Skills and Employment Survey, 2012

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Skills Survey is a series of nationally representative sample surveys of individuals in employment aged 20-60 years old (since 2006, the surveys have additionally sampled those aged 61-65). The surveys aim to investigate the employed workforce in Great Britain. Although they were not originally planned as part of a series and had different funding sources and objectives, continuity in questionnaire design has meant the surveys now provide a unique, national representative picture of change in British workplaces as reported by individual job holders. This allows analysts to examine how various aspects of job quality and skill levels have changed over 30 years.The first surveys in the series were carried out in 1986 and 1992. These surveys also form part of this integrated data series, and are known as the Social Change and Economic Life Initiative (SCELI) and Employment in Britain (EIB) studies respectively.The 1997 survey was the first to collect primarily data on skills using the job requirements approach. This focused on collecting data on objective indicators of job skill as reported by respondents. The 2001 survey assessed how much had changed between the two surveys and a third survey in 2006 enhanced the time series data, while providing a resource for analysing skill and job requirements in the British economy at that time. The 2012 survey aimed to again add to the time series data and, coinciding as it did with a period of economic recession, to provide insight into whether workers in Britain felt under additional pressure/demand from employers as a result of redundancies and cut backs. In addition, a series dataset, covering 1986, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2006 and 2012 is also available . A follow-up to the 2012 survey was conducted in 2014, revisiting respondents who had agreed to be interviewed again. The 2017 survey was the seventh in the series, designed to examine to what extent pressures had continued as a result of austerity and economic uncertainties triggered, for example, by Brexit as well as examining additional issues such as productivity, fairness at work and the retirement intentions of older workers.Each survey comprises a large number of respondents: 4,047 in the 1986 survey; 3,855 in 1992; 2,467 in 1997; 4,470 in 2001; 7,787 in 2006; 3,200 in 2012; and 3,306 in 2017.The four specific objectives for the Skills and Employment Survey, 2012 (SES2012), stemming from the overarching aim to provide data on the skills and employment experiences of working life in Britain in 2012, were as follows:to describe and analyse the level and distribution of skills requirements of jobs in British workplaces in 2012 and compare these patterns with earlier data pointsto describe and analyse the level and distribution of key aspects of workers' experiences of their jobs in 2012, and compare with earlier data pointsto use the data to develop distinctive, original and substantive contributions to scholarship surrounding job quality and job skillto make the data available and provide the necessary data support and infrastructure for further analysis by academic or policy-based researchers in the field of skills and job qualityFurther information is available from the Skills and Employment Survey 2012 web page. A follow-up survey was conducted in 2014 (see SN 8264), where respondents to SES2012 were revisited to gather information on their skills and employment experiences since 2012. A Special Licence access version of this study including finer detailed geographical variables (Travel-to-Work Areas, or TTWA), is available under SN 7645. For the second edition (May 2014) an updated version of the data file and the accompanying Technical Briefing document. The depositor has provided the following advice: "Users are altered to errors recently detected in the 4-digit coding of SOC (both 2000 and 2010 versions). This has resulted in further changes to the coding of SOC2000 at 3, 2 and 1-digits as well as amendments to the weighting variables which are partly based on SOC (weightall and weight0612)." The Skills and Employment Survey series dataset, held under SN 7467, has also been updated accordingly. Main Topics:The SES2012 questionnaire covers questions on:job classification and skillsdetailed analysis of the nature of the jobcomputing skills and qualificationswork attitudesthe organisation working forpaythe job five years agorecent skills changes and future perspectiveswell-being at workdemographic characteristics</ul

Skills and Employment Surveys Series Dataset, 1986, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2006 and 2012: Special Licence Access

