WERS 2004 � Teaching Dataset

The WERS 2004 Teaching Dataset is a slimmed down version of the full WERS 2004 Cross-Section dataset. The dataset contains all of the workplaces and employees that participated in the WERS 2004 Cross-Section Survey, but contains only a subset of the data collected in the survey in order to make the dataset more manageable. This subset comprises a selection of the data items collected in the Employee Profile Questionnaire and Management Interview, and a selection of the data items from the Employee Questionnaire. The remaining data items from these components of the survey are excluded, along with all data from the Employee Representative Interview and the Financial Performance Questionnaire. The data from the 1998-2004 Panel Survey are also excluded.

This teaching dataset may prove useful to teachers and students of employment relations, human resource management, industrial sociology and labour economics. It may also prove useful to those teaching or studying survey methods because WERS employs a variable probability sampling design which requires the use of weights in the analysis of the survey data. Finally, it may prove useful to those teaching or studying statistics or econometrics because the employee observations are clustered within workplaces, thus providing opportunities for multi-level analysis.

The teaching dataset is available from the Economic and Social Data Service (Study Number 5897). Further information about the teaching dataset can be found in the user guide, which accompanies the data in the ESDS online catalogue, and is also available to download here.


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