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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Workplace Employment Relations Survey, 2004: Teaching Dataset

Variable Details

VariableIFLEX1
LabelDO you have any of the following working time arrangements for any employees at this workplace?
Question text Now I'd like to ask you about the different types of flexible working, leave and childcare arrangements which some employers provide their employees to help them to balance their work and home lives.
Responses
-9 Refusal 2
-8 Don't Know 1
-1 Not applicable 0
1 Working at or from home in normal working hours 877
2 Ability to reduce working hours (e.g. switching from full-ti 1002
3 Ability to increase working hours (e.g. switching from part- 28
4 Job sharing schemes (sharing a full-time job with another em 44
5 Flexitime (where an employee has no set start or finish time 59
6 Ability to change shift patterns 61
7 Working compressed hours (e.g. a 9 day fortnight / 4½ day we 4
8 Night working 18
9 None of these 199
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationWorkplace Employment Relations Survey, 2004: Teaching Dataset
UniverseAll establishments in Britain with five or more employees and operating in Sections D-O of the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC 2003).;National
SamplingOne-stage stratified or systematic random sample
Study TypeCross-sectional (one-time) study. This study is taken from WERS 2004 which is the fifth in the survey series, with previous surveys carried out in 1980, 1984, 1990 and 1998.
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