National Survey of Care Workers (2007)
Social Care has been famously described as a 'data desert' but this latest piece of robust research for Skills for Care adds considerably to our knowledge of a sector that employs more than one million people.
This first ever survey of the more than 750,000 care workers across England has found 90% are happy in their work but less than half believe their work is appreciated by the general public.
The National Survey Of Care Workers was a face to face survey of a random sample of 500 adult social care workers in England.
The care workers were sampled through general population omnibus surveys.
The interview explored working patterns, numbers of employers, terms of employment, training, experience, qualifications, attitudes and motivations, commitment to care, lifestage and attitudes to registration.
The research was conducted by TNS UK Ltd., a major market research company.
Please click on the links below to download the full report and detailed tabulations.
- National Survey of Care Workers FINAL Report - November 2007 (108pp, pdf, 371kb)
- National Survey of Care Workers - Tables (466pp, pdf, 1.68mb)
Note that the definition of "care worker" used in the National Survey of Care Workers is wider than the NMDS-SC job role definition of the same name. The survey definition included senior care workers and also some support workers.
research
- introduction
- centre for workforce intelligence
- NMDS-SC
- research knowledge base
- research reports
- introduction
- research updates
- The size and structure of the adult social care sector and workforce in England (2011)
- worker qualifications and inspection scores (2011)
- direct employers workforce (2010)
- social care workforce reports
- men into care (2010)
- job vacancy data (2006-11)
- rewards & incentives (2009)
- employment agency practice (2009)
- direct payments (2007)
national survey of care workers (2007)- overseas workers (2006-09)
- adult placement counts (2004)
