Additional Resources

Introduction

As a complement to the numerous tables provided within Inside the Workplace, this annex makes available an additional set of tables in which a selection of headline data items are cross-tabulated by some basic workplace characteristics. These 'web tables' are referred to on page 11 of the book.

The aim of providing the additional tabulations is to extend the amount of statistical analysis that is publicly available, in a way that could not be accommodated within the confines of the printed volume.

A further annex makes available the detailed and complex statistical analysis that lies behind the discussion presented in Chapter 10 of the book.

Selection of data items

The data items which feature in this annex are selected from Chapters 3-5 and 7-9 of the book. The selection focuses on data items that represent prominent features of employment relations, but for which no comprehensive tabulations were provided in the manuscript.

The selected data items are each tabulated by the same set of basic workplace
characteristics, namely:

• Workplace size (number of employees)
• Organization status
• Organization size
• Sector of ownership
• Industry
• Union recognition

Notes on the interpretation of tables

Each table has a title that gives a broad indication of the content. The title also
provides a page reference identifying the passage within which the main data item is discussed in Inside the Workplace.

In keeping with the analysis in the book, all of the analysis presented here is based on workplaces with 10 or more employees. Figures are weighted and indicate the percentage of workplaces with the specified arrangement (or, on occasion, the percentage of employees giving a particular response).

Like other sample surveys, WERS 2004 is subject to sampling errors whereby the results computed from the sample provide only an estimate of the true figure within the population as a whole. It is possible to quantify the degree of error through the calculation of standard errors and confidence intervals. The Technical Appendix to Inside the Workplace includes tables which allow the reader to approximate standard errors for various percentages, based on average design effects.

The final column in each table indicates the number of observations on which each
figure is based. Readers should note that these web tables do not follow the
conventions of Inside the Workplace in highlighting figures based on particularly low numbers of observations.

Conditions of use

Readers wishing to refer to the figures contained within these web tables are
requested to include the following bibliographic reference within any published
material, also citing the URL from which the tables were downloaded and the date of downloading:

Kersley B, Alpin C, Forth J, Bryson A, Bewley H, Dix G and Oxenbridge S (2006) Inside the Workplace: Findings from the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey (Additional Web Tables), London: Department of Trade and Industry.

WERS Research Team
July 2006

Download the tables