| Variable: | OCSSFBF |
| Table: | LBSF |
| Short description: | Employment status of working parent/father (1980 classification) -birth to sample father |
| Full description: | |
| Coding notes: | 1971-1978: unused 1979-82: 1=Employee (including housewives) 2=Manager 3=Foreman 4=Self-employed with employees 5=Self-employed without employees 9=Armed forces, full-time students, children, independent means, no occupation or handicapped 1983 onwards: Occupation of working father. Codes as before except housewives included in category 9, and Armed forces in 1 and 2 |
| Notes: | Only births to sample fathers in 1971-78 and 1981 were linked to the LS |
| Units of measurement: | |
| Source: | Draft entry for Births (Form 309) or stillbirths (Form 308): Question 6 and Box H |
| Former name of variable: | |
| Derived: | N |
| Derivation: | Not available |
| Subject: | |
| Date range: | |
| Keyword: | Socio-economic |
| Classification: | |
| Comparable variables for other individuals: | |
| Comparable variables for other times: | |
| Restricted: | N |
| Data type: | Numeric |
| Length of field: | 2 |
| Reference 1: | See LS Technical Volume (Hattersley and Creeser, 1995) p342 (live birth registration draft entry form),p345 (record of live birth form),pp24-25,pp95-96,p108 (general details), pp99-101 (comparability of data), p108 & p136 (data quality). |