Summary information

Study title

National Employer Skills Survey, 2003: Special Licence Access

Creator

UK Commission for Employment and Skills

Study number / PID

7998 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-7998-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

The National Employer Skills Survey (NESS) collected data about the skills of the workforce of firms in England. It provides detailed information about employers’ recruitment problems, experience of skill gaps and engagement in training.

NESS 2003 is such a large resource that it is able to address issues that require analysis at a detailed local or sector level much more readily than any previous survey.

The survey was conducted every two years from 2001 until 2009 by the Learning and Skills Council. After this responsibility for the survey passed to the UK Commission for Employment and Skills and it was merged with other employer skills surveys around the UK to form the UK Employer Skills Survey in 2011 (UK Data Archive SN 7430; SN 7484). The data from NESS is comparable with the England data from the UK Employer Skills Survey.

A separate, but similar survey to NESS is conducted in Scotland (the Scottish Employer Skills Survey, held by UK Data Archive under SN 6857).

Main Topics:

The survey coverage falls into three major categories:

hard-to-fill vacancies and skills-shortage vacancies;

skills gaps;

workforce training and development.

Business/industrial management and organisationLabour and employmentEconomic conditions and indicatorsEducationVocational education and trainingUnemployment

EMPLOYEESEMPLOYER-SPONSORED TRAININGJOB REQUIREMENTSCOSTSSALES PERSONNELPROFESSIONAL PERSONNELABILITYOFFICE WORKERSIN-SERVICE TRAININGSEMI-SKILLED WORKERSUNSKILLED WORKERSJOB VACANCIES

Data collection period

01/03/2003 - 01/07/2003

Country

England

Time dimension

Repeated cross-sectional study

Analysis unit

Institutions/organisations

National

Universe

The survey is with employers in England. Employers were defined as establishments rather than enterprises, hence different establishments of the same company could be interviewed. Establishments where no other people besides the working proprietors were employed were excluded, but otherwise all sizes and sectors of establishments were in scope for the survey. The principal respondent was the most senior person responsible for human resources or personnel issues.

Sampling procedure

Multi-stage stratified random sample

Kind of data

Numeric

Data collection mode

Telephone interview

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

2016

Terms of data access

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

Commercial use is not permitted.

Use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. Users must apply for access via a Special Licence application.