Employer Skills Survey, 2015: Special Licence Access

  The <I>UK Commission’s Employer Skills Survey</I> is a biennial UK-wide individual establishment telephone survey, providing the most detailed picture of training, vacancies, skills gaps, and investment in training. <br /><br />
The aims are to provide rigorous and robust intelligence on the UK labour market and the market for skills. The ESS sits alongside the Employer Perspectives Survey (EPS) to produce insights that complement each other and are run in alternate years. The focus of the Employer Perspectives Survey is primarily outward-looking, covering provision of and engagement with the wider skills system, whereas the Employer Skills Survey is inward-looking and measures the current skills position and skill needs of employers.<br /><br />
The 2015 Employer Skills Survey had two facets:<ul><li>The core survey of circa 91,000 establishments, covering business strategy, recruitment, retention, skills gaps, training and workforce development, and high performance working; and </li><li>the Investment in Training follow-up survey of circa 13,000 establishments, covering the investment establishments make in training their staff.</li></ul>
The 2015 survey is the third UK-wide skills survey. Further information can be found on the gov.uk <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ukces-employer-skills-survey-2015"> Employer Skills Survey </a> webpage.<br /><br />
For the third edition (December 2017), updated versions of the main data file (skills included), occupational data file and England LEP data files were deposited. Previous errors had been discovered that affected questions related to vacancies where the survey asked for the specific occupation, and these have now been rectified. A new document has also been provided, covering the impact of the changes on some weighting variables in the main data file.
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英国委员会雇主技能调查（UK Commission’s Employer Skills Survey）是一项两年一度的全英单个用工单位电话调查，可为培训、职位空缺、技能缺口及培训投入等领域提供最为详尽的现状图景。

其旨在为英国劳动力市场及技能市场提供严谨可靠的调研数据。雇主技能调查（ESS）与雇主视角调查（EPS）并行开展，二者互为补充且每两年交替开展。雇主视角调查（EPS）主要面向外部，涵盖更广泛技能体系的相关供给与参与情况；而雇主技能调查则聚焦内部，用以衡量用工单位当前的技能状况及技能需求。

2015年雇主技能调查包含两个模块：
- 约9.1万家用工单位参与的核心调查，内容涵盖企业战略、招聘、员工留存、技能缺口、培训与员工发展以及高绩效工作实践；
- 约1.3万家用工单位参与的培训投入追踪调查，内容涉及用工单位为员工培训所投入的资源。

本次2015年调查是第三次全英技能调查。更多相关信息可访问gov.uk网站上的雇主技能调查（Employer Skills Survey）专题网页：https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ukces-employer-skills-survey-2015。

2017年12月发布的第三版数据中，已存档更新后的主数据集（含技能相关字段）、职业数据集以及英格兰地方企业伙伴关系（LEP）数据集。此前发现部分涉及职位空缺的问题存在误差——该类问题要求受访者填报具体职业，目前相关误差已完成修正。同时新增了一份说明文档，详述了本次数据调整对主数据集部分加权变量的影响。