Social class in the United Kingdom assemblers and routine operatives, care workers, elementary storage occupations, customer service occupations, and musicians. The precariat, about 15% of British society, shows poor economic capital, and the lowest scores on every other criterion. Typical occupations include cleaners, van drivers, care workers, carpenters and joiners, caretakers, leisure and travel service occupations, shopkeepers and proprietors, and retail cashiers. The term "underclass" is used to refer to those people who are "chronically unemployed", and in many instances have been for generations. Typical characteristics are: There is a contention that there are homologies between the meaning context and tenor of the abusive popular word
BBC Lab UK people completed the survey. The results were written up in a report in March 2012. The test found clear linkage between impulse buying behaviour and serious financial problems. Over 150,00 people completed the test. The researchers’ findings were published in PLoS One in February 2014. Over 150,000 cases of data plus the recruited GfK survey led to a paper in Sociology. This was synchronised with the publication in March 2013 in the BBC News website of the Great British Class Calculator. The calculator is a web application that asks seven questions from the original survey, and categorises each person into