DHDCLASS: Social class of household head
+--------------------+---------------------+----------+ | Social class of | Resident status | Total | | household head +----------+----------+ | | |Residents | Visitors | | +--------------------+----------+----------+----------+ | 1 I Professional | 10208 | 149 | 10357 | | | 6.4% | 14.0% | 6.5% | | | | | | | 2 II Managerial & | 47677 | 337 | 48014 | | technical | 29.9% | 31.6% | 29.9% | | | | | | | 3 IIIN Skilled - | 23341 | 205 | 23546 | | non-manual | 14.6% | 19.2% | 14.7% | | | | | | | 4 IIIM Skilled - | 42532 | 120 | 42652 | | manual | 26.7% | 11.3% | 26.6% | | | | | | | 5 IV Partly skilled| 24113 | 173 | 24286 | | | 15.1% | 16.2% | 15.1% | | | | | | | 6 V Unskilled | 8527 | 38 | 8565 | | | 5.3% | 3.6% | 5.3% | | | | | | | 7 Armed forces | 1292 | 17 | 1309 | | | .8% | 1.6% | .8% | | | | | | | 8 Inadequately | 809 | 13 | 822 | | described | .5% | 1.2% | .5% | | | | | | | 9 Not stated | 903 | 13 | 916 | | | .6% | 1.2% | .6% | | | | | | | Total | 159402 | 1065 | 160467 | | | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | +--------------------+----------+----------+----------+
The head of household is usually taken to be the first person entered on the Census form, provided they are a) 16 years or older and b) usually resident. Omits households with 12+ persons and households headed by an under-16 year old. Also omits those not economically active within the ten year period prior to the 1991 Census.
DHDCLASS is derived from SOCHEAD, which gives a value of 0 to all non-household heads or 'heads' aged under 16, and gives to heads of household aged 16 or above a value which is equivalent to the value of that person'ssocial class. DHDCLASS selects the highest value of SOCHEAD across each household, which will correspond to the social class of the household head.
DHDCLASS
1 I Professional etc occupations 2 II Managerial & technical 3 IIIN Skilled occupations: non-manual 4 IIIM Skilled occupations: manual 5 IV Partly skilled occupations 6 V Unskilled occupations 7 Armed forces 8 Inadequately described 9 Not stated
SOCHEAD derives the social class of household heads. It is derived from HEAD and ECONPRIM.
CODE MEANING
0 Not the household head
1-10 Social class of household head HEAD (1), SOCLASS (1-9)