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Using ESDS Government Resources for Health Research
Vanessa HigginsESDS Government
Centre for Census and Survey ResearchUniversity of Manchester
ESDS Government
• Specialist service supporting users of the large, continuous, cross-sectional surveys collected (largely) for government purposes
• Supports large scale (typically repeated cross-sectional) government datasets
• Part of the larger Economic and Social Data Service led by the UK Data Archive– ESDS Longitudinal– ESDS International– ESDS Qualidata
What is ESDS Government here for?
• Archiving and dissemination of the surveys (UKDA)
• Other functions at CCSR– Promoting and supporting the use of the
data– Providing extra ‘value added’ materials– Training– Facilitating communication between data
depositors 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
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
• Publications database
• Variables search
• Introductory user guides (SPPS, Stata, Weighting)
• Keeping in touch: Workshops/events/newsletter
• Helpdesk
Publications Database
Variable search • Variable search based on
the names and labels of variables
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:[email protected]
(0161)275 1980
Website:http://www.esds.ac.uk/government
Jisc list:[email protected]