Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The New Earnings Survey is almost certainly the most detailed and comprehensive earnings series anywhere in the world. It is a one in a hundred sample survey of employees in Britain, giving information on aspects of earnings and employment based on a week in April each year. The NES enquiry is conducted by the Department of Employment under the provisions of the Statistics of Trade Act (1947). Under the terms of this Act, data so obtained and relating solely to any individual may not be released into the public domain. All the data described here are in a form that ensures that there is no disclosure of individual information. They have been processed into a <i>minimally aggregated</i> form approved by the Department of Employment: any data record released relates to an aggregate of not less than three individuals.
Main Topics: The dataset consists of fourteen separate extract data files from the original New Earnings Survey files held by the Department of Employment. Each extract file had been constructed to allow investigation of a particular aspect of the data contained in the Survey, as follows: AGG01 National Collective Agreements AGG02 Manual Skill Differentials AGG03 Regional Implications AGG04 Age implications AGG05 Dispersion of Pay within Occupations AGG06 Shiftwork AGG07 Pay in relation to hours worked AGG08 Public/Private Sector Pay Movements AGG09 White Collar Pay Movements AGG10 Sex Differentials AGG11 Incentive Pay and Payment Schemes AGG12 Incentive Payment Schemes and Age AGG14 Pay in Relation to Size of Company and Plant AGG15 Pay in Relation to Company Size and Region Eight of the aggregate files (numbers 2,3,4,5,7,8,9 and 10) relate to dimensions recorded in the Survey in each year and comprise 13 annual files, one for each year 1970-1982. A further two aggregate files (numbers 1 and 6) contain 10 annual files for the years 1973-1982 inclusive, omitting the years 1970-1972, AGG01, due to the introduction of new occupations codes in 1973, and AGG06 due to the lack of shift pay premium prior to 1973. The remaining four files (numbers 11,12,14 and 15) relate to a single year only and are based on the special question included in that year.
Simple random sample
one per cent, comprising all those whose National Insurance numbers end with a specified pair of digits
Postal survey
Information relating to the employees in the sample was obtained from their employers