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Skills Survey is a series of nationally representative sample surveys of individuals in employment aged 20-60 years old (since 2006, the surveys have additionally sampled those aged 61-65). The surveys aim to investigate the employed workforce in Great Britain. Although they were not originally planned as part of a series and had different funding sources and objectives, continuity in questionnaire design has meant the surveys now provide a unique, national representative picture of change in British workplaces as reported by individual job holders. This allows analysts to examine how various aspects of job quality and skill levels have changed over 30 years.The first surveys in the series were carried out in 1986 and 1992. These surveys also form part of this integrated data series, and are known as the Social Change and Economic Life Initiative (SCELI) and Employment in Britain (EIB) studies respectively.The 1997 survey was the first to collect primarily data on skills using the job requirements approach. This focused on collecting data on objective indicators of job skill as reported by respondents. The 2001 survey assessed how much had changed between the two surveys and a third survey in 2006 enhanced the time series data, while providing a resource for analysing skill and job requirements in the British economy at that time. The 2012 survey aimed to again add to the time series data and, coinciding as it did with a period of economic recession, to provide insight into whether workers in Britain felt under additional pressure/demand from employers as a result of redundancies and cut backs. In addition, a series dataset, covering 1986, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2006 and 2012 is also available . A follow-up to the 2012 survey was conducted in 2014, revisiting respondents who had agreed to be interviewed again. The 2017 survey was the seventh in the series, designed to examine to what extent pressures had continued as a result of austerity and economic uncertainties triggered, for example, by Brexit as well as examining additional issues such as productivity, fairness at work and the retirement intentions of older workers.Each survey comprises a large number of respondents: 4,047 in the 1986 survey; 3,855 in 1992; 2,467 in 1997; 4,470 in 2001; 7,787 in 2006; 3,200 in 2012; and 3,306 in 2017.The Skills and Employment Surveys Series Dataset, 1986, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2006, 2012 and 2017: Special License Access&nbsp;combines data from all seven surveys in the series, where common survey questions were asked. For each survey, weights are computed to take into account the differential probabilities of sample selection, the over-sampling of certain areas and some small response rate variations between groups (defined by sex, age and occupation). All surveys cover Great Britain except the Skills Survey, 2006 which covers the United Kingdom. The six surveys are all available separately from the UK Data Archive: Social Change and Economic Life Initiative Surveys, 1986-1987 (SN 2798)Employment in Britain 1992 (SN 5368)Skills Survey 1997 (SN 3993)Skills Survey 2001 (SN 4972)Skills Survey 2006 (SN 6004)Skills and Employment Survey 2012 (SN 7466)Skills and Employment Survey 2017 (SN XXXX) This&nbsp;Special Licence access version of this study includes finer detailed geographical variables (notably TTWA)&nbsp;than is available in the&nbsp;general release dataset&nbsp;(SN XXXX). Main Topics:The main topics include: skills at workjob qualitytraining and skills developmentterms and conditions of employment</ul

Skills and Employment Surveys Series Dataset, 1986, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2006 and 2012

