| SN: |
5655 |
| Title: |
Establishment Survey on Working Time and Work-Life Balance, 2004-2005 |
| Alternative title: |
European Survey on Working Time and Work-Life Balance; ESWT; European Company Survey, 2004-2005 |
| Persistent identifier: |
10.5255/UKDA-SN-5655-1 |
| Series: |
European Company Survey, 2004- |
| Depositor(s): |
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions |
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Principal investigator(s):
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European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
TNS Infratest Sozialforschung (Munich)
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| Data collector(s): |
TNS Infratest Sozialforschung (Munich)
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| Sponsor(s): |
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
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International micro data - Major studies
General - Employment and labour
Social indicators and quality of life - Society and culture
The European Company Survey (ECS) is a large-scale representative survey among establishments in the European Union (EU) and is carried out every four years. The ECS examines a range of issues, such as working time, work-life balance, and the development of social dialogue in companies. The survey series aims to map working time policies and practices at the level of the establishment in the EU, to survey the views of the different actors at establishment level on these policies and practices, and to provide policy makers with a picture of the main issues and developments in the field.
The first company survey in the series was known as the Establishment Survey on Working Time and Work-Life Balance, 2004-2005 (available from the UK Data Archive under SN 5655). The second survey has taken on the new title of the European Company Survey, 2009 (available from the Archive under SN 6568).
Further information about the ECS can be found on the Eurofound ECS survey web pages.
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The Establishment Survey on Working Time and Work-Life Balance, 2004-2005 is the first survey in the series and was conducted in the 15 existing EU member states (EU15) and 6 of the new states who joined the EU in 2004: Cyprus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Poland and Slovenia. The topics to be covered in detail were agreed between TNS Infratest Sozialforschung, who conducted the first survey on behalf of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (EFILWC), the research team and advisory committee at EFILWC, and a group of experts from various countries. It was agreed to focus on the following working time arrangements which are likely to have an impact on work-life balance:- part-time work
- extended operating hours (night work, week-end work, shift work)
- flexible working time arrangements (e.g. flexi-time, working time accounts)
- overtime
- childcare leave and other forms of long-term leave
- phased retirement and early retirement
For these working time arrangements, information about the incidence at establishment level was collected and (where it made sense and was possible within the given restrictions of the length of the questionnaire) information about the reasons for the introduction, the practical experiences and details of the regulations.
Further information about the survey can be found on the Eurofound ESWT web pages.
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Main Topics:
Two questionnaires were fielded as part of the first ESWT survey.
The management questionnaire, conducted with the most senior member of staff with responsibility for personnel at each establishment, covered background and demographic information about the organisation, variations of workload and other questions related to work organisation, part-time work, extended operating hours and work at 'unsocial hours', working time accounts and flexible working time arrangements, overtime, childcare leave and long-term leave, phased and early retirement, and measures to facilitate work-life balance.
The employee representative questionnaire, conducted with the chairperson of the corresponding employee representative body in the establishment or another suitable employee representative, covered similar topics, from the point of view of employees.
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Dates of fieldwork:
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2004, 2005 |
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Country:
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Austria
Belgium
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany (October 1990-)
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Latvia
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
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Spatial units:
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Countries
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Observation units:
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Individuals
Organisations
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Kind of data:
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Numeric
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Universe:
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Cross-national; National
Managers and employees from establishments based in the EU, with 10 or more employees
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Time dimensions:
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Repeated cross-sectional study
Further surveys are planned to be carried out every 4-5 years..
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Sampling procedures:
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See documentation for details.
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Number of units:
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21,031 (see documentation for country specific details)
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Method of data collection:
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Face-to-face interview
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Weighting:
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Weighting used. See documentation for details
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Burgoon, B. and Raess, D. (2011) 'Does the global economy mean more sweat? Trade, investment, migration and working hours in Europe', Socio-Economic Review, 9(4), pp.699-727. Retrieved January 3rd, 2012 from http://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/vital/access/manager/Repository/unige:17749
van den Berg, A. and Grift, Y. (2012) 'De economische effecten van medezeggenschap in de publieke sector' in H. Hartmann (ed.) OR en invloed, Alphen aan den Rijn: Kluwer, pp.21-38. ISBN 90-6500-168-9. (Dutch language: in translation this means 'the economic effects of codetermination in the public sector'. It deals with the role of Dutch works councils. The authors note that, to the best of their knowledge, the effects of public sector works councils have hardly (if ever) been studied empirically, either in the Netherlands or elsewhere.)
