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An update of our latest data releases. The following new datasets have been released: SN 9479 Integrated Multimedia City Data, 2015: Secure Access SN 852494 Open Research: Practices, Experiences, Barriers and Opportunities, 2016 SN 858163 Modelling the Cross-Linguistic Pattern of Verb-Marking Deficits in Children With Developmental Language Disorder, 2019-2025 SN 858165 Generative Confidants: How do […]

The UK Data Service has released a new film that explains the value of its key services to researchers around the world and how it supports their work to make positive changes to people’s lives. With over 10,000 datasets in our collection, we help over 52,000 researchers worldwide to drive impactful social and economic research. […]

Read the full stories in our UK Data Service Newsletter – Winter 2025. In this issue of the UK Data Service newsletter, we highlight a major update to our Data Catalogue. The new catalogue has been designed with user feedback at its core and we hope it will make finding and working with data faster […]

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, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish. The November 2025 release of ELSST (Version 6) includes revisions to the demography hierarchy and related terms. […]

An update of our latest data releases. The following new datasets have been released: SN 9477 Scottish Election Study, 2024 SN 9478 British Social Attitudes Survey, 2024 SN 9462 Scotland’s Census 2022: Safeguarded Individual Microdata Sample at Grouped Local Authority Level SN 9461 Scotland’s Census 2022: Safeguarded Individual Microdata Sample at Region Level SN 9470 […]

The UK Data Service has hit a significant milestone in its history, with the number of data collections we make available reaching the 10,000 mark. Over the past six decades, the UK Data Service and its forerunners have supported research by simplifying findability and access to social, economic and population data. Our data collections include […]

We were pleased to join forces with the team at CLOSER again this year to produce another informative podcast featuring several high-profile experts from the world of data, including our own Director, Dr Steve McEachern. In this new production, we explore how research data can be used by government policymakers to make positive influences to […]

We’re pleased to announce the launch of the UK Data Service Dissertation Award for the 2025-26 academic year. The award recognises undergraduate social science dissertations that include excellent reuse of data. UK Data Service resources for students Undergraduate students can access data from our catalogue once they have registered with their institutional login. The data […]

Do you conduct crime research using quantitative surveys or longitudinal studies from the UK Data Service, such as the Crime Survey for England and Wales, Scottish Crime and Justice Survey, and many more? Submissions are now open for the Crime Surveys User Conference 2026. This free conference, organised by the UK Data Service in collaboration […]

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has released its Future Data Services Phase One Report: Fixing the Data Pipeline. The report reviews current practices and provides a roadmap for the future of data discovery and access. The ESRC has been investing in data services that enable researchers to discover, access and use data for almost […]

An update of our latest data releases. The following new datasets have been released: SN 9474 Kids’ Life and Times Survey, 2025 SN 9473 Young Life and Times Survey, 2025 SN 9468 Living Costs and Food Survey, 2023-2024 SN 9467 English Housing Survey: Fuel Poverty Dataset, 2023: Special Licence SN 9466 English Housing Survey: Fuel […]

The UK Data Service recently presented at the 65th ISI World Statistics Congress in The Hague. Dr Sarah King-Hele, Training Manager for the UK Data Service, contributed to the Statistical Literacy stream with a talk titled “Developing Foundational Quantitative Data Skills for a Data Literate Population”. The talk was co-authored by Professor Vanessa Higgins, Director […]