The 'Job quality and new data from the European Working Conditions Telephone Survey (EWCTS) 2021' seminar took place in the Fórsa offices on Wednesday 29 March 2023 from 15:30 - 16:30.
Details of seminar:
Agnès Parent-Thirion, Senior Research Manager in the Working Life unit at Eurofound presented findings on the 'Job quality and new data from the European Working Conditions Telephone Survey (EWCTS) 2021'. Subsequently, a discussion was open to the floor where the chairperson, Ciarán Nugent, NERI economist presented questions to Agnès. Find presentation from the seminar here.
Abstract:
In 2021, Eurofound carried out a new round of fieldwork for the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS). For the first time, the respondents were contacted via computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI).
The survey has been expanded to include over 70,000 workers in 36 European countries. This includes the EU Member States, the United Kingdom, Norway, Switzerland, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia. Changing the survey mode to CATI is in line with other similar surveys in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The European Working Conditions Telephone Survey (EWCTS) 2021 extraordinary edition allows Eurofound to provide comparable and representative information on job quality at a time when working lives have undergone considerable changes and the capacity of people at work to contribute to the recovery is critical. However, due to the change in interviewing mode, comparison with previous editions of the survey will not be possible and the options for analysis of trends over time limited.
Biography of the presenter:
Agnès Parent-Thirion is a senior research manager in the Working Life unit at Eurofound, tasked with the planning, development and implementation of working conditions research projects, in particular the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) and its analyses. She is responsible for the EWCS 2021 extraordinary edition and for the preparation of the questionnaire for the EWCS 2024.
Her research interests include working conditions, job quality, the monitoring of working conditions, work organisation, gender, the future of work and time. She has been working in the area of European comparative surveys for more than a decade, in all aspects including design, questionnaire development, fieldwork, quality control and analysis.
She is a graduate in economics and management from Paris IX Dauphine and Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne universities and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Statistics from Trinity College Dublin. She has recently completed online courses on artificial intelligence: inquiry-driven leadership with MIT Sloan Executive Education and ‘Les grand enjeux de la transition: re-ouvrir l'horizon, comprendre pour agir’ with the Campus de la Transition. Before joining Eurofound, she worked for a number of years in the European Commission.