Download or read book The National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification: Origins, Development and Use written by Office for National Statistics and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-11-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work describes in detail the development of the NS-SEC, the UK government standard classification system, including the rebasing following changes to the Standard Occupation Classification in 2000. It will be invaluable for anyone using statistics based on NS-SEC or implementing the system into a new data collection, and for anyone researching generally in the social sciences.