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Knowing your Customers - Identifying Market Segments - Social Class

Registrar General's Grouping:

  • Class 1 - Higher managerial and professional
  • Class 2 - Lower managerial and professional
  • Class 3 - Intermediate occupations
  • Class 4 - Small employers, self employed
  • Class 5 - Lower supervisory
  • Class 6 - Semi routine
  • Class 7 - Routine
  • Class 8 - Long term unemployed/never employed

Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) Grouping:

  • A - Higher managerial, professional and administrative
  • B - Middle management, professional and administrative
  • C1 - Supervisory, clerical and junior management
  • C2 - Skilled manual workers
  • D - Semi and unskilled manual workers
  • E - Pensioners, casual workers, unemployed

The National Statistics Socio-economic Classification Analytic Classes (NS-SEC):

  • 1 - Higher managerial and professional occupations
  • 1.1 - Large employers and higher managerial occupations
  • 1.2 - Higher professional occupations
  • 2 - Lower managerial and professional occupations
  • 3 - Intermediate occupations
  • 4 - Small employers and own account workers
  • 5 - Lower supervisory and technical occupations
  • 6 - Semi-routine occupations
  • 7 - Routine occupations
  • 8 - Never worked and long-term unemployed

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