUN and DURUN2 is that DURUN2 is slightly more detailed than DURUN DURUN has the category more than 1 year but less than two years DURUN 4 whilst DURUN2 splits 176 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 this into two more than 1 year but less than 18 months DURUN2 4 and more than 18 months but less than 2 years DURUN2 5 WNLEFT11 When left last job 1 Less than 3 months 2 3 months but less than 6 months 3 6 months but less than 12 months 4 1 year but less than 2 years 5 2 years but less than 3 years 6 3 years but less than 4 years 7 4 years but less than 5 years 8 5 years or more 9 Never had paid job FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who did no work in the reference week and were not away from any job or business but have worked in the past
393. s individual employees having one day off every other week The actual day off may vary so long as the employee keeps to an alternating pattern of one 5 day week followed by one 4 day week Four half day week Typically involves the normal working week finishing early on Fridays The short day need not necessarily be Friday but this is the most obvious and common day Zero hours contract is where person is not contracted to work set number of hours and is only paid for the number of hours that they actually work In most cases a respondent who works any of these particular type of shift patterns will recognise the term and will require no further explanation Where respondent asks what is meant by the term it is unlikely they work such shift patterns and are generally coded as 8 or 9 FLEX10 1 3 Type of agreed work arrangement 1 Flexitime Flexible working hours 2 Annualised hours contract 3 Term time working 4 Job sharing 5 Nine day fortnight 6 Four and a half day week 7 Zero hours contract 8 On call working 9 None of these FREQUENCY AJ OD or wave 1 only from 2010 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment excluding those on certain government schemes NOTES This variable replaced FLEX9D 1 3 in 2010 which in turn replaced NINDAY which was discontinued from 1993 Respondents may give up to three responses Prior to Spring 97 this variable was coded FLEX9D 0 2
394. s mapping SIC 2007 to SIC 1992 have been included in the microdata These map SIC 2007 classes to SIC 1992 divisions Step changes at Q1 2009 are also evident when producing time series on SIC 1992 basis Evaluation of the step changes Analysis was carried out comparing the recorded and mapped SIC codes for people surveyed in both Q4 2008 Q1 2009 who reported that they had remained in the same job referred to as linked records For those respondents who had not changed their job between the two interviews estimates of employment for the mapped SIC 2007 codes for Q4 2008 were compared with the recorded SIC 2007 codes for Q1 2009 The table below compares the number of cases mapped to each SIC 2007 Section in Q4 2008 with the number coded to that Section in Q1 2009 The numbers are unweighted The percentage change in the fourth data column represents the overall effect primarily from the new coding tool on each industry Section at the time the SIC 2007 was implemented For example the net effect on Manufacturing was a contraction of 9 per cent TRANSITION TO SIC 2007 SIC2007 Section in Q1 2009 compared with mapped SIC 2007 Section in Q4 2008 UNWEIGHTED LINKED RECORDS Filter inecac05_OD08 gt 1 amp inecac05_OD08 lt 3 amp iout_OD08 1 or iout_OD08 Total Q4 08 Total Q1 09 Change Q4 Change as SIC 2007 Section mapped recorded 08 to Q1 09 A Agriculture forestry and fishing 402 392 10 2 B Mining amp quarr
395. s only from Spring 2000 Applies to all respondents in employment and on certain government schemes FLEXW6 Whether respondent works a four and a half day week 1 2 FREQUENCY COVERAGE Yes No Spring and Autumn quarters only from Spring 2000 Applies to all respondents in employment and on certain government schemes FLEXW 7 Whether respondent works zero hours contract 1 2 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES Yes No Spring and Autumn quarters only from Spring 2000 Applies to all respondents in employment and on certain government schemes Please see the following article that explains how the LFS estimates zero hour contracts FLEXW8 Whether respondent works none of the working patterns described 1 2 FREQUENCY COVERAGE Yes No Spring and Autumn quarters only from Spring 2000 Applies to all respondents in employment and on certain government schemes FLEXW9 Whether respondent does not know which agreed working arrangements are worked 1 2 FREQUENCY COVERAGE Yes No Spring and Autumn quarters only from Spring 2000 Applies to all respondents in employment and on certain government schemes FLEXW10 Whether respondent works on call working 1 2 FREQUENCY COVERAGE Yes No Spring and Autumn quarters only from Spring 2010 Applies to all respondents in employment and on certain government schemes DAYSPZ Number of different days per week worked 1
396. s only from Winter 99 not Winter 2000 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have taken part in job related education training in the last 4 weeks and this training has not been solely based in the workplace JOBTRN 2 3 OR FUTUR4 1 NOTES This question is only asked to respondents in Northern Ireland This variable was coded FEEIR 0 6 from Spring 92 to Winter 94 then FEEIR 0 5 from Spring 95 to Autumn 96 then FEEIR 1 6 in Spring 97 and FEEIR 1 5 from Winter 97 onwards Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable 267 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 TRNLEN Length of training course 1 Less than 1 week 2 1 weeks but less than 2 weeks 3 2 weeks but less than 3 weeks 4 3 weeks but less than 1 month 5 1 month but less than 2 months 6 2 months but less than 3 months 7 3 months but less than 6 months 8 6 months but less than 1 year 9 1 year but less than 2 years 2 10 years but less than 3 years 11 3 years or more 12 On going no definite limit FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 to Winter 95 Spring and Autumn quarters only in 96 AJ and JM quarters only from Spring 97 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have taken part in job related edu
397. s reported This variable is derived from EVERWK STAT amp SOLO SOLOLR Self employed with or without employees last job reported 1 On own with partner s but no employees 2 With employees FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents currently in work or who have worked in the last 8 years NOTES With the removal of the Census Matrix Edit SOLOR supersedes the variables NSOLOL amp SOLO The filter EVERWK 1 is applied to the questionnaire variable SOLO to distinguish between current last job SOLOR is whether self employed with without employees in current job as reported SOLOLR is whether self employed with without employees in last job as reported MAIN METHODS OF SEEKING WORK LKWFWM Main method of looking for work in the last four weeks 183 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Spring 92 to Spring 94 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Visit a Jobcentre Jobmarket or Jobs amp Benefit Centres Visit a Job club Have your name on the books of a private employment agency Advertise for jobs in newspapers and journals Answer advertisements in newspapers and journals Study situations vacant in newspapers or journals Apply directly to employers Ask friends relatives colleagues or trade unions about jobs Wait for the results of an application for a job Look for premises or equipment Seek any kind of
398. s worked in reference week 0 96 Hours of work 97 97 or more 98 Away from job FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment NOTES This is as derived variable please see Volume 4 for further guidance This variable includes any hours worked second job As hours not stored as whole numbers users should use 1 decimal place when ranging hours i e 1 30 hours should be ranged as 1 0 30 4 etc YLESS6 Reason worked fewer hours than usual in reference week 1 Number of hours worked overtime varies 2 Bank holiday 3 Maternity Paternity leave 4 Parental Leave 5 Other leave holiday 6 Sick or injured 7 Attending a training course away from own workplace 8 Started new job changed jobs 9 Ended job and did not start new one that week 10 Laid off short time work interrupted by bad weather 11 Laid off short time work interrupted by labour dispute at own workplace 12 Laid off short time work interrupted by economic or other causes 13 Other personal family reasons 14 Other reasons FREQUENCY Each quarter from Winter 05 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees self employed unpaid family workers and those on employer based government schemes who worked fewer hours than usual in the reference week including none NOTES Most of the responses are self explanatory however additional detail for some are shown below
399. se note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable UNIQUAL all qualifications from college or university 1 Degree level qualify Incl foundation degrees graduate memb ship of a profess institute PGCE or higher 2 Diploma in Higher Education 3 HNC HND 4 ONC OND 5 BTEC BEC TEC Edexcel LQL 6 SCOTVEC SCOTEC or SCOTBEC 7 Teaching qualify excl PGCE 8 Nursing or other medical qualify Not yet mentioned 9 Other Higher Education qualif s below degree level 10 A Level Vocat l A Level GCE in Applied Subjects or equivalent 11 New Diploma 12 Welsh Baccalaureate 13 International Baccalaureate 214 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NVQ SVQ GNVQ GSVQ AS level Vocat AS Level or equiv Certificate of 6 Yr Studies CSYS or equiv Access to HE O Level or equiv Standard Ordinary O Grade Lower Scotland GCSE Vocat l GCSE CSE Advanced Higher Higher Intermediate Access qualif s Scotland RSA OCR City and Guilds YT Certificate Key skills Core skills Scotland Basic skills Skills for life literacy numeracy lang Entry Level Qualifications Award Certificate or Diploma at Entry level and Levels 1 to 8 Any other professional work re
