Description
The GSS, which was first fielded in 1972, is a biennial, nationally representative, personal interview survey of U.S. households that monitors social change and the growing complexity of American life. The GSS contains a standard core of demographic and attitudinal questions plus topics of special interest. In 2000, NIOSH entered into an interagency agreement with the NSF to add a special module to the 2002 GSS to assess the quality of work life in America. NIOSH selected 76 questions that dealt with a wide assortment of work organization issues. Half of the questions in the QWL module were taken directly from the 1977 Quality of Employment Survey, allowing comparisons of worker responses over a 25-year period. The primary goal of the QWL was to measure how work life and the work experience have changed since the earlier Quality of Employment Surveys, and establish benchmarks for future surveys. Secondary goals include measuring the relationship between job/organizational characteristics and worker health and safety, and identifying targets for health and safety preventive interventions.
Supplier(s)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
Data Years Available
2002
Selected Content
QWL covers topics such as hours of work, workload, worker autonomy, layoffs and job security, job satisfaction/stress, and worker well-being.
Response rate and sample size
Responses were received from 2,765 persons.
References
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/stress/qwlquest.html. Accessed September 5, 2010.