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Skills Survey is a series of nationally representative sample surveys of individuals in employment aged 20-60 years old (since 2006, the surveys have additionally sampled those aged 61-65). The surveys aim to investigate the employed workforce in Great Britain. Although they were not originally planned as part of a series and had different funding sources and objectives, continuity in questionnaire design has meant the surveys now provide a unique, national representative picture of change in British workplaces as reported by individual job holders. This allows analysts to examine how various aspects of job quality and skill levels have changed over 30 years.The first surveys in the series were carried out in 1986 and 1992. These surveys also form part of this integrated data series, and are known as the Social Change and Economic Life Initiative (SCELI) and Employment in Britain (EIB) studies respectively.The 1997 survey was the first to collect primarily data on skills using the job requirements approach. This focused on collecting data on objective indicators of job skill as reported by respondents. The 2001 survey assessed how much had changed between the two surveys and a third survey in 2006 enhanced the time series data, while providing a resource for analysing skill and job requirements in the British economy at that time. The 2012 survey aimed to again add to the time series data and, coinciding as it did with a period of economic recession, to provide insight into whether workers in Britain felt under additional pressure/demand from employers as a result of redundancies and cut backs. In addition, a series dataset, covering 1986, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2006 and 2012 is also available . A follow-up to the 2012 survey was conducted in 2014, revisiting respondents who had agreed to be interviewed again. The 2017 survey was the seventh in the series, designed to examine to what extent pressures had continued as a result of austerity and economic uncertainties triggered, for example, by Brexit as well as examining additional issues such as productivity, fairness at work and the retirement intentions of older workers.Each survey comprises a large number of respondents: 4,047 in the 1986 survey; 3,855 in 1992; 2,467 in 1997; 4,470 in 2001; 7,787 in 2006; 3,200 in 2012; and 3,306 in 2017.The Skills and Employment Surveys Series Dataset, 1986, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2006 and 2012 combines data from all six surveys in the series, where common survey questions were asked. For each survey, weights are computed to take into account the differential probabilities of sample selection, the over-sampling of certain areas and some small response rate variations between groups (defined by sex, age and occupation). All surveys cover Great Britain except the Skills Survey, 2006 which covers the United Kingdom. The six surveys are all available separately from the UK Data Archive:Social Change and Economic Life Initiative Surveys, 1986-1987 (SN 2798)Employment in Britain, 1992 (SN 5368)Skills Survey, 1997 (SN 3993)Skills Survey, 2001 (SN 4972)Skills Survey, 2006 (SN 6004)Skills and Employment Survey, 2012 (SN 7466)A Special Licence access version of this study including finer detailed geographical variables may become available from the UK Data Archive in the future. For the second edition (May 2014) an updated version of the data file and the accompanying Technical Briefing document. The depositor has provided the following advice: "Users are altered to errors recently detected in the 4-digit coding of SOC (both 2000 and 2010 versions). This has resulted in further changes to the coding of SOC2000 at 3, 2 and 1-digits as well as amendments to the weighting variables which are partly based on SOC (weightall and weight0612)." The Skills and Employment Survey 2012 dataset, held under SN 7466, has also been updated accordingly. Main Topics:The main topics include:skills at workquality of worktraining and skills developmentterms and conditions of employment</ul

Skills and Employment Survey, 2012: Special Licence Access

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Skills Survey is a series of nationally representative sample surveys of individuals in employment aged 20-60 years old (since 2006, the surveys have additionally sampled those aged 61-65). The surveys aim to investigate the employed workforce in Great Britain. Although they were not originally planned as part of a series and had different funding sources and objectives, continuity in questionnaire design has meant the surveys now provide a unique, national representative picture of change in British workplaces as reported by individual job holders. This allows analysts to examine how various aspects of job quality and skill levels have changed over 30 years.The first surveys in the series were carried out in 1986 and 1992. These surveys also form part of this integrated data series, and are known as the Social Change and Economic Life Initiative (SCELI) and Employment in Britain (EIB) studies respectively.The 1997 survey was the first to collect primarily data on skills using the job requirements approach. This focused on collecting data on objective indicators of job skill as reported by respondents. The 2001 survey assessed how much had changed between the two surveys and a third survey in 2006 enhanced the time series data, while providing a resource for analysing skill and job requirements in the British economy at that time. The 2012 survey aimed to again add to the time series data and, coinciding as it did with a period of economic recession, to provide insight into whether workers in Britain felt under additional pressure/demand from employers as a result of redundancies and cut backs. In addition, a series dataset, covering 1986, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2006 and 2012 is also available . A follow-up to the 2012 survey was conducted in 2014, revisiting respondents who had agreed to be interviewed again. The 2017 survey was the seventh in the series, designed to examine to what extent pressures had continued as a result of austerity and economic uncertainties triggered, for example, by Brexit as well as examining additional issues such as productivity, fairness at work and the retirement intentions of older workers.Each survey comprises a large number of respondents: 4,047 in the 1986 survey; 3,855 in 1992; 2,467 in 1997; 4,470 in 2001; 7,787 in 2006; 3,200 in 2012; and 3,306 in 2017.The four specific objectives for the Skills and Employment Survey, 2012 (SES2012), stemming from the overarching aim to provide data on the skills and employment experiences of working life in Britain in 2012, were as follows:to describe and analyse the level and distribution of skills requirements of jobs in British workplaces in 2012 and compare these patterns with earlier data pointsto describe and analyse the level and distribution of key aspects of workers' experiences of their jobs in 2012, and compare with earlier data pointsto use the data to develop distinctive, original and substantive contributions to scholarship surrounding job quality and job skillto make the data available and provide the necessary data support and infrastructure for further analysis by academic or policy-based researchers in the field of skills and job qualityFurther information is available from the Skills and Employment Survey 2012 web page. A standard End User Licence access version of this study, with less detailed geographic variables included (Government Office Region (GOR) only), is available under SN 7466. For the second edition (May 2014) an updated version of the data file and the accompanying Technical Briefing document. The depositor has provided the following advice: "Users are altered to errors recently detected in the 4-digit coding of SOC (both 2000 and 2010 versions). This has resulted in further changes to the coding of SOC2000 at 3, 2 and 1-digits as well as amendments to the weighting variables which are partly based on SOC (weightall and weight0612)." The Skills and Employment Survey series dataset, held under SN 7467, has also been updated accordingly. Main Topics:The SES2012 questionnaire covers questions on:job classification and skillsdetailed analysis of the nature of the jobcomputing skills and qualificationswork attitudesthe organisation working forpaythe job five years agorecent skills changes and future perspectiveswell-being at workdemographic characteristics</ul

