UK DATA ARCHIVE DOCUMENTATION 4357 - 1991 Census Ethnic Group Occupations Data Archive processing standards --------------------------------- The data were processed to the UK Data Archive's 'B' standard. A substantial series of checks was carried out to ensure the quality of the data and documentation. Firstly, checks made were that number of cases and variables matched the depositor's records. Secondly, logical checks were performed on a sample of 30 +10% of the remaining nominal (categorical) variables had values within the range defined (either by value labels or in the depositor's documentation). Thirdly, any data or documentation that breached confidentiality rules were altered or suppressed to preserve anonymity. All notable and/or outstanding problems discovered are detailed under the Data and documentation problems below. Data and Documentation problems ------------------------------- None were encountered Documentation ------------- No electronic or hard copy documentation was received. There is therefore no User Guide to accompany the dataset. A brief description of the data was supplied with the Data Archive's depositor forms and is reproduced below for users' information: These data are derived from the 1991 Great Britain Census of Population. Data are for 10% of the population in England and Wales. These data were prepared for the ESRC Project 'Ethnicity, Sex and Motherhood: Occupational Segregation and Disadvantage in Women's Working Lives'. One of the aims of this project was to examine patterns of occupational segregation by both sex and by ethnic group at a more detailed level than is possible with publicly-available data. The data consist of two aggregate tables (one for men and one for women) that cross-tabulate occupation (371 SOC code) by ethnic group (10 codes) by full/part time and employed/self employed. The tables include 1,198,159 men and 939,686 women; 2,137,845 in total. The 10 ethnic groups are: white, black Caribbean, black African, black other, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Chinese, other Asian, other The occupational unit group is the SOC, Standard Occupational Code. The data are further broken down into full or part time, defined as follows: Full timers are those who work 31 or more hours per week, except teaching, where 25 or more hours count as full time. Part timers work 30 hours or less, 24 or less for teachers. Those who did not state their hours on the Census form are also shown.