The Skills Survey (Main): Final Questionnaire 2006
Title
The Skills Survey (Main): Final Questionnaire 2006
Creators
Felstead, A., University of Leicester. Centre for Labour Market Studies
Green, F., University of Kent at Canterbury. Department of Economics
Gallie, D., University of Oxford. Nuffield College
Zhou, Y., University of Oxford. Nuffield College
Subjects
Employment
Skills
Wellbeing
Training
Identity
Education
Economic Status
Financial Status
Condition
Core
Description
he Skills Survey 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, Social Change and Economic Life Initiative Surveys, 1986-1987 (held at the UKDA under SN 2798) and Employment in Britain, 1992 (held at the UKDA under SN 5368). The first Skills Survey 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 Skills and Employment Survey, 2012 (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.
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.
The Skills Survey, 2006 is the third in the series and collected data on skills utilisation from a nationally representative sample of working individuals across the UK.
The objectives of the project were:
to provide up-to-date analyses of the level, distribution, value and trends in the skills being utilised in British workplaces
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
to develop further our knowledge about the relationship between employers' human resource practices and the level and development of their employees' skills
to provide detailed analyses of skills levels and distributions within and between regions of Britain
provision of a valuable data set for further analyses by the research community
Publishers
United Kingdom Data Service
Contributors
Economic and Social Research Council
Department for Education and Skills
Department of Trade and Industry
Learning and Skills Council
Sector Skills Development Agency
Scottish Enterprise
Learning and Skills Observatory for Wales
East Midlands Development Agency
Highlands and Islands Enterprise
Northern Ireland. Department for Employment and Learning
BMRB