400. se see Volume 4 User guide for further detail Changes have made to the derivation of REDUND in the LFS It now covers the number of people who were not in employment during the reference week and who reported that they had been made redundant in the month of the reference week or in the two calendar months prior to this plus the number of people who were in employment during the reference week who started their job in the same calendar month as or the two calendar months prior to the reference week and who reported that they had been made redundant in the past three months See article on p225 229 of the May 2000 Labour Market Trends for further details In JM11 the variable saw a minor amendment to its derivation Further amendments were made to the derivation of this variable in JM13 REDPAID Left paid job in last 3 months 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 95 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment who started present job in last 3 months NOTES If analysing data on redundancies made in the last three months you should also filter on the variable REDUND 1 made redundant REDYL11 Reason left last job 1 dismissed 2 made redundant or took voluntary redundancy 3 temporary job which came to an end 4 resigned 5 gave up work for health reasons 6 took early retirement 7 retired at or after state pension age 8 gave up work for family or personal reasons 9 education or training
401. sh Qualifications Abbreviations for the Scottish equivalents of BTEC BEC and TEC and A and O levels are included From 1985 SCOTBEC and SCOTEC have been merged to form SCOTVEC Vocational Educational Certificate This qualification can be a higher certificate a national certificate or a national certificate module A system of national vocational qualifications called NVQs SVQs in Scotland are comprised of levels which are subdivided into units A list of the qualifications which make up the relevant NVQ levels is shown in Volume 5 LFS Classifications of the LFS User Guide In Spring 1996 amp Spring 2004 the educational qualifications questions in the LFS were changed to provide more detailed information Inevitably such improvements in data can lead to discontinuities The changes made to these questions were sufficiently large enough to warrant a change in name Please see individual variable notes for details Please note that due to an error in the routing to the education section in the JM11 and AJ11 questionnaires the education section which should have been asked of those aged 16 69 or older and in employment was only asked of those aged 16 64 or older and in employment 65 69 year olds who should have been asked these questions were not and there will be more missing education data in JM11 AJ11 and some impact on JS11 for DBF cases This issue should stop impacting the data from OD11 From JM11 we collect more information on fore
402. sixth year studies CSYS 23 SCE higher or equivalent 24 AS level 25 NVQ SVQ level 2 26 Intermediate GNVQ GSVQ 27 RSA diploma 28 City amp Guilds craft part 2 28 First certificate diploma FREQUENCY Each quarter from Summer 03 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have a vocational qualification NOTES This variable is only available on ONS datasets CURRENT STUDY WBAC Level of Welsh Baccalaureate being studied 1 at the foundation level 2 the Intermediate level 3 the advanced level 4 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM08 COVERAGE question applies to respondents studying towards a Welsh baccalaureate QULHI4 12 CURCODE Area of study 1 00 9 99 Codes for Area of Study FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are currently studying for a qualification NOTES This is the subject of study of the highest level 2 qualifications and above currently being studied excludes degrees and GCSE O level A level and equivalents A new coding frame was introduced in Spring 04 LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives a complete breakdown of codes 277 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 TYPE OF COURSE CURED8 Current education received 1 At school full time 2 Sandwich course 3 Full time at university or college 4 Part time at school 5 Tra
403. ssifications gives full industry breakdowns for both SIC92 amp SIC2007 To convert SIC2007 codes to SIC92 codes 079205 01 60 Range of values FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment who have regular additional job NOTES This conversion variable gives reasonable comparisons not exact conversions This variable is derived from INDSCO7S LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives full industry breakdowns for both SIC92 amp SIC2007 INO792SS 01 A Agriculture hunting amp forestry 02 B Fishing 03 C Mining quarrying 04 D Manufacturing 05 E Electricity gas amp water supply 06 F Construction 07 G Wholesale retail amp motor trade 08 H Hotels amp restaurants 09 I Transport storage amp communication 10 J Financial intermediation 11 K Real estate renting amp business Dualify 12 L Public administration amp defence 13 M educ 14 N Health amp social work 15 O Other community social amp personal 16 P Private hholds with employed persons 17 Q Extra territorial organisations bodies FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment who have a regular additional job NOTES This conversion variable gives reasonable comparisons not exact conversions This variable is derived from INDSCO7S LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives full industry breakdow
404. st Anglia 18 Strathclyde 8 Inner London 19 Rest of Scotland 9 Outer London 20 Northern Ireland 10 Rest of South East 22 Outside of the UK 11 South West 23 Baby under 1 year FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES From Spring 92 to Spring 95 this variable was derived from RESLEN RESLNO OYCRY AGE amp LADO RESLNO was replaced by RESTME in Spring 96 LADO was replaced by UALDO in Spring 2000 63 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 GORONE Region of residence 12 months ago Spring 92 Autumn 99 1 Tyne amp Wear 12 Eastern 2 Rest of North East 13 Inner London 3 Greater Manchester 14 Outer London 4 Merseyside 15 South East 5 Rest of North West 16 South West 6 South Yorkshire 17 Wales 7 West Yorkshire 18 Strathclyde 8 Rest of Yorkshire amp Humberside 19 Rest of Scotland 9 East Midlands 20 Northern Ireland 10 West Midlands met county 22 Outside UK 11 Rest of West Midlands 23 Baby under 3 months Spring 00 onwards 1 Tyne amp Wear 12 East of England 2 Rest of North East 13 Inner London 3 Greater Manchester 14 Outer London 4 Merseyside 15 South East 5 Rest of North West 16 South West 6 South Yorkshire 17 Wales 7 West Yorkshire 18 Strathclyde 8 Rest of Yorkshire amp Humberside 19 Rest of Scotland 9 East Midlands 20 Norther
405. st Lancashire LP Halton LP Knowsley LP Liverpool LP Manchester LP Oldham LP Rochdale LP St Helens LP Sefton LP Stockport LP Warrington LP West Lancashire LP Wigan LP Wirral LP Barnsley LP Bradford LP Calderdale LP Doncaster LP East Riding LP Hull LP Kirklees LP Leeds LP North East Lincolnshire LP North Lincolnshire LP North Yorkshire LP Rotherham LP Sheffield LP FREQUENCY Every year from 2000 COVERAGE NOTES Wakefield LP York LP Derbyshire LP Greater Nottingham LP Leics Leicester City amp Rutland LP Lincolnshire and Rutland LP Northamptonshire LP North Nottingham LP Birmingham LP Coventry amp Warwickshire LP Dudley LP Hereford LP Sandwell LP Shropshire LP Solihull LP Staffordshire amp Stoke LP Telford and Wrekin LP Walsall LP Wolverhampton LP Worcestershire LP Bedfordshire amp Luton LP Cambridgeshire LP Greater Peterborough LP Hertfordshire LP Norfolk LP North Essex LP South Essex LP Suffolk LP Thurrock LP Central London LP East London LP East South East London LP East Thames LP North London LP North West London LP Applies to all respondents in England 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 99 South London LP West London LP Bracknell Forest LP Brighton amp Hove LP Buckinghamshire LP East Sussex LP Hampshire amp Portsmouth LP Isle of Wight LP Kent LP Medway LP Milton Keynes LP Oxfordshire LP Reading LP Royal Windsor Maiden
406. st Midlands met county 21 Northern Ireland 11 Rest of West Midlands 22 Workplace outside UK FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters only from Spring 95 to Autumn 96 Each quarter from Spring 97 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment NOTES With the removal of the Census Matrix Edit GORWKR supersedes the variable GORWK This variable is derived from 5 2 2 GOVTOR UALAD99 LADWAD UALDWK2 amp WKPL299 This variable is based on Government Office Regions From Spring 2000 UALDWK is used in the derivation of this variable prior to this LADWK was used Central London is defined by the Department of Transport as the area within the bounds of the main London British Rail train termini SAMELAD Whether lives and works in same Local Authority District 1 Lives and works in same LAD 2 Lives in different LAD to place of work FREQUENCY Spring and Autumn quarters only from Autumn 92 to Autumn 96 Each quarter from Spring 97 130 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment excluding those on government schemes NOTES This is a derived variable please see Volume 4 User guide for further guidance From Spring 2000 UALDO is used in the derivation of this variable prior to this LAD was used SAMELAD is not included on datasets for Summer and Winter 99 TRAVEL TO WORK TRVTME Usual home to work travel time in minutes
