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The UK Data Service is delighted to announce the winners of this year’s UK Data Service Dissertation Award. The award celebrates undergraduate dissertations based on the use of archived data available through the UK Data Service. This year, Paula Surridge, Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Bristol and Dr Alita Nandi, Associate Director […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 9117 Annual Population Survey, April 2022 – March 2023 SN 856464 Computer Mouse Tracking Studies of Adult Belief Processing, 2021-2022 SN 856543 Cultural Constructions of Fighting Birds: The Cockfight World in the Canary Islands, 2016–2018 SN 856556 Autistic Adults Online: Understanding and Enabling Autistic Sociality in Digital Networking Environments, 2020-2023 […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 856592 GP Patient Survey, 2023 SN 856204 House Price Per Square Metre in England and Wales, 1995-2022 The following new editions have been released: SN 7022 Prices Survey Microdata, 1996-2023: Secure Access SN 9025 Public Attitudes Tracker, 2021-2022: Secure Access The following new edition has been released to the […]

On 17 July, Vanessa Higgins, our Director of User Support and Training, presented a paper at the ISI World Statistics Congress in Ottawa, Canada. The paper offered new insights into how Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities (SHAPE) students participate in UK Data Service online data skills training events to enhance their data literacy. Hosted by […]

The results of the latest GP Patient Survey are now available via the GP Patient Survey website. The GP Patient Survey is a large-scale postal survey run by Ipsos on behalf of NHS England. This year the survey received responses from around 760,000 adults in England. The latest data are from the 2023 publication, fieldwork was conducted from 3 January to […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 9115 1970 British Cohort Study: Sweeps 1-10, 1970-2016: Secure Access SN 9111 Active Lives Children and Young People Survey, 2021-2022 SN 9066 Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, 2019 SN 856006 Antibiotic Prescribing in Care Homes: A Multidisciplinary Approach, 2022 SN 856411 Exploring the Psychological Drivers and Impact of Public Health […]

On 7 July Dr Julia Kasmire, our resident computational social science expert, featured on a special BBC Radio 4 programme on big data. She spoke with Spencer Kelly from the BBC’s Click programme about what we mean by ‘big data’ and how important insights can be gained from the vast quantities of data we generate […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 9110 Hunger in the UK, 2022 SN 9112 Cancer Research UK Cancer Awareness Measures, February 2023 SN 9095 Childcare and Early Years Provision: Providers’ Survey, 2022 SN 9113 Gambling Behaviour Quarterly Telephone Survey, 2022 SN 856379 Researching Accountability in the Indian System of Education (RAISE), 2021 SN 856529 Emergent […]

This year’s Health Studies User Conference took place on Thursday 29 June at University College London (UCL) and was organised collaboratively by the UK Data Service, University  College London and the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen). The conference provided attendees with a unique opportunity to hear from a number of prestigious experts on the […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 9108 Oxford Internet Survey, 2009 SN 9016 Mergers and Acquisitions Survey, 2013-2020: Secure Access SN 9094 People and Nature Survey for England, 2020-2022: Secure Access SN 9092 People and Nature Survey for England, 2020-2022: Open Access SN 9093 People and Nature Survey for England, 2020-2022 SN 9090 […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 9107 Gambling Behaviour Quarterly Telephone Survey, 2021 SN 9106 Gambling Behaviour Quarterly Telephone Survey, 2020 SN 9105 Gambling Behaviour Quarterly Telephone Survey, 2019 SN 9104 Gambling Behaviour Quarterly Telephone Survey, 2018 SN 9103 Gambling Behaviour Quarterly Telephone Survey, 2017 SN 9102 Quarterly Labour Force Survey, Household Dataset, […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 9096 Northern Ireland Assembly Election Study, 2022 SN 9074 Oxford Internet Survey, 2011 SN 9101 Cyber Security Breaches Survey, 2023 SN 9100 Cancer Research UK Cancer Awareness Measures, 2023: Special Licence Access SN 9085 Millennium Cohort Study: Linked Education Administrative Datasets (KS1-KS3), Wales: Secure Access SN 5761 […]

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