1. The European Social Survey Design Features and Main Content

2. General Objectives Measurement of changes in attitudes and values Improvement of reliability of quantitative measures and data quality Importance of social indicators

3. Organisation Twenty-two countries in Round 1 Every two years (Round 1 available, Round 2 in the field) Central co-ordination team; design, development, implementation, archiving Expert groups: sampling, questionnaire development, methods group Comprehensive documentation

4. Methodology Highly uniform specifications: –Effective sample sizes of > 1500 –Care for reduction of non-response –Extensive training for interviewers –Standards for fieldwork –Uniform contact forms –Translation –Registration of important events

5. Weighting for data sets All data weighted: Design weights – correct for unequal probability of selection Population size weights – sample sizes similar in every country resulting in over- represented small countries. Weights put each sample in correct proportion

6. Data Core modules: –Trust in institutions –Political interest and participation –National identity and religious affiliation –Welfare and health, Media –‘Background variables’ (education, profession, income, household composition)

7. Data (2) Rotating Modules: –Round 1 Immigration and asylum Citizenship and social participation –Round 2 Family, work and well-being Opinions on health and care seeking Economic morality

8. Round One Work-related Variables Activity status (F8b) Employment status (F12) With or without employees (F13) Contract duration (F14) Establishment size (F15) ISCO88.COM (F21-24)

9. Aspects of Working Life As part of the rotating module on Citizenship, five questions asked about degree of influence respondents had over their working life Measured on an eleven-point scale: 0-10 The five items make a scale with Cronbach’s alpha of >.85

10. Aspects of working life (E9) Please say how much the management at your work allows you: –To be flexible in your working hours? –To decide how your own daily work is organised? –To influence your environment? –To influence decisions about the general direction of your work? –To change your work tasks if you wish to?

11. Follow up and new measures in Round 2 Replication of ‘organising daily work’ question (2.F18) New questions on ‘influencing policies in an organisation’ and ‘choosing or changing the pace of work’ (2.F19-20)

12. Job Quality & Job Strain Batch of questions about job (2.G64-73, 77- 78, 82-4): –variety, on the job learning, security, effort bargain, support from co-workers, discretion over work time, health and safety risks –Work intensity, time pressure, prospects for promotion, degree of supervision, unsociable hours

13. Direct measures of work/life conflict Worrying about work after hours Too tired to enjoy leisure time No time for partner & family Partner & family fed up with job pressure Difficult to concentrate at work due to family responsibilities [2.G85-7, 89-90]

14. Summary Two rounds of demographic/occupational background variables One round of work situation variables not unlike SRS used for NS-SEC project Double module (60 items) on work, family and well-being could be used for validating E-SEC