407. stry class in main job 01 11 99 00 Range of industry codes 8 No Answer NA 9 Did Not Ask DNA FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment other than those on certain government schemes NOTES This variable is derived from STAT EVERWK amp ICDM LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives full industry breakdowns for both SIC92 amp SIC2007 INDGO7M Industry group in main job 01 1 99 0 Range of industry codes 8 No Answer NA 9 Did Not Ask DNA FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment other than those on certain government schemes NOTES This variable is derived from INDCO7M LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives full industry breakdowns for both SIC92 amp SIC2007 INDDO7M Industry division in main job 01 99 Range of industry codes 8 No Answer NA 9 Did Not Ask DNA FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment other than those on certain government schemes NOTES This variable is derived from INDSCO7M LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives full industry breakdowns for both SIC92 amp SIC2007 INDS07M Industry section in main job 1 A Agriculture forestry and fishing 2 B Mining and quarrying 3 C Manufacturing 4 D Electricity gas steam and air conditioning supply 5 E Water supp
408. t Respondents can give as many responses as there are categories but these are not recorded in any order of priority this is done in the variable MAINMA As with LKWFWM the method of looking for work variables have been increased by one category 2 Careers office from Summer 94 This variable was called METHAL 00 12 from Spring 92 to Spring 94 and METHAL 00 13 from Summer 94 to Winter 96 186 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Please note that this is multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable 187 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 MAINME Method of looking for work employees or Government scheme Spring 92 to Spring 94 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 13 Visit Jobcentre Jobmarket or Jobs amp Benefit Centres Visit a Jobclub Have your name on the books of a private employment agency Advertise for jobs in newspapers or journals Answer advertisements in newspapers and journals Study situations vacant in newspapers or journals Apply directly to employers Ask friends relatives colleagues or trade unions about jobs Wait for the results of an application for a job Do anything else to find work Summer 94 onwards 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 14 FREQUENCY COVERAGE Visit a Jobcentre Jobmarket or Training
409. t 230 212 0783 22222222222 47 PHHWT I ion 317 QUALUK mott 212 NVACD 247 PIWTI Liit 317 QULCHUK 213 NVLEV ort 248 oani OO 139 QULHI 1 254 NVNWACD 260 PREFER ort 171 ESTON AA 254 NVNWLEV ot 260 PRXREL n 68 QULS10 01 20 214 215 216 NVOTLEA ot 249 222222222 109 217 NVOTLEB 249 PUBLICR ort 102 QUOTA tt 308 309 NVQ mr 247 317 259 1 260 RDICI2 nn 126 NVQOU a 248 QALPLI Litt 253 RDICAOT n 126 NVOSUBJ nn 248 OCFACD oe 250 RDMPNO2 tt 122 NVOSVQ 247 222 250 RDOCOD i 127 249 OCFLVNW a 261 5 22222 296 n 193 QCFNOW ooo 260 REGNO 311 251 REDACE tinde 284 QCFOTHB ort 251 REDANY 121 OACODE annet 47 OCFSUBJ occ 251 REDCLOS i nitten 121 258 22222222 239 REDIN D aa 122 222222 258 OGCSEA 1 5 233 REDINDYR ir 126 OCRNLEV 222222 258 OGNVO ir 244 REDOCC irer 122 OMCONT rv 107 QHEALTHI oi 280 je GE 122 107 211 REDPAID tt 119 ONETEN vn 107 OLYRU 223 REDSTAT it 121 OTHQALI1 252 309 REDUN D 119 222222 253 217 REDYL 1 I 119 09 22222222 252 CUM rer 219 120 217 VL 219 REDYRS ort 121 OVERS ute 175
410. t in JM11 this DV will have large number of missing vales due to the data brought forward national identity issue as discussed at the beginning of this User guide This will have been resolved in AJ11 CYMU Understand spoken Welsh 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in Wales NOTES Only asked to Welsh respondents living in Wales not those living elsewhere in the UK whose first language is Welsh When comparing the Welsh language questions to those from other sources including the 2011 Census results it is important to remember that differences in sampling mode of interview and questionnaire design may cause differences between estimates The Welsh language questions are preceded by questions on national identity which may cause respondents to be more inclined to say that they spoke Welsh than on another survey which had a different topic preceding the Welsh language question CYMS Speak Welsh 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in Wales NOTES Only asked to Welsh respondents living in Wales not those living elsewhere in the UK whose first language is Welsh See notes on CYMU CYMSF Frequency of Welsh speaking 1 Daily 2 Weekly 3 Less often 4 Never FREQUENCY Wave 1 or first contact with individual at the address COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in Wales and can speak Welsh NOTE
411. tain or increase income 4 Saw the demand or market 5 Could not find other employment 6 Started or joined a family business 7 Better work conditions or job satisfaction 8 Nature of job or chosen career 9 Other reasons FREQUENCY OD only from 2014 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who provide more than one response to MSELFA 1 9 NOTES As with all new questions the reasons for self employment questions are subject to ONS monitoring of responses for several quarters and should therefore be treated with caution This is available for ONS and Government analysis only The order that the response categories are appearing in the question are not necessarily the order they will appear in an interview The answer categories have been randomised to remove order effect CONYRLES Compute Variable Conyrles 99 NOTES This variable is calculated using CONMPY and computes the year in which employees started working continuously for current employer CONMLES Compute Variable Conmles 99 NOTES This variable is calculated using CONMPY CONYRLES and CONMON and computes the month in which employees started working continuously for current employer HOWGET How current job was obtained From Spring 92 to Autumn 94 1 Replying to a job advertisement 2 Jobcentre jobmarket etc 3 Careers Office 4 Private employment agency or business 5 Hearing from someone who worked there 6 Direct application 7 Some
412. tained were given personally or by proxy Some analysis of LFS data may be particularly affected by proxy responses e g subjective questions whether someone would like to work or questions that are particularly difficult for proxy respondents to answer e g number of actual unpaid overtime hours worked in reference week Results of this variable therefore should be treated with caution With regard to proxy responses there are some common sense rules A study of proxy responses is contained in the LFS User Guide Volume 1 Background and Methodology Generally the questions can be asked of the main respondent provided that they are able to supply the required information and are related to the individual concerned However it is also acceptable for a Co habitees to supply information about each other b Anyone whom the HOH spouse personally asks to provide the information e g a young person whose parents wish them to be the respondent relative friend or health visitor may also give information where person living alone is too old sick or deaf to be interviewed but only with their permission and preferably in their presence and d Children to be used as an interpreter if the parents do not speak English and it is felt that the child is capable of understanding and interpreting the questions PRXREL Type of proxy response 1 Personal response 2 Spouse partner proxy 3 Other proxy 4 Child aged under16 FREQUENCY
413. tal hours of instruction or tuition received Recorded to nearest hour FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM 2011 COVERAGE Applies if respondent received any tuition or attend any taught classes in the last 4 weeks 270 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 TLRN4WK any other learning activities that were not taught classes or did not include tuition in the last 4 weeks 1 yes 2 no FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM 2011 COVERAGE Applies if respondent received any tuition or attend any taught classes in the last 4 weeks TAUT3M as part of other learning was the respondent in receipt of any tuition or attend any taught classes 1 yes 2 no FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM 2011 COVERAGE Applies if respondent did not receive any learning or tuition in the last 4 weeks TSUBJ3M the main subject in which tuition was received Text FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM 2011 COVERAGE Applies if respondent received tuition or attended taught classes in the last three months TSUB3COD subject look up code FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM 2011 COVERAGE Applies if respondent provided main subject area of tuition or taught classes received TLRN3M any other learning activities that were not taught classes or did not include tuition in the last 3 months 1 yes 2 no FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM 2011 COVERAGE Applies if respondent did receive tuition or attend classes in the last thr
