Working with Computers

Source:

- Data for Europe from the Third European Study on Working Conditions 2000 (ESWC).

- Data for Canada from Workplace and Employee Survey (1999)(as reported in the Workplace and Employee Survey Compendium – Statistics Canada 2001) except for data on computer use by employee status which is based on the General Social Survey (2000).

- Data for the U.S. based on the Current Population Survey (2001) as reported at: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ciuaw.nr0.htm

Notes: The Third European Study on Working Conditions 2000 (ESWC) was conducted by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions. The survey contains detailed data collected through face-to-face interviews with 21,703 workers in 15 European Union (EU) member states in 2000. The goal of the survey was to provide an overview of the state of working conditions in the EU by collecting data on a wide range of issues relating to the quality of work. The survey sample included persons who where either employees (full and part-time) or self-employed at the time of the interview. All the data in the ESWC were statistically weighted to ensure the sample’s region, city, size, gender, age, economic activity, and occupation reflected the actual population according to the Europe 1997 Labour Force Survey (LFS).

The Workplace and Employee Survey (WES) was first fielded by Statistics Canada in the summer and fall of 1999. It contains information collected from just over 6,300 business establishments in Canada and approximately 23,500 paid employees who worked in those establishments, weighted to reflect the population of business establishments and employed workers in Canada . The WES does not include establishments in the Yukon , Northwest Territories or Nunavut , nor those in public administration (i.e. government) and selected primary industries.

The Current Population Survey (CPS) is a monthly survey of about 50,000 households conducted by the ( U.S. ) Bureau of the Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The CPS is the primary source of information on the labor force characteristics of the U.S. population. The sample is scientifically selected to represent the civilian non-institutional population.