Are there any data items from WERS 2004 that have not been deposited at the UK Data Archive?
Non-deposited data can be categorised into two groups: permanently deleted data items and restricted data items. The permanently-deleted data items contain information that would directly identify a workplace or respondent, such as the name of the workplace or the organization to which it belonged. An example would be AORGNAME in the Cross-Section Survey of Managers. These data items have been permanently deleted in order to preserve the anonymity of respondents. The assurances made to respondents prior to their participation in the survey mean that these data items can never be made publicly available. Prior to April 2007, some additional data items were restricted, in line with assurances to respondents that access would be withheld until two years following the final interview. This included region identifiers and detailed industry codes, which are considered to present a further risk to respondent anonymity, and numerical data on workplace performance, which is considered to be par
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