Current job: SOC 2000: Job 5
This variable is only available in the Special Licence (SN 6931) and Secure Access (SN 6676) datasets.
Standard Occupational Classification 2000 (SOC2000) of current job 5. Full 4-digit version for Special Licence release (SN6931) only. Current job 5 refers to being in paid employment during the last week, even if the respondent was away from work in that week. The classification is coded post-field using the respondent’s description of the job. From Wave 2 onwards the job description is collected using proactive dependent interviewing. Respondents who held a current job 5 in their last personal interview (i.e., when their interview outcome was “full adult interview”) and for whom a valid Standard Occupational Classification code was available were asked whether the job description provided in that interview was still true. If the description has changed, the new description was collected and coded post-field. The Standard Occupational Classification code from the last interview is used if the description was confirmed. Note that information from interviews with proxies is not fed forward. In the first two waves of Understanding Society the description was first coded to the code frame of SOC 2000. From Wave 3 onward, descriptions of new jobs were first coded to the code frame of SOC 2010 and the code for earlier versions of the classification was computed from a look-up file. For detailed information on the classification, see SOC 2000.
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Derived variable note:
Standard Occupational Classification 2000 (SOC2000) of current job 5. Full 4-digit version for Special Licence release (SN6931) only. Current job 5 refers to being in paid employment during the last week, even if the respondent was away from work in that week. The classification is coded post-field using the respondent's description of the job. From Wave 2 onwards the job description is collected using proactive dependent interviewing. Respondents who held a current job 5 in their last personal interview (i.e., when their interview outcome was "full adult interview") and for whom a valid Standard Occupational Classification code was available were asked whether the job description provided in that interview was still true. If the description has changed, the new description was collected and coded post-field. The Standard Occupational Classification code from the last interview is used if the description was confirmed. Note that information from interviews with proxies is not fed forward. In the first two waves of Understanding Society the description was first coded to the code frame of SOC 2000. From Wave 3 onward, descriptions of new jobs were first coded to the code frame of SOC 2010 and the code for earlier versions of the classification was computed from a look-up file. For detailed information on the classification, see SOC 2000.
| Value label | Value | Absolute frequency | Relative frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| inapplicable | -8 | 35453 | 99.95% |
| refusal | -2 | 3 | 0.01% |
| Advertising and public relations managers | 1134 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Further education teaching professionals | 2312 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Primary and nursery education teaching professionals | 2315 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Teaching professionals n.e.c. | 2319 | 2 | 0.01% |
| IT user support technicians | 3132 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Nurses | 3211 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Broadcasting associate professionals | 3432 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Construction trades n.e.c. | 5319 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Care assistants and home carers | 6115 | 2 | 0.01% |
| Educational assistants | 6124 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Kitchen and catering assistants | 9223 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Cleaners, domestics | 9233 | 2 | 0.01% |
| Total | 35471 | 100.0% |
| Value label | Value | Absolute frequency | Relative frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| missing | -9 | 1 | 0.0% |
| inapplicable | -8 | 27988 | 99.96% |
| refusal | -2 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Teaching professionals n.e.c. | 2319 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Authors, writers | 3412 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Photographers and audio-visual equipment operators | 3434 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Estimators, valuers and assessors | 3531 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Vocational and industrial trainers and instructors | 3563 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Van drivers | 8212 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Mobile machine drivers and operatives n.e.c. | 8229 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Cleaners, domestics | 9233 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Total | 27998 | 100.0% |
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