Welcome to the UK Data Service

Trusted access and training to use the UK's largest collection of economic, population and social research data for teaching, learning and public benefit.

Highlights

Submissions are now open for this free conference on 10 July 2024 which will be held online. Deadline for papers is 2 April.

For students embarking on their dissertation projects, or those supervising them, the UK Data Service offers dissertation resources, data and events to help with planning and completing a dissertation project.

Submissions are now open for this free conference on 1 July 2024 in London. Deadline for papers is 24 March.

Latest data collections and new editions

Keep up to date with the latest data and editions as they are added to our data catalogue.

Upcoming training and events

Our impact

Registration for our Poverty in Data Impact event is now open! You can find out more and register here.

We are delighted to introduce the 2023 cohort of Data Impact Fellows. Read more about them in this Data Impact blog post.

How is the UK Data Service collection impacting research, policy and interventions in combating poverty?

Ignite discovery: elevate your research with data deposits

Deposit your research data free, in our ESRC funded data catalogue.

Watch our data skills training webinars

Watch and learn all the latest data skills from our free webinars, training and video tutorials.

Intended for anyone who wants to learn about the qualitative or mixed-methods data available from the UK Data Service.

This covers the pros and cons of reusing data and the importance of learning about the origins of your data, including quantitative and qualitative secondary analysis.

Who makes us special?

Our podcast series, The Experts’ Expert, showcases some of the unique work we do to enable evidence-led research for public benefit.

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Latest news

The following new datasets have been released: SN 9236 British Social Attitudes Survey, 2021, Health Care and Equalities: Open Access Teaching Dataset SN 9206 Parental Rights Survey, 2019 SN 9234 English Housing Survey: Fuel Poverty Dataset, 2020: Special Licence Access SN 9235 English Housing Survey: Fuel Poverty Dataset, 2020 SN 9232 English Housing Survey, 2021-2022: […]

In a period where the cost of living has risen dramatically and levels of those falling into poverty and deprivation are high, data-enhanced research can help us understand people’s situations and offer positive options for policy and other change. Rarely before have the data been so supportive in providing a clear picture of the situation […]

FAIR-enabling and trustworthy data repositories play a central role in making and keeping data FAIR over time. While there is ongoing debate on what constitutes trustworthiness, there is broad agreement that transparency and evidence are essential to enable end users to make informed decisions about the repository services they use. In the scope of FAIR […]