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Description & Citation--Study No. 4074

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:4074
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04074
 
Title:National Organizations Survey (NOS), 2002
 
Principal Investigator(s):Tom W. Smith, University of Chicago. National Opinion Research Center (NORC)
 
  Arne L. Kalleberg, University of North Carolina
 
  Peter V. Marsden, Harvard University
 
Funding Agency:National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and Commonwealth Fund
 
Bibliographic Citation:Smith, Tom W., Arne L. Kallberg, and Peter V. Marsden. NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS SURVEY (NOS), 2002 [Computer file]. ICPSR04074-v1. Chicago, IL: National Opinion Research Center (NORC) [producer], 2003. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2004. doi:10.3886/ICPSR04074
 

Scope of Study

Summary:The National Organizations Survey (NOS) is a survey of business organizations across the United States in which the unit of analysis is the actual workplace. The study was conducted for the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and the Commonwealth Fund, to learn about the employment policies, benefits, and structures of organizations throughout the country, particularly the effects on business performance and worker productivity of rising workplace stress levels, rising health insurance costs or lack of health insurance, and the extent of mental health benefits and service offerings within organizations.
 
Subject Term(s):employee benefits, employees, employers, employment practices, health insurance, human resources, personnel policy, workplaces
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:2002
 
Date(s) of Collection:October 24, 2002 - May 16, 2003
 
Unit of Observation:businesses
 
Universe:All participants in the 2002 General Social Survey (GSS), GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, 1972-2002: [CUMULATIVE FILE] (ICPSR 3728).
 
Data Type:survey data
 

Methodology

Sample:NORC used respondent information from the GSS 2002 dataset to build the NOS sample. During the GSS 2002 interviews, half of all household respondents were asked to provide contact information for their place of employment including business name, address, and telephone number.
 
Data Source:telephone interviews and mailback questionnaires
 
Response Rates:The study had an unadjusted response rate, or complete rate, of 59 percent (n = 516) and an adjusted response rate, or participation rate, of 62.4 percent.
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:2004-10-29
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2005-12-15.
 
  2005-12-15 - On 2005-08-15 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-12-15 to reflect these additions.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: National Organizations Survey (NOS), 2002
 

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