Summary information
Study title
Labour Mobility Study, 1949: Static Data
Creator
Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, Social Survey Division
Study number / PID
195 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-195-1 (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 discover the rate of occupational, industrial and geographical change in the employed population in Great Britain in 1949, to compare it with the frequency and change in the past and to ascertain the factors associated with change. Data were collected on the rate of change between occupations and industries, the advantages and disadvantages of change to the individuals, and the long-term problem of the movement of manpower between declining industries and growing industries.Data Conversion
These data were converted to current UKDS formats in December 2022. Due to the age of these data, they should be analysed with caution. While every effort is made to ensure data integrity, some parts of the data may not match the documentation, due to the age and condition of the original materials.
Main Topics:
Length of working life, number of occupations/industries/regions/towns/districts worked in, injuries and illnesses, whether first job was wanted, training received, preferred occupation/industry, reasons for choice, last change of job, number of changes between June 1945 and May 1949, opinion of wages, hours and conditions of previous and present employment, reasons for leaving, method of entry in present job, satisfaction, intention to change job. A copy of the questionnaire appears in Glass (1954) pp.94-97.
Age, sex, marital status, place of birth, year of last marriage, children, number of males/females in family, number of male/female earners, residence (place, type, tenure), town/district/region, urban/rural, education of self, spouse, first and last born children, schools attended, examinations, qualifications, occupations of self and spouse, grade, type of employer, employment status.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
31/05/1949 - 31/07/1949
Country
Great Britain
Time dimension
Cross-sectional (one-time) study
Analysis unit
Individuals
National
Adults
Universe
Civilian adults aged eighteen and over in Great Britain
Sampling procedure
One-stage stratified or systematic random sample
The sample required for this inquiry was one of 10,000 civilian adults aged 18 years and over in Great Britain. A two-stage sampling design was used. The first-stage sampling units were local government administrative districts. These were first stratified by Civil Defence Region and two of these Regions were further divided, Wales into two parts (North and South) and Greater London into seven geographical zones. Within Region or Sub-region districts were then stratified by whether urban or rural. The districts in each of the resulting strata were then used in descending order of size (population) and all districts of 140,000 population or over were extracted and each allocated its due proportion of the total sample of 10,000 (districts of this size or over accounted for about 23% of the total sample, a proportion which thus constituted a single-stage stratified random sample of the populations of the larger districts). The remaining districts in each stratum were then grouped into sub-strata by population size and two were selected at random from each sub-stratum. In each of the resulting 225 districts the required sample of civilians aged 18 years and over was obtained by drawing cards at constant intervals from the adult portion of the local National Register.
Kind of data
Numeric
Data collection mode
Face-to-face interview
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
1977
Terms of data access
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Related publications
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