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On the front line of health data: The Health Studies User Conference

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 […]

Latest data collections and new editions 22 July 2022

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 […]

UK Statistics Authority launch updated and improved ethics self-assessment tool

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 […]

Latest data collections and new editions 15 July 2022

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 […]

Latest GP Patient Survey now available

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 […]

Latest data collections and new editions 8 July 2022

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 […]

Vacancies: Customer Experience and Accessibility Manager

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 […]

First release of Census 2021 data for England and Wales

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 […]

Making ends meet: Families, finances and the cost of living

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 […]

Vacancies: IT Technical Access Analyst

University of Essex, UK Data Archive, Faculty of Social Sciences The UK Data Archive is seeking to appoint a IT Technical Access Analyst, working primarily on the Service Desk function, ensuring customers and business teams receive the technical support they require. The role involves triaging, allocating and escalating Secure Lab queries, reviewing technical evidence, setting […]

Vacancies: Senior User Support and Training Officer

University of Essex, UK Data Archive, Faculty of Social Sciences The UK Data Archive is seeking to appoint a Senior User Support and Training Officer to support researcher activity relating to use of our social science data collection and within our busy Secure Lab (a Trusted Research Environment). Using your excellent analytic and communication skills […]

Latest data collections and new editions 17 June 2022

The following new datasets have been released: SN 8971 Cyber Security Breaches Survey: Combined Dataset, 2016-2022 SN 8970 Cyber Security Breaches Survey, 2022 SN 8969 Cyber Security Longitudinal Survey: Wave 1, 2021 SN 8965 Derivation Matrices for the Former Official Measures of Social Class, 2000, 2010 and 2020 SN 8963 Smart Energy Research Lab: Statistical […]

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