Summary information
Study title
MSC/PSI Cohort Study of the Unemployed Flow, 1980-1982
Creator
Policy Studies Institute
Study number / PID
1991 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-1991-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
This study is a major longitudinal survey of 8000 people who came into unemployment in May 1980. Five stages of interviewing were carried out, the final stage taking place at the end of 1982. At each stage of interviewing, people who had found work were dropped from the cohort, after completing a schedule which recorded details of their new jobs. A follow-up survey was carried out of people who were dropped from the cohort at one of the first three stages.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
11/06/1980 - 18/12/1982
Country
Great Britain
Time dimension
Longitudinal/panel/cohort
six waves
Analysis unit
Individuals
National
Unemployed
Universe
People registered as unemployed at 104 Jobcentres and Employment offices throughout Great Britain
Sampling procedure
The initial sample was drawn from the records of 104 Jobcentres and Employment offices throughbout Great Britain. The offices were chosen with probability proportional to the numbers joining their registers after stratification by region, level of unemployment and rate of flow to their registers
Kind of data
Not availableData collection mode
Face-to-face interview
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
1984
Terms of data access
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Related publications
- (1981) 'The employment service and the unemployed flow'
- (1981) The unemployed flow, stage I: : interim report [Research report], London: Policy Studies Institute .
- (1981) 'Why the unemployed don't rebel'
- (1981) 'In defence of Jobcentres'
- (1983) 'How the unemployed fare after they find new jobs'