WERS98 Data Dissemination Service
NEW DEVELOPMENTS
The table below is regularly updated with new developments at the WERS98 Data Dissemination Service. These include details of revisions (or additions) to the WERS98 survey data, updates of this web-site and extensions to the service that we are providing to the users of WERS98.
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| 1st January 2002 | WERS98 Data Dissemination Service activity comes to an end. |
| 12th December 2001 | WIRS series bibliography updated. |
| 7th December 2001 | The third WERS98 User Group Meeting. A note of the proceedings has been posted on this web-site. |
| 16th November 2001 | Recalculated Design Factors (DEFTs) for the WERS98 Cross-Section released. |
| 13th November 2001 | Programme of the Third User Group Meeting announced. |
| 9th November 2001 | Revised frequency tables and tables of derived variables added. |
| 5th November 20001 | Addendum to Purdon and Pickering's Paper: Weighted Correlation Coefficients from WERS98 |
| 31st July 2001 | Version 1.3 of the Errata for the Guide to the Analysis of WERS98 released. |
| 19th July 2001 | Susan Purdon and Kevin Pickering's paper on 'The Use of Sampling Weights in Analysis of the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey' added to the web-site. Other content relating to the issue of weighting amended to refer to this paper. |
| 14th June 2001 | WIRS series bibliography updated. |
| 30th March 2001 | The second WERS98 User Group Meeting. Click here to see a note of the proceedings. |
| 31st January 2001 | Derived Variables syntax released for: Management dataset Survey of Employees dataset |
| 31st January 2001 | Variable Notes (and associated syntax)
updated for: Management dataset Worker Representative dataset Survey of Employees dataset |
| 31st January 2001 | Syntax released to implement recode of data on trade union recognition and recode of FSOC variables used in 'All Change at Work?'. |
| 31st January 2001 | Notes to accompany Panel Survey released, supplemented with SPSS and STATA syntax. |
| 31st January 2001 | Spreadsheet mapping 1990 and 1998 questions in Panel Survey released |
| 8th January 2001 | Call for Papers issued: WERS98 User Group (Second Meeting) |
| 4 December 2000 | Errata for the Guide to the Analysis of WERS98 Version 1.2 released. |
| 1 December 2000 | WIRS series bibliography updated. |
| 8 August 2000 | Ten key data items from Chapter 10 of 'Britain at Work' tabulated by eight standard break axes - see Tabulations of Headline Variables. |
| 8 August 2000 | Multiple response tables from the 1998 Cross-section Management data added to section of Frequency Tables. |
| 30 June 2000 | A series of Frequently Asked Questions added to this web-site to aid Users of the WERS98 data. |
| 12 May 2000 | 'All Change at Work?' (WERS98 companion volume) published. |
| 26 April 2000 | Details of an Event related to the Guide to the Analysis of WERS98 posted on this web-site. |
| 26 April 2000 | Errata for the Guide to the Analysis of WERS98 released. |
| 14 April 2000 | A Guide to the Analysis of WERS98 released. |
| 11 April 2000 | WIRS series bibliography updated. |
| 30 March 2000 | Search engine added to this web-site to aid navigation. |
| 28 March 2000 | A Note of the Proceedings of the first WERS98 User Group Meeting released. |
| 28 March 2000 | More details of the primary research volumes based on WERS98 and WIRS90 added to this web-site. |
| 6 March 2000 | Notes to Accompany the Cross-section
Datasets and Questionnaires, supplemented with SPSS and STATA syntax: Management Worker Representatives Survey of Employees |
| 3 March 2000 | The first WERS98 User Group Meeting. |
| 29 February 2000 | Frequency Tables for the Worker Representative Dataset available through the WERS98 Data Dissemination Service web-site. |
| 31 January 2000 | Programme of the First User Group Meeting announced. |
| 31 January 2000 | Frequency Tables for the 1990-98 Panel Dataset available through the WERS98 Data Dissemination Service web-site. |
| 16 December 1999 | Call for papers issued: WERS98 User Group (Meeting 1). |
| 16 December 1999 | WERS98 Data Dissemination Service web-site launched. |
| 12th November 1999 | Panel Dataset available to users from the Data Archive. |
| 21st October 1999 | Final version of the Cross-Section Dataset available to users from the Data Archive. |
| 1st October 1999 | ESRC funding for the WERS98 Data Dissemination Service begins. |
| 24th September 1999 | 'Britain at Work' (the WERS98 source book) published. |
| 22nd March 1999 | Interim Cross-Section Dataset available to users from the Data Archive. |
| 20th October 1998 | 'First Findings' from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey published. |
| Nov 1997 - July 1998 | Fieldwork for the 1998 interview in the 1990-98 Panel Survey. |
| Oct 1997 - July 1998 | Fieldwork for the 1998 Cross-Section Survey. |
WERS98 Data Dissemination
Service
National Institute of Economic and Social
Research, 2 Dean Trench St, London SW1P 3HE
URL: http://www.niesr.ac.uk/niesr/wers98/
E-mail: wers98@niesr.ac.uk
This site is maintained by
Simon Kirby
Page last updated: 02 January 2002