Subject of highest qualification - QUALSUB

Value	Label	Count	Percentage
-9	Not applicable	999058	89.51
-8	Not stated	268	0.02
1	Education	15654	1.40
2	Clinical	2547	0.23
3	Medical/Health	4129	0.37
4	Pharmacy/acology	853	0.08
5	Nursing	14321	1.28
6	Chem eng/tech	879	0.08
7	Civil eng	3696	0.33
8	Electrical eng	3494	0.31
9	Mech/Agr eng	4209	0.38
10	Gen/Other eng	4512	0.40
11	Mining/Metalgy	627	0.06
12	Surveying	1173	0.11
13	Tech/Manufacture	1891	0.17
14	Agr/forestry/vet	1321	0.12
15	Biological sc	2730	0.24
16	Maths/Comp/Stats	3253	0.29
17	Physics	1728	0.15
18	Chemistry	2423	0.22
19	Environmental sc	3454	0.31
20	Management stud	7677	0.69
21	Econ/Geog	2578	0.23
22	Accountancy	4608	0.41
23	Government/Law	3883	0.35
24	Psyc/Soc/Anthr	4982	0.45
25	Comb Social stud	1713	0.15
26	Architecture	916	0.08
27	Vocational stud	3149	0.28
28	English	1843	0.17
29	Lang sub/stud	1324	0.12
30	W Euro lang stud	1698	0.15
31	Classical studs	1387	0.12
32	Hist/Archaeology	1992	0.18
33	General Arts	2184	0.20
34	Art and Design	2655	0.24
35	Art/Design/Music	1372	0.12

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Universe: Omits persons with no higher qualifications

Notes

This is derived in a similar way as for QUALSUB in the household SAR but the values of QMSUB ar emore highly aggregated, giving a different distribution. This variable is not, therefore, directly comparable in the two datasets.

See Census Definitions 7.88-7.89 for further details, and the Glossary for a further description of the categories.

Further information on this variable may be available from the documentation on the SARs website http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/sars/1991.

Derivation information for this variable may be available.