| Variable: | OCSCFBF |
| Table: | SBSF |
| Short description: | Social class of working parent/father (1980 classification) of child of sample father |
| Full description: | |
| Coding notes: | 1971-1978: Unused 1979-81: 0=Professional 1=Intermediate 2=Skilled non-manual 3=Skilled manual 4=Partly skilled 5=Unskilled 7=Armed forces 8=Inadequately described occupations, housewives 9=Full-time students, children, independent means, no occupation or handicapped 1983 onwards: Occupation of working father Codes as before except househusbands in 9 |
| Notes: | Only births to sample fathers in 1971-78 and 1981 were linked to the LS. Social class should read 'Social class as defined by occupation' |
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| Source: | Draft entry for stillbirths (Form 308): Question 6 and Box H |
| Former name of variable: | |
| Derived: | N |
| Derivation: | Not available |
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| 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), page 342 (stillbirth registration draft entry form), page 25 and page 95 (general details), pp. 99-101 and page 103 (comparability), page 108 and page 136 (data quality). |