Work in America Survey, [United States], 2022-2024 (ICPSR 39280)
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American Psychological Association
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR39280.v1
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The Work in America survey was commissioned by the American Psychological Association and conducted online in the United States by The Harris Poll. The survey questions measure psychological safety, positive experiences, negative workplace outcomes, self-measures of performance and productivity, and workplace practices, policies, and programs.
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The survey was commissioned to examine workplace experiences, work-related stress, and employee expectations for mental health resources and support from employers.
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Data were obtained by The Harris Poll by administering online surveys.
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Respondents for this survey were selected from those that agreed to participate in online Harris polls. The sampling precision of Harris online polls is measured by using a Bayesian credible interval. For this study, the sample data is accurate to within +/- 3.1 percentage points using a 95% confidence level. This credible interval will be wider among subsets of the surveyed population of interest. All sample surveys and polls, whether or not they use probability sampling, are subject to other sources of error that are most often not possible to quantify or estimate, including but not limited to coverage error, error associated with nonresponse, error associated with question wording and response options, and post-survey weighting and adjustments. Please refer to the documentation for more information.
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Adults aged 18+ who reside in the U.S. and are employed full-time, part-time, or self-employed.
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The data include variables about participants' psychological safety, positive workplace experiences, negative workplace outcomes, positive sentiments about workplace factors such as overall job satisfaction; workplace practices, policies, and practices; positive sentiments about company culture, workers' relationships with their direct manager or supervisor, privacy and respect for personal boundaries, self-ratings of performance and productivity, acceptance of intergenerational workforces, use and sentiments of artificial intelligence in the workplace, workplace toxicity, workplace burnout, work-life harmony, concerns about the economy, and mental health.
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Wave 1 (2022) had 2,016 participants, wave 2 (2023) 2,515 participants, and wave 3 (2024) 2,027 participants.
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2026-01-05
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2026-01-05 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Created online analysis version with question text.
- Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
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Five weight variables (WEIGHTS1, WEIGHTS2, WEIGHTS3, WEIGHTS4, and WEIGHTS5) are included in the data. Please refer to the documentation for more information.
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These data are freely available to data users at ICPSR member institutions. The curation and dissemination of this study are provided by the institutional members of ICPSR. How do I access ICPSR data if I am not at a member institution?