414. tems are questions that can have more than one value for an individual case This form of question is very useful when respondents are required to select a number of items from a list of possible answers The LFS makes use number of such questions For example ILLDAYS which asks respondents to identify on which day or days of the week they were off work due to sickness or injury As week contains seven days answers to ILLDAYS are stored in one or more of seven separate variables ILLDAYS1 to ILLDAYS7 Answers are recorded sequentially so the first answer is held in ILLDAYS1 the second in ILLDAYS2 and so on code one to seven Monday to Sunday is used within each variable to distinguish each day Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Some multi response variables may be ranked in a particular order QUALS6 is an example of such a variable where the respondent s highest qualification is recorded in QUALS601 their second highest in QUALS602 and so on The structure of such variables means that users need to adjust their analysis accordingly e g to arrive at the total number of people sick on a Friday you would need to sum answers from ILLDAYS1 to ILLDAYS7 Some data analysis packages have multiple response tools that can assist in this State Pension Age Change Between April 2010 and April 2020 women s State pension age in the UK will increase from 60 to 65 at the rate of on
415. tes these out CAMEYR Year of first arrival in the UK 1 Answer given as year FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM08 COVERAGE Applies to respondents who are not born in UK Britain From JM12 12 NE 921 924 923 922 926 Previous to JM12 01 921 924 923 922 926 NOTES In 2008 the word first has been added to the question to help identify those who have settled in the UK more than once arrival means for any purpose including holiday trips Text labels are not available for this variable Arrive refers to the date of arrival to take up residence If preceded by holiday to this country and there is no break between the holiday and staying on the date of arrival for the holiday is included If there is a break before taking up residence the holiday arrival date is not included If the respondent takes up residence in this country leaves the country to live elsewhere before returning to take up permanent residence again it is the first date of arriving in this country that is required 26 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Anyone who arrived more than 99 years ago is coded as if it was exactly 99 years ago Users are advised to filter in CRYOX7 as people who said their country of birth is Ireland pns Channel Islands or Isle of Man are not coded as UK GB in the variable CRY12 previously CRY01 CONTUK Whether lived continuously in the UK 1 Yes 2 No
416. ther family units Lone parent all dependent children other family units Lone parent dependent amp non dependent children other family units Lone parent all non dependent children other family units 2 or more family units all dependent children 2 or more family units dependent amp non dependent children 2 or more family units all non dependent children 2 or more family units no children Same sex couple with or without others Civil partners same sex marriage with or without others Spring and Autumn quarters only from Spring 2006 on household datasets only Each quarter from Spring 2006 on household and ONS datasets COVERAGE Applies to all households NOTES Categories 15 or 18 Lone parent all dependent children no other family other family units will also include those who are married i e MARSTA 2 Yes where their spouse is not a household member i e MARCHK 2 No e g working away from home in prison etc In categories 5 12 13 amp 14 Couple refers to both married and cohabiting couples This variable is derived from FUTYPE6 FDPCH19 amp RELHFU This variable was called HHTYPE between 2000 and 2006 70 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 71 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 HLDCMP6X Composition of household calculated using OLD pension age 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09
417. therwise specified 921 ENGLAND 831 GUERNSEY 833 ISLE OF MAN 832 JERSEY 922 NORTHERN IRELAND 923 SCOTLAND 924 WALES 925 GREAT BRITAIN NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 040 AUSTRIA 056 BELGIUM 100 BULGARIA 901 CYPRUS EUROPEAN UNION 203 CZECH REPUBLIC 971 CZECHOSLOVAKIA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 208 DENMARK 233 ESTONIA 246 FINLAND 250 FRANCE 276 GERMANY 300 GREECE 348 HUNGARY 372 IRELAND REPUBLIC 380 ITALY 428 LATVIA 440 LITHUANIA 442 LUXEMBOURG 470 MALTA 528 NETHERLANDS 616 POLAND 620 PORTUGAL 642 ROMANIA 703 SLOVAKIA 705 SLOVENIA 911 SPAIN EXCEPT CANARY ISLANDS 913 SPAIN NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 752 SWEDEN 248 ALAND ISLANDS 008 ALBANIA 020 ANDORRA 051 ARMENIA 031 AZERBAIJAN 112 BELARUS 070 BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 191 CROATIA 902 CYPRUS NON EUROPEAN UNION 903 CYPRUS NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 981 EUROPE NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 234 FAROE ISLANDS 268 GEORGIA 292 GIBRALTAR 352 ICELAND 891 KOSOVA AND METOHIA 438 LIECHTENSTEIN 807 MACEDONIA 498 MOLDOVA 492 MONACO 499 MONTENEGRO 578 NORWAY 643 RUSSIA 674 SAN MARINO 688 SERBIA 974 SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 744 SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN 756 SWITZERLAND 792 TURKEY 804 UKRAINE 22 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 972 UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED 336 VATICAN CITY 973 YUGOSLAVIA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED
418. ths ago 01 60 Range of values FREQUENCY April to June quarters only from January 2009 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who did no work in the reference week and were not away from any job or business but have worked in the past 8 years NOTES This conversion variable gives reasonable comparisons not exact conversions This variable is derived from INDSC070 LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives full industry breakdowns for both SIC92 amp SIC2007 INDSC070 Industry sub class job twelve months ago 01 62 1 93 19 9 Range of industry codes 8 Not Applicable NA 9 Did Not Answer DNA FREQUENCY April to June quarters from 2009 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents aged 16 and over NOTES From 08 the industrial coding classifications SIC92 have been completely updated SIC2007 LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives a complete breakdown of Industry codes This variable is derived from OYSIND ICDM amp OYICDO7 INDD070 Industry division in job twelve months ago 01 99 Range of industry codes 8 Not Applicable NA 9 Did Not Answer DNA FREQUENCY April to June quarters only from January 2009 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents aged 16 and over NOTES From JM08 the industrial coding classifications SIC92 have been completely updated SIC2007 LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives a complete breakdown of Industry codes This variable is
419. ths but less than 18 months 7 18 months but less than 2 years 8 2 years but less than 3 years 9 3 years but less than 4 years 10 4 years but less than 5 years 11 5 years or more FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who were waiting to start a new job business or take up a place on government scheme already obtained WAIT 1 or JBAWAY 3 NOTES This question relates to how long the respondent was looking for paid work before getting a job business The difference between LKTIMA and LKTIMB is described below LKTIMA applies to respondents who are looking for work Asks how long they have been looking for work LKTIMB applies to those who are not working in the ref week but have found job that they are waiting to start Asks how long they were looking for work prior to finding a job BEFOR Activity before starting to look for work 1 Working 2 In full time education or training on government scheme 3 Looking after the family home 4 Doing something else FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 to Winter 98 Autumn quarter only in 99 Each quarter from Spring 2000 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents looking for work BENEFIT ENTITLEMENT Introduction to benefits questions The questions contained within the Benefits Section are updated regularly to reflect any new benefits that have been introduced It is felt that any discontinuity resultant from any
420. tic coding tool for LFS interviewers A similar tool had been in place for the coding of occupations to the Standard Occupational Classification for several years but prior to 2009 industry had been coded manually using a printed volume The new tool is seen as a significant improvement in the coding of industries in the LFS Its introduction has brought greater consistency since cases with the same description are more likely to be allocated the same code with the coding tool than with the previous approach LFS estimates by industry Conversion variables have been produced for LFS microdata which map cases from the previously used industrial classification SIC 1992 to SIC 2007 for the years 2006 to 2008 inclusive Each industry class 4 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 or 5 digit code on SIC 1992 was mapped to an industry division on SIC 2007 For 2006 microdata syntax was provided to enable users to derive the mapped estimates themselves Users should be aware that for the quarterly time series of employment SIC 2007 basis there are several step changes at Section and Division level between Q4 2008 and Q1 2009 Investigative analysis has shown that these were caused primarily by the introduction of the new coding tool Some limitations in the mapping between the two classifications also contributed but to a much lesser extent From Q1 2009 onwards set of conversion variable
