Welcome to the UK Data Service
Trusted access and training to use the UK's largest collection of economic, social and population data for research and teaching
Key services
Find all UK Data Service training and guidance in our special newsletter. Dr. Vanessa Higgins, our Service Director of User Support and Training, also provides an overview of our training programmes.
Ageing, COVID-19, crime, economics education, environment & energy, ethnicity, food, health housing, information & communication, labour, politics, poverty.
The first data from the 2021 Census has been released to the public. Read some highlights from the data for England and Wales. Find out more on the release for Northern Ireland.
Upcoming training and events
Our impact
On the Data Impact blog, Andy Dudfield from Full Fact explains the importance of fact checking and how the UK Data Service supports Full Fact’s work.
Case study: How has data-enhanced research created impact on key stages of the evolution of homelessness policy in England, Scotland and Wales including on legislation, statistics and targeted programmes?
We explore how data in the UK Data Service collection has fed into a UK Parliament committee inquiry into measures and targets for child poverty.
Learning hub
Visit our free training resources and on-demand webinars to enhance your data knowledge and support social science teaching.
Latest data collections and new editions
Keep up to date with the latest data and editions as they are added to our data catalogue.
Watch our data skills training webinars
Watch and learn all the latest data skills from our free webinars, training and video tutorials.
The latest best practice in research data management, data use and governance.
An introduction to computational social science from our training webinar.
Job opportunities
Latest news
The following new datasets have been released: SN 9005 British Social Attitudes Survey, 2020 SN 9007 Young Lives: Head Teacher Telephone Survey, Ethiopia and India, 2020 SN 9004 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2021 SN 8998 Labour Force Survey Two-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, January – June, 2022 SN 8999 Quarterly Labour Force Survey, April – […]
University of Essex, UK Data Archive, Faculty of Social Sciences The UK Data Archive is seeking a Customer Experience and Accessibility Manager. Candidates should possess: Strong user research experience. Broad understanding of usability and accessibility practices. Good knowledge of a variety of user research methods and how they should be applied. Your ability to confidently […]
University of Essex, UK Data Archive, Faculty of Social Sciences The UK Data Archive is seeking a User Support and Training Officer. Duties of the post include taking primary responsibility for processing requests to import data into our SecureLab by: Liaising with data users and owners as required. Logging queries into the UK Data Service’s […]
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.
