Wirs                   package:ltm                   R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     These data were taken from a section of the 1990 Workplace 
     Industrial Relation Survey (WIRS) dealing with management/worker 
     consultation in firms. The questions asked are given below:

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     Please consider the most recent change involving the introduction 
     of the new plant, machinery and equipment. Were discussions or 
     consultations of any of the type on this card held either about
     the  introduction of the change or about the way it was to be
     implemented.

     _I_t_e_m _1 Informal discussion with individual workers.

     _I_t_e_m _2 Meeting with groups of workers.

     _I_t_e_m _3 Discussions in established joint consultative committee.

     _I_t_e_m _4 Discussions in specially constituted committee to consider
          the change.

     _I_t_e_m _5 Discussions with the union representatives at the
          establishment.

     _I_t_e_m _6 Discussions with paid union officials from outside.

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     The WIRS surveys can be found at <URL:
     http://www.niesr.ac.uk/niesr/wers98/>.

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Bartholomew, D. (1998) Scaling unobservable constructs in social
     science.  _Applied Statistics_, *47*, 1-13. 

     Bartholomew, D., Steel, F., Moustaki, I. and Galbraith, J. (2002)
     _The Analysis and Interpretation of  Multivariate Data for Social
     Scientists_. London: Chapman and Hall.

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     ## Descriptive statistics for Wirs data
     descript(Wirs)

