Federal Employee Survey 2018 Data Set Final Report

i) Part 1: Descriptive Variables Frequency Tables for Demographic Variables

Table 1.

Variable 1: Agency where one Works

AGENCY

Frequency

Percent

Valid Percent

Cumulative Percent

Valid

AF

AG

AM

AR

BG

BO

CM

CT

CU

DD

DJ

DL

DN

DR

ED

EE

EP

FC

FQ

FT

GS

HE

HF

HS

HU

IB

IN

KS

NF

NL

NN

NQ

NU

NV

OM

RR

SB

SE

SK

SN

ST

SZ

TD

TR

XX

Total

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) accounted for the greatest number of participants among the 85 participating agencies, at 12.4 percent, followed by the Department of Agriculture at 11.7 percent. The Department of Commerce accounted for 7 percent of participants in the survey.

Table 2.

Variable 2: Sex

DSEX

Frequency

Percent

Valid Percent

Cumulative Percent

Valid

Male

Female

Total

49 percent of the survey participants were male, 37.8 percent were female, and 13.2 percent preferred did not indicate their gender.

Table 3.

Variable 3: Education Level

DEDUC

Frequency

Percent

Valid Percent

Cumulative Percent

Valid

No degree

Doctorate

Bachelor’s

Master’s

Total

24.9 percent of participants had a Doctorate degree, 31.5 percent had a master’s degree, 30 percent had a Bachelor’s degree, and 12.9 percent had some college education with no degree.

Table 4

Variable 4: Tenure in the Federal Agency

DFEDTEN

Frequency

Percent

Valid Percent

Cumulative Percent

Valid

1-3 years

6 -10years

11-20 years

4 -5 years

Total

37 percent of participants have been with the federal government for 6 to 10 years, 27 percent for 11 to 20 years, 23 percent for 4 to 5 years, and 12 percent for 1 to 3 years.

Table 5

Variable 5: Supervisory Status

DSUPER

Frequency

Percent

Valid Percent

Cumulative Percent

Valid

Team Leader

Non-Supervisor

Supervisor

Total

72 percent of the participating employees were of a non-supervisor status, 10. 7 percent were team leaders, while 16.9 percent identified themselves as being of supervisor status.

Table 6

Variable 6: Race

DMINORITY

Frequency

Percent

Valid Percent

Cumulative Percent

Valid

Hispanic

Other

White

Total

57.3 percent of participating employees identified as non-Hispanic white, 14.6 percent identified as Latino or Hispanic, and 28.1 percent identified as others.

Table 7

Variable 7: Intention to Leave over the Next Year

DLEAVING

Frequency

Percent

Valid Percent

Cumulative Percent

Valid

Yes-other

No

Yes -1

Yes - 2

Yes- retire

Total

64 percent of participating employees indicated that they were not planning to leave their current agency within the next year. 16.8 percent indicated that they were planning to leave to take up another job within the federal government, 3.7 percent to take up a job outside the federal government, 10.5 percent to retire, and 5 percent indicated that they were planning to leave for undisclosed reasons.

ii) Part 2: Frequency Analysis and Descriptive Statistics for Explanatory Variables

Table 1.

Q2 Frequency Analysis: Employees have enough information to do their job well

Frequency

Percent

Valid Percent

Cumulative Percent

Valid

Strongly Disagree (1)

Disagree (2)

Neither Agree nor Disagree (3)

Agree (4)

Strongly Agree (5)

Total

Missing

System

Total

Table 2

Q2 Descriptive Statistics: Employees have enough information to do their job well

N

Valid

Missing

Mean

Median

Mode

Std. Deviation

Skewness

Std. Error of Skewness

Kurtosis

Std. Error of Kurtosis

Figure 1.

Bar chart for Q2: Employees have enough information to do their job well

Interpretation:

Approximately 72 percent of employees at least agree that they have enough information to do their job well. Most (over 50%) of employees agree, while 22 percent strongly agree, that they have sufficient information to do their jobs well. Only 3 percent believe that they face very severe information challenges that make them completely unable to carry out their jobs effectively.

Table 3.

Q7 Frequency Analysis: When needed, employees are willing to put in the extra effort to get a job done

Frequency

Percent

Valid Percent

Cumulative Percent

Valid

Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neither Agree nor Disagree

Agree

Strongly Agree

Total

Missing

System

Total

Table 4.

Q7 Descriptive Statistics: When needed, employees are willing to put in the extra effort to get a job done

N

Valid

Missing

Mean

Median

Mode

Std. Deviation

Skewness

Std. Error of Skewness

Kurtosis

Std. Error of Kurtosis

Figure 2.

Bar chart for Q7: When needed, employees are willing to put in the extra effort to get a job done

Interpretation:

A majority (64 percent) of employees strongly agree that they put in extra work whenever necessary to get a job done. Approximately 96 percent either agree or strongly agree that they are often willing to put in extra work to get a job done at the workplace. Only less than 1 percent report that they would not go the extra mile when needed to get a job done, while 2 percent are indifferent.

Table 5.

Q20 Frequency Analysis: The people I work with cooperate to get the job done

Frequency

Percent

Valid Percent

Cumulative Percent

Valid

Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neither Agree nor Disagree

Agree

Strongly Agree

Total

Missing

System

Total

Table 6.

Q20 Descriptive Statistics : The people I work with cooperate to get the job done

N

Valid

Missing

Mean

Median

Mode

Std. Deviation

Skewness

Std. Error of Skewness

Kurtosis

Std. Error of Kurtosis

Figure 3.

