Federal Employee Attitude Survey, September-October 1983 (ICPSR 6034)

Version Date: Oct 11, 1993

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Principal Investigator(s):
United States Office of Personnel Management

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06034.v1

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Summary

This survey was undertaken to obtain information on the attitudes and perceptions of federal employees on a broad range of topics related to their jobs, government personnel programs, and legislation. Questions covered employees' attitudes towards job satisfaction, satisfaction with their organizations, awareness of a new performance appraisal system and opinions on its effectiveness and fairness, the link between performance and reward, merit pay, pay and benefit comparability with the private sector, civil service retirement, health benefits, and relations between career and noncareer executives.

Citation

United States Office of Personnel Management. Federal Employee Attitude Survey, September-October 1983. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1993-10-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06034.v1

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Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1983-09 -- 1983-10

Date of Collection

1983-09 -- 1983-10

Data Collection Notes

  1. The weighting command, included in the SPSS Control Cards, must be invoked before analyzing the data to ensure that results are representative of the universe (i.e., population).

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Sample

This study employed a stratified random sample. Stratification was by agency and pay category. The sample was drawn from the Central Personnel Data File using employee Social Security numbers and excluding employees of the following executive branch agencies: the Smithsonian Institution, the White House Office, the Federal Reserve, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency. The sample was designed and drawn so that valid comparisons could be made among 6 grade/pay categories on both a government-wide basis and within each of the 16 agency groupings.

Universe

All executive branch employees in the group of federal agencies participating in the survey.

Data Source

questionnaires

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Original Release Date

1993-10-11

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • United States Office of Personnel Management. Federal Employee Attitude Survey, September-October 1983. ICPSR06034-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1993. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06034.v1
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