Skills and Employment Survey 2023: Continuity and Change

SES2023将是35年来对工人进行的一系列调查中的第八项。经济合作与发展组织表示，有强烈的政策需要更好地衡量工作质量，以改善工人的福祉，提高生产率和竞争力，并增进社会福利。英国政府更进一步，同意“每年报告英国经济的工作质量，并追究自己的责任”。然而，关于工作质量的官方数据仍然很少。为了帮助填补这一缺口，卡内基信托/RSA成立的一个小组建议在劳动力调查中增加32个新问题。然而，作为回应，只增加了两个关于职业发展和员工参与决策的问题。这不足以应对这一挑战的规模，并使人们很难描绘出当今英国的工作生活质量。此外，与德国、法国、意大利、芬兰和美国等资源更充足的国家相比，英国在这一领域的数据基础设施尤其薄弱。英国退出欧盟也意味着，将无法获得来自欧洲的调查数据来填补这一缺口。鉴于最近的社会和政策变化，英国越来越有必要了解职场世界的变化，同时证据基础也在减弱。迫切需要扩展SES系列，以弥补这一差距，提供数据以满足用户需求，并确保这一领域研究的长期基础。它还将针对ESRC的战略研究目标，例如与英国的政策议程保持联系，并确保数据收集具有弹性并对变化做出反应。2023年的调查将面对面地收集20-65岁的工人以及参加同一调查的在线/电话版本的类似年龄的工人的数据。受访者将从随机创建的样本中抽取。我们将对两个样本进行比较，以确定面试方式对所给回答的影响程度。这项调查将收集约4300名工人的数据，其中2835人将接受面对面采访，约1500人将在没有互联网接入的情况下通过网络或电话参与调查。这项提议得到了教育部以及咨询、调解和仲裁服务机构的财政支持。它还得到了17个利益攸关方的支持。这些机构包括工作和养老金部、商业、能源和工业策略部、国家统计局、工会大会和特许人事和发展学会。此外，威尔士政府和北爱尔兰经济部热衷于探索为其地理区域增加资金。

SES2023 will be the eighth in a series of surveys of workers stretching back over 35 years. The OECD has stated that 'there is a strong policy need for better measures of job quality' to improve workers' well-being, increase productivity and competitiveness, and boost societal welfare. The UK government has gone further by agreeing to 'report annually on the quality of work in the UK economy and hold ourselves to account'. Yet, official data on job quality remains thin on the ground. To help plug this gap, a group set-up by the Carnegie Trust/RSA suggested that 32 new questions be added to the Labour Force Survey. However, in response, only two questions on career progression and employee involvement in decision-making have been added. This provides an inadequate response to the scale of the challenge and makes it difficult to paint a picture of the quality of working life in Britain today. Furthermore, the UK's data infrastructure in this area is particularly weak in comparison with countries where monitoring job quality is better resourced, such as Germany, France, Italy, Finland and the US. The withdrawal of the UK from the EU also means data from European surveys will not be available to plug the gap.Given recent societal and policy changes, the UK faces an increased need to know how the world of work has changed combined with a weakening evidence base on which to do so. There is an urgent need for the SES series to be extended to address this gap, provide data to meet user needs and secure the long-term foundation for research in this area. It will also address ESRC strategic research objectives, such as connecting with the UK policy agenda, and ensuring that data collection is resilient and responsive to change.The 2023 survey will collect data face-to-face from workers aged 20-65 as well as from similar aged workers who take part in an online/telephone version of the same survey. Respondents will be drawn from randomly created samples. Comparisons will be made between the two samples to determine the extent to which the mode of interview influences the responses given. The survey will collect data from around 4,300 workers, 2,835 of whom will be interviewed face-to-face and around 1,500 will take part online or on the phone if they do not have internet access.The proposal has the financial support of the Department for Education, and the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service. It also has the support of 17 stakeholders. These include the Department for Work and Pensions, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Office for National Statistics, the Trades Union Congress, and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Furthermore, the Welsh Government and the Northern Ireland Department for the Economy are keen to explore funding boosts for their geographical areas.