Bar chart for Q20: The people I work with cooperate to get the job done

Interpretation:

Approximately 78 percent of employees either agree or strongly agree that their colleagues at work cooperate to get the job done. 3 percent strongly agree that their colleagues are uncooperative, while 11 percent are indifferent.

Table 7.

Q26 Frequency Analysis: Employees in my work unit share job knowledge with each other.

Frequency

Percent

Valid Percent

Cumulative Percent

Valid

Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neither Agree nor Disagree

Agree

Strongly Agree

Total

Missing

System

Total

Table 8.

Q26 Descriptive Statistics: Employees in my work unit share job knowledge with each other.

N

Valid

Missing

Mean

Median

Mode

Std. Deviation

Skewness

Std. Error of Skewness

Kurtosis

Std. Error of Kurtosis

Figure 4.

Bar Chart for Q26: Employees in my work unit share job knowledge with each other

Interpretation

77 percent of employees either agree or strongly agree that employees in their unit share job knowledge with each other for the benefit of the organization. Only 6 percent disagree and 4 percent strongly disagree with this statement. The skewness value of -1.148 indicates that the data is slightly negatively or left-skewed, implying that as shown in the graph, a greater number of values are concentrated on the right side of the graph, representing a non-normal distribution. At the same time, the positive kurtosis value of 1.11 points to a leptokurtic distribution, indicating that the distribution of responses is more peaked than that of a normal distribution.

Table 9.

Q28 Frequency Analysis: How would you rate the overall quality of work done by your work unit?

Frequency

Percent

Valid Percent

Cumulative Percent

Valid

Very Poor

Poor

Fair

Good

Very Good

Total

Missing

System

Total

Table 10.

Q28 Descriptive Statistics: How would you rate the overall quality of work done by your work unit?

N

Valid

Missing

Mean

Median

Mode

Std. Deviation

Skewness

Std. Error of Skewness

Kurtosis

Std. Error of Kurtosis

Figure 5.

Bar Chart for Q28: How would you rate the overall quality of work done by your work unit?

Interpretation

40 percent of employees rate the quality of work done by their units as good, but the majority of employees (44.7 percent) rate it as very good. 12 percent rate the quality of their work as fair, and only 0.8 percent believe that the work output of their units is very poor. The skewness measure of -1.106 is less than the -1 standard for normality, indicating that the distribution of responses is slightly left-skewed and more responses lie on the right side of the graph (the good and very good options). At the same time, the kurtosis value of 1.445 points to a leptokurtic distribution, indicating that the distribution of responses is more peaked than that of a normal distribution.

Table 11.

Q29 Frequency Analysis: My work unit has the job-relevant knowledge and skills necessary to accomplish organizational goals.

Frequency

Percent

Valid Percent

Cumulative Percent

Valid

Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neither Agree nor Disagree

Agree

Strongly Agree

Total

Missing

System

Total

Table 12.

Q29 Descriptive Statistics: My work unit has the job-relevant knowledge and skills necessary to accomplish organizational goals

N

Valid

Missing

Mean

Median

Mode

Std. Deviation

Skewness

Std. Error of Skewness

Kurtosis

Std. Error of Kurtosis

Figure 6.

Bar Chart for Q29: My work unit has the job-relevant knowledge and skills necessary to accomplish organizational goals

Interpretation

Slightly less than half of employees agree that their work units have the job skills necessary to achieve organizational goals. Another 33 percent strongly believe that their work units harbor the requisite job-related skills. 11 percent are indifferent about the skills situation in their work units while 3.3 percent do not believe that they have the relevant skills needed for job achievement in their unit. The mean, mode and median are equal, indicating that the distribution of responses is normal. The skewness measure of -1.134 is less than the -1 standard for normality, indicating that the distribution of responses is slightly left-skewed and more responses lie on the right side of the graph (the agree and strongly agree options). At the same time, the kurtosis value of 1.379 points to a leptokurtic distribution, indicating that the distribution of responses is more peaked than that of a normal distribution

Table 13.

Q35 Frequency Analysis: Employees are protected from health and safety hazards on the job.

Frequency

Percent

Valid Percent

Cumulative Percent

Valid

Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neither Agree nor Disagree

Agree

Strongly Agree

Total

Missing

System

Total

Table 14.

Q35 Descriptive Statistics: Employees are protected from health and safety hazards on the job.

N

Valid

Missing

Mean

Median

Mode

Std. Deviation

Skewness

Std. Error of Skewness

Kurtosis

Std. Error of Kurtosis

Figure 7.

Bar Chart for Q35: Employees are protected from health and safety hazards on the job.

Interpretation

52 percent of employees agree and 27 percent strongly agree that their employers protect them from health and safety hazards on the job. 5.4 percent and 3.6 percent disagree and strongly disagree with this respectively, while 12.4 percent are indifferent about the health and safety standards in their organizations. The skewness measure of -1.189 indicates that the distribution of responses is slightly left-skewed and more responses lie on the right side of the graph (agree and strongly agree options). At the same time, the kurtosis value of 1.48 points to a leptokurtic distribution, indicating that the distribution of responses is more peaked than that of a normal distribution.

Table 15.

Q36 Frequency Analysis: My organization has prepared employees for potential security threats.

Frequency

Percent

Valid Percent

Cumulative Percent

Valid

Strongly Disagree

Disagree

Neither Agree nor Disagree

Agree

Strongly Agree

Total

Missing

System

Total

Table 16.

Q36 Descriptive Statistics: My organization has prepared employees for potential security threats.