1 | Large employers and higher managerial and professional occupations | Directors of major organisations; officers in armed forces; senior officers in national government; clergy; medical practitioners; higher education teaching professionals |
2 | Lower managerial and professional occupations | Journalists, newspaper editors; musicians; nurses; paramedics; school teachers |
3 | Intermediate occupations | Graphic designers; medical secretaries; travel agents; ambulance staff (excluding paramedics); police officers (sergeant and below) |
4 | Small employers and own account workers | Farmers; hotel managers; product designers; roofers; taxi-cab drivers |
5 | Lower supervisory and technical occupations | Bakers; electricians; gardeners; road construction operatives; train drivers |
6 | Semi-routine occupations | Dental nurses; farm workers; housekeepers; scaffolders; traffic wardens |
7 | Routine occupations | Butchers; cleaners, domestics; furniture makers; labourers in building and woodworking trades; waiters, waitresses |
8 | Never worked and long term unemployed | |
* | Full time students; occupations not stated or inadequately described; not classifiable for other reasons | |