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University of Essex, UK Data Archive, Faculty of Social Sciences The UK Data Archive is seeking to appoint an IT Technical Access Analyst to join our Technical Services Team. The section provides support for the critical needs of the other divisions in the UK Data Archive, by installing, commissioning, configuring, developing, maintaining and updating internal […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 8986 Constructing the European Higher Education Student: a Comparative Study of six European Countries, 2016-2019 SN 9022 Living Costs and Food Survey, 2020-2021 SN 856047 Perception Spillover From Fracking, 2022 SN 855300 Ladcultures: Social Networking Sites, ‘Laddism’ and Young Masculinities, 2020-2021 SN 855916 Computed Tomography Coronary Angiogram Images, Annotations and […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 9021 Annual Population Survey Household Dataset, January – December, 2021 SN 9019 Understanding Society: COVID-19 Study Teaching Dataset, 2020-2021 SN 9014 Participation Survey, 2021–2022: Secure Access SN 9001 UCL COVID-19 Social Study, 2020-2022 SN 9011 National Survey for Wales, 2021-2022 SN 9013 Participation Survey, 2021–22: Open Access […]

New Understanding Society resource for methods teachers Looking for data for teaching? Understanding Society and the UK Data Service have launched a new teaching dataset containing data from the Understand Society COVID-19 survey. The new resource includes data from the Understanding Society COVID-19 Study with background information about the participants collected during their main Understanding […]

Read the full stories in our Autumn 2022 newsletter. Find new guidance for students wanting to use data, our online training courses up to January 2023 and read our latest data impact. Browse some of the most recent data available through the UK Data Service including the new 2021 census data released for England, Wales and […]

The Children’s Commissioner for England, Rachel de Souza, recently published Part 1 of her Independent Family Review, which attracted extensive media coverage of the finding that 44% of children in the UK have grown up outside of a two-parent family since 2000 (Please refer to footnote 1). Although some members of the Press claim the […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 9020 Great Britain Historical Database: Census Data: Industry Statistics, 1931, 1951 and 1971 SN 9017 Quarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, April – June, 2022 SN 9000 COVID Social Mobility and Opportunities Study: Wave 1, 2021-2022 SN 8997 Homelessness Case Level Information Collection, 2019-2020: Secure Access SN […]

Do you use the UK Labour Force Survey (LFS) or Annual Population Survey (APS) for your research? Are you planning to? Submissions are now open for the Labour Force and Annual Population Surveys User Conference 2023. This free conference, organised by the UK Data Service, will be held online on 2 February 2023. The programme will contain a mixture […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 8992 Research on the Citizens’ Assembly of Scotland, 2019-2021 SN 9001 UCL COVID-19 Social Study, 2020-2022 SN 9011 National Survey for Wales, 2021-2022 SN 9013 Participation Survey, 2021–22: Open Access SN 9012 Participation Survey, 2021–22 SN 9015 Kids’ Life and Times Survey, 2022 SN 9009 Young Life […]

To those final year students about to embark on their dissertation projects, the UK Data Service is delighted to welcome you to our new section for students. We have the guidance you need to produce your best research, based on survey data of all types. Discover more about our upcoming events, new online resources and […]

The CESSDA ELSST team at the UK Data Service are pleased to announce a new release of the CESSDA ELSST Thesaurus. Two new languages, Hungarian and Icelandic, have been included in the latest release. Staff from the Centre for Social Sciences Research Documentation Centre (TK KDK) in Hungary and DATICE (The Icelandic Social Science Data Service) worked with the ELSST […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 9010 Annual Population Survey, July 2021 – June 2022 SN 9006 Annual Population Survey Three-Year Pooled Dataset, January 2019 – December 2021 SN 855886 Interviews With Mexico City Market Traders Regarding the Adoption of Digital Technologies and Practices for Political Purposes, 2022 SN 853311 EEG, behavioural, and physiological responses […]