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LS variable metadata
| NSCGP0 |
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| Table | NM01 2001 Census - non-LS members |
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| Short description | Social grade as used by market research industry. 2001. |
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| Source | 2001 Census. |
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| Code notes | |
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Variable coding
| Value | Label |
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| 1 | A. Professional |
| 2 | B. Middle Managers |
| 3 | C1 All other non-manual workers |
| 4 | C2 All skilled manual workers |
| 5 | D All semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers |
| 6 | E On benefit/ Unemployed |
| 7 | Unallocated |
| -6 | Missing (unable to derive due to initial extract only input record) |
| -9 | Not applicable (people aged 15 or under or aged 75 or over) |
Additional information
| Value | Label |
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| id | 5000 |
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| m204name | PAABNM01 |
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| fullname | (NM01)NSCGP0 |
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| description | Social Grade is the socio-economic classification used by the Market Research and Marketing Industries. Although it is not possible to allocate Social Grade precisely from information collected in the Census, the Market Research Society has developed a method for using Census information to provide a good approximation of Social Grade. |
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| codedas | MAIN |
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| source | 2001 Census. |
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| derived | Y |
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| codelist | Y |
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| restricted | N |
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| format | Numeric |
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| length | 2 |
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| classification | |
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| comvarind | |
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| comvartime | |
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