Skills and Employment Surveys Series Dataset, 1986, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2006 and 2012

<p>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</p>The <i>Skills Survey</i> 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, <i>Social Change and Economic Life Initiative Surveys, 1986-1987</i> (held at the UKDA under SN 2798) and <i>Employment in Britain, 1992</i> (held at the UKDA under SN 5368). The first <i>Skills Survey</i> 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 <i>Skills and Employment Survey, 2012</i> (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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br>The <i>Skills and Employment Surveys Series Dataset, 1986, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2006 and 2012</i> combines data from all six surveys in the series, where common survey questions were asked. For each survey, weights are computed to take into account the differential probabilities of sample selection, the over-sampling of certain areas and some small response rate variations between groups (defined by sex, age and occupation). All surveys cover Great Britain except the <i>Skills Survey, 2006</i> which covers the United Kingdom. <br> <br> The six surveys are all available separately from the UK Data Archive:<ul><li><i>Social Change and Economic Life Initiative Surveys, 1986-1987</i> (SN 2798)</li><li><i>Employment in Britain, 1992</i> (SN 5368)</li><li><i>Skills Survey, 1997</i> (SN 3993)</li><li><i>Skills Survey, 2001</i> (SN 4972)</li><li><i>Skills Survey, 2006</i> (SN 6004)</li><li><i>Skills and Employment Survey, 2012</i> (SN 7466)</li></ul>A Special Licence access version of this study including finer detailed geographical variables may become available from the UK Data Archive in the future.<br> <br> For the second edition (May 2014) an updated version of the data file and the accompanying Technical Briefing document. The depositor has provided the following advice: "Users are altered to errors recently detected in the 4-digit coding of SOC (both 2000 and 2010 versions). This has resulted in further changes to the coding of SOC2000 at 3, 2 and 1-digits as well as amendments to the weighting variables which are partly based on SOC (weightall and weight0612)." The Skills and Employment Survey 2012 dataset, held under SN 7466, has also been updated accordingly. <br> <br> <br><B>Main Topics</B>:<br>The main topics include:<ul><li>skills at work</li><li>quality of work</li><li>training and skills development</li><li>terms and conditions of employment</li>