European Working Conditions Telephone Survey, 2021

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><p>The <i>European Working Conditions Survey</i> (EWCS) is conducted by Eurofound (the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions). Since its launch in 1990, the EWCS has provided an overview of working conditions in Europe. The main objectives of the survey are to:</p><p><ul><li>assess and quantify working conditions of both employees and the self-employed across Europe on a harmonised basis;</li><li>analyse relationships between different aspects of working conditions;</li><li>identify groups at risk and issues of concern as well as of progress;</li><li>monitor trends by providing homogeneous indicators on these issues; and</li><li>contribute to European policy development in particular on quality of work and employment issues.</li></ul><p>Themes covered include employment status, working time duration and organisation, work organisation, learning and training, physical and psychosocial risk factors, health and safety, work-life balance, worker participation, earnings and financial security, as well as work and health.<br></p>The EWCS paints a wide-ranging picture of Europe at work across countries, occupations, sectors and age groups. Its findings highlight actions for policy actors to help them address the challenges facing Europe today. The EWCS is generally conducted once every five years, although an extra wave was conducted in 2001 to cover the new acceding and candidate EU countries. The survey is based on a questionnaire which is administered face-to-face to a random sample of 'persons in employment' (i.e. employees and the self-employed), representative of the working population in each EU country. An integrated dataset is also available (see SN 7363) which combines data from the first five waves of the survey in one file.<br>
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Before working with the EWCS data, users are recommended to read the latest supplementary supporting documentation on the Eurofound <a href="http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/surveys/european-working-conditions-surveys" title="European Working Conditions Survey" target="_blank">European Working Conditions Survey</a> webpages. Further information about the series can be found there, including methodological information, technical reports and reports on translation, sampling implementation, sampling evaluation and weighting, coding, quality control, quality assurance and other publications.<br>
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</p><br><p><span style="font-weight:bold">EWCTS 2021</span></p>
<p>The regular face-to-face EWCS had to be prematurely terminated in 2020 due to the Covid pandemic so, in 2021, Eurofound carried out a once-off European Working Conditions Telephone Survey (EWCTS) using computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI).<span><br>
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<p><span>The EWCTS 2021 included over 70,000 workers in 36 European countries: the EU Member States, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom as well as Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia. Changing the survey mode to CATI is in line with other similar surveys in the context of the COVID pandemic.</span></p>
<p><span>The EWCTS 2021 allows Eurofound to provide comparable and representative information on job quality at a time when working lives have undergone considerable changes and the capacity of people at work to contribute to the recovery is critical. Due to the change in interviewing mode, comparison with previous editions of the EWCS may not be possible so the options for analysis of trends over time are limited.</span></p><p><span><span style="font-weight:bold">Documentation</span><br></span></p><p><span>Users should note that the only methodological documentation currently available with the study is a Readme file. Further documentation will be provided by the depositor in due course. Users should also note that the UKDS data filenames may differ slightly from those currently quoted in the Readme file, but there is no difference in the content</span>.</p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Latest edition information</span></p><p>For the third edition (January 2024), NUTS codes now give the code and not the label, so there are no issues with the encoding of non-Latin characters), and some changes have been made to the labels of NACE level 2 for Agriculture and Mining).<span><br></span></p><br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><br><p><span>Working time; Working conditions and sustainable work; Working conditions; Teleworking; Sustainable work; Work-life balance; Health and well-being at work; Job quality.</span><br />
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<p>本文摘要版权归英国数据服务中心（UK Data Service）及数据采集版权所有者所有。</p><p>《欧洲工作条件调查》（European Working Conditions Survey，简称EWCS）由欧洲改善生活和工作条件基金会（Eurofound）开展。该调查自1990年启动以来，一直全面呈现欧洲地区的工作环境现状。本次调查的核心目标包括：</p><ul><li>以统一标准评估并量化欧洲范围内雇员与个体经营者的工作环境状况；</li><li>分析工作环境各维度间的内在关联；</li><li>甄别处于风险中的群体、受关注的议题以及取得的进展；</li><li>通过发布标准化指标追踪相关趋势；</li><li>为欧洲政策制定提供支撑，尤其聚焦于工作质量与就业相关议题。</li></ul><p>调查涵盖的主题包括就业身份、工作时长与安排、工作组织模式、学习与培训、物理及社会心理风险因素、健康与安全、工作与生活平衡、劳动者参与、收入与经济保障，以及工作与健康等。</p><p>EWCS全面覆盖欧洲各国、不同职业、行业与年龄群体的职场图景，其研究结果为政策制定者应对当前欧洲面临的各类挑战提供了行动指引。该调查通常每五年开展一轮，2001年曾额外增设一轮调查，以覆盖当时新入盟的欧盟成员国及欧盟候选国。本次调查采用问卷形式，针对欧盟各国就业人口（即雇员与个体经营者）的随机抽样样本开展面对面访谈，样本具备全国代表性。此外，另有整合版数据集（编号SN 7363），将前五轮调查的数据整合至单个文件中。</p><p>在使用EWCS数据前，建议用户先查阅欧洲改善生活和工作条件基金会官网的《欧洲工作条件调查》专题页面（http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/surveys/european-working-conditions-surveys）获取最新补充配套文档。该页面还提供该系列调查的更多相关信息，包括方法论说明、技术报告，以及关于翻译、抽样实施、抽样评估与加权、编码、质量控制、质量保障等主题的出版物。</p><br><p><strong>EWCTS 2021</strong></p><p>受新冠疫情影响，原有的面对面访谈版EWCS于2020年提前终止，因此欧洲改善生活和工作条件基金会于2021年开展了一次性的欧洲工作条件电话调查（European Working Conditions Telephone Survey，简称EWCTS），调查采用计算机辅助电话访谈（CATI）技术。</p><p>2021年EWCTS共覆盖36个欧洲国家的7万余名劳动者，涵盖欧盟成员国、挪威、瑞士、英国，以及阿尔巴尼亚、波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那、科索沃、黑山、北马其顿和塞尔维亚。将调查方式调整为电话访谈符合新冠疫情背景下其他同类调查的通行做法。</p><p>在职场环境发生显著变化、劳动者对经济复苏的支撑作用至关重要的当下，2021年EWCTS能够为欧洲改善生活和工作条件基金会提供关于工作质量的可比且具有代表性的信息。由于访谈方式发生变更，该调查结果无法与此前几轮EWCS进行直接对比，因此长期趋势分析的可行性受到限制。</p><p><strong>文档说明</strong></p><p>用户须知，目前该研究仅提供README文件作为方法论文档。后续相关文档将由数据存储方适时发布。同时请注意，英国数据服务中心的数据集文件名可能与README文件中当前引用的文件名略有差异，但文件内容并无不同。</p><p><strong>最新版本说明</strong></p><p>2024年1月发布的第三版数据中，NUTS代码仅显示编码值而非标签，因此不再存在非拉丁字符的编码问题；同时针对农业与采矿业的NACE二级行业分类标签进行了部分调整。</p><br><p><strong>核心主题</strong>：</p><p>工作时长；工作环境与可持续工作；工作环境；远程办公；可持续工作；工作与生活平衡；职场健康与福祉；工作质量。</p><p><br /><br /></p>