Balancing Jobs and Family Life, 1979 (doi:10.7910/DVN/NSS7YS)

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Balancing Jobs and Family Life, 1979

doi:10.7910/DVN/NSS7YS

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Bohen, Halcyone, 1981, "Balancing Jobs and Family Life, 1979", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NSS7YS, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:3:J3RlpInOJe5DY2pk13+x3w== [fileUNF]

Balancing Jobs and Family Life, 1979

doi:10.7910/DVN/NSS7YS

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Bohen, Halcyone

Harvard Dataverse

Murray Research Archive

1981

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NSS7YS

Social Sciences

mra, 501-1000, female, male, mixed, White, African American, mixed, middle, 1, Family, Women

The objective of this study was to determine whether a particular work policy, namely flexitime, can help workers to balance their jobs and their family lives. The aspects of family life examined were family stress, family work, and equity of spouse-family roles. <br /><br /> Participants were workers in two federal government agencies in Washington, D. C.; one agency had been on flexitime for one year when the survey was conducted in the fall of 1978, and one was on standard time and had no plans to introduce flexitime. All 413 employees in the smaller, standard-time agency were surveyed, with a return rate of 83%. In the flexitime agency, questionnaires were distributed to a 50% random sample of 406 employees, plus 30 additional women at the GS-11 level or above and 106 additional parents of children under 18 who were included to facilitate the analyses. The flexitime agency had a return rate of 85%. <br /><br /> Variables assessed in the 13-page questionnaire included demographic background information, job satisfaction, family composition, job and family related stresses, spouse occupation and job satisfaction, household responsibilities, and child-care arrangements. An additional section asked employees in the flexitime agency how flexitime had affected their work schedules. <br /><br /> Small group interviews were conducted with a subsample of the questionnaire respondents in the spring of 1979. Thirteen people participated in evening dinner and discussion sessions designed to explore the benefits and difficulties work creates in family life and the factors helpful in achieving balance. <br /><br /> The Murray Center holds computer-accessible data as well as all completed questionnaires.

1970-1980

1979-

United States

individuals

field study

quota sample

questionnaire, interview

Henry A. Murray Research Archive, Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, Harvard University

Available

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<b>Follow-up of the data is not possible. </b>

<div style="padding-left: 30px;"> <ul style="list-style-type: decimal;" ><li> The Murray Archive (the Distributor) has granted me a revocable license to use this dataset solely for the purposes of conducting research, and the Distributor may terminate this license at any time and for any reason. </li> <li> I will use the dataset solely for statistical analysis and reporting of aggregated information, and not for investigation of specific individuals or organizations, except when identification is authorized in writing by the Distributor. </li> <li>I will produce no links among the Distributor’s datasets or among the Distributor’s data and other datasets that could identify individuals or organizations. </li> <li>I represent that neither I, nor anyone I know, has any prior knowledge of the possible identities of any study participants in any dataset that I am being licensed to use. </li> <li> I will not knowingly divulge any information that could be used to identify individual participants in the study, nor will I attempt to identify or contact any study participant, and I agree to use any precautions necessary to prevent such identification. </li> <li> I will make no use of the identity of any person or establishment discovered inadvertently. If I suspect that I might recognize or know a study participant, I will immediately inform the Distributor, and I will not use or retain a copy of data regarding that study participant. If these measures to resolve an identity disclosure are not sufficient, the Distributor may terminate my use of the dataset. </li> <li> I will not reproduce the dataset except as is necessary for my scholarly purposes. I will destroy the dataset upon the completion of my scholarly work with it. </li> <li> I will not share data from the dataset (in any form or by any means) with any third party, including other members of my research team, as I understand that all users of data must obtain the data directly from the Distributor. </li> <li> I will make appropriate acknowledgement of the contributor of the dataset as well as the Distributor in any manuscript or presentation (published or unpublished) using the citation standard documented here: <a href="http://thedata.org/citation"> http://thedata.org/citation</a> </li> <li> THE DISTRIBUTOR MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, BY OPERATION OF LAW OR OTHERWISE, REGARDING OR RELATING TO THE DATASET. </li> </ul> </div>

Submission of the following <a href= "https://murray.harvard.edu/application" target="_blank">Application For The Use Of Data</a> is required to access the data from this study. <br /><br /> <b>Follow-up of the data is not possible. </b>

• Number of cases: 706

• No. of variables per record: 203

• Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

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Data for Entire Study in Tab Delimited Format

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Description of coded data variables

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Data File for Entire Study in SPSS Portable Format

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Detailed description of computer data files

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00593Bohen-Balancing-Measures.pdf

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Collection of blank measures used in the study

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00593Bohen-Balancing-MemoOfAgreement.pdf

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Legal agreement between data depositor and Murray Archive

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00593Bohen-Balancing-StudyDescription.pdf

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Overview: abstract, research methodology, publications, and other info.

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