Welcome to the UK Data Service

The UK Statistics Authority recently accredited the UK Data Service for the provision and preparation of data under Chapter 5 of Part 5 of the Digital Economy Act 2017.

The UK Data Service is pleased to announce a series of free user conferences in summer 2025, bringing together data producers, researchers and policymakers.

Are you interested in learning how to code, but struggling to know where to start? Join our Code Anxiety Club, taking place between May and August 2025.

In this Data Impact blog post, Rebecca Florisson, from the Work Foundation, discusses the issue of long-term insecure work.

This case study looks at the importance of social factors in mitigating disparities in the lives of young people in areas such as poverty, health, housing and discrimination.

The Children’s Society’s Good Childhood Reports provide an annual overview of the current state of children’s subjective well-being. Read about how they make use of data from our catalogue, in this case study.

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

An introductory workshop designed to help participants understand the basics of managing research data effectively and responsibly. The workshop covers the key data principles FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) and CARE (Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics).

This workshop is an introduction to computational social science. A chance to understand and discuss what computational social science is, what it is good for, how to become a computational social scientist, and the basic steps to follow in an ideal computational social science research project.