Home > Data and documentation > Main Survey > Variables

Mainstage Variable

ivea

Employment section: respondent alone

Datafile

indresp

Index term

Interview Characteristics and Conditions

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
proxy	-7	965	6.69%
Not mentioned	0	3886	26.95%
Respondent alone	1	9568	66.36%
	Total	14419	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
proxy	-7	948	6.37%
Not mentioned	0	4044	27.19%
Respondent alone	1	9881	66.44%
	Total	14873	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	2	0.01%
proxy	-7	977	6.35%
Not mentioned	0	4145	26.93%
Respondent alone	1	10268	66.71%
	Total	15392	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	1	0.01%
proxy	-7	982	6.29%
Not mentioned	0	4420	28.3%
Respondent alone	1	10214	65.4%
	Total	15617	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	1	0.01%
proxy	-7	1014	6.42%
Not mentioned	0	4662	29.52%
Respondent alone	1	10114	64.05%
	Total	15791	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	6	0.04%
proxy	-7	891	5.49%
Not mentioned	0	4813	29.64%
Respondent alone	1	10528	64.84%
	Total	16238	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	4	0.02%
inapplicable	-8	5169	31.14%
proxy	-7	889	5.36%
Respondent alone	1	10535	63.48%
	Total	16597	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	1	0.01%
inapplicable	-8	6412	33.99%
proxy	-7	801	4.25%
Respondent alone	1	11653	61.76%
	Total	18867	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
inapplicable	-8	5609	35.95%
proxy	-7	522	3.35%
Respondent alone	1	9472	60.71%
	Total	15603	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	1	0.01%
inapplicable	-8	5634	36.06%
proxy	-7	435	2.78%
Respondent alone	1	9553	61.15%
	Total	15623	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	5	0.05%
inapplicable	-8	3964	36.35%
proxy	-7	358	3.28%
Respondent alone	1	6579	60.32%
	Total	10906	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	18	0.16%
inapplicable	-8	4034	36.04%
proxy	-7	365	3.26%
Respondent alone	1	6776	60.54%
	Total	11193	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	3	0.03%
inapplicable	-8	3395	35.97%
proxy	-7	301	3.19%
Respondent alone	1	5739	60.81%
	Total	9438	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	11	0.12%
inapplicable	-8	3344	36.16%
proxy	-7	422	4.56%
Respondent alone	1	5472	59.16%
	Total	9249	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	12	0.13%
inapplicable	-8	3698	39.0%
proxy	-7	421	4.44%
Respondent alone	1	5350	56.43%
	Total	9481	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	19	0.2%
inapplicable	-8	3743	38.99%
proxy	-7	576	6.0%
Respondent alone	1	5262	54.81%
	Total	9600	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	3	0.03%
inapplicable	-8	3918	39.8%
proxy	-7	386	3.92%
Respondent alone	1	5538	56.25%
	Total	9845	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	1	0.01%
proxy	-7	352	3.43%
Not mentioned	0	4724	46.02%
Respondent alone	1	5187	50.54%
	Total	10264	100.0%

Code creator
0

Create your own Stata code to extract data from the main end user licence Understanding Society dataset. Find out more

Saved variables

What else is Understanding Society doing?

A family celebrating

Understanding Society Wave 15

The latest wave of UKHLS is now available from the UK Data Service

Ariel view of a UK town

Understanding Society Wave 15 – what can data users expect?

The latest wave of data is out, so what’s included and what’s changed in this release?

Sushi Rolls not Gender Roles by Jeanne Menjoulet

Understanding Society used for Gender Equality Index

New tool measures men’s and women’s socioeconomic outcomes across UK

Photo of talk at an Understanding Society conference

Understanding Society Biosocial Conference 2026: combining biological and social data

A call for abstracts is now open - present your research at our Biosocial Conference

Email newsletter

Sign up to our newsletter

ESRC Institute for Social and Economic Research University of Essex

The Economic and Social Research Council is the primary funder of the study
The Study is led by a team at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex.