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The National Statistics
Socio-economic
Classification
User Manual
Office for National Statistics
2005 edition
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macmillan
The National Statistics Socio-economic Classification: User Manual
Contents
Contents
Page
List of tables
iv
List of figures
v
Acknowledgements
vi
Introduction to NS-SEC
1
1
History and origins
2
2
Conceptual basis
3
3
Unit of analysis
5
4
Structure and flexibility
6
Classes, categories and sub-categories
7
5
Analytic classes and operational categories
8
6
Category descriptions and operational issues
11
7
Classes and collapses
15
8
Continuity with Social Class and Socio-economic Group
16
How to derive NS-SEC
19
9
The data you need
20
10
The questions to ask
21
11
Understanding SOC2000
23
12
Choosing a derivation method
24
13
Deriving NS-SEC: full, reduced and simplified methods
26
14
Deriving NS-SEC: self-coded method
32
The derivation tables
37
15
Using the derivation tables
38
16
NS-SEC derivation tables based on SOC2000
39
17
NS-SEC derivation tables based on SOC90
67
Appendix A: A note on the derivation tables
99
Related publications
102
References
103
Glossary
104