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

The annual UK Data Service Dissertation Award has been launched for the 2021-22 academic year. The award recognises outstanding undergraduate social science dissertations that include excellent reuse of data. Undergraduate students are welcome to use the UK Data Service. Before registering, you can browse through our catalogue, which can be filtered by thematic category (such […]

Do you use the UK Labour Force Survey (LFS) or Annual Population Survey (APS) for your research? Submissions are now open for the Labour Force and Annual Population Surveys User Conference 2022. This free conference, organised by the UK Data Service, will be held online on 27 January 2022. The programme will contain a mixture […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 8851 English Housing Survey, 2018: Housing Stock Data: Special Licence Access SN 8850 British Social Attitudes Survey, 2019, Poverty and Welfare: Open Access Teaching Dataset SN 8849 British Social Attitudes Survey, 2017, Environment and Politics: Open Access Teaching Dataset SN 8848 Next Steps: Linked Administrative Datasets (Student Loans Company […]

The UK Data Service October 2021 newsletter has been released, providing an overview of our activities over the past few months. Read on to: explore some of the latest data available through the UK Data Service browse and access data through our new data theme pages if you don’t know exactly what data you want […]

The first UK Business Data user conference took place on 21 September, co-organised by Vanessa Higgins of the UK Data Service and Louise Corti from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Attendees had the opportunity to hear about updates on three main ONS business surveys: the Business Insights and Conditions Survey (BICS), the Ecommerce Survey […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 8842 Scottish Crime and Justice Survey, 2018-2020: Special Licence Access, Self-Completion Data SN 8846 Annual Population Survey, July 2020 – June 2021 SN 8840 Annual Population Survey Two-Year Longitudinal Dataset, January 2018 – December 2019 SN 8839 Annual Population Survey Two-Year Longitudinal Dataset, January 2017 – December 2018 SN 8838 Annual Population […]

The UK Data Service Dissertation Week starts on 11 October. If you are a dissertation student, or supervisor, you can book your place now for our dedicated webinar, workshops and data drop-in sessions. Designed for dissertation students and supervisors, the week will: Highlight data available for dissertations. Provide ideas for projects. Share tips and tools […]

New datasets released SN 8843 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2020 SN 855152 Research Use in Schools Collaboration, 2016-2019 SN 855108 High-Frequency Risk-Neutral Density Reactions to the Federal Open Market Committee Announcement in March 2015, 2017 SN 854993 Inner London Dwelling Dimensions Dataset, 2017-2018 SN 854910 Community Dialogue Approach to Address Antibiotic Resistance in Bangladesh, 2017-2018 SN 854599 Smart Urban […]

The latest version of the CESSDA European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) was released on 14 September 2021. The previous version dates from June 2020. ELSST is currently available in 14 languages (including the source language English), with translation of Preferred Terms 98-100% complete in each target language: Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, […]

An exciting opportunity for a Communications Assistant has come up in the UK Data Service and UK Data Archive, based at the University of Essex. As a national partnership organisation, we curate and provide access to the largest collection of social science and population data in the UK. Funded by UK Research and Innovation through […]

Welcome to our new website. The first phase is now live to help you find and access services more easily. The changes have been led by user feedback and accessibility. The second phase of website development will begin later this year, following a further stage of feedback and testing with service users. This will include […]