Work, Family & Health Study Data
The Work, Family & Health Study (WFHS) was a group-randomized field experiment funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) designed to enhance the understanding of the impact of workplace practices and policies on work, family life, and health outcomes. The Work, Family & Health Network (WFHN) was formed to conduct the transdisciplinary research at two work sites representing different industries. The information technology division of a Fortune 500 company (pseudonym: Tomo) had 56 study groups with 7–60 employees each, and the extended-healthcare company (pseudonym: Leef) had 30 work sites of 30–89 employees each. Tomo study groups and Leef worksites were randomly assigned to intervention or usual practice (UP) conditions.
The multi-faceted intervention was designed to increase:
- supervisor and coworker support for work-family integration
- employees’ perception of control over their work time.
All employee and manager participants were assessed at baseline, and at 6-, 12-, and 18-months post baseline. A wide range of measures were collected, including respondents’ social, economic, psychological and physical well-being.
Available WFHN Data
The Work, Family, & Health Study (WFHS) was a group-randomized field experiment designed to examine the impact of work-life practices on work, family life, and health outcomes. Data collected as part of this transdisciplinary research effort has been made available by the Work, Family & Health Network (WFHN).
Restricted-Access Data
The WFHS cohort was followed over the course of 18 months. The restricted-access dataset contains longitudinal data on respondents’ social, economic, psychological and physical well-being, providing unique opportunities to study short and long-term impact of the intervention. In order to get access to the restricted-access data, please fill out this PDF form. You will need to download the PDF, open it, fill it in, save it, and attach it to an email to wfhn@hsph.harvard.edu.
Please note that while most of the WFHS data is available to researchers outside the study team upon application, the daily diary data is limited to the study team.
Please note that while most of the WFHS data is available to researchers outside the study team upon application, the daily diary data is limited to the study team.
| Date Available | Dataset Name | Description | # of Variables | # of Observations |
| Oct 2015 | lemb_analysisdraft10 | Leef baseline employee workplace CAPI survey data | 924 | 1524 |
| Oct 2015; version update Jan 2016 | temb_analysisdraft15_ra | Tomo baseline employee workplace CAPI survey data | 924 | 823 |
| April 2016 | lem6m_analysisdraft06 | Leef 6-month employee workplace CAPI survey data | 809 | 1275 |
| April 2016 | tem6m_analysisdraft11 | Tomo 6-month employee workplace CAPI survey data | 809 | 717 |
| April 2016 | lem12m_analysisdraft04 | Leef 12-month employee workplace CAPI survey data | 856 | 1083 |
| April 2016 | tem12m_analysisdraft08 | Tomo 12-month employee workplace CAPI survey data | 849 | 701 |
| April 2016 | lem18m_analysisdraft04 | Leef 18-month employee workplace CAPI survey data | 845 | 1007 |
| April 2016 | tem18m_analysisdraft05 | Tomo 18-month employee workplace CAPI survey data | 833 | 651 |
| June 2016 | ldbsb_analysisdraft04 | Leef baseline employee|manager DBS | 40 | 1558 |
| June 2016 | tdbsb_analysisdraft03 | Tomo baseline employee DBS data | 39 | 771 |
| June 2016 | ldbs6m_analysisdraft02 | Leef 6-month employee|manager DBS data | 39 | 1385 |
| June 2016 | tdbs6m_analysisdraft02 | Tomo 6-month employee DBS data | 39 | 673 |
| June 2016 | ldbs12m_analysisdraft03 | Leef 12-month employee|manager DBS data | 40 | 1201 |
| June 2016 | tdbs12m_analysisdraft02 | Tomo 12-month employee DBS data | 39 | 661 |
| June 2016 | ldbs18m_analysisdraft02 | Leef 18-month employee|manager DBS data | 39 | 1057 |
| June 2016 | tdbs18m_analysisdraft02 | Tomo 18-month employee DBS data | 39 | 565 |
| June 2016 | lactb_analysisdraft3 | Leef baseline employee|manager Actigraphy data | 10762 | 1451 |
| June 2016 | tactb_alalysisdraft6 | Tomo baseline employee Actigraphy data | 9524 | 710 |
| June 2016 | lact6m_analysisdraft01 | Leef 6-month employee|manager Actigraphy data | 9185 | 1245 |
| June 2016 | tact6m_analysisdraft01 | Tomo 6-month employee Actigraphy data | 11207 | 622 |
| June 2016 | lact12m_analysisdraft01 | Leef 12-month employee|manager Actigraphy data | 7837 | 1088 |
| June 2016 | tact12m_analysisdraft2 | Tomo 12-month employee Actigraphy data | 14995 | 594 |
| June 2016 | lact18m_analysisdraft01 | Leef 18-month employee|manager Actigraphy | 7349 | 942 |
| June 2016 | tact18m_analysisdraft01 | Tomo 18-month employee Actigraphy data | 11751 | 503 |
| Nov 2016 | leddb_analysisdraft1 | Leef baseline employee daily diary data | 938 | 1456 |
