jlsoc90

Last job: SOC 1990

Standard Occupational Classification 1990 (SOC 1990) of last job. Full 3-digit version for Special Licence release only. This is applicable to respondents who have not been in paid employment in the last week but were in paid employment in the past. The classification is coded post-field using the respondent’s description of the job. In the first two waves of Understanding Society the description was first coded to the code frame of SOC 2000. From Wave 3 onward, job descriptions 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. Currently unavailable for Waves 3 onward.

See A_JLSOC00 A_JLSOC10
See RJLSOC on BHPS data file RINDRESP

Datafile

• indresp

Index terms

• Derived Variables
• Socio-demographic Characteristics
• Special Licence Variables
• Employment: Industrial and Occupational Classification

Derived variable note:

Standard Occupational Classification 1990 (SOC 1990) of last job. Full 3-digit version for Special Licence release only. This is applicable to respondents who have not been in paid employment in the last week but were in paid employment in the past. The classification is coded post-field using the respondent's description of the job. In the first two waves of Understanding Society the description was first coded to the code frame of SOC 2000. From Wave 3 onward, job descriptions 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. Currently unavailable for Waves 3 onward.

See A_JLSOC00 A_JLSOC10
See RJLSOC on BHPS data file RINDRESP