article_snippet: C2 and DE are terms used by marketing professionals to describe the working classes – more than 47 per cent of the UK population.
article_snippet: Our licence fee is so well spent on this man of the people #newsnight' The terms C2s and Ds are marketing terms to describe working class people .
article_snippet: AB (22 per cent of the UK) broadly covers higher and intermediate managerial.
article_snippet: C1 (31 per cent) is supervisory, clerical and junior managerial.
article_snippet: C2 (21 per cent) is skilled manual while DE (26 per cent) is semi-skilled and unskilled, plus the unemployed.
article_snippet: D are working class and E are low grade workers or state pensioners with no other income.