esds resources for managing and analysing data beate lichtwardt economic and social data service uk...

ESDS resources for managing and analysing data

Beate Lichtwardt Economic and Social Data Service

UK Data Archive

Research Method Festival, Oxford1 July 2008

Overview of ESDS service

ESDS resources and support:

ESDS Government Analysis guides

Derived variables

ESDS InternationalCountries and Citizens: Linking International Macro

and Micro Data (formerly: Linking International Macro Micro Data - LIMMD)

Cross-national research resource

ESDS NESSTAR catalogue

Roadmap

National data archiving and dissemination service

Running from 1 January 2003

Jointly supported by- Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)- Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)

Partners- UK Data Archive (UKDA), Essex- Manchester Information and Associated Services (MIMAS), Manchester - Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research (CCSR), Manchester - Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Essex

ESDS

The principle UK data service for the social sciences

Provides access and support for key economic and social data

Distributed service, bringing together centres of expertise in data creation, dissemination, preservation and use

Core archiving services plus four specialist data services

ESDS GovernmentESDS InternationalESDS LongitudinalEDSD Qualidata

ESDS

Data for research and teaching purposes, used in all sectors and for many different disciplines

Official agencies – mainly central government

Individual academics – research grants

Market research agencies

Public records/historical sources

Links to UK census data

Qualitative and quantitative

International statistical time series

History data service in-house

Access to international data via links with other

data archives worldwide

ESDS holdings

• 6,000 datasets in the collection

• rd. 230 new datasets added each year

• over 45,000 registered users

• approximately 60,000 downloads worldwide p.a.

Links with other data archives - Europe

CESSDA -Council of European Social Science Data Archives

(non-

Europeanmainly

ICPSR)

ESDS Management

Central help desk service; coherent and flexible collections development policy; central registration service; links to other ESRC resources

ESDS Access and Preservation

Collections development strategy; ingest activities – including data and documentation processing; metadata creation; data dissemination services; long-term preservation

Specialist ESDS services

Government, International, Longitudinal, Qualidata

ESDS structure

• Dedicated web sites

• Data and documen- tation enhancements

• Tailored user support

• Outreach and training

ESDS Government – resources

ESDS Government – resources

ESDS Government – resources

Demo (ESDS Gov. resources)http://www.esds.ac.uk/government/resources/analysis/http://www.esds.ac.uk/government/dv/

Demo (ESDS Int. resources)http://www.esds.ac.uk/international/elearning/limmd/index.htmlhttp://www.esds.ac.uk/International/resources/research.asp

ESDS International – resources

ESDS International – resources

NESSTAR

Online data browsing and analysis system

Allows users to search for, locate, browse and analyse and download a wide variety of statistical data within a web browser

UK Data Archive, as service provider for ESDS, hosts a NESSTAR server populated by its most popular data series

Registering with ESDS required, if exploratory analysis beyond browsing metadata is intended

ESDS NESSTAR Catalogue

ESDS NESSTAR Catalogue

ESDS NESSTAR Catalogue

Demo (NESSTAR) http://nesstar.esds.ac.uk/webview/index.jsp

NESSTAR

Browse detailed information (metadata) about these data sources, including links to other sources

Do simple data analysis and visualisation on microdata

Bookmark analysis

Download the appropriate subset of data in one of a number of formats (e.g. SPSS, Excel)

NESSTAR

Introductory guide to using NESSTAR:http://www.esds.ac.uk/support/guides/A2.pdf

ESDS NESSTAR Catalogue:http://nesstar.esds.ac.uk/webview/index.jsp

NESSTAR guidehttp://nesstar.esds.ac.uk/webview/help/index.html

ESDS registration:http://www.esds.ac.uk/aandp/access/login.asp

Contact:

www.esds.ac.uk

help@esds.ac.uk