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ESDS resources for managing and analysing data. Beate Lichtwardt Economic and Social Data Service UK Data Archive Research Method Festival, Oxford 1 July 2008. Roadmap. Overview of ESDS service
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ESDS resources for managing and analysing data Beate Lichtwardt Economic and Social Data ServiceUK Data Archive Research Method Festival, Oxford1 July 2008
Roadmap • Overview of ESDS service • ESDS resources and support: ESDS Government Analysis guides Derived variablesESDS International Countries and Citizens: Linking International Macro and Micro Data (formerly: Linking International Macro Micro Data - LIMMD) Cross-national research resource • ESDS NESSTAR catalogue
ESDS The principle UK data service for the social sciences • National data archiving and dissemination service • Running from 1 January 2003 • Jointly supported by- Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) - Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) • Partners- UK Data Archive (UKDA), Essex - Manchester Information and Associated Services (MIMAS), Manchester - Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research (CCSR), Manchester - Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Essex
ESDS • 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 Government ESDS International ESDS Longitudinal EDSD Qualidata
ESDS holdings Data for research and teaching purposes, used in all sectors and for many different disciplines • Official agencies – mainly central government • Individual academics – research grants • Market research agencies • Public records/historical sources • Links to UK census data • Qualitative and quantitative • International statistical time series • History data service in-house • Access to international data via links with other data archives worldwide • 6,000 datasets in the collection • rd. 230 new datasets added each year • over 45,000 registered users • approximately 60,000 downloads worldwide p.a.
Links with other data archives - Europe CESSDA - Council of European Social Science Data Archives (non- European mainly ICPSR)
ESDS structure • ESDS ManagementCentral help desk service; coherent and flexible collections development policy; central registration service; links to other ESRC resources • ESDS Access and PreservationCollections development strategy; ingest activities – including data and documentation processing; metadata creation; data dissemination services; long-term preservation • Specialist ESDS services Government, International, Longitudinal, Qualidata • Dedicated web sites • Data and documen- tation enhancements • Tailored user support • Outreach and training
Demo(ESDS Gov. resources)http://www.esds.ac.uk/government/resources/analysis/http://www.esds.ac.uk/government/dv/
Demo(ESDS Int. resources)http://www.esds.ac.uk/international/elearning/limmd/index.htmlhttp://www.esds.ac.uk/International/resources/research.asp
NESSTAR • Online data browsing and analysissystem • Allows users to search for, locate, browse and analyse and download a wide variety of statistical data within a web browser • UK Data Archive, as service provider for ESDS, hosts a NESSTAR server populated by its most popular data series • Registering with ESDS required, if exploratory analysis beyond browsing metadata is intended
NESSTAR • Browse detailed information (metadata) about these data sources, including links to other sources • Do simple data analysis and visualisation on microdata • Bookmark analysis • Download the appropriate subset of data in one of a number of formats (e.g. SPSS, Excel)
NESSTAR • Introductory guide to using NESSTAR:http://www.esds.ac.uk/support/guides/A2.pdf • ESDS NESSTAR Catalogue:http://nesstar.esds.ac.uk/webview/index.jsp • NESSTAR guidehttp://nesstar.esds.ac.uk/webview/help/index.html • ESDS registration:http://www.esds.ac.uk/aandp/access/login.asp
Contact: www.esds.ac.uk help@esds.ac.uk