Netherlands Working Conditions Cohort Study (NWCCS)

Summary

Strengths: Large prospective cohort study, which also offers the opportunity to study subgroups. It provides detailed, high quality data and covers a wide range of topics. Weaknesses: There is no information about the self-employed.

Type of data

Data Source
Survey

Type of Study
Cohort study

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 was collected between 2007 and 2009 with a sample size of 22,759 individuals at baseline.

First year of collection
2007

Stratification if applicable
2007: Post-stratification; weighting by sex, age, sector, country of origin, region, urbanism (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 years at baseline

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, lifestyle), skills and knowledge (education and training), work motivation (e.g. engagement, motivation to continue working), work ability (e.g. ability to continue working), work productivity (e.g. sickness absence, functioning at work), work-related accidents, transitions in employment (e.g. retirement, job-job mobility).

Linkage

Standardisation
The same standardised 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
No

Consistency of terminology or coding used during collection
Consistent over time, same questions asked each year.

Governance

Contact information

TNO Work and Employment
Polarisavenue 151
2132 JJ Hoofddorp Netherlands Phone: 003188 866 61 00
Email: nea(at)tno.nl
Url:

Timeliness, transparency
Data is collected annually.