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ESDS Resources
Anthony RaffertyESDS Government
Centre for Census and Survey ResearchUniversity of Manchester
ESDS Government
• Supports major UK data series– Large surveys conducted, usually by government– Eg:
• Labour Force Survey• General Household Survey• British Crime Survey • Health Survey for England
– Repeated cross-sections, often continuous– Important, widely used microdata
• Joint service– Team at UK Data Archive ingest and archive data– Team at Manchester deal with users– Registration for the data managed by ESDS
centrally
Role
• Too much stuff? – Navigating users through the right materials– Creating additional materials to help users
discover datasets and supporting materials
• Promoting the use of the data• Encouraging good practice• Bridging the gap between data collector
and users
Annual themes• Workshops and other materials are
related to an annual substantive theme– Year 1: Employment and the
Labour Market– Year 2: Health– Year 3: Social capital– Year 4: Ethnicity
• Ensures that work has an emphasis on substantive research
• Each year a thematic guide is produced which looks at how to explore the research theme with the data
Web-based resources to support users
• Thematic Guides• FAQs & Starting Analysis• Methodological Guides
– SPSS, Stata– Guide to weighting
• Publications database• Data usage search• Links to other web resourceshttp://www.esds.ac.uk/government/resources
Outreach events
Introductory workshops Joint workshops with other ESDS servicesMethodsResearch conferencesDataset user meetingsOther presentationsPosters
Improving the usability of data• Creating annual themed teaching
datasets• Change over time – comparison of
variables, LFS, GHS– Generating syntax to enable
comparability
• Harmonising Vital Statistics access and formatting
Keeping in touch
• Biannual newsletter• Email newslist• Home page contains news
– Our news– New data
• Helpdesk
Data developments
• Website contains news about major developments
• GHS(L) response to the design– Impact for secondary analysts with respect to
continuity and merging datasets to increase sample size
• IHS: next meeting 29th March 07
The important last slide…
Helpdesk: [email protected]
(0161) 275 4722
Website:http://www.esds.ac.uk/government
JISCmail: [email protected]