421. tinguish between current last job STATR is employment status in current job as reported STATLR is employment status in last job as reported 182 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 MANAGLR Managerial status last job reported 1 Manager 2 Foreman or supervisor 3 Not manager or supervisor FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees STAT 1 NOTES With the removal of the Census Matrix Edit MANAGLR supersedes the variables MANAGE amp NMANAGEL The filter EVERWK 1 is applied to the questionnaire variable MANAGE to distinguish between current last job MANAGER is managerial status in current job as reported MANAGLR is managerial status in last job as reported MPNLR02 Number of employees last job reported 1 1 10 2 11 19 3 20 24 4 Don t know but under 25 5 25 49 6 50 249 7 250 499 8 Don t know but between 50 and 499 9 500 or more FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 02 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents currently in work or who have worked in the last 8 years NOTES With the removal of the Census Matrix Edit 02 supersedes the variables 2 amp MPNS02 The filter EVERWK 1 is applied to the questionnaire variables MPNO amp MPN to distinguish between current last job 02 is number of employees in current job as reported MPNLRO2 is number of employees in last job a
422. tise for jobs in newspapers or journals 5 Answer advertisements in newspapers and journals 6 Study situations vacant in newspapers or journals 7 Apply directly to employers 8 Ask friends relatives colleagues or trade unions about jobs 9 Wait for the results of an application for a job 13 Do anything else to find work Summer 94 onwards 1 Visit a Jobcentre Jobmarket or Training and Employment Agency office 2 Visit a Careers office 3 Visit a Jobclub 4 Have your name on the books of a private employment agency 5 Advertise for jobs in newspapers or journals 6 Answer advertisements in newspapers and journals 7 Study situations vacant in newspapers or journals 8 Apply directly to employers 9 Ask friends relatives colleagues or trade unions about jobs 10 Wait for the results of an application for a job 14 Do anything else to find work FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents looking for work as an employee or for a place on a government scheme in the last four weeks NOTES Respondents can give as many responses as there are categories but these are not recorded in any order of priority this is done in the variable MAINME As with LKWFWM the method of looking for work variables have been increased by one category 2 Careers office from Summer 94 This variable was called METHMP 0 9 from Spring 92 to Spring 94 and METHMP 00 10 from Summer 94 to Winte
423. tments which sponsor the local area enhancements This variable is derived from ED13WK FUTUR13 ED4WK amp FUTUR4 Please see Volume 4 User Guide for further guidance NA are coded 8 and DNA are coded 9 on this variable 278 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 QUALIFICATIONS FROM STUDY IN LAST 4 WEEKS Learning in the last Four weeks Three Months LEARN3M Whether any learning undertaken within the past 3 months 1 Yes some form of learning in the last 3 months 2 No learning in the last 3 months FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 LEARN4 Whether any learning undertaken within the past 4 weeks 1 Yes some form of learning in the last 4 weeks 2 No learning in the last 4 weeks FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 ADULT LEARNING ADLRN8X Type of adult learning based on OLD pension age 1 Formal and or non formal learning only 2 Informal learning only 3 Both informal and formal and or non formal learning 4 No adult learning in the last 12 months FREQUENCY JM10 OD10 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents aged 16 and not still in education NOTES This variable is included only on annual local area datasets which are available only to ONS and those government departments which sponsor the local area enhancements The reference period for adult learning is 3 years for England and Northern Ireland and one year for Scotland and Wales Please note this variabl
424. to all respondents who had days off due to sickness injury ILLWK 2 NOTES Only days where respondent was scheduled to work but was unable to do so because of sickness or injury are recorded ILLTHU Whether off work sick on Thursday 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who had days off due to sickness injury ILLWK 2 NOTES Only days where respondent was scheduled to work but was unable to do so because of sickness or injury are recorded ILLFRI Whether off work sick on a Friday 1 Yes 2 No 136 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who had days off due to sickness injury ILLWK 2 NOTES Only days where respondent was scheduled to work but was unable to do so because of sickness or injury are recorded ILLSAT Whether off work sick on a Saturday 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who had days off due to sickness injury ILLWK 2 NOTES Only days where respondent was scheduled to work but was unable to do so because of sickness or injury are recorded ILLSUN Whether off work sick on a Sunday 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who had days off due to sickness injury ILLWK 2 NOTES Only days where responde
425. to all respondents who were self employed 12 months ago OYSTAT 2 NOTES From Spring 92 to Winter 00 this variable was called NOYSOLO NOYSOLO was processed through the Census Matrix Edit which checks the respondents occupation and their employment status for inconsistencies With the removal of the edit OYSOLO supersedes the variable NOYSOLO Self employed people who use only other self employed people in the business they run e g builders are coded 1 Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions 502 Number of people employed 1 year ago 1 1 10 2 11 19 3 20 24 4 Don t know but under 25 5 25 49 6 50 249 7 250 499 8 Don t know but between 50 and 499 9 500 or more FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 02 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who were self employed 12 months ago OYSOLO 2 NOTES With the removal of the Census Matrix Edit OYMPRO2 supersedes the variables 2 amp 502 The notes for OYMPR02 also apply to this variable Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions OYFTPT Full or part time in job twelve months ago 1 Full time 2 Part time FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who had a paid job or were laid off on short time work 12 months ago OYCIRC 1 or 2
426. try level None Not Applicable Don t know OON OORWND FREQUENGY Every quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has an OTHER qualification QALPL11 Method of receiving instruction and learning received for highest level qualification 1 solely through school college or some other education institution 2 through a combination of workplace and academic institution 3 solely at a place of work yours or somebody else s 4 self directed open learning 5 or was it some other way 6 Don t know FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from AJ11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has any qualification NOTES This variable replaces QALPL99 YERQAL1 When obtained highest qualification 1 Answer given as age 2 Answer given as year FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents with UK qualifications from school college work government training scheme leisure other way as identified at QULCH11 NOTES Respondents may reply by either giving the age at which they achieved their highest qualification or in what year they did so YERQAL2 Age obtained highest qualification 1 Answer given as age 253 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who give their age at which they obtained their highest qualification YERQAL1 1 YERQAL3 Year obtained hi
427. ts in employment excluding those on certain government schemes and unpaid family workers NOTES Replaces TUJOIN from Autumn 96 Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions The order and routing of UNION TUPRES and TUCOV were changed from Spring 1999 onwards SECOND JOB WORKING IN REFERENCE WEEK SECJOB Whether had second job in reference week 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees self employed and persons on Government schemes but not those who are doing paid work in addition to that done on a New Deal scheme NOTES Casual or small jobs are included provided the job was paid SECJMB should be used in preference to SECJOB when analysing numbers of people with second jobs Y2JOB Whether had 2 jobs because of a change of job in reference week 1 Yes changed jobs during week 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have a second paid job 1 158 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 NOTES One purpose of this question is to distinguish between two groups of respondents those who had two jobs in the reference week only because they changed jobs that week and those who held two jobs at the same time The first group are not asked details of their second job The second group
