Schoolchildren and full-time students away during term-time by NS-SeC (National Statistics Socio-economic Classification) of household reference person 2011

Dataset population: Households with schoolchildren or full-time students living away during term-time

Schoolchildren away during term-time

Schoolchildren and students in full-time education studying away from their family home are treated as usually resident at their term-time address. Only basic demographic information (i.e. name, sex, age, marital status and relationship) is collected at their non-term-time address (their 'home' or 'vacation' address). The information on families, household size and household composition for their non-term-time address does not include them.

NS-SeC of HRP

The National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SeC) provides an indication of socio-economic position based on occupation. It is an Office for National Statistics standard classification.

To assign a person aged 16 to 74 to an NS-SeC category, their occupation title is combined with information about their employment status, whether they are employed or self-employed and whether or not they supervise other employees. Full-time students are recorded in the 'full-time students' category regardless of whether they are economically active or not.

The rebased version of NS-SeC used in census results uses occupation coded to SOC2010. Information about the classification is available here: NS-SEC rebased on SOC2010.

For 'Long-term unemployed', the year last worked is 2009 or earlier. In 2011 Census results, because the census did not ask a question about the number of employees at a person's workplace, the reduced method of deriving NS-SeC (which does not require this information) is used.

The concept of a Household Reference Person (HRP) was introduced in the 2001 Census (in common with other government surveys in 2001/2) to replace the traditional concept of the 'head of the household'. HRPs provide an individual person within a household to act as a reference point for producing further derived statistics and for characterising a whole household according to characteristics of the chosen reference person.