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Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This is a mixed-methods data collection. Researchers at Cardiff University, and the Business School, University of Plymouth, were funded by the ESRC from 2007-2011 to carry out a four-year study of Workplace Bullying and Harassment in Britain with Special Reference to Race and Ethnicity. This mixed-methods project comprised a large, representative survey and several in-depth organisational case studies. The quantitative element, the British Workplace Behaviour Survey, 2007-2008 (BWBS), is the most comprehensive survey of ill-treatment in the workplace so far undertaken in Britain. It collected detailed information on the incidence and correlates of unreasonable treatment, denigration and disrespect, and violence and injury in the workplace. A central element of the questionnaire used in the BWBS was a revised version of the Negative Acts Questionnaire (NAQ) (Einarsen and Raknes, 1997) which asks about experience of 21 different types of ill-treatment. Interviews were carried out with a representative sample of British employees (and people who had been employees in the last two years). This provided information on workplaces and employees required for modelling the causes and correlates of ill-treatment, including behaviour which could be perceived as bullying and harassment. The achieved sample of 3,494 included a non-white/non-Christian boost. TNS BMRB were contracted to conduct the survey. (The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills later adopted the same methodology for their 2008/09 Fair Treatment at Work Survey (FTWS), held at the UK Data Archive under SN 6382.) In the qualitative phase, four organisational case studies, each comprising approximately 20 interviews with employees, were carried out in order to further illuminate the quantitative data provided by the BWBS. The participating organisations were an NHS trust, a logistics and communication organisation, a financial...