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ESDS Government Resources for the GHS (GLF)

Alan MarshallESDS Government

Centre for Census and Survey ResearchUniversity of Manchester

17th March 2010

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 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

GHS/GLF webpage

http://www.esds.ac.uk/government/ghs/

Survey description and news

User meetings and slides

Download datasets viaUKDA

Help to get started: FAQs and Starting analysis

Accessing data and starting analysis

Variable search

Variable search

Publications databaseSearch resultsPublications search

Other useful resources

• GHS Time Series Dataset (1972-2004) produced by ONS

• Analysing Change Over Time Guide

• GHS Teaching Dataset on social capital

• Thematic guides: e.g. Social Capital, labour market analysis, health

• Methodological Guides

• Helpdesk

Outreach events

Introductory workshops Joint workshops with other ESDS servicesMethodsResearch conferencesDataset user meetingsOther presentationsPosters

Keeping in touch

• Events

• Website

• JISCmail esds-govsurveys list

• Newsletter

• Helpdesk

For Further info:

Helpdesk: govsurveys@esds.ac.uk

(0161) 275 1980

Website:http://www.esds.ac.uk/government

JISCmail: esds-govsurveys@jiscmail.ac.uk

The Survey Resource NetworkSlides provided by Bev Botting

17 March 2010

Issues related to the survey process

Survey Skills Programme

• Comprises One day workshop (small charge for attendance)

Up to 4 days of placements to get practical hands-on experience of

working with a live social survey (free of charge)

Discounted fees for other theoretical training through NatCen Learning

and IoE (and others in time)

• Placements include Accompanying an interviewer

Shadowing a survey analysis team

Visiting a telephone unit

We ran 8 workshops in 2009, with another 12 planned for 2010.

Issues related to the survey process

Future workshops

• 20 April 2010 Cardiff Cross National European Social Survey

• 05 May 2010 London Culture and sport Taking part survey

• 18 May 2010 Belfast Attitudinal Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey

• 07 Sept 2010 London Longitudinal Understanding Society

• Oct 2010 Edinburgh Longitudinal Growing up in Scotland

• Oct 2010 Cardiff Longitudinal Household Assets Survey

• 24 Nov 2010 Manchester Health British National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles

• Nov 2010 London Citizenship Survey

Book on our website www.surveynet.ac.uk

For further information about the SRN,

the Survey Question Bank, or the Survey Skills programme,

please visit our website: www.surveynet.ac.uk

Or contact the SRN administrator, Iram Awan.

Tel: 020 7549 8585. Email: iram.awan@natcen.ac.uk

National Centre for Social Research, 35 Northampton Square, London EC1V 0AX.