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Unemployment history

  • Mnemonic reference

    UNEMPHISTPS11

Definition

Unemployment history defines the year that a person last worked. People in full-time and part-time employment are not counted in this variable.

Classification

Total number of categories 14

Code Name
01 Short-term unemployed, Last worked in 2011
02 Short-term unemployed, Last worked in 2010
03 Long-term unemployed, Last worked in 2009
04 Long-term unemployed, Last worked in 2008
05 Long-term unemployed, Last worked in 2007
06 Long-term unemployed, Last worked in 2006
07 Last worked in 2001-2005, Last worked in 2005
08 Last worked in 2001-2005, Last worked in 2004
09 Last worked in 2001-2005, Last worked in 2003
10 Last worked in 2001-2005, Last worked in 2002
11 Last worked in 2001-2005, Last worked in 2001
12 Last worked before 2001
13 Never worked
XX No code required - comprises schoolchildren and full-time students living away from home during term time, all those under the age of 16 and people in work in the week before census day.

Source question or variables

ACTLW (Derived variable)

AGE (Derived variable)

AVAILWORK (Primary variable)

DOB (Primary variable)

EVERWORK (Primary variable)

EMPLYGRP (Primary variable)

LASTYRWRKPS11 (Primary variable)

LOOKWORK (Primary variable)

OTHACT (Primary variable)

STUDENT (Primary variable)

TERMIND (Primary variable)

WAITWORK (Primary variable)

Known Quality Issues

There are a number of people in the data who have an age at last year worked (LASTYRWRKPS11) of less than 16.  Although not impossible, this seems unlikely in the cases when the age at last year worked is very young.  This data issue was not identified during the edit and imputation process, but was noted later and investigated.  Some of these records are due to the incorrect scanning of the value for last year worked, however other reasons included issues with scanning of the date of birth.  There were other cases where the data was accurately captured but resulted in implausible values.

Analysis of the impact of this error on the data reported on UNEMPHISTPS11 was carried out.  Overall 1% of unemployed people have an age last worked of less than 16 years, and 0.1% of cases have age last worked of less than 13 years.