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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 8898 Active Lives Children and Young People Survey, 2019-2020 SN 8899 Active Lives Survey, 2019-2020 SN 855220 UK Dairy Farmer Survey on Production Practices and Attitudes Towards Grass-based and Indoor Systems, 2018-2019 SN 855368 The Impact of the End of Brexit Transition Period on Roma in the UK, as […]

Matthew Woollard, Director of the UK Data Service, takes us through the origins of the SecureLab – and his hopes for its future. The UKDS SecureLab was originally known as the Secure Data Service (SDS) back in 2011 and was developed to complement the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) Virtual Microdata Library by providing secure […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 8889 Covid-19 Vaccine Opinions Survey, September, 2021: Secure Access SN 4772 IMF International Financial Statistics, 1920-2021 SN 855372 Assessing Mechanisms for Delivery of COVID-19 Vaccines to University Students, 2021 SN 854595 FloraGuard Online Illegal Plant Trade Forum Data, 2006-2019 SN 855385 Effects of Mental Representations of Children […]

#ChangingPerceptionsChallenge The competition, devised with Ben Brindle, one of the UK Data Service Data Impact Fellows, asks students to compare public and media attitudes to immigration with the latest findings of data-driven academic research, and then to design a campaign to improve public understanding of the economic impacts of immigration. Reflecting on what he aims to achieve […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 8888 Annual Population Survey Two-Year Longitudinal Dataset, January 2019 – December 2020 SN 8874 BlueHealth International Survey Dataset, 2017-2018 SN 8885 Quarterly Labour Force Survey, August – October, 2021 SN 4814 World Bank World Development Indicators SN 854444 Sustainable Consumption, the Middle Classes and Agri-food Ethics in the Global […]