September 2017

What is a Good Job?

What is a Good Job?
In partnership with

Intro

This analysis is based on findings from the British 2012 Skills and Employment Survey. This is a survey of workers’ skills, employment experiences and wellbeing. In total, some 3200 workers completed the survey from across Great Britain.

We asked whether it was possible to identify a small number of categories or types of jobs that could summarise relationships between work and employment practices that make up ‘good’ (or ‘bad’) jobs for wellbeing. This kind of cluster analysis is used in many areas to identify people or things that are similar – such as in market research to identify people with similar tastes or shopping habits.

This analysis makes it possible for high-level analysis of these categories – we were also interested in whether such categories are different in terms of the wellbeing of workers in each category, and whether there are differences between categories in terms of factors such as gender, age, occupation, sector and region in the UK. If there are notable patterns in the analyses, then there is a basis for more detailed investigation.

Close Intro

Key messages

Sign up to our weekly e-mail list

Sign up to receive resources, insights and evidence as they are published.

Blog

Jan 5, 2023 | By What Works Centre for Wellbeing
What’s coming up in 2023: Wellbeing projects, conferences and seminars
Guest Blog
Dec 29, 2022 | By Rahima Rahman
Wellbeing in the workplace: a focus on seafarers
Centre Blog
Dec 22, 2022 | By Robyn Bignall-Donnelly
2022 Impact – Our year in review
Centre Blog
Dec 1, 2022 | By Joanne Smithson and Izzie Baverstock-Poppy
Understanding the experience of terminal illness in working-age people
Guest Blog