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
The award is open to students who have completed a dissertation on a social science topic and have used data available from the UK Data Service.
Trusted data for a stronger society: UK Data Service strategy 2024 – 2030.
The latest UK Data Service Annual Report is now available. This report covers the period between 1 April 2022 and 31 March 2023.
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?
Are you a social science undergraduate in the UK?
Have you used data via our data catalogue in some of your studies in 2023-2024 academic year? Submit your Dissertation Award entry by midday 20 June 2024.
More resources in Learning Hub for students.
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.
Ignite discovery: elevate your research with data deposits
Deposit your research data free, in our ESRC funded data catalogue.
Latest news
The following new datasets have been released: SN 9252 Family Resources Survey, 2022-2023 SN 856273 Housing Wealth Distribution, Inequality and Residential Satisfaction, 1997-2008 SN 856404 Self-Perceived Quality of Life and Substandard Housing Through SF12v2. A Transversal Approach in Gran Canaria’s Settlements (Spain), 2023 SN 856667 MOBILISE: Migrant and National Online Surveys. Waves One and Two, 2019-2022 SN 856826 Household […]
Citing a dataset correctly is just as important as citing articles, books, images and websites. Each dataset is a source of evidence to support your argument and should be properly credited. If you are new to using data and want more information on how to properly reference datasets in your research, why not take a […]
We recently ran a user experience survey for our current and future SecureLab users because we want to provide the best service we can. We wanted to get a better understanding of our users’ preferences. We learnt that Stata is the most widely used software and we identified a number of areas where we could […]
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.
