- Title
- Workplace Employment Relations Survey 2004: Employee Questionnaire
- Creators
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Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service
Department of Trade and Industry
Forth, J., National Institute of Economic and Social Research
Policy Studies Institute
- Subjects
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Employment
Skills
Health
Wellbeing
Training
Citizenship
Identity
Economic Development
Environment
Economic Status
Financial Status
Condition
Political
- Description
- The Workplace Employment Relations Survey, 2004 (also known as the Workplace Employment Relations Survey, WERS 2004, or WERS5) was a national survey of people at work. The survey was jointly sponsored by the then Department of Trade and Industry, ACAS, the ESRC and the PSI. (In June 2007, DTI became the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) and then in June 2009, merged with the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills to become the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).)
WERS5 followed in the footsteps of earlier surveys conducted in 1980, 1984, 1990 and 1998, when the series was originally known as the Workplace Industrial Relations Survey, or WIRS - the name was changed in 1998 to better reflect the contemporary content of the series. The WIRS/WERS series from 1980 onwards is held at the UK Data Archive under GN 33176.
The purpose of each survey in the WERS series has been to provide large-scale, statistically reliable evidence about a broad range of industrial relations and employment practices across almost every sector of the economy in Great Britain. This evidence is collected with several objectives in mind. It aims to provide a mapping of employment relations practices in workplaces across Great Britain, monitor changes in those practices over time, inform policy development and permit an informed assessment of the effects of public policy, and bring about a greater understanding of employment relations as well as the labour market. To that end, the cross-section element of WERS 2004 collected information from managers with responsibility for employment relations or personnel matters; trade union or employee representatives; and employees themselves. Therefore, it included the Cross-Section Survey of Managers (MQ), Cross-Section Survey of Employee Representatives (ERQ), and Cross-Section Survey of Employees (SEQ). The cross-section survey also included a Financial Performance Questionnaire (FPQ), that detailed financial performance of the establishment over the 12 months previous to the survey (access to the FPQ data, alongside region identifiers and industry codes for the Survey of Managers and panel data, was initially restricted until April 2007, when they were deposited as part of the second edition of the study). The panel element of WERS 2004 includes the Screening Questionnaire and the Survey of Managers (comprising the Basic Workforce Data Sheet and the Management Interview).
- Publishers
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United Kingdom Data Service
- Contributors
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Economic and Social Research Council
Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service
Policy Studies Institute
Department of Trade and Industry
NatCen Social Research
- Type
- Dataset
- Format
- text
- Language
- English
- Relation: Same Collection
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Workplace Employment Relations Survey 2004: Management Questionnaire
Workplace Employment Relations Survey 2004: Basic Workforce Data Sheet
Workplace Employment Relations Survey 2004: Employee Questionnaire
Workplace Employment Relations Survey 2004: Financial Performance Questionnaire
Workplace Employment Relations Survey 2004 Panel Survey Management Questionnaire
Workplace Employment Relations Survey 2004: Cross Section Worker Rep Questionnaire
- Relation: Different Collection
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Workplace Employment Relations Survey 2004: Employee Profile Questionnaire
Workplace Employment Relations Study 2011: Employee Profile Questionnaire
Workplace Employment Relations Study 2011: Financial Performance Questionnaire
Sixth Workplace Employment Relations Study (Wers6) Management Questionnaire (Mq) 2011
Workplace Employment Relations Study 2011: Survey Of Employees
Workplace Employment Relations Study 2011: Worker Representative Questionnaire
The Workplace Employee Relations Survey 1998 Cross Section Questionnaires Management Questionnaire
The Workplace Employee Relations Survey 1998 Cross Section Questionnaires Management Questionnaire
The Workplace Employee Relations Survey 1998 Cross Section Questionnaires Management Questionnaire
The Workplace Employee Relations Survey 1998 Panel Questionnaire
The 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey Basic Workforce Sheet
The Workplace Employee Relations Survey 1998 Cross Section Questionnaires Management Questionnaire
- Coverage: Spatial
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Great Britain
- Coverage: Start Date
- 1 February 2004
- Coverage: End Date
- 30 April 2005
- Coverage: Rights
- Department of Trade and Industry. Employment Markets Analysis and Research.
- Coverage: Created
- 28 October 2011
- Coverage: Updated
- 6 July 2016