Skills Survey, 2006

<p>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</p>The <i>Skills Survey</i> is a series of surveys which aim to investigate the employed workforce in Great Britain (and United Kingdom from 2006). The survey series builds on two previous studies of the workforce, <i>Social Change and Economic Life Initiative Surveys, 1986-1987</i> (held at the UKDA under SN 2798) and <i>Employment in Britain, 1992</i> (held at the UKDA under SN 5368). The first <i>Skills Survey</i> was conducted in 1997 and represented a new approach to assessing the extent to which those at work in Britain had skills matching the requirements of their jobs. The 2001 survey was aimed at assessing how much had changed between the two surveys. The third survey in 2006 enhanced this time series data further but had the overarching aim of providing a resource for analysing skill and job requirements in the British economy in the middle part of the current decade. The <i>Skills and Employment Survey, 2012</i> (SES2012) was the fourth in the series, and aimed to again add to the time series data and, coinciding as it did with a period of economic recession, aimed to provide insight into whether the British workforce felt under additional pressure/demand from employers as a result of redundancies and cut backs.<br> <br> Although these surveys were not originally planned as part of a series and had different funding sources and objectives, continuity in questionnaire design has meant the surveys now provide a unique, nationall representative picture of change in British workplaces as reported by individual job holders.<br> <br>The <i>Skills Survey, 2006</i> is the third in the series and collected data on skills utilisation from a nationally representative sample of working individuals across the UK.<br> <br> The objectives of the project were:<ul><li>to provide up-to-date analyses of the level, distribution, value and trends in the skills being utilised in British workplaces</li><li>to provide a description of the work preferences and work motivation of those in employment in Britain, and a systematic analysis of how preferences and motivation relate to the skill development that people experience in their jobs</li><li>to develop further our knowledge about the relationship between employers' human resource practices and the level and development of their employees' skills</li><li>to provide detailed analyses of skills levels and distributions within and between regions of Britain</li><li>provision of a valuable data set for further analyses by the research community</li></ul>Further information is available from the <a href=http://www.esrcsocietytoday/esrcinfocentre/viewawardpage.aspx?awardnumber=RES-557-28-5002 title ="Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance">Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance</a> web page.<br> <br> <br><B>Main Topics</B>:<br>The questionnaire covers questions on:<ul><li>employment</li><li>computing skills and qualifications</li><li>work attitudes</li><li>the organisation working for</li><li>pay</li><li>job five years ago</li><li>recent skill changes and future perspectives</li><li> demographic characteristics</li></ul

