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WERS 2004 - News archiveWERS 2004 Information and Advice Service - activities completed (added 19/08/2008): The WERS 2004 Information and Advice Service (WIAS) was established in February 2006 and was funded for a two year period. The funding has now come to an end, and so has all major activity from WIAS. This web-site will continue to remain live for the benefit of WERS 2004 Users and those interested in WERS 2004. WERS 2004 Teaching Dataset (added 14/08/2008): A WERS 2004 Teaching Dataset is now available from the Economic and Social Data Service. The teaching dataset is a slimmed down version of the full WERS 2004 Cross-Section dataset, containing all of the workplaces and employees that participated in the survey, but only a subset of the data collected, in order to make the dataset more manageable. This dataset may prove useful to teachers and students of employment relations, human resource management, industrial sociology and labour economics, as well as those teaching or studying survey methods, statistics or econometrics. Further details. WERS Time-Series Dataset (added 15/05/2008): The WERS Time-Series Dataset has been updated to include a 2004 time point and is now available from the Economic and Social Data Service. The dataset is formed from the interviews with the main management respondent in each of the five cross-section surveys (1980, 1984, 1990, 1998 and 2004) and contains consistently defined variables (where possible) for data items that are present in the 1998 or 2004 surveys and at least one other previous cross-section survey in the series. The time-series dataset also contains a link variable enabling observations to be linked to the EU KLEMS industry-level database, which provides measures of economic growth, productivity, employment creation, capital formation and technological change at the industry level for the UK from 1970 onwards. Further details. Fourth user group meeting (added 18/03/08 ): The fourth meeting of the WERS 2004 User Group took place on Wednesday 27 th February 2008 at the University of Sheffield . The meeting was held jointly with the Work, Pensions and Labour Economics Study Group (WPEG). The programme for the meeting, along with slides from the papers presented, are now available to download. Further details. Additional data now available (added 28/01/08): A series of variables at occupation level (unit group (four-digit) level, based on the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC 2000)) are now available from the Economic and Social Data Service. These variables can be matched to the WERS 2004 Survey of Employees. Further details. Revision to 2004 panel data file (added 28/01/08): The 2004 panel data file has been revised to include previously absent employment data for 88 cases. These data are now available from the Economic and Social Data Service. Further details. WERS and FAME (added 28/01/08): FAME (Financial Analysis Made Easy) is a database that provides financial and descriptive information on companies in the UK and Ireland. The ONS have now made available links from the Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR) to company reference numbers ( CRN) used within the 2004 FAME database at the Virtual Microdata Laboratory (VML). These CRNs are available for around 1,300 establishments in WERS 2004, providing users with the mechanism to link WERS to FAME data for these workplaces. Users wishing to analyze linked data from WERS and FAME would need to bring their own FAME dataset to the VML, where it could be linked to the WERS data, using the link variable provided. Further details. Fourth User Group meeting - call for papers (added 7/12/07): The fourth User Group meeting is scheduled for Wednesday 27 th February 2008. The meeting will be held jointly with the Work, Pensions and Labour Economics Study Group (WPEG). Users of WERS 2004 who would like to present a paper at the forthcoming meeting are invited to submit an abstract of around 5 00 words by Friday 11 th January 2008. Papers are welcome on all topics covered by the survey and may present research findings or address methodological issues. Call for papers. Third user group (added 12/11/07): The third meeting of the WERS 2004 User Group took place on Friday 26th October 2007 at the University of Warwick. The programme for the meeting, along with slides from the papers presented, are now available to download. Further details. Travel to Work Area data now available (added 5/11/07): Following consultation with users, a small number of variables at Travel to Work Area (TTWA) level are now available from the Economic and Social Data Service. The data include unemployment and vacancy rates for matching on to the Cross-Section Management data from both WERS 2004 and WERS 98, as well as the 1998-2004 Panel data file. The postcodes of individual surveyed workplaces have also been deposited in the ONS Virtual Micro-data Laboratory. Further details Third User Group meeting - call for papers (added 02/08/07): The third User Group meeting is scheduled for Friday 26th October 2007. Users of WERS 2004 who would like to present a paper at the forthcoming meeting are invited to submit an abstract of around 500 words by Friday 14th September 2007. Papers are welcome on all topics covered by the survey and may present research findings or address methodological issues. Call for papers. Additional data from WERS98 now available (added 16/07/07): Previously restricted data from WERS98 are now available for registered users to download from the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS). Access to these files was previously subject to the approval of the depositor. The additional data include region and industry identifiers, unemployment rates and vacancies by Government Office Region (GOR), Standard Statistical Region (SSR) and Travel To Work Area (TTWA), variables used in the sampling for the 1998 survey (stratifiers and sampling fractions), as well as verbatim responses to open-ended questions in the Cross-Section Management Interview, Survey of Employees and Worker Representative Interview. New data from WERS 2004 now available (added 20/04/07): The original WERS data files held by the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) have been updated to incorporate additional data, along with a number of small revisions. The additional data include regional and industry identifiers for the Cross-Section Management data file and the Panel data file, as well as the data file relating to the Cross-Section Financial Performance Questionnaire. The revisions include a small amendment to the weight for the Cross-Section Survey of Employees, along with some small additional fixes. Further details. WERS 2004 data now available via Nesstar (added 20/04/07): The data from WERS 2004 are now available via Nesstar, the on-line analysis tool provided by the Economic and Social