Summary information

Study title

Skill Centre Trainees and Their Employers, 1976

Creator

Berthoud, R. G., Policy Studies Institute

Study number / PID

1497 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-1497-1 (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 study the relation between the publicly sponsored training of adults at skillcentres and the local markets which they serve. Two skillcentres were studied in detail, at Stoke-on-Trent and at Dundee. A survey was conducted of the men who completed courses at either skillcentre over a three-year period, and this was followed by a survey of the employers who had hired those same men to work with the skills to which they had been introduced.
Main Topics:

Variables
1. Trainees who completed courses at the skillcentres at Stoke-on-Trent and Dundee in 1973, 1974 and 1975
Data was collected about: their pre-course experience; their courses; their first job after completing; their current job (if different from the first)
2. Employers listed by respondents to the first survey
Data was collected about skilled manpower, including: demand for skilled manpower; composition of labour force; training methods; recruiting methods; experience and attitudes to recruitment and induction of skillcentre trainees.

Vocational education and trainingLabour and employment

ABILITYAPPOINTMENT TO JOBATTITUDESCONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENTEMPLOYERSEMPLOYMENTEMPLOYMENT HISTORYEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIESEMPLOYMENT SERVICESJOB CHANGINGJOB HUNTINGOCCUPATIONAL TRAINING

Data collection period

01/04/1976 - 01/06/1976

Country

England, Scotland

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Individuals

Groups

Subnational

Employers

Trainees

Universe

1. All trainees completing courses at Stoke-on-Trent and Dundee in 1973, 1974 and 1975, excluding those whose home address was beyond daily travelling distance of those towns. 2. All employers listed by those trainees as their first or current employer, excluding jobs described as <i>not using your skills</i> and those employers outside the survey area

Sampling procedure

No sampling (total universe)

In the employers survey, those employers in Stoke who employed only one employee were reduced by one sixth

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Postal survey

The employers were interviewed face-to-face, and the trainees received a postal survey.

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1981

Terms of data access

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Berthoud, R. (1978) Training adults for skilled jobs : skillcentre training and local labour markets: Policy Studies Institute.ISBN 0-85374-162-X
Berthoud, R. (1978) 'Tapping the talents of skillcentre trainees', Personel Management