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The purpose of this survey was to discover the stock of occupational skills, both used and unused available in Great Britain - that is, the types of work that people have done, and the training they have had for them.
Main Topics:
1) Present work: economic status (employed, self-employed etc) type of work (Key List occupation; industry; full/part time); number of employers - industry; dates of employment; size of establishment of present employer; secondary jobs - hours worked; Key List occupation; m.l.h. 2) Education and further education: institution last attended before starting work; age on leaving; subsequent education (institution; date, type) and duration of 3 most recent courses; qualifications obtained; all qualifications held. 3) Job history: start/finish dates of major changes in status or type of work since leaving school. 4) First type of work and training for it: type of work (as for main job, excluding firm size); training received for this type of work. 5) Training between end of first type of work and 1965. 6) Employment and training last 10 years. 7) Training for present type of work: before (present or different industry) and during. 8) Other training since January 1974. 9) Attitudes towards training: 'frustrated' demand (reasons for 'frustration', date, type of work, methods of training, duration, source of support); rejected training (as for 'frustration'). 10) Classification data: age; sex; country of origin; year of arrival in UK; parents' country of birth; assessed colour; assessed command of English; membership of unions and associations; household composition (age, employment status); gross earnings. Training - topics covered (mainly on training record sheet): a) purpose of training; b) type of work training was for; c) methods involved; d) location; e) source of support; f) dates (including full-time/part-time); g) completion (including reasons for non-completion) Job Record Sheet - topics covered: a) where relevant, change of type of work - reason, change of employer, residence; b) type of work - Key List occupation; number of employers; industry; full-time/part-time; c) training received - recorded on a TRS for each incident.
Two-stage sample design: the first stage entailed a selection of polling districts in Great Britain using a stratification procedure based upon the type of area and the population density, the second stage involved the selection of individuals aged 16 and over and covered both electors and non-electors within each polling district selected
Face-to-face interview