Data Service. This allows access to the data via a simple web-based interface, providing a number of useful functions, such as the ability to compile cross-tabulations, view frequencies, produce graphs and conduct correlation and regression analyses. Recent additions to the web-site (added 20/04/07): Users may be interested in the following updates to the WIAS web-site: Second user group (added 27/03/07): The second meeting of the WERS 2004 User Group took place on Friday 16th March 2007 at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research in London. Slides from each of the papers presented at the user group are now available to download. WIAS are keen to hear from users on two particular issues arising during the meeting: using multilevel modelling with WERS data, and suggestions for matching regional data items to the existing dataset. Further details. Second user group (added 20/02/07): The second meeting of the WERS 2004 User Group will take place on Friday 16th March 2007. The meeting will take place at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research in London, from 10am to 4pm. The programme for the meeting has now been finalised; a registration form is available for those who would like to attend. Further details. Second User Group meeting - call for papers (added 15/12/06): The second User Group meeting is scheduled for Friday 16th March 2007. Users of WERS 2004 who would like to present a paper at the forthcoming meeting are invited to submit an abstract of around 500 words by Friday 2nd February 2007. Papers are welcome on all topics covered by the survey and may present research findings or address methodological issues. Call for papers. Updated set of variable notes (added 01/11/06): The variable notes alerting users to specific issues or problems with particular variables have now been updated. Additions since version 1.1 are listed in an appendix to the variable notes. More details. Equivalence tables for MQ (added 31/10/06): In addition to the equivalence tables for the Survey of Employees Questionnaire, equivalence tables for the Cross-Section Survey of Managers are now also available. These document the substantive changes to the questionnaires, providing a reference guide to users who are already familiar with WERS 1998, or seeking to conduct comparative analysis. More details. Additions to Frequently Asked Questions (added 31/10/06): The FAQs section of the website has recently been updated and extended, including a new section providing answers to two FAQs on publishing your research. The complete set of FAQs are now also available to download as a pdf file. More details. Recent additions to the web-site (added 04/09/06): Users may be interested in the following new additions to the web-site:
Syntax to replicate figures in First Findings (added 31/07/06): The syntax developed by the WERS Research Team in the preparation of the First Findings publication is now available to download. The files include the syntax needed to replicate all of the figures reported in First Findings, as well as the syntax to create the many derived variables used in the analysis. Much of the syntax also provides the starting point for the analysis presented in the sourcebook. More details. FAQs on weighting and statistical inference (added 31/7/06 ): We have added a new set of 13 FAQs covering the topics of weighting and statistical inference. The FAQs discuss the principals of weighting and variance estimation in complex surveys such as WERS. Specific guidance is also given on how to apply weighting and estimate variances in Stata and SPSS . Go to FAQs. Update on the availabilty of financial data (added 31/7/06): The process of making the quantitative financial performance data from WERS 2004 available at the ONS Virtual Micro-data Laboratory has been slower than anticipated. But the first data is now available to use and applications are being processed. More details. WERS sourcebook and report on SMEs published this week (added 3/07/06): The 400-page sourcebook of detailed findings from WERS 2004 is published by Routledge on 5th July 2006. An accompanying 120-page report provides a descriptive portrait of employment relations in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). More details. First meeting of WERS 2004 User Group (added 21/06/06): The first meeting of the WERS 2004 User Group is being combined with the ERU Annual Conference that is taking place at Cardiff University on 5th-6th September. The WIAS team will speak at the conference about developments and additions to the services they are providing. They will also run a surgery throughout the conference at which users can raise specific questions about the survey data or its analysis. Conference website. WPEG Annual Conference - data session (added 10/04/06): WERS will feature in a hands-on data session at the forthcoming WPEG Conference on 10th-12th July at the University of Kent. The session will introduce users to the WERS data and will provide an opportunity to ask practical questions about the survey data or its analysis. A number of other government-sponsored datasets will also feature in the session.Conference website. IJHRM call for papers (added 07/04/06): The International Journal of Human Resource Management will publish a special issue titled 'HRM at the workplace; perspectives from WERS 2004' in September 2007. The editors wish to encourage empirical analyses, think-pieces, interpretations of the survey results, and papers using the data as a backdrop to qualitative research. Manuscripts should be submitted by 13th October 2006. Full call for papers. ERU Annual Conference - call for papers (added 03/03/06): The 21st Annual Conference of the Employment Research Unit at Cardiff Business School will focus exclusively on papers offering empirical or methodological perspectives from WERS 2004. The conference will take place on 5th-6th September 2006. Abstracts of up to 1,000 words to be submitted by 31st May 2006. Conference website. BJIR Call for Papers (added 01/02/06): The British Journal of Industrial Relations will publish a special issue on the 2004 WERS in September 2007. Manuscripts should be submitted by 29th September 2006. BJIR homepage. Information and Advice Service established (added 01/02/06): The ESRC has funded the establishment of an information and advice service for users of data from WERS 2004. The service is hosted at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. Contact WERS data available (added 22/12/05): The data from WERS 2004 is now available to users through the UK Data Archive (study number: 5294). UK Data Archive First Findings published (added 05/07/05): The initial findings from WERS 2004 have been published in a 40-page booklet, available free of charge from the DTI. The full sourcebook of primary analysis will be published in July 2006. DTI WERS site |
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