Students as Catalysts of City and Regional Growth: Employer Survey, 2008-2009

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><br>The <i>Students as Catalysts of City and Regional Growth: Employer Survey, 2008-2009</i> was conducted as part of a wider piece of research investigating the impact of higher education (HE) students on cities. The research examined how HE students impact on cities, neighbourhoods and disadvantaged communities, and collected data from five case study cities using both interviews and a telephone survey of employers. Responses were coded into a quantitative data file.<br>
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The survey provided for the first time a broad-ranging overview of employers' motivation in hiring students and their perceived advantages and disadvantages as employees. In accordance with the proposed approach a target list of business 'types' was developed (by sector and location) to target sectors known to be significant employers of students. Though difficult and extremely time-consuming in practice, 150 interviews were successfully completed with a broadly similar profile of employers in each city (including 79 retailers; 61 hospitality employers, and 5 each of call centres and stadia). Questions were a mix of closed and more open questions and the latter were recorded in detail to provide qualitative insights to supplement the quantitative summary measures (these are included in the quantitative data file). Responses were spread equally across the cities, with the exception of slightly fewer in Sunderland (24), simply because its smaller scale meant that categories of potential interviewees were exhausted more quickly. The sampling was purposive rather than representative of employers. It was designed to allow comparison of a similar set of employers between the case study cities (though ultimately few statistically divergent answers were found) and also to allow a comparison of views and experiences of employing students between the hospitality and retail sectors (the two most significant employers of student labour).<br>
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Further information about the project may be found on the <a href="http://www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/RES-171-25-0039/read" title="Students as Catalysts of City and Regional Growth">Students as Catalysts of City and Regional Growth</a> ESRC award page.<br>
<br><br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><br>Topics covered in the survey included reasons for employment of students, and the relative advantages and disadvantages of student employment. More detail is available in the methods documentation.

<P>摘要版权归英国数据服务（UK Data Service）及数据收集版权所有者所有。</P><br>《<i>城市与区域增长的学生催化剂：雇主调查（2008-2009）</i>》是一项更广泛研究的组成部分，该研究旨在探讨高等教育（higher education，HE）学生对城市的影响。研究分析了高等教育学生对城市、社区及弱势社群的作用，并通过访谈与雇主电话调查两种方式，从五个案例研究城市（case study cities）收集数据。受访者的回答被编码为定量数据文件（quantitative data file）。<br><br>该调查首次全面概述了雇主聘用学生的动机，以及其认为学生作为员工的优势与劣势。依据预设方法，研究团队制定了按行业及地理位置划分的目标企业类型清单，聚焦于学生就业的主要雇主行业。尽管实践中存在困难且极为耗时，但最终成功完成150次访谈，各城市受访雇主特征大致相似（含79家零售商、61家酒店餐饮行业雇主、5家呼叫中心及5家体育场馆）。问卷包含封闭式与开放式问题，后者的回答被详细记录以提供定性洞见（qualitative insights），补充定量汇总指标（相关内容已纳入定量数据文件）。受访者在各城市间分布基本均匀，但桑德兰（Sunderland）的受访者略少（24人），因该市规模较小，潜在受访者类别更快耗尽。本次抽样采用目的抽样（purposive sampling），而非代表所有雇主的抽样方式。其设计旨在支持案例城市间相似雇主群体的比较（尽管最终未发现统计显著差异的回答），同时便于对比酒店餐饮及零售行业（学生劳动力的两大核心雇主行业）聘用学生的观点与经验。<br><br>有关该项目的更多信息可在ESRC资助页面的<a href="http://www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/RES-171-25-0039/read" title="Students as Catalysts of City and Regional Growth">《城市与区域增长的学生催化剂》</a>条目查询。<br><br><B>核心主题</B>:<BR><br>调查涵盖主题包括雇主聘用学生的原因、学生就业的相对优势与劣势。更多细节可查阅方法文档。