Figure 3
The horizontal bar chart is titled “Self-Employed Population: Occupational Classification”. The horizontal axis shows percentage values and ranges from 0 percent to 30 percent in increments of 5 percent. The vertical axis lists nine occupational categories labeled from top to bottom as follows: “S O C 1: Managers, directors and senior officials”, “S O C 2: Professional occupations”, “S O C 3: Associate professional and technical occupations”, “S O C 4: Administrative and secretarial occupations”, “S O C 5: Skilled trades occupations”, “S O C 6: Caring, leisure and other service occupations”, “S O C 7: Sales and customer service occupations”, “S O C 8: Process, plant and machine operatives”, and “S O C 9: Elementary occupations”. Each category has a horizontal bar that represents the share of the self-employed population in the corresponding occupational group. The data for the bars are as follows: For S O C 1: Managers, directors and senior officials: 9 percent. For S O C 2: Professional occupations: 20 percent. For S O C 3: Associate professional and technical occupations: 17 percent. For S O C 4: Administrative and secretarial occupations: 3 percent. For S O C 5: Skilled trades occupations: 24 percent. For S O C 6: Caring, leisure and other service occupations: 9 percent. For S O C 7: Sales and customer service occupations: 3 percent. For S O C 8: Process, plant and machine operatives: 10 percent. For S O C 9: Elementary occupations: 6 percent. Note: All numerical data values are approximated.UK occupational classification of the self-employed population. Source: The UK Office for National Statistics (ONS, 2022b)