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LS variable metadata
| SOCS7 |
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| Table | ME71 1971 Census - LS members |
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| Short description | Social class - statistics code. 1971. |
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| Source | 1971 Census. Questions B16 and B17. |
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| Code notes | |
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Variable coding
| Value | Label |
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| 0 | I Professional |
| 1 | II Intermediate |
| 2 | IIIN Skilled nonmanual |
| 3 | IIIM Skilled manual |
| 4 | IV Partly Skilled |
| 5 | V Unskilled |
| 7 | Armed forces |
| 8 | Inadequately described |
| 9 | Students, independent means, permanently sick, housewives |
| space | Not applicable or no 1971 Census record |
| -1 | Child |
References
| Refnum | Reference |
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| 643 | See LS Technical Volume (Hattersley and Creeser, 1995) pp. 263-265, pp. 62-65. |
Additional information
| Value | Label |
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| id | 3550 |
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| m204name | PAABME71 |
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| fullname | (ME71)SOCS7 |
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| description | |
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| codedas | MAIN |
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| source | 1971 Census. Questions B16 and B17. |
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| derived | Y |
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| codelist | Y |
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| formerly | SOCS |
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| restricted | N |
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| format | Numeric |
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| length | 2 |
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| occurs | 1 |
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| nmsasname | S22126 |
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| sasname | S21226 |
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| keyword | Socio-economic |
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| classification | |
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| comvarind | |
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| comvartime | |
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| field0 | ME71 |
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