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Economic and social science data:
Offerings for the commercial sector
Louise Corti
UK Data Service / UK Data Archive
University of Essex
Open/free data available for business
RAL, Oxfordshire
6 May 2014
What is the UK Data Service?
• a comprehensive resource funded by the
Economic and Social Research Council
(ESRC)
• a single point of access to a wide range of
digital research data
• facilitate high quality social and economic
research and education
• offer support, training and guidance
throughout the data lifecycle
UK Data Service
ukdataservice.ac.uk
Integrates ESDS, Survey
Question Bank and
Census.ac.uk
Who is the Service for?
• academic researchers and students
• government analysts
• charities and foundations
• business consultants
• independent research centres
• think tanks
• citizen scientists, where skills enable analysis
Where are the data from?
• official agencies - mainly central government
• international statistical time series
• individual academics - research grants
• market research agencies
• public records/historical sources
• access to international data via links with other data
archives worldwide
Our data portfolio
UK Surveys International Longitudinal
Large-scale
government
funded surveys
Census Business
Major UK surveys
following
individuals over
time
Multi-nation
aggregate
databanks and
survey data
Census data
1971 to 2011
Range of multi-
media data
sources
Microdata and
administrative
data
Qualitative
UK survey series
• high quality repeated cross-sectional surveys
• individual or household level data
• over topics including health, work, crime, social
attitudes, family expenditure, living costs, housing etc.
Examples:
• Labour Force Survey
• British Crime Survey
• Health Survey for England
• British Social Attitudes
• Annual Population Survey
Cross-national surveys
• Eurobarometers
• European Social Survey
• European Values Survey
• International Social Survey Programme
Longitudinal studies
• British Household Panel Survey
• Understanding Society (2009-)
• English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
• Families and Children Study
• Growing Up in Scotland
• Longitudinal Study of Young People in England
How to search for data?
discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/
Data access
• web access to data and metadata
• data are freely available for use by all. Charges may apply for commercial use.
• data available under 3 access levels: OPEN, SAFEGUARDED, CONTROLLED
• data supplied in a variety of formats
• statistical package formats (e.g. SPSS, Stata) • databases and spreadsheets • word processed documents, PDF documents etc.
• some data also available via online data browsing
Accessing safeguarded data
• register with us using UK Federation (HE/FE but we also
issue Federation accounts)
• agree to an End User Licence (EUL)
• appropriate data usage
• citation of data and informing us of re-use
• select data from the Discover data catalogue using
‘Download/Order’ button
• specify a project for which the data are to be used
• download data to local machine in preferred format
Online instant data browsing
Nesstar social surveys
UKDS.stat aggregate global indicators
(some restrictions to HE/FE)
InFUSE aggregate census data
QualiBank qualitative data
APIs are coming soon!
Open data collections
Census - Open Government Licence
• 2011 and 2001 Census aggregate statistics
Survey data - Open Government Licence
• cutdown teaching datasets
Qualitative datasets – Creative Commons 4.0 BY NC
• life story interviews, essays, WWII reports
Aggregate global indicators – bespoke open data license
• World Bank Millennium Development goals
Nesstar: British Social Attitudes - Pay gap
Nesstar: GHS - Age started smoking
Nesstar: GHS - time series
Nesstar: mapping OLS 2013
User support and resources
• help desk, individual user support
• promotional events/ workshops / webinars
• video introductions and tutorials
• user guides/ thematic guides
• case studies of use
• teaching data and resources
• advice on creating, managing and preserving data
Big data investments
• Innovation Fund
• ESRC Big Data Network
• Admin
• Business
• Local government
• Third sector
• Social media
• Working with new data producers
Keep connected
• Subscribe to UK Data Service list:
www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=UKDATASERVICE
• Follow UK Data Service on Twitter: @UKDataService
• Facebook https://www.facebook.com/UKDataService
• YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/UKDATASERVICE
• Helpdesk http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/help/get-in-touch