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Using ESDS Government Resources for Health Research

Alan MarshallESDS Government

Centre for Census and Survey ResearchUniversity of Manchester

ESDS Government • Supports major UK data series

– Large surveys conducted, usually by government

– Repeated cross-sections, often continuous– Important, widely used microdata

• Joint service– Team at UK Data Archive receive and

archive data– Team at Manchester deal with users– Registration for the data managed by ESDS

centrally

Role

• Promoting the use of the data

• Navigating users through the right materials

• Creating additional materials to help users discover datasets and supporting materials

• Encouraging good practice

• Bridging the gap between data collector and users

Key supported datasets• General Household Survey• Labour Force Survey• Health Survey for England/Wales/Scotland • Family Expenditure Survey• British/Scottish Crime Survey• Family Resources Survey • National Food Survey• Expenditure and Food Survey • ONS Omnibus Survey • Survey of English Housing • British Social Attitudes• National Travel Survey• Time Use Survey• Vital Statistics for England and Wales

Overview: ESDS Government Health Resources

www.esds.ac.uk/government

• Web pages dedicated to each dataset:– HSE, SHS, WHS etc

• Introductory Guide to Using the Large-Scale Govt Surveys for Health Research

• HSE Teaching dataset

HSE webpage

www.esds.ac.uk/government/hse

Survey description, modules and news

Download data via UKDA

Variable search

Help to get started: FAQs and Starting analysis

Variable search

Publications Database

Introductory Guide to Using Large-Scale Govt Surveys for Health

Research• General introduction to what’s available for health

researchers • Strengths of different sources• Links to other appropriate sources• Updated annually

HSE teaching dataset

• Cut-down data for teaching• Excludes boosts• Simplified weighting variable• 60 variables • 2002 data• User guide

ESDS Government - general resources

• Introductory user guides (SPPS, Stata)

• Analysis guides (weighting, complex surveys, change over time)

• Keeping in touch: Workshops/events/newsletter

• Helpdesk

Keeping in touch

• User Meetings• Annual Conference• Website contains news & information

about consultations/data developments• JISCmail esds-govsurveys list• Newsletter

– Biannual– Contains news

• Survey news from ONS etc• New ESDS resources• Summaries of meetings

– Available on website

The important last slide…

Helpdesk:govsurveys@esds.ac.uk

(0161)275 1980

Website:http://www.esds.ac.uk/government

Jisc list:esds-govsurveys@jiscmail.ac.uk