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issda. Irish Social Science Data Archive James McBride Director. ISSDA has…. A wide range of high quality datasets for secondary analysis Supplied data to: Government departments Researchers working on academic, non-profit, and consultancy projects Students: At 2nd and 3rd levels

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  1. issda Irish Social Science Data Archive James McBride Director

  2. ISSDA has…. A wide range of high quality datasets for secondary analysis Supplied data to: Government departments Researchers working on academic, non-profit, and consultancy projects Students: At 2nd and 3rd levels At Universities and Institutes of Technology At undergraduate, Masters’ and PhD levels Across a wide range of subject disciplines Dissemination

  3. How it works DATA SUPPLIERS (CSO, ESRI, etc) issda DATA USERS (Students, Researchers, Policymakers … )

  4. CSO data: Census data Household Budget Survey Quarterly National Household Survey/Labour Force Survey EU-SILC ESRI data: School Leavers Living In Ireland Time Use Housing Quality Forestry NCPP Survey of Employee Attitudes Irish National Election Study Irish Social and Political Attitudes Survey Survey on Lifestyle And Nutrition Irish Survey of Contraception and Crisis Pregnancy  Attitudes to disability Opinion poll data Eurobarometer ISSP European Values Survey European Social Survey CESSDA member catalogues ICPSR Datasets

  5. Selection of recent projects • Quantitative research of demographic and socio-economic change in south west Donegal over the past two decades • Tenant and property profiles of new immigrant communities in Ireland • Changes in Dublin population and housing stock in the last 20 years • ‘Middling’ migration in a globalising city: A study of Polish migrants in Dublin • Study of changes in the distribution of household employment at the start of the recession • Analysis of the evolution of the black economy in Ireland over the last 20 years using consumer demands approaches • Test whether causal relationships exist between socio-economic characteristics and the type, if any, of internet access in the household, using econometric methodology

  6. Accessing datasets • Datasets shipped on CD-ROM require signed request form (http://www.ucd.ie/issda) • Other ISSDA-based data and documentation: • Most non-CSO data available in SPSS Portable format for download from the ISSDA server – email for details on access • Documentation available in Acrobat format via the web • ICPSR: go to https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ticketlogin from a campus PC to set up an account and download data

  7. ICPSR Summer Program • Three bursaries for PhD students to attend a four week session at the University of Michigan • World-class forum for training in the methodologies and technologies of social science research • Best suited for those in the second year or later of their PhD studies • Will be advertised on the ISSDA website in February 2010 • http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog

  8. Contact details • http://www.ucd.ie/issda • issda@ucd.ie • 01 716 4612 / 4617

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