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UKDA history and overviewUKDA history and overview Data Archive established in 1968 (as ‘Data Bank’)
funded by (then) SSRC to provide a service to UK HE sector
initial focus on academic surveys then government survey data
new distributed service established 1 January 2003 as the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS)
still predominately funded to provide service for higher and further education for research teaching and learning
The Economic and Social Data The Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS)Service (ESDS)
Louise CortiEconomic and Social Data Service
UK Data Archive
Maidstone 20 March 2007
UKDA history and overviewUKDA history and overview
supported by ESRC, JISC, University of Essex Project funding (EC, ESRC, JISC, MRC, AHRC, etc.)
secure funding until 2012
since 2005 designated as ‘Place of Deposit’ by The National Archives (TNA)
employs c. 65 staff
new building after 40 years!...
Types of dataTypes of data
acquires mixed data types and formats
quantitative and qualitative
surveys censuses administrative data images sound video mixed media
specialist Qualidata unit, Census unit, and History Data Service
Who produces the social science Who produces the social science data held by UKDA?data held by UKDA?
government agencies academic sector private sector local Government Research Council funded
ESRC, MRC, NERC, AHRB, Wellcome, Leverhulme increasing tendency for government agencies to
contract out survey work to private sector (NatCen) increasing number of large digitisation projects
JISC, NOF access to international data via links with other data
archives worldwide
Facts and figuresFacts and figures
4,000+ datasets in the collection
350+ new datasets and editions added
each year
30,000+ registered users
15,000+ datasets distributed worldwide
p.a.
100,000+ online sessions p.a.
15,000,000+ web hits p.a.
ESDS OverviewESDS Overview
provides access and support for key economic and social data
distributed service, bringing together centres of expertise in data creation, dissemination, preservation and use
provides seamless and easier access to a range of disparate resources for UK Higher and Further Education sectors
core archiving services plus four specialist data services
Specialist data servicesSpecialist data services
• ESDS Government • ESDS International• ESDS Longitudinal • ESDS Qualidata
Greater emphasis on:
•value-added data and documentation
•enhanced resource discovery
• improved delivery services
•support and training for the secondary use of data for research, learning and teaching
•outreach and promotion
Core ServiceCore Service
run by UKDA
overall integration and management of ESDS
acquiring, processing, preserving and disseminating data
data creation and deposit support
central registration service operating across the ESDS
central 'first stop' help desk service
front line user support
cataloguing and describing data
maintaining and developing web presence
publicity and training
Data InData In
Data acquisition offers and proactive scoping data evaluation via committee
Data ingest checking, verifying converting, formatting, processing documenting and contextualising
Data preservation long-term data management Preservation Policy
Working with data creatorsWorking with data creators
up-to-date streamlined ESDS website on data creation issues bringing together advice for quantitative and qualitative
data creators
dedicated advisory service
training days/workshops for data creators
ESRC Research Programmes circulating information early on offering individual project help attend Programme meetings where possible
Accessing dataAccessing data Web access to data and metadata
Easy to navigate format• Web catalogue with variable level searching• Subject browsing - eg major series and geo web pages• Access to online doc - pdf user guides and forms
Data are freely available for the majority of users
Registration using Athens including agreement to an End User Licence, fine-grained access control
Data supplied in a variety of formats statistical package formats (e.g. SPSS) databases and spreadsheets word-processed documents and XML files PDF documents Online exploration…
End User Licence End User Licence
Use of the data is governed by a legally-binding EUL which forms part of the registration process. Each individual who requires access to data has to register and will need an Athens login. Users outside UK higher or further education who have no way of obtaining an Athens login can apply to the UKDA.
Under the terms of the EUL, users agree: not to use the data for any commercial purpose (except with
prior permission/under an appropriate commercial licence agreement);
to preserve the confidentiality of, and not attempt to identify, individuals, households or organisations in the data;
to use the recommended methods of citation and acknowledgement in publications;
to supply the bibliographic details of any published work based on the data collections;
to ensure that the means of access to the data (such as passwords) are kept secure and not disclosed to anyone else;
to abide by any further ‘special conditions’
Online explorationOnline exploration
Online data browsing, including
simple data analysis, visualisation, downloading and subsetting via Nesstar
ESDS Government Vital Statistics online
International macro data via Beyond 20/20 and visualisation interface
ESDS Qualidata Online – interview transcripts
Census data
Government dataGovernment data General Household Survey/Continuous Household Survey (NI) Labour Force Survey/NI LFS Health Survey for England/Wales/Scotland Family Expenditure Survey/NI FES British/Scottish Crime Survey Family Resources Survey National Food Survey/Expenditure and Food Survey ONS Omnibus Survey Survey of English Housing British Social Attitudes/Scottish Social Attitudes/Young People’s
Social Attitudes/NI Life & Times National Travel Survey Time Use Survey Vital Statistics for England and Wales
ESDS Longitudinal DataESDS Longitudinal Data
five main studies, that are primarily UK Research Council:
British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) British Birth Cohort studies: National Child Development Survey (NCDS) British Cohort Study 1970 (BCS70) Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) English Longitudinal Study of Ageing possible forthcoming Medical Research Council
population study datasets – 1946 Birth Cohort– ALSPAC
ESDS International data portfolioESDS International data portfolio
regularly updated macro-economic time series datasets from selected major international statistical databanks that collectively chart over 50 years of global economic, industrial and political change:
the International Monetary Fund the OECD the United Nations the World Bank Eurostat the International Labour Organisation the UK Office for National Statistics access for UK HE/FE only
access to micro data surveys Eurobarometers International Social Survey Programme other social data via other national data archives
ESDS QualidataESDS Qualidata
access and support for a range of qualitative datasets, hosted by the UK Data Archive
data from National Research Council (ESRC) individual and programme research grant awards
data from ‘classic’ social science studies
other funders/sources
focus on DIGITAL Collections, but also facilitate paper-based archiving
Types of qualitative dataTypes of qualitative data
diverse data types: in-depth interviews ; semi-structured interviews; focus groups; oral histories; mixed methods data; open-ended survey questions; case notes/records of meetings; diaries/ research diaries
multimedia: audio, video, photos and text (most common is interview transcriptions)
formats: digital, paper, analogue audio-visual
data structures - differ across different ‘document types
Classic study datasetsClassic study datasets
Peter Townsend – Poverty, old ageand Katherine Buildings
Paul Thompson – oral history and Edwardians
Ray Pahl –Hertfordshire Villages studies
National Social Policy and Social Change Archive
Online access to dataOnline access to data
Secondary analysis potentialSecondary analysis potential
descriptive material
comparative research, restudy or follow-up
study
re-analysis/secondary analysis
research design and methodological
advancement
replication of published statistics
teaching and learning
Help for usersHelp for users Help desk and dedicated data pages, FAQs Discussion lists programme of training courses and publicity events news bulletins and articles resources (links to other sites) teaching datasets and/or exemplars enhanced documentation e.g.
dataset, thematic, methodological and software guides variables consistent over time on specific surveys (ESDS
Government)
Online data deposit forms
Using ESDS data for teachingUsing ESDS data for teaching
tutor registers with ESDS and downloads data
registers a usage (for micro data)
tutor makes data available to students (if online only via secure network)
tutor asks students to register or sign access agreement for teaching (not always necessary, but to be encouraged
Collaboration - UKCollaboration - UK
Government agencies – work closely Research Councils on formal data sharing policies Research Centres and Programmes collecting data Other funding agencies eg JISC on technical issues
authentication, digitisation TNA on records management and preservation
practise E-science on grid enabled data issues, ontologies Research Methods centres on data quality and
secondary analysis