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The first Flexible Working Employee Survey was carried out between September 2003 and February 2004 as part of the ONS Omnibus Survey, on behalf of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). By interviewing employees, the survey aimed to determine awareness of the new right to work flexibly that was introduced on 6 April 2003. It also aimed to note the number of people who had made a request to work flexibly under the new right, their reason for making the request, and whether their request had been accepted or not. A follow-up survey was conducted in 2005, and is held at the UK Data Archive (UKDA) under SN 5246.

Main Topics:

Topics covered include: awareness of flexible working rights; requests made to work flexibly; the nature of requests; whether requests were accepted or denied. The dataset also includes demographic characteristics of the respondent and household. Standard Measures: Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) codes

Multi-stage stratified random sample

Face-to-face interview