ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN'> <html><head><title>Title Page</title><meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'><style type='text/css'>h1 { margin:0px 0px 0px 0px; padding:0px; font-size:large; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:center; color:#000; }h2 { font-size:medium; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:10px 0px -2px 0px; padding:0px; color:#000; }h2.myclass { font-size:medium; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:10px 0px -2px 0px; padding:0px; color:#000; text-align:center;}h3 { font-size:13px; font-weight:700; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:0px 0px -1px 0px; padding:0px; color:#07a; }h3.myclass { font-size:13px; font-weight:700; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:0px 0px -1px 0px; padding:0px; color:#07a; text-align:center;}h4 { font-size:x-large; font-family:garamond, serif; color:#09f; text-align:center; margin:0px 0px 5px 0px; padding:0px;}h5 { font-size:13px; font-family:verdana, arial,sans-serif; font-weight:600; margin:0px 0px 5px 50px; padding:0px;}i.myclass{color:#07a;}</style></head><body> <H1> Workplace Employment Relations Survey, 2004: Teaching Dataset </H1> <H3 class='myclass'> UKDA study number:5897</h3> <H2 class='myclass'>Principal Investigators </H2> <H3 class='myclass'> Forth, J.<br>Stokes, L.<br>National Institute of Economic and Social Research<br> </H3> <H2 class='myclass'>Original Data Producer</H2> <H3 class='myclass'> Department of Trade and Industry. Employment Markets Analysis and Research<br> </H3> <H2 class='myclass'>Sponsors</H2> <H3 class='myclass'>Department of Trade and Industry<br>Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service<br>Economic and Social Research Council<br>Policy Studies Institute<br>National Centre for Social Research<br></H3> <H2 class='myclass'>Distributed by</H2> <H3 class='myclass'>UK Data Archive, University of Essex, Colchester.</H3> <H3 class='myclass'> October 2008 (2nd Edition) </H3> <div style='page-break-before:always'></div> <H1>&nbsp;</H1><H1>Bibliographic Citation</H1> <H5> All works which use or refer to these materials should acknowledge these sources by means of bibliographic citation. To ensure that such source attributions are captured for bibliographic indexes, citations must appear in footnotes or in the reference section of publications. The bibliographic citation for this data collection is: </h5> <H5> Forth, J. and Stokes, L., <i> Workplace Employment Relations Survey, 2004: Teaching Dataset</i> [computer file]. <i>2nd Edition.</i> Department of Trade and Industry. Employment Markets Analysis and Research, [original data producer(s)]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Archive [distributor], October 2008. SN: 5897, http://dx.doi.org/ </h5><H1>&nbsp;</H1> <H1 >Acknowledgement</h1> <h5> Any publication, whether printed, electronic or broadcast, based wholly or in part on these materials, should acknowledge the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections (if different) and the UK Data Archive, and to acknowledge Crown Copyright where appropriate. <br> Any publication, whether printed, electronic or broadcast, based wholly or in part on these materials should carry a statement that the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections (if different) and the UK Data Archive bear no responsibility for their further analysis or interpretation. </h5><H5>&nbsp;</H5> <h5><b>Copyright: </b><br> Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen s Printer for Scotland </h5><H1>&nbsp;</H1> <H1>Disclaimer</H1> <h5> Although all efforts are made to ensure the quality of the materials, neither the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections, nor the UK Data Archive bear any responsibility for the accuracy or comprehensiveness of these materials.<br> </h5><h5>&nbsp;</h5><h5>All rights reserved. No part of these materials may be reproduced, stored in, or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the UK Data Archive.<br><br>UK Data Archive<br> University of Essex<br> Wivenhoe Park<br> Colchester<br> Essex C04 3SQ<br> United Kingdom<br>www.data-archive.ac.uk <br><br> </h5> <h2 style='page-break-before:always'> 5897 . Workplace Employment Relations Survey, 2004: Teaching Dataset<br> (WERS 2004 Teaching Dataset) </h2><h3>&nbsp;</h3> <h3>Depositor:</h3> <h5>National Institute of Economic and Social Research</h5> <h3>Principal Investigators:</h3> <h5>Forth, J. , National Institute of Economic and Social Research</h5> <h5>Stokes, L. , National Institute of Economic and Social Research</h5> <h3>Original Data Producer:</h3> <h5>Department of Trade and Industry. Employment Markets Analysis and Research</h5> <H3>Sponsors:</H3><H5> Department of Trade and Industry<br>Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service<br>Economic and Social Research Council<br>Policy Studies Institute<br>National Centre for Social Research<br> <i class='myclass'> Grant