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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Workplace Employment Relations Survey, 2004: Teaching Dataset

Variable Details

Variableimal_pat
LabelHow male employees usually take time off around birth of their child - paternity leave
Question text If a male employee needed to take time off work around the birth of their child, how would they usually take this time off? Paternity leave (a spec ific period of leave for fathers around the time of the birth).
Responses
0 No 327
1 Yes 1832
-9 Refusal 6
-8 Don't Know 22
-1 Not applicable 108
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationWorkplace Employment Relations Survey, 2004: Teaching Dataset
Interviewer InstructionsPROBE: Which others? UNTIL 'None'.
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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