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England and Wales

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Sex,Economic Activity,Economically Inactive,Employee,NS-SeC,Retired,Permanently sick/disabled,Student,Unemployed

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This dataset provides 2001 Census estimates that classify usual residents aged 16 to 74 in England and Wales by sex and NS-SeC by economic activity. The estimates are as at census day, 29 April 2001.

NS-SeC stands for National Statistics Socio-economic Classification

In the NS-SeC classification, all full-time students are recorded in the 'full-time students' category regardless of whether they are economically active or not.

For long-term unemployed year last worked is 1999 or earlier.

'Not classifiable for other reasons' includes people whose occupation has not been coded and those who cannot be allocated to an NS-SeC category.

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Sex (3 categories)

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NS-SeC (16 categories)

'Not classified' includes people who have not been coded, those who cannot be allocated to an NS-SeC category and all full-time students regardless of whether they are economically active or inactive.

'Not classifiable for other reasons' includes people whose occupation has not been coded and those who cannot be allocated to an NS-SeC category.

For long-term unemployed year last worked is 1999 or earlier.

In the NS-SeC classification, all full-time students are recorded in the 'full-time students' category regardless of whether they are economically active or not.

NS-SeC stands for National Statistics Socio-economic Classification.

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Economic Activity (10 categories)

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