428. tual last net pay as an employee or from government scheme or whose net pay was the same as their gross pay or have not yet received any pay from their employer NOTES This question replaces USEMPN from Spring 99 YPAYL Reason for pay being less than usual 1 Absence from work through illness 2 Worked less overtime than usual 3 Annual leave 4 Bank holiday 5 Worked less hours for other reason 6 Maternity pay 7 Other reason FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 99 Waves 1 and 5 only COVERAGE Applies to all respondents whose most recent pay was less than the pay which they would usually receive for the same period of time PAYSSP Whether received Statutory Sick Pay 302 1 2 FREQUENCY COVERAGE Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Yes No Each quarter from Spring 99 Waves 1 and 5 only Applies to all respondents who did not receive their usual amount of pay last time they were paid because of illness absence from work YPAYM Reason for pay being more than usual 1 2 3 4 5 6 FREQUENCY COVERAGE It included advance holiday pay It included a tax refund Worked more overtime than normal It included pay increase It included bonus payment tips or commission Other reason Each quarter from Spring 99 Waves 1 and 5 only Applies to all respondents whose most recent pay was more than the pay which they would
429. tumn 93 In Winter 93 94 although the coverage for TRONJB appears to be incorrect in the questionnaire the data is correct Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions 268 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 INFR4WK Whether non formal and or informal learning undertaken within last 4 weeks 1 Only Informal learning in last 4 weeks 2 Only non formal learning in last 4 weeks 3 Informal and non formal learning in last 4 weeks 4 No informal or non formal learning in last 4 weeks 9 Not applicable 8 No answer FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 INFR13WK Whether non formal and or informal learning undertaken within last 3 months 1 Only Informal learning in last 3 months 2 Only non formal learning in last 3 months 3 Informal and non formal learning in last 3 months 4 No informal or non formal learning in last 3 months 9 Not applicable 8 No answer FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 Learning activities in the last three months NFE13WK any other learning activities in the past months excluding ones already mentioned 1 yes 2 no FREQUENCY Every quarter from 2011 COVERAGE APPLIES IF AGED 16 NFE4WK Did any of that learning activity take place in the last 4 weeks 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Every quarter from 2011 COVERAGE APPLIES IF AGED 16 TAUTA4WK in receipt of any tuit
430. uilding society accounts statements 304 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 3 Other 4 None FREQUENCY Each quarter from Summer 98 Waves 1 and 5 only COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in work as employees self employed responding to questions GROSS INCOME SECOND JOB HOURLY Paid fixed hourly rate in second job 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 03 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have a second job and are an employee STAT2 1 NOTES Respondents who are paid different rates for working different times or days are coded 1 and asked their basic rate of pay at the next question HRRATE2 Basic hourly rate in second job 1 994 Amount in pounds amp pence 995 995 or more 998 Don t know 999 Refusal FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 03 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are paid an hourly rate in their second job HOURLY2 1 SECGRO Gross pay before deductions 1 99994 1 99994 self assessment 99995 Paid 99995 or more 99996 No pay received yet 99998 Don t know 99999 Refusal FREQUENCY Each quarter from Winter 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are employees in a second job SECGA Period of gross earnings 2nd Job Spring 96 onwards 01 One week 02 Two weeks 03 Three weeks 04 Four weeks 05 Calendar month 07 Two calendar months 08 Eight times a year
431. ur Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 COVERAGE This variable amalgamates the responses given at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL and OTQUAL in order to identify whether respondent has received this particular qualification QUAL 13 Whether International Baccalaureate obtained 1 Yes 0 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE This variable amalgamates the responses given at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL and OTQUAL in order to identify whether a respondent has received this particular qualification QUAL_14 Whether NVQ SVQ obtained 1 Yes 0 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE This variable amalgamates the responses given at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL and OTQUAL order to identify whether respondent has received this particular qualification QUAL 15 Whether GNVQ GSVQ obtained 1 Yes 0 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE This variable amalgamates the responses given at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL and OTQUAL in order to identify whether a respondent has received this particular qualification QUAL_16 Whether AS level Vocational AS level or equivalent obtained 1 Yes 0 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE This variable amalgamates the responses given at SCQUAL UNIQUAL WOQUAL GSQUAL and OTQUAL in order to identify whether a respondent has received this particular qualification QUAL_17 Whether Certificate of
432. usually receive for the same period of time ERNFILT Whether last pay contained any additions to basic pay 1 2 3 FREQUENCY COVERAGE Yes No Don t know Each quarter from Spring 99 Waves 1 and 5 only Applies to all respondents giving specific amount for last gross or net pay ERNCM 01 11 Payments included in last gross pay 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 FREQUENCY COVERAGE Overtime payments Payments for working unsociable hours Shift allowances Bonuses Profit related pay Piecework payments or payment by result Tips or gratuities London or other regional allowances Stand by or on call allowances Tax credits Any other additions to basic pay Each quarter from Spring 01 Applies to all respondents whose last pay contained additions to their basic pay ERNFILT 1 or 3 NOTES This question is useful in determining how wage levels correlate with employment patterns as well as allowing more accurate analysis of how calculations of average hourly earnings should be adjusted to allow for hidden components 303 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Please note that this is multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable BONCMP 1 4 Which type of bonus did pay contain 1 Group or team bonuses 2 Individual bonuses 3 Commission or sales bonuses
433. val of the Census Matrix Edit STATR supersedes the variable NSTAT The 9 is applied to the questionnaire variable STAT to distinguish between current last job STATR is employment status in current job as reported STATLR is employment status in last job as reported PDWG10 How paid for work 1 2 FREQUENCY COVERAGE NOTES By organisation respondent did work for By a different organisation company Each quarter from JM10 Applies to all respondents who are employees STAT 1 This variable replaces PDWAGE from JM 2010 SELF 1 4 Other methods of payment aside from receiving a salary or wage direct from an employer 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 FREQUENCY Paid a salary or a wage by an employment agency A sole director of your own limited business Running a business or a professional practice A partner in a business or a professional practice Working for yourself A sub contractor Doing free lance work None of the above Each quarter from Spring 99 104 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are self employed or those not directly paid by their employers STAT 2 OR PDWAGE 2 NOTES Note that the word employment was added to response option 1 in JM 2010 for clarity Please note that this is multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of vari
434. vanced diploma or advanced certificate OCR Level 3 3 adiploma OCR Level 2 4 another RSA including Stage amp IIl OCR Level 1 5 other RSA OCR qualification 6 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has an RSA OCR qualification NOTES This variable replaces RSA RSACD type of highest RSA OCR qualification 1 Award 2 Certificate 3 Diploma 4 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent s RSA OCR is categorised as OTHER at RSA11 RSLEV level of Award Certificate Diploma RSA OCR qualification 1 Level 1 2 Level2 3 Level3 4 Level4 5 Level 5 6 Level6 7 Level7 8 Level8 9 Entry level 10 Don t know FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent s RSA OCR is categorised as OTHER at RSA11 RSASUBY subject title awarding body of RSA OCR qualification Free text input max 250 characters FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM11 COVERAGE Applies if respondent s RSA OCR is categorised as OTHER or DON T KNOW at RSA11 RSAOT11 any other RSA OCR qualifications below the following levels 240 1 2 3 4 5 6 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 an advanced diploma or advanced certificate OCR Level 3 a diploma OCR Level 2 another RSA including Stage 1 1 amp IIN OCR Level 1 other RSA OCR qualification None Don t know FREQ
435. ve of over 30 minutes to a settlement of 10 000 or more RURAL Scoiland very remote small town RURAL Scotland accessible rural settlements of less than 3 000 people and within 30 minutes drive of a settlement of 10 000 or more RURAL Scotland remote rural settlements of less than 3 000 people and with a drive time of over 30 minutes to a settlement of 10 000 or more RURAL Scoiland very remote rural RURAL Each quarter from Spring 05 Applies to all respondents This variable is only available on ONS datasets Clear definitions are provided of the Scottish Urban Rural classifications contained within the variable Rural areas comprise of villages hamlets and isolated dwellings in England and Wales In Scotland in addition to these types of area accessible or very remote small towns are also included Non rural areas consist of urban areas with a population of 10 000 or more and town fringe areas In Scotland both large and small urban areas are also classified as non rural 49 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 WARD03 Ward 2003 Range of codes FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 05 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This variable is only available on ONS datasets WARD98 Ward 98 Range of codes FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 93 to Winter 02 Spring amp Autumn quarters only from Spring 03 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This variable is
