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ESDS Longitudinal. Accessing Longitudinal Data via the Economic and Social Data Service Jack Kneeshaw 11 July 2006. Economic and Social Data Service. provides access and support for key economic and social data
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ESDS Longitudinal Accessing Longitudinal Data via the Economic and Social Data ServiceJack Kneeshaw11 July 2006
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
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: • National Child Development Study (NCDS) • 1970British Cohort Study (BCS70) • Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) • British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) • English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (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
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