ESENER-PSR 2009 - European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
ESENER-PSR 2009 - European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
ESENER-PSR 2009 - European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
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Preface<br />
The <strong>European</strong> survey on new <strong>and</strong> emerging risks (<strong>ESENER</strong> <strong>2009</strong>) is a large-scale crosscountry<br />
establishment survey carried out on behalf of the <strong>European</strong> <strong>Agency</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Safety</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
<strong>Health</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>Work</strong>. The <strong>European</strong> <strong>Agency</strong> survey research team, TNS Infr<strong>at</strong>est Sozial<strong>for</strong>schung,<br />
Munich (Germany) <strong>and</strong> a group of experts from different countries were responsible <strong>for</strong> the<br />
conceptualis<strong>at</strong>ion of this survey. D<strong>at</strong>a collection <strong>and</strong> all rel<strong>at</strong>ed working steps were carried out<br />
by TNS Infr<strong>at</strong>est Sozial<strong>for</strong>schung, Munich, in cooper<strong>at</strong>ion with the fieldwork coordin<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
centre TNS opinion in Brussels <strong>and</strong> with n<strong>at</strong>ional fieldwork institutes of the TNS network. D<strong>at</strong>a<br />
collection took place in spring <strong>2009</strong>.<br />
The <strong>ESENER</strong> <strong>2009</strong> is the first large-scale organis<strong>at</strong>ional survey carried out by the <strong>European</strong><br />
<strong>Agency</strong>. It deals with the management of <strong>Safety</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Health</strong> <strong>at</strong> the <strong>Work</strong>place in general <strong>and</strong><br />
with the management of psychosocial risks more in particular.<br />
The Sampling Report presented here deals with the sampling <strong>and</strong> weighting challenges of this<br />
multi-country survey <strong>and</strong> the applied solutions. Be<strong>for</strong>e the start of fieldwork, an earlier version<br />
of the current Sampling Report had been delivered to the <strong>European</strong> <strong>Agency</strong> in <strong>for</strong>m of a<br />
“Sampling Challenges Report”. For the current final version, the chapters on the challenges<br />
were amended by document<strong>at</strong>ions of the solutions finally applied to sampling <strong>and</strong> weighting in<br />
the context of the <strong>ESENER</strong> <strong>2009</strong>.<br />
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