Netherlands Employers Work Survey (NEWS)

Summary

Strengths: The dataset provides detailed, high quality data, representative of establishments in The Netherlands. It covers a wide range of subjects and has a large dataset, offering the opportunity to study subgroups. Weaknesses: The dataset does not include the self-employed. There are trend breaks in operationalization of some concepts.

Type of data

Data Source
Survey

Type of Study
Crosssection regular

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 during 2008, 2010, and 2012 with a sample of 5,500 establishments per year. Data collection is ongoing and is scheduled to continue at some point in the future.

First year of collection
2008

Stratification if applicable
Sampling stratified by sector (41 categories) and company size (5 categories); data weighted by sector and company size.

Base used for sampling

Geographical coverage and breakdowns
Establishments with two or more employees, respondents are either the director or the HR manager of the establishment.

Age range
Not applicable

Statistical representativeness
Other, please specify

Coverage of main and cross-cutting topics
Detailed study of: Organisational characteristics and working conditions, employment relations and industrial relations, social security, organisational developments (e.g. social innovation, hierarchy, flexibilisation, IT), OSH policy, personnel and HR-policy (e.g. social entrepreneurship, integral health management), employability of employees (e.g. skills), performance and output (productivity, turnover/profit, sickness absence).

Linkage

Standardisation
The same standardised procedures are used each year.

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

Data quality

Entry errors if applicable
No relevant survey errors.

Breaks
Methodological breaks due to changes in the questionnaires (2010, 2012).

Consistency of terminology or coding used during collection
Consistency in concepts, operationalisation of some concepts changed.

Governance

Contact information
TNO Work and Employment


Netherlands Phone:
Email: http://www.monitorarbeid.tno.nl/over-ons/contact
Url: https://www.monitorarbeid.tno.nl/en-us/surveys/news/

Timeliness, transparency
Data is collected every two years.