We are pleased to announce the addition of two new teaching datasets to our collection. Created from major UK surveys, these datasets are designed to support teaching and learning by providing user-friendly, accessible data that are easy to explore and work with.
Quarterly Labour Force Survey open access teaching dataset
Our latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey, January-March 2025: Open Teaching Dataset is designed to be easy to use. It is freely available under an open data licence, allowing users to download, use and share it without restriction.
Learners and lecturers can use the dataset to explore a range of topics such as employment characteristics, socio-demographic patterns, regional differences and preferences for working more or fewer hours.
Many of the variables are comparable with those available in the Quarterly Labour Force Survey, January – March, 2015: Unrestricted Access Teaching Dataset, which makes it valuable for exploring changes over time. To provide additional opportunities for teaching and learning, we have increased the number of continuous variables by adding measures of working hour preferences, including a new derived variable capturing preferences for increasing or reducing working hours.
Crime Survey for England and Wales
One of our core teaching datasets, the Crime Survey for England and Wales teaching dataset provides a more manageable way to explore a wide range of topics and variables. The latest version, the Crime Survey for England and Wales, 2023-2024: Teaching Dataset, includes 110 variables covering perceptions of crime, experience of crime, antisocial behaviour, attitudes towards the criminal justice system and a range of socio-demographic characteristics.
This edition introduces derived continuous variables that are also available in the Crime Survey for England and Wales, 2017-2018: Teaching Dataset, providing opportunities to explore changes over time. The new dataset also includes an urban-rural classification variable, making it ideal for investigating geographical differences and exploring rural-urban disparities.
Each dataset can be accessed via the links above. The open access Labour Force Survey teaching dataset can be downloaded without registration, while the Crime Survey for England and Wales teaching dataset is available through the usual UK Data Service registration process.
To find out more about our teaching data collection, visit the Teach with Data pages in our Learning Hub.