Introduction to ESDS Longitudinal and ESDS International survey data and resources Jack Kneeshaw Economic and Social Data Service City University, 27 April.

Introduction to ESDS Longitudinal and ESDS

International survey data and resources

Jack KneeshawEconomic and Social Data Service

City University, 27 April 2009

ESDS for teachers – a brief overview

ESDS Longitudinal

Joint enterprise:

• UK Data Archive (UKDA)• UK Longitudinal Studies Centre (ULSC)

based at ISER

• supports a range of longitudinal data collections but seven ‘core’ collections in particular:

• National Child Development Study (NCDS)• 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70)• Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) • British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) • English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)• Longitudinal Study of Young People in England

(LSYPE)• Families and Children Study (FACS)

ESDS Longitudinal teaching resources

• ESDS-created teaching/sampler datasets:

– BHPS x 3: work/family/health; social attitudes; time use/leisure– ELSA (single wave, x-sectional; multi-wave forthcoming)– LSYPE (single wave, x-sectional)– see http://www.esds.ac.uk/longitudinal/support/resources.asp

• Deposited teaching/sampler datasets:

– Multi-level event history analysis training data– British cohort studies teaching dataset– ‘Exploring Data’ teaching datasets (includes NCDS, YCS)– see http://www.esds.ac.uk/longitudinal/support/resources.asp

• Online teaching resource using longitudinal data:

– TRAMSS (includes SCELI, YCS)– see http://tramss.data-archive.ac.uk

ESDS International

• run by Mimas at the University of Manchester and the UK Data Archive

• provides free web-based access to key international macro level databanks

• provides access to cross-national survey data; helps users locate and acquire international datasets held outside UK

• promotes the use of international datasets in research and teaching across a range of disciplines

ESDS International teaching resources

Countries and Citizens: Linking international macro and micro data

European Social Survey EduNet

Other interesting developments …

• ONS Longitudinal Study teaching datasets – ethnicity; limiting long-standing illness

– http://www.celsius.lshtm.ac.uk/aggregat/index.html– expected to be available via UKDA also

• Survey Question Bank – learning and teaching zone

– forthcoming resource: focus on question wording, experimental survey design effects etc.; may include a web 2.0 feature permitting upload of materials

– http://www.surveynet.ac.uk

Online demo

Links/email

www.esds.ac.uk/resources/learning.asp www.esds.ac.uk/longitudinal/support/resources.asp

www.esds.ac.uk/international/resources/learning.asp

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