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A file of unidentified individual statistical records containing information on 28,518 employed persons. The data include: socio-demographic characteristics, such as state and area identifiers, age, sex, marital status, birthplace, year of arrival in Australia; and labour force characteristics such as full-time or part-time status, occupation and industry. Information is also provided on: level of dependency in main job, such as whether has control over own working procedures, whether works on contract, whether able to subcontract own work and whether contract prevents working for multiple clients; employment arrangements, such as continuous duration in main job, expected duration in main job, whether on a fixed-term contract and whether paid by an employment agency; satisfaction with employment arrangements such as whether looked for alternative employment in last 3 months and preference to change hours; and other employment characteristics such as whether earnings vary and entitlement to paid holiday and sick leave.
ABOUT THE FILES
The CD-ROM contains both SAS and SPSS versions of the FOES dataset. If your analysis software is neither SAS nor SPSS, you may require the services of a computer programmer to re-format the data. Full details of the files on the CD-ROM are given in the Technical Paper supplied to CURF users.
Four types of files relating to FOES (1998) data are provided on the CD-ROM:
- Data and Metadata - an ASCII data file holding 28,518 person records, and metadata files that document the data file and every data item on that file. The metadata are provided both in plain text file, for reading;
- SAS user files-including a SAS version of the dataset, and the SAS programs that generated the SAS-formatted version;
- SPSS user files-including a SPSS version of the dataset and the SAS programs that generated the SPSS-formatted versions; and
- Information files-including several in Adobe Acrobat format.
This page last updated 4 July 2008
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