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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