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Call for papers: Family Finance Surveys User Conference 2022

Do you use UK family finance surveys from the UK Data Service for your research? These include the Family Resources Survey, Living Costs and Food Survey, Wealth and Assets Survey, and other surveys with family finance-related content. Submissions are now open for the Family Finance Surveys User Conference 2022. This free annual conference is organised by the […]

Latest data collections and new editions 11 February 2022

The following new datasets have been released: SN 8896 Cancer Research UK Cancer Awareness Measures, 2012: Special Licence Access SN 8895 Cancer Research UK Cancer Awareness Measures, 2010: Special Licence Access SN 8894 Cancer Research UK Cancer Awareness Measures, 2010 SN 8893 Cancer Research UK Cancer Awareness Measures, 2012 SN 8903 Gender and Adolescence: Global […]

Call for papers: Health Studies User Conference 2022

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 2022. This free conference, organised by the UK Data […]

UK Data Service makes selected UK controlled data available to researchers abroad

As a first step, selected SecureLab/controlled datasets from the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) and the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS), will become available via a Safe Room access point at one of our IDAN Partners, the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), […]

Vacancy: IT Technical Access Analyst

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

Vacancy: Software Testing Engineer

University of Essex, UK Data Archive, Faculty of Social Sciences As a Software Testing Engineer, you will be responsible for evaluating software functions and designing test protocols to ensure that products work as intended. You will also be responsible for designing and implementing our next generation of software delivery pipelines. We are looking for a […]

UK Data Service Introductory Training Series: Spring 2022

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 2022 are listed below and you can also […]

Help SSI understand digital methods & software in the social sciences

The Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) is looking for people to take part in this survey and help improve the understanding of digital methods and software within the economics and social sciences communities in the UK.  The SSI is seeking input from all different roles and career stages, including researchers, students, senior decision makers, curators, librarians and […]

Latest data collections and new editions 04 February 2022

The following new datasets have been released: SN 8884 Impacts on Social Connections and Wellbeing of COVID-19 Policies in the Older Population, 2020-2021 SN 8909 Understanding Society: Spending Study 2, 2018-2019 SN 8908 Kids’ Life and Times Survey, 2020 SN 8907 Kids’ Life and Times Survey, 2019 SN 855417 Implicit Bias Against Disabled and Older […]

Help us shape our new Census platform

The UK Data Service needs your help! We make UK census aggregate data freely accessible to a wide range of users, uniquely offering both historical census data through from 1971 to 2011, and harmonised UK data for the 2001 and 2011 censuses. As we approach initial releases of 2021 census data, which we will make […]

Explore social attitudes with students with our new open access teaching datasets

The UK Data Service now offers new open access teaching datasets from the British Social Attitudes survey. Each dataset, developed with NatCen Social Research, is designed to make teaching with data easier by making teaching data accessible and engaging. The open licence allows instructors and students to access data without registering with the Service and the topics included allow students to explore […]

Latest data collections and new editions 28 January 2022

The following new datasets have been released: SN 8902 Kids’ Life and Times Survey, 2018 SN 8886 Annual Population Survey, October 2020 – September 2021 SN 8901 Quarterly Labour Force Survey, September – November 2021 SN 4994 IMF Government Finance Statistics, 1972-2020 SN 854444 Sustainable Consumption, the Middle Classes and Agri-food Ethics in the Global South, 2018-2021 […]

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