SOCLASS (Social Class (based on occupation))
+------------------------------+---------------------+----------+ | Social class | Resident status | Total | | +----------+----------+ | | |Residents | Visitors | | +------------------------------+----------+----------+----------+ | 1 I Professional | 13540 | 545 | 14085 | | | 4.4% | 8.0% | 4.4% | | | | | | | 2 II Managerial & Technical | 81205 | 1930 | 83135 | | | 26.1% | 28.3% | 26.2% | | | | | | | 3 IIIN Skilled - non-manual | 73471 | 1557 | 75028 | | | 23.7% | 22.9% | 23.6% | | | | | | | 4 IIIM Skilled - manual | 64111 | 886 | 64997 | | | 20.6% | 13.0% | 20.5% | | | | | | | 5 IV Partly skilled | 52067 | 1109 | 53176 | | | 16.8% | 16.3% | 16.8% | | | | | | | 6 V Unskilled | 20589 | 261 | 20850 | | | 6.6% | 3.8% | 6.6% | | | | | | | 7 Armed forces | 1759 | 322 | 2081 | | | .6% | 4.7% | .7% | | | | | | | 8 Inadequately described | 1434 | 62 | 1496 | | | .5% | .9% | .5% | | | | | | | 9 Not stated | 2392 | 141 | 2533 | | | .8% | 2.1% | .8% | | | | | | | Total | 310568 | 6813 | 317381 | | | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | +------------------------------+----------+----------+----------+
Persons are assigned to a social class on the basis of their occupation in the week preceeding the Census, or their most recent paid job held in the previous 10 years. The table omits households with 12+ persons, 0-15 year olds & persons not in paid work within the last 10 years. See Census Definitions 6.1 for further details.
SOCLASS: Social Class - based upon occupation
This is derived from SCLAS as shown below. Information is asked for all those aged 16 and over who were in employment in the week before and census or who has held a job in the previous ten years.
SOCLASS SCLAS - not applicable not present 1 I Professional etc occupations 1 2 II Managerial and technical 2 3 IIIN Skilled occupations - non-manual 3 4 IIIM Skilled occupations - manual 4 5 IV Partly skilled occupations 5 6 V Unskilled occupations 6 7 Armed forces 7 8 Inadequately described 8 9 Not stated 9