Metadata - Variables and Classifications

Accommodation type

Activity last week

Adult lifestage

Adults in employment, number in household

Age

Age of arrival in the UK

Aged 65 and over indicator

Carers in household with economic activity

Cars or vans, number of

Central heating type in household

Civil Parish 1930

Communal establishment type

Community Health Partnership 2012

Concealed families

Council Area 2011

Country of birth

Country of birth classification

Dependent child indicator

Dependent children in family

Dependent children in household

Detailed Characteristic (DC) Postcode Sector

Distance travelled to work or place of study

Dwelling number

(Type of) family classified according to characteristics of persons in generation 1 of family

(Type of) family classified according to characteristics of persons in generation 2 of family

Economic activity

Electoral Ward 2007

Employment status

English language proficiency, spoken

English language skills: 9-way classification

Ethnic group of household reference person

Ethnicity classification codes

Ever worked indicator

Extra living arrangements

Family reference person

Gaelic language skills: 9-way classification

Gaelic language skills: comparison of sex of adults in a household with any Gaelic language skills

Gaelic language skills: proportion of adults in household with any Gaelic language skills

Geography

Grandparent family

Health Board Area 2006

Health Board Area 2014

Highest level of qualification

Hours worked (grouped)

Household composition

Household composition (alternative)

Household deprivation classification

Household lifestage

Household reference person

Household spaces in shared dwellings, number of

Household type (alternative)

Industry

Inhabited Island 2011

Kinship

Language classification

Language proficiency, spoken English

Language used at home

Length of residence in the UK

Living arrangements

Local Characteristic (LC) Postcode Sector

Long-term health condition: nature of condition

Long-term health condition: number of conditions

Long-term health problem or disability

Persons with a limiting long-term health problem or disability in a household with age

Marital and civil partnership status

Method of travel to place of work or study

Method of travel to place of work or study of people in a household

Migrant indicator

Multiple ethnic groups in household

National identity

National identity classification

National Park 2010

National Statistics Socio-economic classification (NS-SeC)

Nature of long-term health condition

NS-SeC of household Reference Person

Number of long-term health conditions

Number of workers in generation 1 of family

Occupancy rating

Occupancy status

Occupation

Output Area 2011

People limited by a long-term health problem or disability, number in household

Persons aged 17 or over in households

Persons per room, number in household

Position in establishment

Postcode Sector

Proficiency in spoken English

Provision of unpaid care

Qualification, highest level of

Reason for Placeholder

Religion

Religion (grouped)

Religion classification

Rooms, number of

Schoolchild or full-time student indicator

Schoolchildren and students living away during term time, number in household

Scots language skills: 9-way classification

Scottish Parliamentary Region and Constituency 2011

Settlement 2010

Sex

SNS Data Zone 2001

SNS Data Zone 2011

Social grade (approximated)

Student accommodation

Students living away from home during term time (aged 4 and over)

Tenure of household

Term-time address indicator

Transport to place of work or study

Transport to place of work or study of people in a household

UK Parliamentary Constituency 2005

Unemployment history

Year last worked

Year of arrival in the UK