436. ved from the questionnaire HSNGGB 1 2 Whether receiving Housing Benefit or Council Tax Benefit GB 1 Housing Benefit 2 Council Tax Reduction FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 98 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are claiming housing or council tax benefit Spring 98 to Winter 00 TYPBEN 6 Spring 01 to Winter 02 TPBNO1 7 From Spring 03 7 NOTES Council Tax reduction is referenced in the questionnaire from JS13 onwards This replaces council tax benefit Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable 200 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 HSNGNI Whether receiving rent or rate rebate 1 Rent or rate rebate 2 Rate rebate FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 98 JM14 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are claiming housing or council tax benefit Spring 98 to Winter 00 TYPBEN 6 Spring 01 to Winter 02 TPBNO1 7 From Spring 03 TPBEN3 7 Respondents can only record a single response to this question from Spring 03 onwards Prior to this up to 2 responses were recorded As of AJ14 this variable has been removed from the questionnaire NTAXCRD5 Tax credit payments 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Winter 05 JM14 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are working or if child tax credit is not recorded else
437. vely compensated for by wearing glasses or contact lenses Code 5 difficulty in hearing should be considered without the use of a hearing aid Code 7 severe disfigurements excludes those arising from tattooing or body piercing but would include scars birthmarks limb or postural deformation or diseases of the skin Code 8 excludes hay fever Seasonal allergic rhinitis except where it aggravates the effects of an existing condition Code 14 specific learning difficulties includes conditions such as dyslexia or dyscalcula severe learning difficulties covers mental impairments or mental handicap Code 15 Mental illness includes a wide range of conditions related to mental functioning but should be a Clinically well recognised illness Mental illnesses that should not be included are the tendency to commit arson or to steal the tendency to physically or sexually abuse others exhibitionism or voyeurism are not included Code 16 Progressive illnesses should be recorded if there is some effect on the respondent s normal day to day activities even if it is minor at the time of interview If the respondent has been diagnosed with 282 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 a progressive illness but they are not suffering from any symptoms which affect their activities yet then they should not be included Addiction to or dependency on alcohol nicotine drugs or other substance unless
438. vey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM 09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents made redundant in the three months prior to interview NOTES This variable is derived from REDUND EVERWK INDDO7L REDIND and INDDO7M RDICd07 Industry made redundant from 01 99 Range of industry codes 8 No Answer NA 9 Did Not Ask DNA FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM09 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents whose present industry is different to job where made redundant REDIND 2 NOTES This variable replaces RDIC92 LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives a full breakdown of industry coding RDIC92 Industry made redundant from 001 458 Range of industry codes 459 Inadequate description No reply 461 Workplace outside UK FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 97 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents whose present industry is different to job where made redundant REDIND 2 NOTES LFS User Guide Volume 5 LFS Classifications gives a full breakdown of industry coding REDINDYR Industry made redundant from reported 1 A B Agriculture amp fishing 2 Energy amp water 3 D Manufacturing 4 F Construction 5 G H Distribution hotels amp restaurants 6 I Transport amp communication 7 J K Banking finance amp insurance etc 8 L N Public admin education amp health 9 O U Other services 10 Workplace outside UK
439. wards 85 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS OVERESTIMATING SAME SEX COUPLES Prior to 2006 same sex cohabiting couples were grouped together under a single family type FUTYPE 3 Following the introduction of legal same sex civil partnerships in December 2005 the variable FUTYPE6 was introduced in LFS APS This variable included the following new family types Same sex cohabiting couple no children Same sex cohabiting couple non dependent children Same sex cohabiting couple dependent children Civil Partners with no children Civil Partners dependent children only Civil Partners with dependent children From 2006 onwards it is therefore possible to identify both civil partner couple families and same sex cohabiting couple families Estimates of civil partner couple families can be derived in the same way as other family types by using the relationship to head of family RELHFU for analysis and counting only the heads of families RELHFU 1 However estimates of same sex couple families cannot use this standard method Adults in same sex couple families were historically treated as separate benefit units and when civil partnerships were introduced same sex cohabiting couples continued to be treated in this way by LFS amp APS As such both partners same sex cohabiting couple are treated as being in different families This
440. where and claiming benefits BENFTS 1 NOTES This variable was previously called NTAXCRD 1 4 As of AJ14 this variable has been removed from the questionnaire CCTC5 Child care tax credit 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 2006 JM14 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in receipt of Working Tax Credit or Child Tax Credit NTAXCRD5 Yes NOTES Between Autumn 2001 and Spring 2006 this variable was called CCTC As of AJ14 this variable has been removed from the questionnaire EMPLOYMENT TWELVE MONTHS AGO OYCIRC Circumstances twelve months ago 1 Working in a paid job or business 2 Laid off or on short time at firm 3 Unemployed actively seeking work 4 On a special government scheme 5 Doing unpaid work for yourself or a relative 6 A full time student or pupil 7 Looking after the family home 8 Temporarily sick or injured 9 Long term sick or disabled 10 Retired from paid work 11 None of these 201 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents aged 16 and over NOTES The results of this variable will differ from present economic activity as it is based on recall and the respondent s assessment rather than through series of questions Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions OY
441. work which they can do respondents seek clarification they are advised not to limit the assessment to the paid work if any which they do at present LIMITA Whether health problem affects the amount of paid work that can be done 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 97 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents with health problems and those of working age or pensioners looking for work or wanting work NOTES This question records whether a disability affects the amount of paid work undertaken or might be undertaken by the respondent Again this is not restricted to the respondent s current job nor to respondents who are currently employed HEAL 01 17 What health problems does the respondent have 281 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Spring 97 onwards 1 Problems or disabilities including arthritis or rheumatism connected with arms or hands 2 legs or feet 3 back or neck 4 Difficulty in seeing while wearing spectacles or contact lenses 5 Difficulty in hearing 6 A speech impediment 7 Severe disfigurement skin conditions allergies 8 Chest or breathing problems asthma bronchitis 9 Heart blood pressure or blood circulation problems 10 Stomach liver kidney or digestive problems 11 Diabetes 12 Depression bad nerves or anxiety 13 Epilepsy 14 Severe or specific learning difficulties mental handicap 15 Mental il
442. wys NQ Ceredigion NS Pembrokeshire NU Carmarthenshire NX Swansea NZ Neath Port Talbot PB Bridgend PD The Vale of Glamorgan PF Rhondda Cynon Taff PH Merthyr Tydfil PK Caerphilly PL Blaenau Gwent PM Torfaen PP Monmouthshire PR Newport PT Cardiff QA Aberdeen City QB Aberdeenshire QC Angus QD Argyll amp Bute QE Scottish Borders QF Clackmannanshire QG West Dunbartonshire QH Dumfries amp Galloway QJ Dundee City QK East Ayrshire QL East Dunbartonshire QM East Lothian QN East Renfrewshire QP City of Edinburgh QQ Falkirk QR Fife QS City of Glasgow QT Highland QU Inverclyde QW Midlothian QX Moray QY North Ayrshire QZ North Lanarkshire RB Perth amp Kinross RC Renfrewshire RE South Ayrshire RF South Lanarkshire RG Stirling RH West Lothian 460 Northern Ireland COVERAGE Applies to all respondents NOTES This variable is included on UA LA Unitary Authority Local Authority and ONS datasets only It is derived using UALAD99 From Autumn 93 to Summer 00 the UACNTY variable included local authorities as well as counties The coding frame changed in Autumn 00 with the introduction of the variable UALA The Autumn 93 to Summer 00 UACNTY coding frame can be found in the LFS User Guide Volume 3 2002 44 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 UALA Unitary Authority L
