Quality of Employment Survey, 1973-1977: Panel

This study contains data on the working conditions of 1,455 workers aged 16 and older who were working for pay for 20 or more hours per week in the United States in the period 1973-1977. This survey is a panel study version of the cross-section study, QUALITY OF EMPLOYMENT SURVEY, 1977: CROSS-SECTION (ICPSR 7689). The surveys were undertaken by the investigators to provide an overview of working conditions in the American labor force. The aims of these surveys and many of the questions that were asked were comparable to those of the related collections, SURVEY OF WORKING CONDITIONS, 1969-1970 (ICPSR 3507), and QUALITY OF EMPLOYMENT SURVEY, 1972-1973 (ICPSR 3510). The major measures used in each of the four surveys were the frequency and severity of labor standards problems, the quality of employment indicators that were shown to be predictors of job satisfaction, the job satisfaction indices themselves, and the ratings of important job facets. Respondents were asked questions about many facets of their job situations and other areas of their lives that might be affected by their jobs in order to assess the impact of work on them. Questions included job tension, security, physical health, job satisfaction, and financial well-being. A series of questions regarding job expectations was also asked. Additional questions probed respondents' feelings about their overall contentment with their jobs and with life in general. Other variables probed respondents' feelings about their work culture, physical work environment, discrimination at work, job fringe benefits, and labor unions, as well as child care provisions, nature of time spent with children and spouse, use of leisure time, and electoral participation. Demographic variables provide information on age, sex, marital status, race, place of birth, education, and income.

本项研究包含1,455名16岁及以上、每周工作20小时以上且获得报酬的美国劳动者的工作条件数据，时间跨度为1973年至1977年。此次调查是横断面研究《就业质量调查1977年：横断面》（ICPSR 7689）的 panel study 版本。调查由研究人员进行，旨在对美国劳动力市场的工作条件进行概览。这些调查的目的以及所提出的大部分问题与相关数据集《工作条件调查，1969-1970年》（ICPSR 3507）和《就业质量调查，1972-1973年》（ICPSR 3510）的目标相似。四个调查中主要采用的衡量指标包括劳动标准问题的频率和严重程度、就业质量指标（这些指标已被证明是工作满意度的预测因子）、工作满意度指数以及重要工作维度的评级。受访者被问及他们工作状况的多个方面以及可能受工作影响的个人生活领域，以评估工作对他们的影响。问题包括工作压力、安全感、身体健康、工作满意度和财务状况。还询问了一系列关于工作期望的问题。附加问题探究了受访者对其整体工作满意度和对生活的总体满意度。其他变量则探究了受访者对工作文化、工作环境、职场歧视、工作额外福利、工会以及儿童保育措施、与子女和配偶共度时间的性质、休闲时间的使用以及选举参与的看法。人口统计学变量提供了关于年龄、性别、婚姻状况、种族、出生地、教育程度和收入的信息。