Sports datasets available in ISSDA

IRISH SOCIAL SCIENCE DATA ARCHIVE (ISSDA)Jenny O’Neill, Data Manager

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• Background

• Datasets in ISSDA

• How to access data

• Advice to researchers

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Background

2000

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Background

ISSDA

CSO

ESRI

UCD (Geary)

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Background

2000 2012

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Background• Provides a central access point for quantitative social science /

public health data produced in Ireland; for research purposes

• Ensures wider access to datasets

• Facilitates secondary analysis

• Facilitates the wider acquisition of data analysis skills – teaching as well as research use

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Background

• Content

• Service

• Preservation

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Background

2000 2012 2016

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Background

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Background

2000 2012 2016 Future

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Background• Proactive promotion

• Repository infrastructure

• Projects

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Datasets• Quantitative

• Anonymous

• Formats: SPSS, SAS, Stata, CSV, Excel

• Documentation

• Data checking: CSTAR

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Datasets: The Children’s Sport Participation and Physical Activity Study (CSPPA)

• Provide a national database of physical activity, physical education and sport participation levels of children and youth in Ireland

• Assess indices of health and fitness in a sub-sample of the target population

• Collect and analyse information on the factors influencing participation

• Provide insight into issues surrounding volunteering in youth sports and activity clubs

• Primary & Post Primary data in SPSS

• www.ucd.ie/issda/csppa

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Datasets: Irish Sports Monitor 2011 & 2013• Provides information on active participation in sport and physical activity, club membership,

volunteering and attendance at sporting events among a representative sample of adults (aged 16+) in the Republic of Ireland. 

• 2011 & 2013 data in SPSS

• Available May 2016

• www.ucd.ie/issda/irishsportsmonitor

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Datasets• All Ireland Traveller Health Study (AITHS)• Eurostudent Survey III, IV & V• Growing Up in Ireland (GUI)• Healthy Ireland• School Leavers Survey• Survey on Lifestyle and Attitude to Nutrition (SLÁN) • The Irish Longitudinal study on Ageing (TILDA)

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Accessing data

• Identify the dataset(s) you require

• Complete the request form

• Email the signed consent form

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Accessing data

• Identify the dataset(s) you require

• Complete the request form

• Email the signed consent form

www.ucd.ie/issda

Accessing data

• Identify the dataset(s) you require

• Complete the request form

• Email the signed consent form

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TipsData not collected to answer your specific research questions

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TipsRegister of Use

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TipsCite the data

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Thank you!

• Jenny O’Neill

• jenny.oneill@ucd.ie

• www.ucd.ie/issda

• @ISSDA