Netherlands Working Conditions Survey (NWCS)

Summary

Strengths: The survey provides detailed, high quality data that are representative of employees aged 15-64 in The Netherlands. It also provides a wide range of topics, has a large dataset, and also offers the opportunity to study trends and subgroups. Weaknesses: The survey provides no information about the self-employed.

Type of data

Data Source
Survey

Type of Study
Survey different

Data gathering method
Face-to-face
Other: PAPI, CAWI

Access to data

Conditions of access
Cannot be downloaded directly.

Type of available data (e.g. anonymised microdata, aggregated tables, etc.)
Anonymised microdata

Formats available
SPSS (default)

Coverage

Coverage Years of collection, reference years, and sample sizes
Data collection ongoing since 2005 (2005-2012) with a sample size of about 23,000 employees per year. Data collection is scheduled to continue at some point in the future.

First year of collection
2005

Stratification if applicable
Post-stratification; weighting by sex, age, sector, country of origin, region, urbanisation (all from Polisadministratie), and education level (from Labour Force Survey).

Base used for sampling

Geographical coverage and breakdowns
Working labour force, excluding self employed

Age range
Population aged 15-64

Statistical representativeness
Special group, please specify

Coverage of main and cross-cutting topics
Detailed study of: Work (e.g. working hours, physical and psychosocial work demands and resources, workplace violence and discrimination, terms of employment), health (e.g. general health, chronic illness, burn-out, occupational health care), skills and knowledge (e.g. education and training, skill obsolescence), work motivation (e.g. satisfaction, motivation to continue working), work ability (e.g. ability to continue working), work productivity (e.g. sickness absence, functioning at work), work-related accidents.

Linkage

Standardisation
The same standardized procedures are used each year.

Possibility of linkage among databases
Linkable to other databases of Statistics Netherlands through anonymised personal number.

Data quality

Entry errors if applicable
No relevant survey errors.

Breaks
Methodological break in some variables due to change in questionnaire in 2007.

Consistency of terminology or coding used during collection
Concepts and classifications are consistent from 2007 onwards.

Governance

Contact information
TNO Work and Employment
Department of Labour, Income and Living Conditions - Statistics Netherlands
Polarisavenue 151
2132 JJ Hoofddorp Netherlands Phone: TNO: 003188 866 61 00 Infoservice: 003188 570 70 70
Email: nea(at)tno.nl
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Timeliness, transparency
Data is collected annually and is available 6 months after collection.