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LS variable metadata
| SOCS78 |
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| Table | ME81 1981 Census - LS members |
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| Short description | 1981 Census social class coded to 1970 classification. |
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| Source | 1981 Census. Derived by recoding social class at the 1981 Census using the 1970 classification |
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| Code notes | |
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Variable coding
| Value | Label |
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| 0 | Professional |
| 1 | Intermediate |
| 2 | Skilled non-manual |
| 3 | Skilled manual |
| 4 | Partly skilled |
| 5 | Unskilled |
| 7 | Armed forces |
| 8 | Inadequately described |
| 9 | Students, independent means, permanently sick, housewives |
| space | Not applicable |
| -9 | Not applicable |
References
| Refnum | Reference |
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| 511 | See LS Technical Volume (Hattersley and Creeser, 1995) page 297, page 39, pp. 64-65. |
Additional information
| Value | Label |
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| id | 506 |
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| m204name | PAABME81 |
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| fullname | (ME81)SOCS78 |
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| description | |
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| codedas | MAIN |
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| source | 1981 Census. Derived by recoding social class at the 1981 Census using the 1970 classification |
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| derived | Y |
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| codelist | Y |
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| notes | This variable only applies to 20% of the sample, as it was the result of an exercise on Males aged < 45 only |
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| formerly | SOCS7 |
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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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| sasname | S31139 |
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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 | ME81 |
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