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Description & Citation--Study No. 6240

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:6240
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06240
 
Title:National Organizations Survey (NOS), 1991
 
Principal Investigator(s):Arne L. Kalleberg
 
  David Knoke
 
  Peter V. Marsden
 
  Joe L. Spaeth
 
Funding Agency:National Science Foundation and United States Department of Labor.
 
Grant Number:SES-9022192
 
Bibliographic Citation:Kalleberg, Arne L., David Knoke, Peter V. Marsden, and Joe L. Spaeth. NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS SURVEY (NOS), 1991 [Computer file]. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois, Survey Research Laboratory [producer], 1993. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1994. doi:10.3886/ICPSR06240
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This study is a representative sample of United States work organizations, with data from informants about human resources policies and practices. Employed respondents in the 1991 General Social Survey gave identification and location information about their employers and the employers of working spouses. Each employee interviewed in person was matched to his or her employer, and an informant from the work establishment (either the personnel director or the chief executive officer) was interviewed by telephone or by mail questionnaire. Industry data from published government sources were merged with these data. Topics covered include employer staffing procedures, interval job ladders, promotion chains, job training programs, employee benefits and incentives, and structural characteristics of organizations.
 
Subject Term(s):employees, employers, human resources, personnel policy, workplaces
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:1988 - 1991
 
Date(s) of Collection:April 18, 1991 - November 29, 1991
 
Universe:All United States business establishments with one or more paid employees (including self-employed owners).
 
Data Type:survey data
 

Methodology

Sample:Cross-sectional, implicit sample, proportional to size of establishment (determined by the number of employees).
 
Data Source:personal and telephone interviews, mail questionnaires, and secondary sources
 

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.
 
Restrictions:County-level and ZIP-code-level data are not being released. These data are only available from the principal investigators with certain restrictions.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1994-10-17
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2006-01-18.
 
  2006-01-18 - File CB6240.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: National Organizations Survey (NOS), 1991
  • DS2: SPSS Export File
 

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