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To facilitate secondary research and to preserve its data for the future EMAR deposits its major survey datasets with the UK Data Archive (UKDA). Researchers, students and teachers from any field, organisation or country may register with the UKDA to download datasets and supporting documentation.
The 2008 survey creates for the first time a single source which covers workers awareness of their rights and the support available, the problems experienced in the workplace and how these problems get resolved. The new survey combines two earlier surveys run in 2005.
Method: (Face-to-face) Household survey
Coverage: 4,000 recent or current employees in Great Britain.
Outputs: Fair Treatment at Work Survey 2008 Full Report (URN 09/P85); 2005 Executive summary (URN 06/1380).Employment Rights at Work Survey 2005 Full report (URN 06/837); 2000 Full Report (URN 02/667).
Dataset: Fair Treatment at Work Survey 2008 UK data-archive - SN 6203; 2005 - SN 6382. Employment Rights at Work Survey 2005 - SN 5383; 2000 - SN 5294.
Next survey: Planned for 2012/13.
Project manager: Ian Rutherford, EMAR
Two separate surveys of employers and employees including provision, demand, take-up and attitudes towards work-life balance practices in the workplace:
Method: Telephone survey, February and March 2006
Coverage: 2,081 employees in Great Britain.
Outputs: Executive summary (URN 06/1372) A full report is due during 2007.
Dataset: Available Easter 2007 from UK Data Archive
Project manager: Steven P Taylor, EMAR
Method: Telephone survey, spring / summer 2007
Coverage: 1,500 employers with 5 or more employees in Great Britain.
Outputs: Executive Summary (URN 07/1586)
Full Report (URN 07/1656)
Dataset: UK Data Archive - SN 5787 -Work-Life Balance Study, 2007: Employers' Survey
Project manager: Steven P Taylor, EMAR
Latest iteration of a survey which explores the use of maternity and paternity leave and pay provisions, and mothers’ and fathers’ return to work after having a baby.
Method: Telephone survey with mothers and fathers who had a baby in December 2003.
Coverage: 2,500 mothers in Great Britain
Outputs: Full Report (URN 06/836)
Dataset: To be lodged at the data archive in 2007
Next survey: The Department for Work and Pensions are currently conducting a follow-up survey of mothers, which will be published early 2008.
Project manager: Steven P Taylor , EMAR
Claimants and employer demographics and their experiences, outcomes and attitudes towards the Employment Tribunals system.
Method: Computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI) with random sample of cases from Employment Tribunals Service database.
Coverage: 2,236 claimant interviews; 2,281 employer interviews; Great Britain (with additional booster sample for Scotland)
Outputs: Full report (URN 04/1071); Technical report available from UK Data Archive
Dataset: UK Data Archive - SN 5022
Related datasets (selection):
SN 4894 - Survey of Employment Tribunal Applications, 1998
SN 5006 - Survey of Representatives, 1998
SN 3294 - Survey of Industrial Tribunal Applications, 1992
Next survey: Next SETA survey is scheduled for 2007
Project manager: Wayne Diamond, EMAR
Follow-up to SETA 2003 [internal link] with sample of claimants from cases that included a claim for race discrimination in employment under the Race Relations Act. Explores the demographics, experiences, outcomes and attitudes of claimants towards the Employment Tribunals system
Method: Telephone interviews (CATI) with random sample of claimants making a claim under the Race Relations Act.
Coverage: 491 claimant interviews in Great Britain
Outputs: Full report (URN 06/1059);Technical report available from UK Data Archive
Dataset: Available Easter 2007 from UK Data Archive.
Related datasets:
SN 5022 - Survey of Employment Tribunal Applications, 2003
SN 4894 - Survey of Employment Tribunal Applications, 1998
Next survey: Next SETA survey is scheduled for 2007
Project manager: Wayne Diamond, EMAR
The Department sponsors a module each year on employment related topics in this Annual Attitudinal Survey run by the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen). Core questions include measures on representation at work, employment relations and work/job attitudes.
Method: Face to face interviews (CAPI) in the homes of individuals, plus additional self-completion questionnaires.
Coverage: Approx 4,000 individuals drawn from the GB Postcode Address File.
Outputs: Annual Report published by NatCen. Periodic reports on employment related matters published by EMAR.
Datasets: Lodged with UK Data Archive BSAS section. UK Data Archive
Project manager for module: Jane Carr, EMAR
A large-scale national survey of employment relations practices in workplaces across Great Britain. Features a linked employer-employee dataset and a panel survey (1998-2004).
Method: Face-to-face interviews with HR managers and employee representatives, a self-completion survey of employees and a self- completion survey on financial performance. More on WERS 2004
Coverage: Cross-section interviews with 2,295 workplace managers and 984 employee representatives. Self-completion questionnaire by 22,451 employees. Panel interviews with 938 managers from workplaces surveyed in WERS 1998.
Outputs: Three reports based on the primary analysis of WERS 2004
The Technical Report accompanying the survey published by NatCen is also available to download from the WERS Information and Advice Service (WIAS) website, hosted by National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR). WIAS provide expert advice and support for anyone interested in using the WERS data.
WIAS provide expert advice and support for anyone interested in using the WERS data.
Dataset: UK Data Archive - SN 5294
Related Datasets (selection)
SN 3955 -Workplace Employee Relations Survey : Cross-Section, 1998
SN 4026 -Workplace Employee Relations Survey, 1998 : Panel Survey 1990-1998
The UKDA also contains data from the 1980, 1984 and 1990 cross-section and panel surveys.
Next survey: Subject to funding and ministerial approval it is expected that the next survey will take place in 2010.
Project manager: Barbara Kersley, EMAR
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