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WERS 2004 - PanelThe 1998-2004 Panel Survey in WERS 2004 returned to a random selection of the 2,191 workplaces that participated in the 1998 Cross-Section, with the express purpose of investigating the changes that had taken place in those workplaces over the preceding six years. Some 1,479 workplaces from the 1998 Cross-Section were selected to be traced for re-interview in 2004. The survey, with a response rate of 77 per cent, yielded an achieved sample of 956 continuing workplaces. The remaining 712 establishments were contacted by telephone to establish whether the establishment had survived over the period and, if it continued in existence, to establish the current number of employees. Survey scope:The WERS 1998 Cross-Section Survey, which formed the first wave of the panel, was representative of all workplaces with 10 or more employees in 1998, located in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and engaged in activities within Sections D (Manufacturing) to O (Other community services) of the Standard Industrial Classification (2003). The survey covered both public and private sectors. The same restrictions of scope were reapplied to the subset of workplaces that were still in existence in 2004 and therefore eligible for re-interview in the second wave of the panel. Hence, for the purposes of the second-wave interview, a continuing workplace was defined as one that was in-scope in both 1998 and 2004 and that had continued to operate throughout the intervening period. Some 1,247 of the 1,479 selected to be traced for re-interview were in-scope in 2004 and met the definition of a continuing workplace. As stated above, 956 of these 1,026 workplaces participated in the second wave of the panel. Dates of fieldwork:Fieldwork for the first wave of the 1998-2004 Panel Survey took place between November 1997 and July 1998. The median interview took place in January 1998. Fieldwork for the second wave took place between February 2004 and April 2005. The median interview took place in June 2004. The conduct of the 1998 and 2004 interviews:1998: In the first wave of the panel, a self-completion Basic Workforce Data Sheet (BWDS) was sent to the workplace in advance of the interview. The Management Interview was conducted on-site by a trained interviewer, using Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) technology and lasted an average of two hours. Interviews were also conducted with a senior employee representative (usually a union representative) and self-completion questionnaires were distributed to up to 25 employees. 2004: In the second wave of the panel, a self-completion Basic Workforce Data Sheet (BWDS) was again sent to the workplace in advance of the interview. The Management Interview (the sole interview in the second wave of the panel) was again conducted on-site by a trained interviewer using Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) technology. The management questionnaire was a shortened version of the 1998 management questionnaire, containing around one third of the original questions. The average interview lasted 42 minutes. Topics covered in the 1998 and 2004 questionnaires:The 2004 questionnaire was both shorter and more focused than the questionnaire used in the WERS98 Cross-Section Survey. However, both questionnaires covered the same broad topic areas:
Documentation for the Panel SurveyThe table below contains documentation relating specifically to the second wave of the 1998-2004 Panel Survey. Each file in the table below can be viewed using the Adobe Acrobat® Reader. Users without this software can download it free of charge from the Adobe web-site by following the pictorial link below the table. To view a document below, follow its hyperlink. To download the document, right-click on the hyperlink and this will give you the Save As option. Follow this link to access more general documentation about WERS 2004. Documentation on the 1998 Cross-Section Survey is available from the web-site of the WERS98 Data Dissemination Service.
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