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This year’s theme for Love Data Week 2025 asks us to take a minute to think about who owns data compared to who uses it. For example, different groups, such as researchers, the government, companies and organisations might collect data. They could also own it, share it, publish it online or combine it. However, it […]

Do you use the UK Labour Force Survey (LFS) or Annual Population Survey (APS) for your research? Submissions are now open for the Labour Force and Annual Population Surveys User Conference 2025. This free conference, organised by the UK Data Service in collaboration with the Office for National Statistics (ONS), will be held at University […]

It’s that time of year again, Love Data Week 2025 is here! This year’s event is dedicated to the issue of data ownership, inviting us to think about where the data we use comes from as we ask, “whose data is it, anyway?” This is a topic we care deeply about at the UK Data […]

We provide access to a wide range of social science data for reuse. To help you get the most from these resources, we run a free introductory training series every spring and autumn to introduce different aspects of the UK Data Service. Our training series workshops in spring 2025 are listed below and you can […]

Read the full stories in our January 2025 Newsletter. In this issue of the UK Data Service Newsletter, we are delighted to announce we have launched our UK Data Service Dissertation Award for the 2024-25 academic year, with £300 available for each winner. Plus, we are thrilled to update you on the future plans of our most […]

The European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) is a broad-based, multilingual thesaurus for the social sciences. It is available in fifteen languages: Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish. The ELSST is owned and published by the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA). New innovations […]

An update of our latest data releases. The following new datasets have been released: SN 9335 Living Costs and Food Survey, 2022-2023 SN 9337 Next Steps: Sweep 9, 2022: Geographical Identifiers, 2021 Census Boundaries: Secure Access SN 9325 Addressing Health Pensions Database, 1860-1908 SN 9332 Commercial Victimisation Survey, 2023 SN 9333 Understanding Society: Calendar Year […]

A series of freely available, open-licensed training materials has been published by the UK Data Service. The practical training resources, created as part of an initial Population Research UK (PRUK) project, can be used, shared and adapted by the Longitudinal Population Studies (LPS) community and other data professionals to improve data management strategies and enhance […]

UK Census User Conference 2025 From data to decisions: The role of the 2021 Census in shaping research agendas Submission deadline: Sunday 2 February 2025, 23.59 You are invited to submit proposals for presentations and posters for the UK Data Service UK Census User Conference, which will take place in central Manchester and online on […]

University of Essex, UK Data Archive, Faculty of Social Sciences The UK Data Archive is looking to appoint a Senior Software Engineer to help build innovative software solutions while working within an AWS cloud infrastructure first environment. Applicants should have a strong foundation in C# and .NET Core, coupled with expertise in AWS services. A […]

Most young people who were confirmed to have long COVID three months after a positive PCR test had recovered within 24 months, according to a new study led by researchers at University College London, which is available via the UK Data Service. Long COVID in Children and Young People (the CLoCk Study) The Long COVID […]

An update of our latest data releases. The following new datasets have been released: SN 9324 Labour Force Survey Two-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, April – September, 2024 SN 9323 Quarterly Labour Force Survey, July – September, 2024 SN 9322 Mental Health of Children and Young People in England, 2021: Special Licence Access SN 9273 Care in […]