Scottish Employer Skills Survey, 2008-2010: Secure Access

The <i>Scottish Employer Skills Survey</i> (SESS) is a series of large scale surveys undertaken to obtain perspectives of employers on a wide range of workforce skills-related issues. The 2010 survey is the sixth in the series, previous surveys being undertaken in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2008. A separate, but similar survey conducted in England (the <i>National Employer Skills Survey</i>) is held at the UK Data Archive under Secure Access study SN 6705. A later survey, the <I>Employer Skills Survey</I> (ESS), covering the whole of the UK, is held under standard End User Licence conditions at the Archive under SNs 7430 and 7484 for 2011 and 2013, respectively. A Secure Access version of the ESS 2011 is available under SN 7745.<br> <br> The sample is structured to be representative of the Scottish economy, including the private, public and voluntary sectors. Information was collected on an individual site basis irrespective of whether or not the site formed part of a larger organisation, an approach that reflects the level at which skills deficiencies in the workforce are most immediately experienced. The principal respondent in each interview was the senior person responsible for human resource issues.<br> <br> The Office for National Statistics (ONS) Virtual Micro-data Laboratory arranged for reference numbers from the Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR) to be added to observations in the data. IDBR reference numbers were added for 3,653 of the 6,274 businesses included in the SESS 2008. Reference numbers were added for 3,242 of the 6,001 businesses included in the SESS 2010. This allows researchers to combine observations from SESS with other ONS business surveys, in order to assess the impact of skills on productivity, innovation, etc. Researchers can undertake this exercise where this has been approved by the ONS. (Businesses for which IDBR reference numbers are not available include 870 (2008) and 921 (2010) who stated that they do not wish their responses to be linked with other surveys or datasets.)<br> <br> <i>Geographical references: postcodes</i><br> The postcodes available in the data file for 2008 are pseudo-anonymised postcodes. The real postcodes are not available due to the potential risk of identification of the observations. However, these replacement postcodes retain the inherent nested characteristics of real postcodes, and will allow researchers to aggregate observations to other geographic units, e.g. wards, super output areas, etc. In the dataset, the variable of the replacement postcode is 'new_PC'. Anonymised postcodes are available for 3,653 of the 6,274 businesses included in the 2008 survey.<br> <br> Geographical variables, including postcodes, Local Economic Forum areas and Scottish Further Education Funding Council areas, although included in the 2008 dataset, are not available for 2010 due to a change in focus for the study.<br> <br> The second edition (June 2015) includes data for 2010 and updates to the accompanying documentation.<br> <br>

苏格兰雇主技能调查（Scottish Employer Skills Survey，SESS）是一系列大规模调查，旨在收集雇主对劳动力技能相关各类议题的看法。2010年版为本系列第六次调查，此前的调查分别于2002、2003、2004、2006及2008年开展。英格兰地区另有一项类似的独立调查——**全国雇主技能调查（National Employer Skills Survey）**，该数据集以安全访问研究SN 6705的形式存放于英国数据档案馆（UK Data Archive）。后续还有一项覆盖全英国的调查——**雇主技能调查（Employer Skills Survey，ESS）**，2011年与2013年的版本分别以SN 7430与SN 7484的编号，遵循标准最终用户许可协议存放于该档案馆；2011年版雇主技能调查的安全访问版本可通过SN 7745获取。

本次调查的样本结构旨在代表苏格兰经济的整体构成，涵盖私营、公共及志愿部门。调查以单个工作场所为单位收集信息，无论该场所是否隶属于更大的组织——这一方式契合了劳动力技能缺口最直接的感知层级。每一场访谈的主要受访者均为负责人力资源事务的高级管理人员。

英国国家统计局（Office for National Statistics，ONS）虚拟微数据实验室为本数据集的观测样本添加了跨部门商业登记册（Inter-Departmental Business Register，IDBR）的参考编号。在2008年苏格兰雇主技能调查的6274家企业中，共有3653家被添加了IDBR参考编号；2010年版的6001家企业中，则有3242家被添加该编号。此举可使研究人员将苏格兰雇主技能调查的观测数据与其他英国国家统计局商业调查数据进行合并，以评估技能对生产率、创新等方面的影响，但该操作需经英国国家统计局批准后方可进行。（未获取到IDBR参考编号的企业包括2008年的870家与2010年的921家，这些企业表示不希望其调研结果与其他调查或数据集进行关联）

**地理参考：邮政编码**
2008年版数据文件中可用的邮政编码为伪匿名化邮政编码。由于存在观测样本被识别的潜在风险，原始真实邮政编码无法公开。但此类替代邮政编码保留了真实邮政编码固有的嵌套层级特征，可支持研究人员将观测数据聚合至其他地理单元，例如选区、超级输出区等。本数据集中，替代邮政编码的变量名为`new_PC`。2008年调查的6274家企业中，共有3653家可获取匿名化邮政编码。

尽管2008年版数据集包含邮政编码、地方经济论坛区域及苏格兰继续教育资助委员会区域等地理变量，但由于本次研究的重点发生变化，2010年版数据集不再提供此类地理变量。

本数据集第二版（2015年6月）包含2010年的调查数据，并更新了配套文档。

搜集汇总

背景与挑战

背景概述

该数据集是苏格兰雇主技能调查（2008-2010年）的安全访问版本，由苏格兰政府教育分析服务部门生产，包含2010年的更新数据。目前数据集已暂停，无法访问或下载。