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ESDS Longitudinal

ESDS Longitudinal. Accessing the MCS from the Economic and Social Data Service Jack Kneeshaw MCS workshop 30 November 2006. Economic and Social Data Service. provides access and support for key economic and social data

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ESDS Longitudinal

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  1. ESDS Longitudinal Accessing the MCS from the Economic and Social Data ServiceJack KneeshawMCS workshop 30 November 2006

  2. 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 dataservices

  3. ESDS Longitudinal Jointenterprise: • 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: • 1970British Cohort Study (BCS70) • British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) • Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) • National Child Development Study (NCDS) • English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)

  4. Data Deposit, Processing, Retrieval and Access

  5. The data themselves

  6. Ensuringconfidentiality • cohort members promised confidentiality • datasets deposited with UKDA are fully anonymised • datasets go through further process of checking at the UKDA • UKDA users undertake not to identify individuals

  7. Retrieval and access • web access, via UKDA site, to data and metadata • documentation (codebooks, questionnaires) freely available to any UKDA user (registered or unregistered) • 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

  8. Online access for registered users Registered users can: • download full datasets • order data via online order system • browse/analyse/download data in Nesstar To register: • obtain an Athens ID • sign and return data access agreement (legal undertaking) • (to access data) register a usage (formerly a project)

  9. Demo

  10. ESDS Longitudinal +44 (0)1206 872143 www.esds.ac.uk/longitudinal www.data-archive.ac.uk nesstar.esds.ac.uk/webview/index.jsp help@esds.ac.uk

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