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Sourcing ‘society’ data from
the UK Data Service and
beyond
Hersh Mann
Data Support Manager
UK Data Archive / UK Data Service
30 October 2015
University of Essex
Overview
Supporting Human Rights Organisations 30 October 2015
• What is the UK Data Service?
• What data do we hold?
• Useful resources and further help
• Questions?
What is the UK Data Service?
• A comprehensive resource funded
by the ESRC
• A single point of access to a wide
range of secondary social science
data
• Support, training, guidance
Who is it for?
• Academic researchers and students
• Government analysts
• Charities and foundations
• Business consultants
• Independent research centres
• Think tanks
ukdataservice.ac.uk
Types of data collections
• Survey microdata
• Cross-sectional
• Panel / Longitudinal
• Aggregate statistics
• International macrodata
• Census data
• Aggregate data for 1971 -2011
• Microdata for 1991, 2001, 2011
• Qualitative and mixed methods data
Sources of data
• Official agencies – mainly central government
• International statistical time series
• Research institutions
• Individual academics - research grants
• Market research agencies
• Public records/historical sources
Survey microdata
• Individual or household level data which have been
anonymised to prevent disclosure
• Need to be analysed using a software package like SPSS
or Stata
• Very flexible, you are not limited to previously published
tables
Survey microdata
Key data: UK surveys
• Labour Force Survey
• Annual Population Survey
• Health Surveys (England/Wales/Scotland)
• General Household Survey/General Lifestyle Survey
• Expenditure and Food Survey/Living Costs and Food
Survey
• Crime Survey for England and Wales
• Family Resources Survey
• Housing Surveys
• Citizenship Survey
• British Social Attitudes Survey
UK Surveys
• Data about individuals or households
• Large sample sizes
• Nationally-representative
• Repeated cross-sectional surveys
• Well documented
• Cover many topics including health, work, crime, social
attitudes, family expenditure, living costs, housing, civic
participation, political attitudes, environmental
behaviours, leisure, wealth/financial assets, and many
more.
Key data: Longitudinal / Panel studies
• National Child Development Study (NCDS)
• 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70)
• Millennium Cohort Study (MCS)
• British Household Panel Survey (BHPS)
• Understanding Society (UKHLS)
• English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)
• Growing Up in Scotland (GUS)
• Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE)
British Household Panel Survey
• Collected and deposited by the Institute for Social and
Economic Research at the University of Essex
• Follows the members of 5500 households first sampled
in 1991 every year to 2008
• Coverage includes:
income, labour market behaviour, social and
political values, health, education, housing
and household organisation
Understanding Society
• The follow-up to the BHPS. Expanded to 40,000
households and 100,000 individuals including the
original BHPS sample
• Coverage includes:
current employment and earnings; employment status; parenting
and childcare arrangements; family networks; benefit payments;
political party identification; household finances; environmental
behaviours; consents to administrative data linkage (health and
education).
• Also incorporates an innovation panel
Civil society; quant and mixed methods
• Community Life Survey, 2013-14 (SN 7560)
• National Survey of Volunteering and Charitable Giving,
2006-2007 (SN 5793)
• National Survey of Charities and Social Enterprises,
2010 (SN 7347)
• National Survey of Third Sector Organisations, 2008 (SN
6381)
• Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion: a Critical
Investigation, 2003-2005 (SN 5832)
• Placing Voluntary Activism in Neo-liberal Welfare States:
a Comparative Study, 2005-2008 (SN 6373)
• Social Participation and Identity, 2007-2010 (SN 6691)
International macrodata
• Time series data aggregated to
country/region
• Regularly updated
• International governmental
organisations (IMF, OECD, IEA,
World Bank, UN)
• Wide range of socio-economic
topics
• OECD and World Bank data are
open access
International macrodata themes
Databanks cover:
• Demography, migration and health
• Governance
• Human development
• Social expenditure
• Education
• Economic performance and development
• Trade, industry and markets
• Employment
• Science and technology
• Land use and the environment
International macrodata outputs
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments (%) World Bank (2013): World Development Indicators (Data downloaded: 30 January 2013).
