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DDI2.5 XML CODEBOOK RECORD FOR STUDY NUMBER 7997 Employer Skills Survey, 2015: Special Licence Access 799710.5255/UKDA-SN-7997-3 Department for Education UK Commission for Employment and Skills <a href="https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/re-using-public-sector-information/uk-government-licensing-framework/crown-copyright/" target="_blank">© Crown copyright</a> held jointly with the UK Commission for Employment and Skills UK Data Service 14 July 2016 EMPLOYEESEMPLOYER-SPONSORED TRAININGJOB REQUIREMENTSCOSTSSALES PERSONNELPROFESSIONAL PERSONNELABILITYOFFICE WORKERSIN-SERVICE TRAININGSEMI-SKILLED WORKERSUNSKILLED WORKERSJOB VACANCIESRECRUITMENTKEY SKILLSTRAININGPERSONNEL MANAGEMENTQUALIFICATIONSLABOUR AND EMPLOYMENTTRAINEESPERSONNELINDUSTRIESMANUFACTURING INDUSTRIESSERVICE INDUSTRIESMANAGERSORGANIZATIONSTRANSITION FROM SCHOOL TO WORKPERFORMANCETRAINING COURSESEMPLOYERSJOB DESCRIPTIONJOB EVALUATIONFINANCIAL INCENTIVES Business/industrial management and organisationVocational education and trainingEducationLabour and employmentEconomic conditions and indicatorsUnemployment Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The UK Commission’s Employer Skills Survey is a biennial UK-wide individual establishment telephone survey, providing the most detailed picture of training, vacancies, skills gaps, and investment in training. The aims are to provide rigorous and robust intelligence on the UK labour market and the market for skills. The ESS sits alongside the Employer Perspectives Survey (EPS) to produce insights that complement each other and are run in alternate years. The focus of the Employer Perspectives Survey is primarily outward-looking, covering provision of and engagement with the wider skills system, whereas the Employer Skills Survey is inward-looking and measures the current skills position and skill needs of employers. The 2015 Employer Skills Survey had two facets:<ul><li>The core survey of circa 91,000 establishments, covering business strategy, recruitment, retention, skills gaps, training and workforce development, and high performance working; and </li><li>the Investment in Training follow-up survey of circa 13,000 establishments, covering the investment establishments make in training their staff.</li></ul> The 2015 survey is the third UK-wide skills survey. Further information can be found on the gov.uk <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ukces-employer-skills-survey-2015"> Employer Skills Survey </a> webpage. For the third edition (December 2017), updated versions of the main data file (skills included), occupational data file and England LEP data files were deposited. Previous errors had been discovered that affected questions related to vacancies where the survey asked for the specific occupation, and these have now been rectified. A new document has also been provided, covering the impact of the changes on some weighting variables in the main data file. Main Topics: Topics covered by this study include the following:<ul> <li>establishment characteristics;</li> <li>recruitment and vacancies;</li> <li>demand for skills and skills gap;</li> <li>hard-to-fill vacancies;</li> <li>workforce development and training;</li> <li>skills utilisation and high performance working;</li> <li>business strategy and structure.</li></ul> March 2015 - August 201501 March 201501 August 2015 United Kingdom Institutions/organisationsNational All establishments in the UK in 2015 with two or more people working at them (regardless of whether or not they owned the organisation) were eligible for the survey. Numeric Repeated cross-sectional study Multi-stage stratified random sample Telephone interview The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the <a href="https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/cd137-enduserlicence.pdf" target="_blank">End User Licence Agreement</a>.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.Access is limited to users based in the UK and the data cannot be accessed outside of the UK. See <restrctn> Janta, B., Dimova, S., Pollard, J. and Belanger, J. (2018) Skills demand in the Cambridge area: attracting and retaining skills [Research report], : RAND Europe, https://doi.org/10.7249/RR2562. https://doi.org/10.7249/RR2562 https://oai.ukdataservice.ac.uk:8443/oai/provider 7997 2024-11-28T07:31:10Z ddi:codebook:2_5