| Nov 2016 | ledd12m_analysisdraft02 | Leef 12-month employee daily diary data | 889 | 1032 |
| Nov 2016 | lcddb_analysisdraft02 | Leef baseline employee’s child daily diary data | 441 | 1488 |
| Nov 2016 | lcdd12m_analysisdraft02 | Leef 12-month employee’s child daily diary data | 422 | 1040 |
| Nov 2016 | lchb_analysisdraft05 | Leef baseline employee’s child home interview data | 588 | 257 |
| Nov 2016 | lch12m_analysisdraft02 | Leef 12-month employee’s child home interview data | 559 | 185 |
| Nov 2016 | lch18m_analysisdraft02 | Leef 18-month employee’s child home interview data | 504 | 179 |
| Nov 2016 | lehb_analysisdraft04 | Leef baseline employee home interview data | 330 | 257 |
| Nov 2016 | leh12m_analysisdraft02 | Leef 12-month employee home interview data | 322 | 207 |
| Nov 2016 | leh18m_analysisdraft02 | Leef 18-month employee home interview data | 321 | 212 |
| Nov 2016 | lspb_analysisdraft08 | Leef baseline employee’s spouse|partner interview data | 490 | 404 |
| Nov 2016 | lsp12m_analysisdraft03 | Leef 12-month employee’s spouse|partner interview data | 482 | 184 |
| Nov 2016 | lpe_fidelity_analysisdraft01 | Leef 6-month process evaluation_session fidelity data | 49 | 30 |
| Nov 2016 | lpe_wes_analysisdraft02 | Leef 6-month process evaluation_weSupport data | 179 | 89 |
| Nov 2016 | lpe_ebt_analysisdraft01 | Leef 6-month process evaluation_employee behavior tracking data | 5 | 15 |
| Nov 2016 | lpe_attend_analysisdraft1 | Leef 6-month process evaluation_attendance data (individual) | 28 | 708 |
| Nov 2016 | lpe_att_ctr_analysisdraft1 | Leef 6-month process evaluation_attendance data (facility) | 7 | 15 |
| Nov 2016 | lmnb_analysisdraft10 | Leef baseline manager interview data | 832 | 184 |
| Nov 2016 | lmn6m_analysisdraft06 | Leef 6-month manager interview data | 783 | 154 |
| Nov 2016 | lmn12m_analysisdraft04 | Leef 12-month manager interview data | 804 | 145 |
| Nov 2016 | lmn18m_analysisdraft04 | Leef 18-month manager interview data | 804 | 137 |
| Nov 2016 | manlink061614 | Leef manager linking data | 19 | 1532 |
| Nov 2016 | teddb_analysisdraft2 | Tomo baseline employee daily diary data | 935 | 1048 |
| Nov 2016 | tedd12m_analysisdraft02 | Tomo 12-month employee daily diary data | 933 | 58 |
| Nov 2016 | tcddb_analysisdraft2 | Tomo baseline employee’s child daily diary data | 441 | 1056 |
| Nov 2016 | tcdd12m_analysisdraft02 | Tomo 12-month employee’s child daily diary data | 423 | 960 |
| Nov 2016 | tchb_analysisdraft09 | Tomo baseline employee’s child home interview data | 587 | 148 |
| Nov 2016 | tch12m_analysisdraft04 | Tomo 12-month employee’s child home interview data | 552 | 141 |
| Nov 2016 | tch18m_analysisdraft02 | Tomo 18-month employee’s child home interview data | 497 | 137 |
| Nov 2016 | tehb_analysisdraft06 | Tomo baseline employee home interview data | 330 | 147 |
| Nov 2016 | teh12m_analysisdraft03 | Tomo 12-month employee home interview data | 321 | 147 |
| Nov 2016 | teh18m_analysisdraft02 | Tomo 18-month employee home interview data | 320 | 151 |
| Nov 2016 | tspb_analysisdraft11 | Tomo baseline employee’s spouse/partner interview data | 491 | 455 |
| Nov 2016 | tsp12m_analysisdraft05 | Tomo 12-month employee’s spouse|partner interview data | 489 | 334 |
| Nov 2016 | tpe_wes_analysisdraft02 | Tomo 6-month process evaluation_weSupport data | 194 | 125 |
| Nov 2016 | tpe6m_wgchanges_analysisdraft02 | Tomo 6-month process evaluation_organizational change data (work group) | 9 | 133 |
| Nov 2016 | tpe6m_sgchanges_analysisdraft1 | Tomo 6-month process evaluation_organizational change data (study group) | 5 | 56 |
| Nov 2016 | tpe6m_anomalies_analysisdraft1 | Tomo 6-month process evaluation_anomalies data | 3 | 8 |
| Nov 2016 | tpe6m_attend_analysisdraft3 | Tomo 6-month process evaluation_attendance data | 29 | 496 |
| Nov 2016 | tpe6m_att_wg_analysisdraft1 | Tomo 6-month process evaluation_attendance data (work group) | 12 | 64 |
| Nov 2016 | tpe6m_att_sg_analysisdraft1 | Tomo 6-month process evaluation_attendance data (study group) | 19 | 27 |
| Nov 2016 | tpe6m_ebt_analysisdraft1 | Tomo 6-month process evaluation_employee behavior tracking data | 4 | 13 |
| Nov 2016 | tpe6m_fidelitysss_analysisdraft1 | Tomo 6-month process evaluation_session fidelity data | 13 | 61 |
| Nov 2016 | tmnb_analysisdraft14 | Tomo baseline manager interview data | 819 | 221 |
| Nov 2016 | tmn6m_analysisdraft10 | Tomo 6-month manager interview data | 778 | 196 |
| Nov 2016 | tmn12m_analysisdraft07 | Tomo 12-month manager interview data | 796 | 188 |
| Nov 2016 | tmn18m_analysisdraft05 | Tomo 18-month manager interview data | 797 | 187 |
Publicly Available Materials & Data
The survey questions that were used in the intervention study, a Manual of Procedures (MOP) and codebooks (data documentation), and well as a public-use dataset, are freely available to all.