What are the names of the weighting variables in the WERS data files?
The weights for the 2004 Cross-Section Survey are as follows: • ESTWTNR the standard establishment weight, which should be used to produce workplace-level estimates from the Survey of Managers (e.g. the proportion of all workplaces that recognise trade unions) • EMPWTNR an alternative weight for the Survey of Managers that can be used to produce analyses that indicate the proportion of all employees to whom a particular workplace characteristic applies (e.g. the proportion of all employees working in establishments with recognised trade unions). EMPWTNR is simply the product of ESTWTNR and ZALLEMPS (the total number of employees working at the establishment). • FPQWTNR the standard establishment weight for the subset of cases returning a Financial Performance Questionnaire. Based on ESTWTNR with an adjustment for differential non-response. • SEQWTNR the standard weight for the Survey of Employees, which accounts for variations in sampling fractions at both stages of the design (i.e. se
