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    • Netherlands Working Conditions Survey

    The NWCS (Netherlands Working Conditions Survey; NEA in Dutch) is one of the largest periodical surveys on the labor situation of Dutch employees. The NWCS questionnaire is a collaborative project of TNO, CBS and the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment. The aim of the NWCS is to fill the need for information that the government, employers, unions and branch organizations express.

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    But the NWCS also:

    provides information on the working conditions, employability, and health of a large and representative sample of employees in the Netherlands
    supports the development of both scientific and political knowledge on the subject of labor
    serves as official input for the Eurostat-statistics on work-related injury in the Netherlands

    The data

    You can take a look at the NWCS data (in Dutch) below

    • NWCS Data

    The Questionnaire

    The NWCS questionnaire includes the following themes:

    • Working hours, overtime, working at home, evening and night shifts
    • Work stress, emotional and physical demands
    • Noise, dangerous and dirty work
    • Aggression, bullying, and discrimination
    • Health, chronical diseases, burn-out symptoms
    • Absence, work-related diseases and accidents
    • OSH measures
    • Performance and employability
    • Education and development
    • Working conditions
    • Work-life balance
    • Occupation and company
    • Use of technology at work

    (not every theme is included every year)

    Data collection

    The NWCS survey is held annually since 2003. The population consists of employees who live and work in the Netherlands and are within the age range of 15 and 75 (used to be between 15-65 in the period between 2003 and 2013). About 23.000 employees completed the survey in the period between 2003 and 2013. By 2014 the sample size was increased from 80.000 to 140.000. By now, the number of employees who complete the survey has grown to 58.000 in 2019 and 2020.

    To make the sample as representative as possible, the collected data is weighted. This makes it possible to make valid conclusions on all employees in the Netherlands, based on the NWCS.

    As of 2018, no paper versions of the questionnaire are used. An overview of the questions in the NWCS is available in the Dutch methodology report.

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