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Title: The Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) Karen Dennison Economic and Social Data Service UK Data Archive Government Chief Social Researcher


1
The Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS)
Karen DennisonEconomic and Social Data
ServiceUK Data ArchiveGovernment Chief Social
Researchers Office Information Seminar Cardiff,
21 June 2004
2
What is the ESDS?
  • national data archiving and dissemination service
    running from 1 Jan. 2003 2008
  • jointly supported by
  • Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
  • Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)

3
Partners
  • UK Data Archive, Essex
  • MIMAS, Manchester
  • Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey
    Research (CCSR), Manchester
  • Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER),
    Essex

4
ESDS 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

5
Sources / type of data
  • Data for research and teaching purposes and used
    in all sectors and for many different disciplines
  • official agencies - mainly central government
  • international statistical time series
  • individual academics - research grants
  • market research agencies
  • public records/historical sources
  • qualitative and quantitative
  • links to UK census data
  • access to international data via links with other
    data archives worldwide

6
Collection held at UKDA
  • 4,000 datasets in the collection
  • 200 new datasets are added each year
  • 6,500 orders for data per year
  • 18,000 datasets distributed worldwide per year
  • History data service in-house (AHDS)
  • Census Registration Service in-house (CRS)
  • specialist units for supporting qualitative and
    longitudinal data in-house

7
ESDS Core Services
  • ESDS Management
  • central 'first stop' help desk service
  • coherent and flexible collections development
    policy
  • central registration service operating across the
    ESDS
  • universal data portal
  • ESDS Access and Preservation
  • collections development strategy
  • ingest activities - including data and
    documentation processing
  • metadata creation
  • data dissemination services
  • long-term preservation

8
Joining Up
  • ESRC
  • joined-up portfolio
  • implementation of ESRC Datasets Policy
  • ESRC Information Strategy
  • e-Science initiatives
  • JISC
  • Information Environment
  • Athens / Shibboleth
  • Digital Preservation Coalition, The National
    Archives / Public Record Office

9
Enhanced access to data
  • one-stop registration and Athens
  • important part of ESRCs goal of establishing a
    common entry point for all socio-economic data.
  • extension of the Census Registration Service
  • enhanced data delivery
  • Download Now service and Nesstar WebView
  • online data delivery ESDS International
  • online data delivery ESDS Qualidata

10
Accessing data
  • Web access to data and metadata
  • Data are freely available for the majority of
    users
  • Data supplied in a variety of formats
  • statistical package formats (eg spss)
  • databases and spreadsheets
  • word processed documents
  • pdf documents

11
Online access to data and user guides
  • Web pages - easy to navigate format
  • Web catalogue with variable level searching
  • Subject browsing - eg major series and UK
    geographic focus web pages
  • Access to online doc - pdf user guides and forms
  • Registration
  • One-off registration with Athens login
  • Online account management and Shopping Basket
    ordering
  • Data Download
  • Web Download (SPSS, STATA, TAB, RTF, etc)
  • Nesstar - browsing metadata and exploring data

12
Nesstar software
  • Browse detailed information (metadata) about
    these data sources, including links to other
    sources
  • Search facility that can return variables as hits
    and open them in context
  • Do simple data analysis and visualisation on
    microdata
  • Bookmark datasets and analyses
  • Download the appropriate subset of data in one of
    a number of formats (e.g. SPSS, Excel)

13
Data quality issues
  • Require exceptionally high quality data for
    publishing in Nesstar system.
  • Helpful if
  • Full variable and value labels
  • Systematic variable naming across time for
    continuous surveys
  • Literal question text
  • Information on weighting

14
Specialist data services
  • ESDS Government
  • ESDS International
  • ESDS Longitudinal
  • ESDS Qualidata
  • Provide
  • - dedicated web sites and help desks
  • - data and documentation enhancements
  • - user support
  • - training

15
The large-scale government surveys
  • 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 Peoples Social Attitudes/NI Life
    Times
  • National Travel Survey
  • Time Use Survey
  • Vital Statistics for England and Wales

16
Benefits of the large-scale government datasets
  • Good quality data
  • Produced by experienced research organisations
  • UK/GB - usually nationally representative with
    large samples. Interviewers all over country
  • Good response rates
  • Well documented, NISRA, ONS, UKDA, QB etc
  • Continuous data
  • E.g Continuous Household Survey 1983, allows
    comparison over time
  • Data is largely cross-sectional
  • Hierarchical data
  • Individual and household
  • intra-household differences
  • household effects on individuals

17
Percentage of women aged 18-49 cohabiting
General Household Survey
18
ESDS Government
  • Led by CCSR and working closely with the UKDA
  • UKDA will continue to be responsible for
    acquisition of data and dissemination
  • dissemination mainly on-line/ much via Nesstar
  • CCSR covers added value (help for users and
    dataset enhancements)
  • Theme based approach to adding value
  • Year 1 Employment and labour market
  • Year 2 Health
  • Year 3 Social exclusion

19
Help for users
  • Workshops and web-based guides on
  • on how to get started
  • theme based, intro to surveys, access
  • introduction to large-scale government datasets
  • analysis skills
  • Methods and new opportunities
  • weighting
  • data linkage
  • Other CCSR courses
  • SPSS/ STATA data analysis methods
  • links to ONS publications useful websites
  • Helpdesk, Jiscmail list

