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ESDS Government Resources
ESDS Government Centre for Census and Survey Research
University of Manchester
ESDS Government
• Supports UK surveys, e.g.• General Household Survey• Labour Force Survey• British Crime Survey • Health Survey for England • Family Resources Survey
– Most are repeated yearly or more often– Important, widely used microdata
• Joint service– UK Data Archive, Essex: registration, data
archive– CCSR, Manchester: intermediary between
data depositor and user
Role- Manchester team
• Helpdesk• Create user guides• Promote the use of the data• Encourage good practice• Bridge gap data collector – user• Provide workshops• Organise user meetings
Annual themes
• Workshops related to annual theme– 2003: Employment/Labour Market– 2004: Health– 2005: Social capital– 2006: Ethnicity – 2007: Consumption– 2009: Crime & citizenship
• emphasise substantive research• thematic guide for data exploration
Internet user support
• FAQs & Starting Analysis• Methodological Guides
– SPSS, Stata– Guide to weighting
• Publications database• Variable search• Links to other web resources• Online analysis with Nesstar• Thematic Guides
Improve usability of data
• Creating themed teaching datasets• Change over time
– syntax to enable comparison
• Harmonising Vital Statistics access and formatting
Keeping in touch
• Biannual newsletter• Email newslist• Home page contains news
– Our news– New data
• Helpdesk
Contact & infoE: [email protected] T: 0161 275 1980www.esds.ac.uk/[email protected]
