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Workplace Employment Relations Survey - Great Britain

Dataset

Summary

Citation:
Department for Business and Trade, released 07 October 2013, ONS SRS Metadata Catalogue, dataset, Workplace Employment Relations Survey - Great Britain, https://doi.org/10.57906/0mr2-we17

Documentation

Description:
The aim of the survey is to provide large-scale, statistically reliable evidence about a broad range of employment relations and practices in Britain. The data describes key aspects of employment relations, such as management of employment relations, training, employee representation and consultation, collective bargaining, pay determination, health and safety and worker wellbeing and job satisfaction. The 2011 WERS sample consisted of a panel sample containing all the workplaces that had taken part in WERS 2004 and were still in existence in 2011, and a stratified random sample of establishments drawn from the Inter-Departmental Business Register in 2010. Weights were devised to enable the panel sample to be combined with the fresh sample to form a cross-sectionally representative sample. The 2011 study collected data from a representative sample of 2,680 workplaces in Britain: - 2,680 workplace managers responsible for employment relations/HR; - 1,002 worker representatives; - 21,981 employees. The WERS 2011 has four components: a Survey of Managers comprising the Employee Profile Questionnaire (EPQ) and the Management Questionnaire (MQ); a Survey of Worker Representatives (WRQ); a Survey of Employees (SEQ); and a Financial Performance Questionnaire (FPQ) which detailed the financial performance of trading sector establishments in the 12 months before the survey.

Coverage

Spatial

Spatial Coverage:
Great Britain
Geographical Levels:
full postcode

Temporal

Start Date:
01 January 1998
Latest Data:
31 December 2011
Frequency:
IRREGULAR
Distribution Release Date:
07 October 2013

Provenance

Source:
Survey

Access and Governance

Usage

Condition of Access:
Standard access conditions for the use of data in the SRS
Condition of Use:
Standard conditions for the use of data in the SRS
Resource Creator:
Office for National Statistics

Access

Access Service:
  • Safe Rooms, SafePods
  • Assured Organisational Connectivity – office based
  • Assured Organisational Connectivity – remote access
Jurisdictions:
  • GB-EAW
  • GB-SCT
Data Controller:
Department for Business and Trade
Access Level:
Access Level 3

Format and Standards

Languages:
en
Formats:
STATA