NATIONAL STATISTICS SOCIO-ECONOMIC CLASSIFICATION

The 'National Statistics Socio-economic Classification' (often abbreviated to 'NS-SEC') is the primary social classification in the United Kingdom. Its first major use was on the 2001 UK census. The classification replaced two previous social classifications: Socio-economic Groups and Social Class based on Occupation.
The full version of NS-SEC has 17 main categories and is collapsible down to three categories. Only the three-category version is intended to represent any form of hierarchy. The version intended for most users (the analytic version) has eight categories:
# Higher managerial and professional occupations
# Lower managerial and professional occupations
# Intermediate occupations
# Small employers and own account workers
# Lower supervisory and technical occupations
# Semi-routine occupations
# Routine occupations
# Never worked and long-term unemployed
The three-category version is reduced to following categories:
#Higher occupations
#Intermediate occupations
#Lower occupations

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See also

References

See also

★ ACORN (demographics)

★ NRS social grade

References

★ The National Statistics Socio-economic Classification

★ Rose, D. and O'Reilly, K. (eds) (1997) ''Constructing Classes: Towards a New Social Classification for the UK''. Swindon: ESRC/ONS.

★ Rose, D. and O'Reilly, K. (1998) ''The ESRC Review of Government Social Classifications: Final Report''. London: The Stationery Office.