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Are you doing research using any of the surveys on family finances from the UK Data Service? Submissions are now open for the Family Finance Surveys User Conference 2023 This free annual conference is organised by the UK Data Service in collaboration with the Department for Work and Pensions and the Office for National Statistics. […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 9051 Public Confidence in Official Statistics, 2021 SN 9058 English Housing Survey, 2020: Housing Stock Data SN 9057 English Housing Survey, 2020-2021: Household Data SN 855952 Creative Insights: Developing a Participatory Approach for Exploring Young People’s Perspectives on Health Inequalities, 2019-2022 SN 856012 Spatially-Led Video Interviews, 2021-2022 SN 856114 Student […]

We provide access to a wide range of social science data for reuse. To help you get the most from our service, we run free introductory level online workshops every spring and autumn to introduce different aspects of the UK Data Service. Our training events in spring 2023 are listed below and you can also […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 9048 Scottish Health Survey, 2021 SN 9032 Great Britain Historical Database: Digital Boundaries for Registration Districts of England and Wales, 1851-1911 SN 9056 Labour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, October 2021 – December 2022 SN 9055 Labour Force Survey Five-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, July 2021 – September 2022 […]

The latest UK Data Service Annual Report is now available. This report covers the extraordinary two-year period between April 2020 and March 2022, and highlights our value and impact during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also details how we implemented recommendations made by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) since the 2020 Mid-Term Review. A […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 9052 Quarterly Labour Force Survey, October – December, 2022 SN 9018 Listen To Us! A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding Young People’s COVID-19 Experience, 2021-2022 SN 9040 International Passenger Survey, 2021 SN 9046 Community Mental Health Service User Survey, 2022 SN 9045 Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, […]

We’re joining in with Love Data Week 2023 and reflecting on this year’s theme of “Data: Agent of Change”. The idea of data being instrumental in enacting change was thoroughly explored at our recent Labour Force Survey and Annual Population Conference on 2 February 2023 (LFS/APS). The online conference featured a keynote address on inequality, […]

Do you use UK quantitative studies from the UK Data Service for health-related research, such as the Health Survey for England, Scottish Health Survey, National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyle, Psychiatric Morbidity Surveys, Understanding Society, Birth Cohort Studies, and many more? Submissions are now open for the Health Studies User Conference 2023. This free conference, organised by the UK Data […]

It’s that time of year again! February 13-17 is International Love Data Week #LoveData23. This year’s events will be framed around the theme of ‘data as an agent of change’ and will be dedicated to inspiring communities to use data to bring about changes that matter. One of our main aims at the UK Data […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 9041 Farm Business Survey, 2021-2022: Special Licence Access SN 855318 Qualitative Interviews with Drug Service Users and Addiction Therapists, 2017-2022 SN 856155 Social Identity Model of Protest Emergence, an Agent-Based Simulation Model, 2019-2022 SN 856193 Stakeholder Engagement Focus Groups on Digital Mental Health and Peer Support, 2022 SN 856205 Interviews on […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 9042 Survey of Londoners, 2021-2022: Special Licence Access SN 9044 Wellbeing: Science and Policy: Teaching Dataset, 2023 SN 8964  2021 Census: Aggregate data SN 855789 High Energy Consumers, the Excess Project: Qualitative Data, 2018-2023 SN 856033 Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations: Modelling Food and Diet, 2020-2050 SN […]

Read the full stories in our January 2023 newsletter. This issue of the UK Data Service newsletter has a particular focus on data impact. We include links to the Data impact blog, including a post contributed by Full Fact, an independent fact-checking campaign group. We highlight our new themed impact areas and you can read […]