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UK survey data available via the UK Data Service

UK survey data available via the UK Data Service. Sarah King-Hele Research Associate, User Support and Training. ESRC Research Methods Festival St Catherine’s College, Oxford 9 July 2014. Presentation. Survey microdata UK survey and l ongitudinal studies

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UK survey data available via the UK Data Service

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  1. UK survey data available via the UK Data Service Sarah King-Hele Research Associate, User Support and Training ESRC Research Methods Festival St Catherine’s College, Oxford 9 July 2014

  2. Presentation • Survey microdata • UK survey and longitudinal studies • Nesstar: online analysis of survey data • Why use secondary survey data? • Finding data and documentation

  3. Survey microdata

  4. UK surveys and longitudinal studies

  5. UK surveys • often commissioned by government and conducted by ONS or NatCen • data about individuals or households (anonymised) • large sample sizes • nationally-representative • many are run every year • repeated cross-sectional (new sample each time the survey is run)

  6. Examples of UK surveys Many topics including: • health: Health Survey for England • work: Labour Force Survey • crime: Crime Survey for England and Wales • social attitudes: British Social Attitudes • family expenditure • living costs • housing

  7. Example: economic inactivity by reason Graph: Labour Market Statistics, June 2014, ONS

  8. Example: trends in domestic burglary, 1981-2011/12 (thousands) Data: Crime Survey for England and Wales and British Crime Survey Figure 8 from ‘Crime in England and Wales Quarterly First Release, March 2012’ www.ons.gov.uk

  9. Longitudinal studies Similar to UK surveys • individual level data • large samples, nationally-representative • surveys are repeated, often annually BUT • they follow the same individuals over time • new respondents are added regularly to keep numbers up

  10. Examples of longitudinal studies • British Household Panel Survey and • Understanding Society • cover different aspects of peoples lives: education, employment, social ties, family life and health • BHPS started in 1991 and has 18 waves of data collection • Understanding Society started in 2009 • BHPS sample included in Understanding Society from wave 2 • Other longitudinal studies • English Longitudinal Study of Ageing • Families and Children Study • Growing Up in Scotland • Longitudinal Study of Young People in England

  11. Example: perceived discrimination for being turned down for a job by ethnicity Source: Understanding Society: Findings 2012

  12. Example: reasons for moving home Source: Understanding Society: Findings 2012

  13. Longitudinal studies: Cohort studies • National Child Development Study (1958) • 1970 British Cohort Study • Millennium Cohort Study • different decades – can examine generational change • topics: health/medical focus • social and economic circumstances

  14. Nesstar: online analysis of survey data • browse detailed information (metadata) and data online • do simple data analysis and visualisation on microdata • download a subset of data in one of a number of formats (e.g. SPSS, Stata)

  15. Example: one way frequencyPolitical affiliation (data from BSA)

  16. Example: graphAge started smoking (data from GHS)

  17. Example: Cross-tab Main cause of crime (data from CSEW)

  18. Why use secondary survey data? • cost effective • saves time • high quality • nationally representative • many topics • allows geographical and historical comparisons • help and support are available

  19. Help

  20. Documentation • all survey documentation is freely available on the website – questionnaires, user guides, technical reports, derived variables • documentation tells you about the data • what questions were asked • who were asked the questions • how the survey was conducted • what was done with the raw data to turn it into the final data You must look at the documentation to understand the data

  21. Finding data and documentation • ukdataservice.ac.uk

  22. How to search for data? discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk

  23. Variable and question search discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/variables

  24. Sarah King-Hele Sarah.king-hele@manchester.ac.uk ukdataservice.ac.uk/help/ Subscribe to the UK Data Service news list at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=UKDATASERVICE Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/UKDataService or Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/UKDataService

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