New Earnings Survey, 1973

UKDA study number:2246

Principal Investigator

Department of Employment

Distributed by

UK Data Archive, University of Essex, Colchester.

November 1987

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Department of Employment, New Earnings Survey, 1973 [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Archive [distributor], November 1987. SN: 2246, http://dx.doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-2246-1.

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2246 . New Earnings Survey, 1973

Depositor:

Department of Employment

Principal Investigator:

Department of Employment

Other Acknowledgements:

The data in this set have been reformatted by a group of thirteen researchers with a grant from the ESRC to ensure that there is is no disclosure of individual information.

Abstract:

The New Earnings Survey is almost certainly the most detailed and comprehensive earnings series anywhere in the world. It is a one in a hundred sample survey of employees in Britain, giving information on aspects of earnings and employment based on a week in April each year. The NES enquiry is conducted by the Department of Employment under the provisions of the Statistics of Trade Act (1947). Under the terms of this Act, data so obtained and relating solely to any individual may not be released into the public domain. All the data described here are in a form that ensures that there is no disclosure of individual information. They have been processed into a minimally aggregated form approved by the Department of Employment: any data record released relates to an aggregate of not less than three individuals.

Main Topics:

The dataset consists of fourteen separate extract data files from the original New Earnings Survey files held by the Department of Employment. Each extract file had been constructed to allow investigation of a particular aspect of the data contained in the Survey, as follows:
AGG01 National Collective Agreements
AGG02 Manual Skill Differentials
AGG03 Regional Implications
AGG04 Age implications
AGG05 Dispersion of Pay within Occupations
AGG06 Shiftwork
AGG07 Pay in relation to hours worked
AGG08 Public/Private Sector Pay Movements
AGG09 White Collar Pay Movements
AGG10 Sex Differentials
AGG11 Incentive Pay and Payment Schemes
AGG12 Incentive Payment Schemes and Age
AGG14 Pay in Relation to Size of Company and Plant
AGG15 Pay in Relation to Company Size and Region
Eight of the aggregate files (numbers 2,3,4,5,7,8,9 and 10) relate to dimensions recorded in the Survey in each year and comprise 13 annual files, one for each year 1970-1982. A further two aggregate files (numbers 1 and 6) contain 10 annual files for the years 1973-1982 inclusive, omitting the years 1970-1972, AGG01, due to the introduction of new occupations codes in 1973, and AGG06 due to the lack of shift pay premium prior to 1973. The remaining four files (numbers 11,12,14 and 15) relate to a single year only and are based on the special question included in that year.

Coverage:

Time Period Covered: 1973
Country: Great Britain
Spatial Units: No information recorded
Observation Units: Individuals
Kind of Data: Aggregate (macro) level

Universe Sampled:

Location of Units of Observation: National
Population: All persons in employment in Great Britain in April of each year

Methodology:

Time Dimensions: Repeated cross-sectional study
annual
Sampling Procedures: Simple random sample
one per cent, comprising all those whose National Insurance numbers end with a specified pair of digits
Method of Data Collection: Postal survey; Information relating to the employees in the sample was obtained from their employers

Language(s) of Written Materials:

Study Description: English
Study Documentation: English

Access:

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Date of First Release:

26 November 1987

Copyright:

Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for Scotland

File last updated:

11 October 2011