Employers Skills Survey, 2002

The Employers Skills Surveys are undertaken to identify the extent, causes and implications of skill deficiencies reported by employers in England. The series addresses a number of key questions:<br> <li>What are the skill needs of employers?<br> <li>What is the scale of, and the contribution of a lack of skills to external recruitment difficulties facing employers?<br> <li>How do these problems vary by occupation, establishment size, industrial sector, and region?<br> <li>What evidence is there about the existence of internal skill gaps within the employed workforce?<br> <li>What are the perceptions of employers about the causes and consequences of such (internal and external) skill deficiencies?<br> </li><br> Each row in the establishment data corresponds to one establishment interviewed in the survey. Occupations in the establishment data are coded to 1-digit SOC(2000) level. Each row in the occupational data corresponds to an occupation in which vacancies were reported within an establishment, this enables a more refined analysis of occupations as each occupation is coded separately at the 3-digit SOC(2000) level, up to a maximum of six occupations per establishment.<br>