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
We provide access to a wide range of social science data for reuse. To help you get the most from our service, we run free introductory level online workshops every spring and autumn to introduce different aspects of the UK Data Service. Our training series workshops in Autumn 2022 are listed below and you can […]
The following new editions have been released: SN 6689 Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, 1997-2021: Secure Access SN 4557 Great Britain Historical Database: Census Data: Marital Status Statistics, 1931 SN 8649 Health Survey for England, 2018 SN 8910 National Referral Mechanism and Duty to Notify Statistics, 2014-2022 SN 855460 Wired into Each Other: Network Dynamics […]
The following new datasets have been released: SN 8996 Commercial Victimisation Survey, 2021 SN 8993 Active Lives Adults Survey, 2020-2021 SN 8991 Annual Population Survey, April 2021 – March 2022 SN 8990 Understanding Society: Innovation Panel Life Events Study, 2020 SN 8995 Great Britain Historical Database: Census Data Housing Tenure Statistics, 1961-1971 SN 8994 Great […]
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.