443. y and is in their final wave of the LFS cycle NOTES New for JM12 Available on ONS and Government only files As of AJ14 this variable has been removed from the questionnaire INTPROB2 Possible reasons behind problems with internet 1 you have difficulty seeing 2 you have difficulty hearing 3 you have difficulty reading or writing 4 you have difficulty using a keyboard or mouse 5 or some other reason FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM12 JM14 COVERAGE Applies if respondent has problems using a computer or internet NOTES New for JM12 Available on ONS and Government only files Please note that this is a multi response variable Please see the note at the beginning of this User Guide regarding this type of variable As of AJ14 this variable has been removed from the questionnaire VETSERV Ever served in armed forces 1 Yes as a Regular in the Royal Navy or Royal Marines 2 Yes as a Regular in the Army 3 Yes as a Regular in the Royal Air Force 4 Yes as a Reservist 5 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from JM14 COVERAGE only Applies to all respondents 16 and above on waves 1 and 5 of the LFS Applies to all waves on the boost questionnaire NOTES New for JM14 Available on ONS and Government only files VETCURR Currently serving in the armed forces 40 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 1 Yes as a Regular 2 Yes as a Reservist 3 No
444. y to get a loan or other financial backing for a job or business 13 Do anything else to find work Summer 94 onwards 1 Visit a Jobcentre 2 Visit a Careers office 3 Visit a Jobclub 4 Have your name on the books of a private employment agency 5 Advertise for jobs in newspapers or journals 6 Answer advertisements in newspapers and journals 7 Study situations vacant in newspapers or journals 8 Apply directly to employers 9 Ask friends relatives colleagues or trade unions about jobs 10 Wait for the results of an application for a job 11 Look for premises or equipment 12 Seek any kind of permit 13 Try to get a loan or other financial backing for a job or business 14 Do anything else to find work FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who are looking for work or a place on a government scheme in the last four weeks NOTES This variable combines the responses of MAINME MAINMS MAINMA to give one variable for the main method of seeking work AVAILABILITY TO START WORK WAIT Whether waiting to take up job 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 92 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents not looking for a place on a government scheme in the last four weeks or were not looking for work in the last four weeks and are aged between 16 and 69 NOTES This question identifies people who although not looking for work were waiting to take up a job already obta
445. y work on a Sunday WCHDAY 7 NOTES Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions WCHMO Whether respondent usually works Monday 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 01 151 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment WCHTU Whether respondent usually works Tuesday 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment WCHWE Whether respondent usually works Wednesday 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment WCHTH Whether respondent usually works Thursday 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment WCHFR Whether respondent usually works Friday 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment WCHSA Whether respondent usually works Saturday 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment WCHSU Whether respondent usually works Sunday 1 Yes 2 No FREQUENCY Spring quarters only from Spring 01 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents in employment 152 Labour Force Survey User Gu
446. year HEALYR 1 NOTES If respondents were receiving medication or treatment they are asked to consider what the situation would be without the medication or treatment The qualifying statement concerning medication or treatment includes the use of a prosthesis i e any artificial device attached to the body as an aid for example an artificial limb a heart pacemaker or a hearing aid except spectacles or contact lenses the use of any other form of aid or equipment such as a wheelchair If someone says their condition does not have any affect on them because it is kept under control by treatment they are still coded 1 For example some people take medication and experience no impairment in their quality of life as a result but without that medication they would die Normal day to day activities are those which are carried out by most people on a daily basis and we are interested in disabilities nealth problems which have a substantial adverse effect respondent s ability to carry out these activities See HEALIM for examples of ways in which a problem may affect the respondent s day to day activities DISCURR Current disability 1 Both current disability and work limiting disabled 2 disabled current disability only 3 Work limiting disabled only 4 Not disabled FREQUENCY Each quarter from Spring 98 JS13 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents of working age and those above working age who indi
447. yed NOTES The illness disability or problem must be one caused or made worse by work and have occurred at some point during the past 12 months Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions Please see User guide 2 for the 2014 definitive routing NUMILL Number of illness caused or made worse by work in last 12 months 8 illnesses or more coded as 8 FREQUENCY JM quarters from JM06 onwards Winter quarters from Winter 04 Winter 05 292 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents who have suffered from an illness that was caused made worse by work in past 12 months ILLWRK 1 NOTES The number of different illnesses a respondent has is recorded here not the number of bouts episodes of the same illness Please see the note at the beginning of this user guide relating to historical quarterly specific questions TYPILL Type of illness caused or made worse by work in last 12 months 1 Bone joint or muscle problems which mainly affect or is connected with arms hands neck or shoulder 2 hips legs or feet 3 back 4 Breathing or lung problems 5 Skin problems 6 Hearing problems 7 Stress depression or anxiety 8 Headache and or eyestrain 9 Heart disease attack other circulatory system 10 Infectious disease virus bacteria 11 Other FREQUENCY JM qua
448. yers in small orgs agriculture Own account workers non professional Own account workers agriculture Lower supervisory occupations Lower technical craft Lower technical process operative Semi routine sales Semi routine services Semi routine technical Semi routine operative Semi routine agricultural Semi routine clerical Semi routine childcare Routine sales and service Routine production Routine technical Routine operative Routine agricultural Never worked Long term unemployed 112 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 15 0 Full time students 16 0 Not classified or inadequately stated 17 0 Not classifiable for other reasons FREQUENCY Each quarter JM11 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents aged 16 NOTES This is a derived variable Please see User Guide 4 for further guidance NSECMJ10 NS SEC major group 50 2010 based 1 Higher managerial and professional 2 Lower managerial and professional 3 Intermediate occupations 4 Small employers and own account workers 5 Lower supervisory and technical 6 Semi routine occupations 7 Routine occupations 8 Never worked unemployed and nec FREQUENCY Each quarter JM11 COVERAGE Applies to all respondents aged 16 NOTES This is a derived variable Please see Volume 4 user guide for further guidance CURRENT EMPLOYMENT EMPMON Months continuously employed Number of months FREQUENCY Summer 93 COVER
449. ying 152 127 25 16 C Manufacturing 3 899 3 549 350 9 D Electricity gas amp air con supply 203 191 12 6 E Water supply sewerage amp waste 282 275 7 2 F Construction 3 020 2 894 126 4 G Distribution 5 028 4 921 107 2 H Transport amp storage 1 920 1 881 39 2 Accommodation amp food services 1 340 1 416 76 6 J Information amp communication 1 308 1 164 144 11 K Financial amp insurance services 1 372 1 336 36 3 L Real estate services 288 328 40 14 M Professional scientific amp technical activities 1 779 2 128 349 20 N Admin amp suppport services 1 291 1 503 212 16 O Public admin amp defence 2 658 2 569 89 3 P Education 3 448 3 677 229 7 Q Health amp social work 4 683 4 741 58 1 R Arts entertainment amp recreation 889 831 58 7 5 Other service activities 833 919 86 10 T Households as employers 161 72 89 55 U Extra territorial 10 52 42 420 Total 34 966 34 966 0 0 Labour Force Survey User Guide Volume 3 Details of LFS variables 2014 Some of the main step changes at Q1 2009 when deriving time series on SIC 2007 basis can be explained further as follows e Sections and Professional Scientific and Technical activities and Administrative amp Support Services gained significantly from people formerly coded to Manufacturing Construction Information and Communication J Recreational R and Activities of households as employers e Manufacturing Section C h

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