Mimas, University of Manchester. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5257/wb/wdi/2013-01-30
International macrodata
• Download the series you want from UKDS.Stat. No special software required.
UKDS.Stat
Qualitative data
Qualitative data can take a number of different formats: interview transcripts, visual data, focus groups, essays, diaries, online data, observation notes, documents, audio data, open-ended survey questions, case notes, newspaper clippings etc.
Search Discover for Qualitative and mixed methods data
Examples of sociology data collections:
• Family Life and Work Experience before 1918, Middle and Upper Class Families in the Early 20th Century, 1870-1977 (SN 5404)
• Gender Difference, Anxiety and the Fear of Crime, 1995 (SN 4581)
• Mothers Alone: Poverty and the Fatherless Family, 1955-1966 (SN 5072)
• Affluent Worker in the Class Structure, 1961-1962 (SN 6512)
Searching for data - Discover
Some examples
• Human Rights Atlas Dataset, 1981-2012 (SN 7636)
• Collective Rights to Health: Exploring the Experiences of Homeless Families, 2004-2005 (SN 5556)
• Database of Liberal Democratic Performance, 1970-1998 (SN 4046)
• Impact of the Human Rights Act : a Survey of Local Authorities and Travellers, 2001-2002 (SN 4649)
• Ethnic Minority Young People: Differential Treatment in the Youth Justice System, 2006 (SN 6749)
• Role of Identity in Participation in Children's Centre Services: the Subjective Experience of Minority Groups, 2007-2008 (SN 6357)
Some examples
• Socio-Economic Position and Political Support of Black and Ethnic Minority Groups in the United Kingdom, 1972-2005 (SN 5566)
• Aid Salary Discrepancies and Development Workers' Performance, 2007-2010 (SN 6610)
• What's Fair for Whom at Work? Studying the Choice of Justice Norms in Different Work Relationships, 2008-2010 (SN 6569)
• Survey of New Refugees, 2005-2009 (SN 6556)
• Organisational Change, Resistance and Democracy: Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Equalities Initiatives, 2007-2010 (SN 7090)
Data access
• Web access to data and metadata
• Data are freely available for research (not for profit)
purposes
• Data supplied in a variety of formats
- statistical package formats (e.g. SPSS, STATA)
- databases and spreadsheets
- word processed documents, PDF documents etc.
Accessing data - registration
• Click on the ‘login’ link on the UK Data Service homepage
• Click on ‘login to the UK Data Service’
• Find your university in the list of institutions and proceed
to the login page (or your UK Data Archive credentials if you are
not at a UK University)
• Enter your login details
• Complete the registration form as a new user
• Accept the End User Licence
• Use the download/order link for the dataset you wish to
access and create a project description
• Download the data in your chosen format
Other sources of data
• AidData
• Correlates of War Project
• Freedom House
• Minorities at Risk
• Uppsala Conflict Data Program
• CIRI Human Rights Dataset
• Human Rights Data Analysis Group
• Polity IV Project
• UNHCR
• …and many, many more.
Actions
• Ask for and pursue data
• Emphasise the benefits of data-sharing
• You are experts in your areas
• Educate on good practice
• Consent
• Collection
• Storage
• Preservation
• Dissemination
• Re-use
• Citation
• Impact
Case Studies
• If you have used data obtained from the UK Data Service
in your research (or have been inspired to do so on the
basis of this presentation!), please contact us and let us
know.
• We would be delighted to feature you in a case study
Case studies - examples
• Papademetriou, D. G., Sumption, M. and Terrazas, A. (2011)
Migration and the Great Recession: The transatlantic
experience, Washington DC: Migration Policy Institute.
• Lloyd, J. (2013) Whose Home? Understanding landlords and
their effect on public policy, research paper, Strategic Society
Centre.
Useful tips - Advice for new users
• We have webpages for new users that provide
information on
• how to find data with our search application – Discover
• how to register and access data
• what kinds of data we hold
• how you can get in touch
Other help and resources
• Have a query? See our help pages and FAQs
• Contact us / follow us
http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/about-us/contact.aspx
https://twitter.com/UKDataService
https://www.facebook.com/UKDataService
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-
bin/webadmin?A0=UKDATASERVICE