Summary information

Study title

National Survey of Home-Based Workers, 1981

Creator

Department of Employment

Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, Social Survey Division

Study number / PID

2275 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-2275-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

The aim of this survey was to provide nationally representative information on the personal and domestic characteristics of home-based workers, on the nature and organisation of home-based work, and on related issues such as: employment status, accidents and health problems; pay rates and earnings, trade union membership, reasons for and attitudes towards home-based work, how such jobs fit into work histories, and home-workers' attitudes to existing and new protective legislation.
The survey was a follow-up to the spring <i>1981 Labour Force Survey</i> (SN:1888)
Main Topics:

Work location; occupation; industry; hours worked; job tenure; second jobs; work experience; qualifications; trade union membership; employment status; labour turnover; weekly and hourly earnings; reasons for doing home-based work; attitudes to homework - satisfaction with job and pay; awareness of and attitudes to employment protection legislation-accidents; health; employer's control; plus all the usual personal and domestic characteristics variables.
Job segregation; sex discrimination; enterprise; self-employment - family workers; equivalent on-site work; transfers to home-based work; household income-poverty and financial hardship; work orientations; sex roles.
Many questions and classifications were taken from the General Household Survey, so that comparisons could be drawn with GHS data on the whole labour force or population of working age

Labour and employment

ACCIDENTSADVANCED LEVEL EXAMINATIONSAGEAPPOINTMENT TO JOBATTITUDESBONUS PAYMENTSBUILDING SERVICESCARE OF DEPENDANTSCAREER DEVELOPMENTCERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATIONCHILD BENEFITSCHILD CARE

Data collection period

01/09/1981

Country

England and Wales

Time dimension

Longitudinal/panel/cohort

Analysis unit

Individuals

National

Employees

Homeworkers

Universe

All home-based workers aged 16 and over in England and Wales, excluding the construction and road haulage industries and family workers

Sampling procedure

Respondents were identified through the 1981 National Labour Force Survey. All persons in scope were reinterviewed

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1987

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.

Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.

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Hakim, C. (1984) 'Homework and outwork : : national estimates from two surveys', Employment Gazette