NCPP (National Centre for Partnership and Performance) commissioned the Economic and Social Research Institute to carry out this survey among over 5,000 employees. The employee survey provides the first, large, nationally representative study of Irish employees specifically devoted to exploring worker experiences and attitudes and fills a long-existing gap in our understanding of the Irish workplace, its management and of employees' approach to and experience of change.

The sample was selected on a random basis from a total of 300 sampling points throughout the country. A set of 100 random telephone numbers was generated in each sampling part and these were used to generate a targeted 20 completed questionnaires from each cluster point. A total of 5,509 questionnaires was completed in the course of the survey. Of these 320 were unusable due to incomplete information and so were not included in the analysis.

Telephone interview