Census Data Zones,Census Electoral Divisions,Census Intermediate Zones,Census Wards,Council Areas,Counties,Countries,Local Authorities,Local Government Districts,London Boroughs,Lower Super Output Areas,Merging Local Authorities,Merging Wards and Electoral Divisions,Metropolitan Districts,Middle Super Output Areas,Non-Metropolitan Districts,Output Areas,Regions,Small Areas,Super Output Areas,Unitary Authorities
Office for National Statistics; National Records of Scotland; Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency; UK Data Service. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5257/census/aggregate-2011-2
Country level down to Output Areas and Small Areas
**Dataset population:** Persons in households **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](https://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/classifications/current-standard-classifications/soc2010/soc2010-volume-3-ns-sec--rebased-on-soc2010--user-manual/index.html). 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.
NS-SeC (National Statistics Socio-economic Classification) of Household Reference Persons 2011
Office for National Statistics; National Records of Scotland; Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency; UK Data Service.
NS-SeC (National Statistics Socio-economic Classification) of HRP Definition
Codes as headers, descriptions in separate file. UK coverage where available