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The aim of this survey was to provide nationally representative information on the personal and domestic characteristics of home-based workers, on the nature and organisation of home-based work, and on related issues such as: employment status, accidents and health problems; pay rates and earnings, trade union membership, reasons for and attitudes towards home-based work, how such jobs fit into work histories, and home-workers' attitudes to existing and new protective legislation. The survey was a follow-up to the spring <i>1981 Labour Force Survey</i> (SN:1888)
Main Topics:
Work location; occupation; industry; hours worked; job tenure; second jobs; work experience; qualifications; trade union membership; employment status; labour turnover; weekly and hourly earnings; reasons for doing home-based work; attitudes to homework - satisfaction with job and pay; awareness of and attitudes to employment protection legislation-accidents; health; employer's control; plus all the usual personal and domestic characteristics variables. Job segregation; sex discrimination; enterprise; self-employment - family workers; equivalent on-site work; transfers to home-based work; household income-poverty and financial hardship; work orientations; sex roles. Many questions and classifications were taken from the General Household Survey, so that comparisons could be drawn with GHS data on the whole labour force or population of working age
Respondents were identified through the 1981 National Labour Force Survey. All persons in scope were reinterviewed
Face-to-face interview
