Summary information
Study title
EOC Women and Shiftwork : Protective Legislation Survey, 1977
Creator
Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, Social Survey Division
Study number / PID
1773 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-1773-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
The (first) survey to explore women's attitudes and intentions concerning hours of work and the legislation affecting them, carried out by the Equal Opportunities Commission as part of its statutory duty to review the legislation which affects the hours women may work in industry.
Main Topics:
After asking questions about personal and household characteristics and work, if any, the survey covered domestic duties and attitudes to work inside and outside the home. The attitudes of the women, and a sample of their husband's, were then collected, in terms of five specific examples of the widened patterns of working hours for women that would be available if protective legislation were abandoned.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
01/07/1977 - 01/08/1977
Country
Great Britain
Time dimension
Cross-sectional (one-time) study
Analysis unit
Individuals
National
Married men
Women
Women employees
Universe
`Relevant communities' defined as those areas housing a large proportion of women engaged in manual work and where there are factories with an established female industrial workforce
Sampling procedure
Multi-stage stratified random sample
suitable wards were divided into two strata depending on the proportion of manual men. Within strata the wards were ordered and a probability sample of 85 wards chosen. Thus a sample of 3411 women's names were drawn from the electoral registers of some of the eligible wards. Interviews were conducted only with women aged 18 to 59, and a randomly chosen sample of two-thirds of the husbands of working women and one-third of the husbands of non-working women
Kind of data
Not availableData collection mode
Face-to-face interview
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
1982
Terms of data access
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Related publications
- Marsh, A. (1979) 'Women and shiftwork'