Survey of Employment Tribunal Applications, 2003

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Survey of Employment Tribunal Applications (SETA2003) is the fourth in a series of surveys dating back to 1987 which aim to provide information on the characteristics of the parties and the key features of a representative sample of Employment Tribunal cases. The main aims of SETA 2003 were: To update the findings from the Survey of Employment Tribunal Applications, 1998 (held at the UK Data Archive under SN: 4984); To provide a basis for an analysis of the factors that determine the outcomes and durations of Employment Tribunal cases; To establish existing practice and attitudes in relation to workplace dispute resolution, ahead of the introduction of the new legislation in this area due to come into effect in October 2004. Telephone interviews were conducted with either the Applicant or the Employer involved in a random sample of 4,500 Employment Tribunal cases completed over a 12 month period (66% response rate). The redesigned SETA provides the first systemic overview of the operation of the ET system. As the benchmark for future surveys the series will allow analysts to track the development of the operation of the system as a whole, as well as the opportunity to delve deeper into minority and subsets of the main jurisdictions. A later qualitative survey 'Experiences of Claimants in Race Discrimination Employment Tribunal Cases, 2005-2006' (held at the UK Data Archive under SN: 5667) was carried out amongst claimants who took part in this study and who were willing to be contacted again.

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The SETA2003 dataset combines responses from the Applicant and Employers surveys. It contains information on the characteristics of parties in a random sample of Employment Tribunal applications. There were 2236 productive interviews with Applicants and 2281 interviews with Employers. The dataset also contains a number of variables from the Employment Tribunal administrative record-keeping system. The supporting documentation includes a full technical report (including a report on survey non-response), the Applicant and Employer questionnaires and a user guide to the survey.

Initial simple random sample of 4000 GB cases with an additional second stage random 'booster' sample of 583 cases added from a random sample of cases originating in Scottish Employment Tribunal offices. These ‘booster’ cases are identified in the main report.

Telephone interview

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Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-5022-1
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=3b334bf3f3eae7aef2c348ae861f318f502375133b1c22e607a713ae72c0dddd
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Creator Department of Trade and Industry, Employment Market Analysis and Research; BMRB, Social Research
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 2004
Funding Reference Department of Trade and Industry; Scottish Government; Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service
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Resource Type Numeric
Discipline Economics; History; Humanities; Jurisprudence; Law; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage Great Britain