Study on Transitions in Employment, Ability and Motivation (STREAM)

Summary

Strengths: This is a large prospective cohort study, which uses a multidisciplinary approach. It uses stratified sampling based on age, which results in a large proportion of working individuals aged 60-64. The study also uses detailed, high quality data and has a high response at follow-up (2011: 82% baseline sample; 2012: 80% baseline sample). Weaknesses: The study only includes populationaged 45-64 at baseline.

Type of data

Data Source
Survey

Type of Study
Cohort study

Data gathering method
Other: 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 2010 and 2012 with a sample size of 22,759 individuals at baseline. Data collection is ongoing and is scheduled to continue at some point in the future.

First year of collection
2010

Stratification if applicable
Stratified by age and employment status (employee, self-employed, non-working).

Base used for sampling

Geographical coverage and breakdowns
Employees, self-employed, non-working individuals.

Age range
Population aged 45-64 years at baseline

Statistical representativeness
Other, please specify

Coverage of main and cross-cutting topics
Detailed study of: Work (e.g. job characteristics, physical and psychosocial demands and resources, terms of employment), health (e.g. perceived health, diseases, depression, lifestyle, mastery), skills and knowledge (including participation in training and education, skills obsolescence, etc.), social factors (including unpaid work, support from partner, etc.), financial factors, work motivation (e.g. engagement, external and internal motivation, motivation to continue working), work ability, transitions in employment (including retirement, unemployment,job-job mobility, etc.), work productivity (e.g. sick leave, presenteism).

Linkage

Standardisation
The same standardised procedures are used each year.

Possibility of linkage among databases
Linkable to other person databases of Statistics Netherlands through anonymised personal number (89% of the persons at baseline).

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

Timeliness, transparency
Data is collected annually.