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ESDS Resources
Anthony RaffertyESDS Government
Centre for Census and Survey ResearchUniversity of Manchester
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Outreach events
Introductory workshops Joint workshops with other ESDS servicesMethodsResearch conferencesDataset user meetingsOther presentationsPosters
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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
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Keeping in touch
• Biannual newsletter• Email newslist• Home page contains news
– Our news– New data
• Helpdesk
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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
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The important last slide…
Helpdesk: [email protected]
(0161) 275 4722
Website:http://www.esds.ac.uk/government
JISCmail: [email protected]