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Using ESDS Government Resources for Health Research
Alan MarshallESDS Government
Centre for Census and Survey ResearchUniversity of Manchester
ESDS Government • Supports major UK data series
– Large surveys conducted, usually by government
– Repeated cross-sections, often continuous– Important, widely used microdata
• Joint service– Team at UK Data Archive receive and
archive data– Team at Manchester deal with users– Registration for the data managed by ESDS
centrally
Role
• Promoting the use of the data
• Navigating users through the right materials
• Creating additional materials to help users discover datasets and supporting materials
• Encouraging good practice
• Bridging the gap between data collector and users
Key supported datasets• General Household Survey• Labour Force Survey• Health Survey for England/Wales/Scotland • Family Expenditure Survey• British/Scottish Crime Survey• Family Resources Survey • National Food Survey• Expenditure and Food Survey • ONS Omnibus Survey • Survey of English Housing • British Social Attitudes• National Travel Survey• Time Use Survey• Vital Statistics for England and Wales
Overview: ESDS Government Health Resources
www.esds.ac.uk/government
• Web pages dedicated to each dataset:– HSE, SHS, WHS etc
• Introductory Guide to Using the Large-Scale Govt Surveys for Health Research
• HSE Teaching dataset
HSE webpage
www.esds.ac.uk/government/hse
Survey description, modules and news
Download data via UKDA
Variable search
Help to get started: FAQs and Starting analysis
Variable search
Publications Database
Introductory Guide to Using Large-Scale Govt Surveys for Health
Research• General introduction to what’s available for health
researchers • Strengths of different sources• Links to other appropriate sources• Updated annually
HSE teaching dataset
• Cut-down data for teaching• Excludes boosts• Simplified weighting variable• 60 variables • 2002 data• User guide
ESDS Government - general resources
• Introductory user guides (SPPS, Stata)
• Analysis guides (weighting, complex surveys, change over time)
• Keeping in touch: Workshops/events/newsletter
• Helpdesk
Keeping in touch
• User Meetings• Annual Conference• Website contains news & information
about consultations/data developments• JISCmail esds-govsurveys list• Newsletter
– Biannual– Contains news
• Survey news from ONS etc• New ESDS resources• Summaries of meetings
– Available on website
The important last slide…
Helpdesk:[email protected]
(0161)275 1980
Website:http://www.esds.ac.uk/government
Jisc list:[email protected]