Skills Survey, 2001

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.ESRC Research Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) was commissioned by the Department for Education and Skills to conduct a second survey on the skills of the employed British workforce. The Skills Survey, 2001 surveyed individuals in employment aged 20 to 60 in Britain. The focus of the survey was the skills that individuals use in their jobs, and its major purpose was to measure how those skills are utilised in British workplaces. It also aimed to enable analyses of the relationship of skills with individual and job characteristics, and of the association of skills with labour market rewards. As well as being representative of the point in time at which the study was undertaken, another aim of the research was to track changes over time, using previous studies in which the research team had been involved. The survey thereby enabled an updating of the picture of the distribution and trend of broad skill requirements, and for the first time gave measures of the trends in utilisation of generic skills. The survey extended the work of the Skills Survey, 1997 (held at the UKDA under SN 3993) by including a richer set of measures of other aspects of job quality that allowed comparisons with the Employment in Britain Survey, 1992 (held at the UKDA under 5368). Main Topics:The questionnaire covers:employmentskillsdetailed job analysiscomputing skillseducational achievementsorganisationspayskills held five years agochange in the past five yearsdemographic characteristics</ul

Skills and Employment Survey 2012: Follow-up Survey, 2014

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Skills Survey is a series of nationally representative sample surveys of individuals in employment aged 20-60 years old (since 2006, the surveys have additionally sampled those aged 61-65). The surveys aim to investigate the employed workforce in Great Britain. Although they were not originally planned as part of a series and had different funding sources and objectives, continuity in questionnaire design has meant the surveys now provide a unique, national representative picture of change in British workplaces as reported by individual job holders. This allows analysts to examine how various aspects of job quality and skill levels have changed over 30 years.The first surveys in the series were carried out in 1986 and 1992. These surveys also form part of this integrated data series, and are known as the Social Change and Economic Life Initiative (SCELI) and Employment in Britain (EIB) studies respectively.The 1997 survey was the first to collect primarily data on skills using the job requirements approach. This focused on collecting data on objective indicators of job skill as reported by respondents. The 2001 survey assessed how much had changed between the two surveys and a third survey in 2006 enhanced the time series data, while providing a resource for analysing skill and job requirements in the British economy at that time. The 2012 survey aimed to again add to the time series data and, coinciding as it did with a period of economic recession, to provide insight into whether workers in Britain felt under additional pressure/demand from employers as a result of redundancies and cut backs. In addition, a series dataset, covering 1986, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2006 and 2012 is also available . A follow-up to the 2012 survey was conducted in 2014, revisiting respondents who had agreed to be interviewed again. The 2017 survey was the seventh in the series, designed to examine to what extent pressures had continued as a result of austerity and economic uncertainties triggered, for example, by Brexit as well as examining additional issues such as productivity, fairness at work and the retirement intentions of older workers.Each survey comprises a large number of respondents: 4,047 in the 1986 survey; 3,855 in 1992; 2,467 in 1997; 4,470 in 2001; 7,787 in 2006; 3,200 in 2012; and 3,306 in 2017.The Skills and Employment Survey 2012: Follow-up Survey, 2014 (SES2012_R) is a longitudinal follow-up survey from a re-interviewed sample of respondents to the SES2012(SN 7466). SES2012 objectives included the comparison of key aspects of workers' experiences of their jobs with past patterns and to provide insights into how the British workforce felt the direct aftermath of the Great Recession. From 2,497 respondents in SES2012 who agreed to be re-interviewed, 1,108 follow-up interviews were completed approximately two years after the baseline, in the period from January-August 2014. SES2012_R's purpose was to analyse change in key work-related items at the level of individuals since the baseline. The questionnaire follows up on job classification and skills, detailed nature of the job, ICT usage on the job, the organisation working for, the job since the baseline interview, training since the baseline, well-being at work, and basic time-variant demographic characteristics. Further information is available from the Skills and Employment Survey 2012 webpage and the Project 2.5 Good Jobs, Bad Jobs: A Longitudinal Analysis webpage. Main Topics:The deposited data file combines data from the follow-up interviews in 2014 with information from the baseline in 2012 (SES2012, SN 7466). It comprises of items that were collected both at the baseline and at the follow-up, a selection of derived variables to ease analysis and time-invariant individual information from the baseline that were not asked again at follow-up. Apart from a few exceptions that are documented in the available list of variables, item non-response due to refusal or 'don't knows' have been allocated unique values