Number:</i> R6-F3-16 </H5> <h3> Abstract: </h3> <h5>The <i>Workplace Employment Relations Survey, 2004: Teaching Dataset</i> is a slimmed down version of the <i>Workplace Employee Relations Survey, 2004: Cross-Section Survey</i>, (WERS) (available at the UKDA under SN 5294). The dataset contains all of the workplaces and employees that participated in the WERS 2004 Cross-Section Survey, but contains only a subset of the data collected in the survey in order to make the dataset more manageable. This subset comprises a selection of the data items collected in the Employee Profile Questionnaire and Management Interview, and a selection of the data items from the Employee Questionnaire. The remaining data items from these components of the survey are excluded, along with all data from the Employee Representative Interview and the Financial Performance Questionnaire. The data from the 1998-2004 Panel Survey are also excluded. <br> <br> This teaching dataset may prove useful to teachers and students of employment relations, human resource management, industrial sociology and labour economics. It may also prove useful to those teaching or studying survey methods because WERS employs a variable probability sampling design which requires the use of weights in the analysis of the survey data. Finally, it may prove useful to those teaching or studying statistics or econometrics because the employee observations are clustered within workplaces, thus providing opportunities for multi-level analysis.<br> <br> Further information can be found at the <a href=http://www.wers2004.info/index.php title ="WERS 2004 Information and Advice Service">WERS 2004 Information and Advice Service</a> web page.<br> <br> For the second edition (October 2008), the Survey of Employers and Matched data files have been updated to include weight variables.<br></h5><h3>Main Topics:</h3><h5>Topics covered in the cross-section management interview include workforce composition, management of personnel and employment relations, recruitment and training, workplace flexibility and the organisation of work, consultation and information, employee representation, payment systems and pay determination, grievance, disciplinary and dispute procedures, equal opportunities, work-life balance and workplace performance. <br> <br> The cross-section survey of employees contains questions on working hours, job influence, job satisfaction, working arrangements, training and skills, information and consultation, employee representation, and pay.<br></h5> <h3>Coverage: </h3><h5> <br><i class='myclass'>Dates of Fieldwork: </i> February 2004 - April 2005 <br><i class='myclass'>Country: </i> Great Britain <br><i class='myclass'>Spatial Units: </i> No spatial unit. <br><i class='myclass'>Observation Units: </i> Individuals; Institutions/organisations <br><i class='myclass'>Kind of Data: </i> Numeric data </h5> <h3>Universe Sampled: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Location of Units of Observation:</i> National <br><i class='myclass'>Population:</i> All establishments in Britain with five or more employees and operating in Sections D-O of the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC 2003). </h5> <h3>Methodology: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Time Dimensions: </i> Cross-sectional (one-time) study<br> This study is taken from WERS 2004 which is the fifth in the survey series, with previous surveys carried out in 1980, 1984, 1990 and 1998. <br><i class='myclass'>Sampling Procedures: </i> One-stage stratified or systematic random sample <br><i class='myclass'>Number of Units:</i> Managers Questionnaire (xs04_mqv2_teaching_dataset): 2,295 cases; Survey of Employees (xs04_seqv2_teaching_dataset) 22,451. <br><i class='myclass'>Method of Data Collection: </i> Face-to-face interview; Self-completion <br><i class='myclass'>Data Sources: </i> The study contains data from WERS 2004 Cross-Section dataset available at the UKDA under SN 5294. <br><i class='myclass'>Weighting: </i> Weighting used. See documentation for details. </h5><h3>Language(s) of Written Materials: </h3> <h5>Study Description: English<br>Study Documentation: English<br></h5> <h3>Access: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Access Conditions: </i> The depositor has specified that registration is required and standard conditions of use apply. The depositor may be informed about usage. See <a href='http://www.esds.ac.uk/orderingdata/termsandConditions.asp'>terms and conditions</a> for further information. <br><i class='myclass'>Availability: </i> ESDS Access and Preservation, UK Data Archive <br><i class='myclass'>Contact: </i></b> Help desk: help@esds.ac.uk<br> </h5> <h3>Date of First Release:</h3><h5> 7 August 2008<br></h5> <h3>Date of Latest Release: </h3><h5>01 October 2008 ( 2nd Edition )</h5> <h3> Copyright: </h3> <h5>Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen s Printer for Scotland</h5> <br><br> <h3> File last updated: </h3> <h5>19 December 2011</h5> </body></html>