20
Enhancements to datasets
  • User consultation
  • a set of derived variables to provide
    comparability with standard census variables
  • derivation of some key variables for employment
    and labour market analysis on the General
    Household Survey and Labour Force Survey
  • an index of variables that are consistent over
    time on a number of surveys.
  • Geographically referenced variables
  • linked to Common GIS interactive web-based
    exploration and visualization tool for data with
    sub-regional geography.
  • Teaching datasets
  • Labour Force Survey 2002 (links to STATA guide)
  • British Crime Survey 2000
  • Plan Health Survey for England in 2004

21
Interaction
  • Developments at ONS and NatCen
  • benefit and influence
  • encourage interaction with research community
  • maximise interests of data depositors,
    commissioning departments and research community
  • User group meetings
  • LFS October 2003 (establish annually)
  • HSE January 2004
  • High level annual research conference for policy
    makers, users and producers of government surveys
  • December 2003 Social Demo Change
  • December 2004 health
  • Meetings/ongoing liaison with ONS ESDS Govt

22
Longitudinal data
  • Longitudinal surveys involve repeated surveys of
    the same individuals at different points in time
  • Allow researchers to analyse change at the
    individual level
  • More complex to analyse

23
Longitudinal Data
  • four 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)
  • Also possible forthcoming Medical Research
    Council population study datasets 1946 Birth
    Cohort

24
British Household Panel Survey
  • Collected and deposited by the ULSC at Essex
  • follows the members of 5500 households first
    sampled in 1991
  • interviews conducted annually
  • become a major resource for understanding the
    dynamics of British households
  • coverage includes
  • income, labour market behaviour, social and
    political values, health, education, housing and
    household organisation
  • Recently large new samples were introduced in
    Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

25
British Birth Cohort Studies
  • Impact of childhood conditions on later life and
    understanding children and families in the UK
  • National Child Development Study follows a cohort
    born in a single week in 1958 - data collected at
    birth ages 7, 11, 16, 23, 33, 42
  • 1970 British Cohort Study follows a cohort born
    in a single week in 1970 - data collected around
    birth ages 5, 10, 16, 26 and most recently at
    age 30
  • Millennium Cohort Study focuses on children born
    in 2000 / 2001 - first sweep at 9 months, second
    sweep at 3 years
  • Wide range of social, economic, health, medical
    and psychological issues

26
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
  • BUT access for UK HE/FE only
  • Access to microdata surveys
  • Eurobarometers
  • International Social Survey Programme
  • Other social data via other national data archives

27
International data themes
  • Databanks cover
  • Economic performance and development
  • Trade, industry and markets
  • Employment
  • Demography, migration and health
  • Governance
  • Human development
  • Social expenditure
  • Education
  • Science and technology
  • Land use and the environment

28
ESDS Qualidata
  • provides access and support for a range of
    qualitative datasets, and is hosted by the UK
    Data Archive
  • the work builds on Qualidata's expertise and
    international reputation in this area, developed
    over the past eight years

29
Qualitative data collections
  • 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

30
Types 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
  • Multi-media audio, video, photos and text (most
    common is interview transcriptions)
  • Formats digital, paper, analogue audio-visual
  • Data structures - differ across different
    document types

31
Classic 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

32
The Census Registration Service
  • The Census Registration Service provides one-stop
    registration for
  • Census Dissemination Unit from MIMAS (University
    of Manchester)
  • Census Geography Data Unit (UKBORDERS) from EDINA
    (University of Edinburgh)
  • Census Interaction Data Service (Universities of
    Leeds and St Andrews)
  • Samples of Anonymised Records from the Cathie
    Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research
    (University of Manchester)

33
AHDS History
  • AHDS History is one of the five Subject Centres
    of the Arts and Humanities Data Service.
    http//ahds.ac.uk
  • AHDS History collects, preserves, and promotes
    the use of digital resources, which result from
    or support historical research, learning and
    teaching.

34
The AHDS History collection
  • Particularly strong in 19th and 20th century
    economic and social history
  • Census data (1881 100 sample 1851 2 sample
    lots of local census returns)
  • Great Britain Historical Database online
  • Taxation materials
  • Large scale datasets of Welsh and Irish
    historical statistics
  • Electoral data (poll books for local areas)
  • Criminal court records (e.g. a collection of
    datasets on violent crimes 1600-1900)
  • Agricultural statistics (prices, output)
  • Surveys of Scottish witchcraft
  • State finance data
  • Economic indicators/industrial production data

35
Secondary analysis potential
  • description
  • comparative research, restudy or follow-up study
  • re-analysis or secondary analysis
  • research design and methodological advancement
  • verification
  • teaching and learning
  • Highlighting research potential

36
ESDS supporting research and teaching
  • service specific help for each service
  • help desk, FAQs, analysis support
  • generating new researchers
  • series of workshops around the country
  • teaching datasets, online samplers
  • discussion lists, newsletters

37
ESDS outreach programme
  • Service specific and joint workshops
  • awareness days for new users
  • thematic data resources events
  • data confrontation specific datasets data
    handling skills methodological issues analytic
    skills - introductory and advanced level
  • Publicity and publications
  • conference presentations, talks ,
  • articles in newsletters and journals
  • UKDAtabytes ESDS Government newsletters

38
Working groups and user forums
  • establish working groups to gain input and
    feedback on specific ESDS developments
  • user forum user groups, discussion lists etc
  • data creators, eg ONS, Govt. departments, ESRC
  • preservation expertise, eg DCC
  • teaching and learning bodies such as HE - LTSN,
    FE - RSC
  • data support staff eg subject or data librarians

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  • Contact
  • www.esds.ac.uk
  • help_at_esds.ac.uk
  • ESDS FAQ http//www.esds.ac.uk/about/faq.asp
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