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On 15 December, the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) released the second phase of main statistics results for the 2021 Census in Northern Ireland. The release includes data on housing and accommodation, health, disability, and unpaid care. According to the data, key insights from the release include: 34.7% of people in Northern Ireland had […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 9037 Cambridge Centre for Business Research Survey of Knowledge Exchange Activity with Universities by United Kingdom Companies, 2017-2021 SN 855142 Sarafu Community Inclusion Currency, 2020-2021 SN 856156 Academic (Un)Belonging and the Neoliberal University, 2021-2022 SN 855180 Multi-Criteria Mapping Raw Data, 2020 SN 856017 Accumulation: Late and Brief in Preferential Choice, 2017-2020 […]

An innovative agreement between the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) and NHS Digital has enabled the UK Data Service to offer a secure onward sharing of linked datasets for the first time ever. The agreement gives researchers access to administrative health data alongside study data, revealing new insights into how levels of prosperity, education and […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 9030 Millennium Cohort Study: Linked Health Administrative Datasets (Hospital Episode Statistics), England, 2000-2019: Secure Access SN 9026 European Working Conditions Telephone Survey, 2021 SN 9036 Quarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, July – September, 2022 SN 9031 Survey of Personal Incomes, 2019-2020: Public Use Tape SN 856056 University […]

On 29 November, new data from the 2021 Census for England and Wales was released to the public. This release contains ethnic group, national identity, language, and religion data for those living in England and Wales. Some of the key takeaways from the release include: For the first time ever in a census of England and Wales, […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 9029 Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use among Young People, 2021 SN 9024 Poverty in Scotland, 2022 SN 9025 Public Attitudes Tracker, 2021-2022: Secure Access SN 9028 Labour Force Survey Two-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, April – September, 2022 SN 9027 Quarterly Labour Force Survey, July – September, 2022 SN […]

Black people in England are over three times more likely than white British people to experience homelessness, according to a new report produced by researchers at Heriot-Watt University in partnership with Race on the Agenda and Oak Foundation using data from the UK Data Service, government statistical services, and the Office for National Statistics. Homelessness […]

Last month the Runnymede Trust published its briefing Falling Faster Amidst a Cost-of-Living Crisis: Poverty, Inequality and Ethnicity in the UK. It is co-authored by Dr Daniel Edmiston from the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds alongside the Trust’s Head of Research Shabna Begum and Senior Policy Manager Mandeer Kataria. […]

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 […]