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The following new datasets have been released: SN 9228 Harmonized English Longitudinal Study of Ageing COVID-19 Study, Version A, 2020 SN 9224 Aspirations in Science 3, 2020-2023 SN 9223 Aspirations in Science 2, 2013-2017 SN 9222 Aspirations in Science, 2009-2013 SN 9229 English Housing Survey, 2021: Housing Stock Data SN 9230 English Housing Survey, 2021-2022: […]

The deadline for submissions has been extended to midnight on Tuesday 9 April. Are you doing research using any of the surveys on family finances from the UK Data Service? Submissions are now open for the Family Finance Surveys User Conference 2024 This free annual conference is organised by the UK Data Service in collaboration […]

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 2024. This free conference, organised by the UK Data […]

For students embarking on their dissertation projects, or those supervising them, the UK Data Service offers dissertation resources, data and events to help with planning and completing a dissertation project. Undergraduate students who use data from the UK Data Service in their dissertations can also enter the UK Data Service Dissertation Award. UK Data Service […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 856907 Governing the Climate Adaptation of Care Settings Dataset, 2022 SN 856918 Perceiving Greater Commitment Increases Selfishness Among Disagreeable People, 2014-2022 SN 856882 Using Participatory Approaches To Instigate Improvements in Water Quality, 2021-2022 SN 856899 Governing the Climate Adaptation of Care Settings: Participatory Workshop Transcripts, 2022-2024 SN 856928 Questionnaire and Water Quality […]

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 2024. This free conference, organised by the UK Data Service in collaboration with the Office for National Statistics (ONS), will be held in London […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 856579 Many Happy Returns: Corpora of Public-Facing and Consumer-Generated Single-Use Plastics Discourse, 2016-2021 SN 856852 Transnational Organised Crime at Sea, 2019-2022 SN 856861 Experimental Data for Psychological Research: Investigating Effect of Processing Spatial Information on Perception of Time and Intertemporal Preferences, 2021 SN 856911 Survey of Disposable Diaper Use Among Children’s […]

To mark this year’s Love Data Week (12-16 February), we’re asking you to “Stop! In the name of love!” This year’s Love Data Week theme, “My Kind of Data,” is our gateway to introducing new users to specialist areas within the UK Data Service, including crime data and large scale social data. Our popular podcast, […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 9204 Online Time Use Survey, 2020-2023: Secure Access SN 9208 Understanding Society: Innovation Panel Twitter Study, 2007-2023 SN 856801 Technology Enhanced Stakeholder Collaboration for Supporting Risk-Sensitive Urban Development, 2019-2023 SN 856862 Psychometric Evaluation and Misophonic Experience in a Portuguese-Speaking Sample, 2023 SN 856913 Investigating Children’s Attitudes and Learning About Soil […]

We provide access to a wide range of social science data for reuse. To help you get the most from our service, we run a free online introductory training series every spring and autumn to introduce different aspects of the UK Data Service. Our introductory training series events in spring 2024 are listed below and […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 9202 2021 Census: Teaching Dataset Microdata Sample (England and Wales): 1% Sample: Open Access SN 856687 Shaping Multilingual Access through Respeaking Technology, Project Data, 2021 SN 856772 Food System Innovation and Sustainability – Interview Transcripts From UK-Based Business and Practitioners Talking About Sustainable Innovation in the Food System, 2021 […]

Read the full stories in our January 2024 newsletter. In this issue of the UK Data Service newsletter we’re promoting our upcoming events and training sessions; in February we have our Crime Survey User Conference and we’re celebrating Love Data Week with a series of workshops, including two on Mapping Crime Data in R. In […]