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Trusted access and training to use the UK's largest collection of economic, social and population data for research and teaching
Services will be restricted from Thursday 23 December 2021 and closed from Friday 24 December 2021. All services will fully resume on Wednesday 5 January 2022. Online services will run unattended during this period. Season’s Greetings to all our users.
Key services
Ageing, COVID-19, crime, economics education, environment & energy, ethnicity, food, health housing, information & communication, labour, politics, poverty.
Free introductory training modules on-demand: Learn how to explore crime surveys with R or use longitudinal, survey and aggregate data.
Enter our social science sixth form and FE competition: Demonstrate changes in public perceptions of immigrants and the economy using real data.
Learning hub
Visit our free training resources and on-demand webinars to enhance your data knowledge and support social science teaching.
Upcoming training and events
Latest data collections and new editions
Keep up to date with the latest data and editions as they are added to our data catalogue.
Latest news
The following new datasets have been released: SN 8878 Labour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, April 2020 – June 2021 SN 8879 Labour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, July 2020 – September 2021 SN 854101 Expert Surveys and Workshops Exploring Links Between Energy, Productivity, Wellbeing and Productivity, 2019 SN 855298 Colombia River Stories Datasets Archive, 1994-2020 SN […]
University of Essex, UK Data Archive, Faculty of Social Sciences The UK Data Archive is seeking to appoint a Data Access and Use Assistant to join our dynamic Data Access Services team, to support the UK Data Service’s data access and Helpdesk operations. Further details and job pack Data Access and Use Assistant, UK Data […]
The following new studies have been released: SN 8873 Annual Survey of Goods and Services, 2017-2019: Secure Access SN 8877 BOOST2018: The Ground-Breaking Study of Student Life, 2015-2019: Secure Access SN 8876 Quarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, July – September, 2021 SN 854762 Predictable Task Switching: Manipulations of Preparation Interval and Preparation-interval Variability, 2018-2020 SN […]
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