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The following new datasets have been released: SN 8988 Understanding Society: Calendar Year Dataset, 2020 SN 8987 Understanding Society: Calendar Year Dataset, 2020: Special Licence Access SN 855476 Future of Legal Gender: Survey and Interview Data, 2018-2022 SN 855860 ASPIRE COVID-19: Work Package 2 National Satekholders Interviews, United Kingdom, 2020-2021 SN 855751 Bereavement During COVID-19 […]

Open to students at UK universities, the UK Data Service Dissertation Award celebrates undergraduate dissertations based on the use of archived data available through the UK Data Service. This year, Sarah Smith, Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol, and Dr Paula Devine, from ARK, Northern Ireland’s Social Policy Hub, were joined Nigel de […]

University of Essex, UK Data Archive, Faculty of Social Sciences The UK Data Archive is looking for a Data Access and Helpdesk Manager to lead the team which provides support to our users as they access the data we hold. The post holder will be a confident people manager, able to lead and develop a […]

Health is a constantly evolving field of study, regularly adapting to meet new standards, new scientific research breakthroughs and, more pressing than ever, new crises in medicine, as well as healthcare. The UK Data Service’s Annual Health Studies User Conference took place on 12 July 2022, with the key objective of keeping researchers up-to-date with […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 8989 Quarterly Labour Force Survey, March – May, 2022 SN 8985 Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Covid-19 Phone Survey, 2020-2021 SN 855226 Uncovering the Environment: The Use of Public Access to Environmental Information, 2018-2019 SN 854386 Effects of Visual Cues on the Lexical Boost Effect in Structural […]

If you’ve previously applied to use ONS Secure Access data with the UK Data Service you’ll be aware that part of the application process for data which is made available under the provisions of the Digital Economy Act includes showing you’ve considered the ethical implications. The UK Statistics Authority’s (UKSA) Centre for Applied Data Ethics […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 8984 Annual Population Survey Two-Year Longitudinal Dataset, January 2020 – December 2021 SN 8982 Individual Survey for Evaluation of Armenia Women’s Empowerment Project, 2015 SN 8981 Household Survey for Evaluation of Bolivia Livelihoods Resilience Project, 2015 SN 8980 Household Survey for Evaluation of Chad Resilience and Food […]

The results of the latest GP Patient Survey are now available via the GP Patient Survey website. The GP Patient Survey is a large-scale postal survey run by Ipsos on behalf of NHS England. This year the survey received responses from around 720,000 adults in England. The latest data are from the 2022 publication, fieldwork […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 8983 Community Mental Health Service User Survey, 2021 SN 8973 Quarterly Labour Force Survey, February – April, 2022 SN 8941 Food Poverty in the UK: An Anthropological Study in North London and South Wales, 2014-2019 SN 8967 Surrey Communication and Language in Education Study: Screening Data, 2012 […]

University of Essex, UK Data Archive, Faculty of Social Sciences The UK Data Archive is looking for a Customer Experience and Accessibility Manager, someone with strong user research experience who has a good understanding of usability and accessibility practices and knowledge of a variety of user research methods and how they should be applied. Your […]

On Tuesday 28 June, the first data from the 2021 Census for England and Wales was released to the public. We have made the data tables and accompanying metadata available for download via our UK Data Service Census site. This first release of data contains estimates of population by age and sex for regions and […]

From the impact of the pandemic, to rising concerns about living costs, access to data on household finances is even more crucial. In these challenging times, the UK Data Service has been working with the Department for Work and Pensions and the Office for National Statistics to support people using data about household finances. Research […]