Add employment sector (public/private) and SIC industry input variables#1785
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Add Person-level input variables describing the employer sector (public/ private) and SIC 2007 industry division of a person's main job, so the model can identify public-sector workers and support industry-level analysis. Populated from FRS mjobsect/sic in policyengine-uk-data. Closes #1784 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The dataset now writes the employment_sector and sic_industry_division variables, which are defined in policyengine-uk 2.89.2 (PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk#1785). Update the pin and frozen lock so CI installs a model that recognises them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What this does
Adds two Person-level input variables so PolicyEngine UK can represent employer sector and industry — which it currently cannot (the only employment classification is
employment_status, which captures employed/self-employed × FT/PT but not who employs the person).employment_sector—Enum(EmploymentSector):NOT_EMPLOYED,PRIVATE,PUBLIC. Direct public/private flag for the main job.sic_industry_division—int: SIC 2007 division of the main job (0 if unknown). Division 84 = public administration & defence.Both are unpopulated defaults here; the companion
policyengine-uk-dataPR fills them from the FRSmjobsectandsicfields, following the same passthrough pattern used foremployment_status,region, andtenure_type.Why
Enables identifying public-sector workers (e.g. public-sector pay reforms) and cutting analysis by sector/industry. The backing FRS fields are well-populated:
mjobsectcovers ≈100% of workers;siccovers ~92% of adults.Ordering
Must merge before the companion data PR, since the dataset build needs these variables to exist.
Closes #1784. Companion: PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk-data#432.
Tests
Verified both variables register in the model and the
EmploymentSectorenum loads (NOT_EMPLOYED/PRIVATE/PUBLIC).🤖 Generated with Claude Code