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Workplace Employment Relations Survey in Great Britain

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Summary

The Workplace Employment Relations Survey provides large-scale, statistically reliable evidence about a range of employment relations and practices in Britain.

Description

The aim of the survey is to provide large-scale, statistically reliable evidence about a broad range of employment relations and practices in Great 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 well-being and job satisfaction. The 2011 Workplace Employment Relations study (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 2011 study 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.

About this data

Data creator
Department for Business and Trade
Temporal coverage
01 January 1998 to 31 December 2011
Frequency
Single
Dataset theme
Business and economy
Restrictions for access
Access for all accredited researchers
Project approval
Projects must be accredited
Search keywords
Business Employment Health Pay and incentives Training Well-being

Metadata

Metadata

Dataset themeMain category for the topic of the resource
Business and economy
Dataset resource typeThe type of the dataset resource
Survey
Geographic coverageThe geographic area covered by the dataset
Great Britain
Temporal coverageThe timeframes covered by these data
01 January 1998 to 31 December 2011
FrequencyThe frequency at which the dataset resource is published or updated
Single
Geographic levelThe lowest level of geography covered by the dataset
Postcode
Data creatorThe name of the organisation that produced or published this resource
Department for Business and Trade
Data contributorsThe name(s) of any organisation(s), other than the data supplier or provider, that have data which are included in this dataset resource
Licensing statusThe license used for making this resource available and defining how it can be used
Restricted
Disclosure controlThe standard or bespoke disclosure control rules that apply to this dataset
Standard disclosure rules apply
Restrictions for accessRestrictions for users and researchers accessing data in Google Cloud Platform
Access for all accredited researchers
Research outputsThe approval route researchers must take for their outputs to be published
Research outputs must be sent to the data owner
Project approvalThe project approvals needed for this resource
Projects must be accredited
Research disclaimerThe disclaimer required to be published with the outputs for this dataset
No requirements
AcronymAny other names or acronyms used to refer to the data
WERS
ProvenanceDetails of how this dataset resource came to be generated
Workplace Employment Relations Survey