Surveys schedule
Eurofound carries out 3 regularly repeated pan-European surveys. For details of the completed and planned surveys, see below.
European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS)
Eurofound has carried out five surveys on the working environment in Europe (in 1990/1, 1995/6, 2000, 2005 and 2010), and also surveyed the acceding and candidate countries in 2001/2.
- Next: The 6th survey is provisionally planned for 2015.
- 2010: Latest This was the Fifth European Working Conditions Survey - first results are now available
- 2005: Fieldwork for the Fourth European Working Conditions Survey
- 2001/2: Survey of the acceding countries (new Member States) and candidate countries: 11,000 workers interviewed
- 2000: Third European Working Conditions Survey: 21,500 workers interviewed
- 1995/6: Second European Working Conditions Survey: 15,800 workers interviewed
- 1990/1: A short prototype survey, which covered the 12 countries that were Member States of the EC, at that time
European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS)
- Next: The 3rd survey will be carried out in 2011
- 2007: Fieldwork for the second survey was carried out in 2007
- 2003: This survey was carried out for the first time in 2003, covering 28 countries (25 Member States and three candidate countries).
European company surveys (ECS)
- Next: The 3rd survey is planned for 2012
- 2009: Latest The 2nd survey was carried out in 2009
- 2004/5: Eurofound undertook its first survey on working time and work-life balance policies, in companies in the former EU15 and in six new Member States: Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Poland and Slovenia.
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