Accessing Longitudinal Data via the
Economic and Social Data Service
Jack Kneeshaw11 July 2006
ESDS Longitudinal
Economic and Social Data Service
• provides access and support for key economic and social data
• distributed service, bringing together centres of expertise in data creation, dissemination, preservation and use
• core archiving services plus four specialist data services
ESDS Longitudinal
Joint enterprise:
• UK Data Archive (UKDA)• UK Longitudinal Studies Centre (ULSC)
based at ISER
• supports a range of longitudinal data collections but five ‘core’ collections in particular:
• National Child Development Study (NCDS) • 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) • Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) • British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) • English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)
Finding and Accessing Data
The data themselves - NCDS
The data themselves – BCS70
The data themselves - MCS
The data themselves - BHPS
The data themselves - ELSA
Retrieval and access
• web access, via UKDA site, to data and metadata
• documentation (codebooks, questionnaires) freely available to any UKDA user (registered or unregistered)
• in some cases, data can be browsed and frequencies run by any user (registered or unregistered) using Nesstar
• full datasets are freely available for download for the majority of our registered users
• data supplied in a variety of formats– SPSS – STATA– tab-delimited text
Demo
ESDS Longitudinal
+44 (0)1206 872143
www.esds.ac.uk/longitudinalwww.data-archive.ac.uk
nesstar.esds.ac.uk/webview/[email protected]