Survey of Quality of Life at Work, 2010 (ECVT)

Summary

ECVT investigates the quality of life at work by asking for information on situations and activities that occur in the people’s work environment and their family, and on subjective perceptions that workers have about their conditions and labour relations. The weakness of ECVT is clearly related to the inconsistency during the last decade, which has been improved in the last five years where the domains, concepts and sample size were stabilized. No provision of microdata also limits the survey’s usefulness.

Type of data

Data Source
Survey

Type of Study
Crosssection occasional

Data gathering method
Face-to-face

Access to data

Conditions of access
Methodology and abridged and detailed results can be accessed in Spanish at http://www.empleo.gob.es/estadisticas/ecvt/welcome.htm. Microdata are not available.

Type of available data (e.g. anonymised microdata, aggregated tables, etc.)
A set of different results report is offered to the public from the general results (http://www.empleo.gob.es/estadisticas/ecvt/Ecvtsint2010/ANE/Sintesis.htm) to a set of abridged tables with the main domains and the classification variables (http://www.empleo.gob.es/estadisticas/ecvt/Ecvtsint2010/T/index.htm) and the extended results (48 tables) (http://www.empleo.gob.es/estadisticas/ecvt/Ecvt2010/index.htm).

Formats available
Tables are usually presented in PDF and excel formats.

Coverage

Coverage Years of collection, reference years, and sample sizes
Data was collected from 2001 to 2010 (the survey was not carried out in 2005). The initial sample size was 6,020 people (in 1999) and was increased to approximately 9,000 people after 2006 (in 2010, it was 9,240).

First year of collection
2001

Stratification if applicable
Region and size of municipalities in the first stage; census tracts, the dwellings and one person from each dwelling aged 17 and over, in the second stage.

Base used for sampling

Geographical coverage and breakdowns
All of Spain, with the exception of the cities of Ceuta and Melilla; the sample is distributed in a proportional way by region, with an extra-sample in Catalonia to cover the regional representativeness

Age range
Individuals living in private dwellings, who are aged 17 and over

Statistical representativeness
Population representative

Coverage of main and cross-cutting topics
ECVT is a multi-stage, stratified survey, according to the census tracts, the dwellings and one person from each dwelling aged 17 and over. The questionnaire is composed by several areas of interest: - demographic features: age, sex, educational level - some occupational variables describing the workplace - quality of life at work, including satisfaction, organization, environment, social relations at work, working time, security, income, professional training, reconciling work and family life, collective agreements, social and geographical mobility, associations, general life assessments. All the ECVT issues cover five main domains (satisfaction with work organisation, contracts and health conditions at work), work organisations, training, social and geographical mobility, and reconciling family and work. Tables are depicted with a set of classification variables that refer to individuals (age, sex, level of education, professional status, occupation, income), to work (contract types, seniority in the workplace, types of work days, working conditions, economic activity, company size) and to others (regions, municipal size).

Linkage

Standardisation
No

Possibility of linkage among databases
No

Data quality

Entry errors if applicable
No information provided

Breaks
2006 ECVT was the breaking point to make the contents of the survey more stable.

Consistency of terminology or coding used during collection
No information provided

Governance

Contact information
Secretary of Statistics
Ministerio de Empleo y Seguridad Social (Ministry of Employment and the Social Security)
Agustín de Bethencourt, 4
28071 Madrid Spain Phone: 913630000
Email: estadistica(at)meyss.es
Url: http://www.empleo.gob.es/estadisticas/ecvt/welcome.htm

Timeliness, transparency
No information provided