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ESDS Government Resources for the LFS and APS
Anthony RaffertyESDS Government
Centre for Census and Survey ResearchUniversity of Manchester
ESDS Government
• Supports major UK data series– Large surveys conducted, usually by government– Eg:
• Labour Force Survey• General Household Survey• British Crime Survey • Health Survey for England
– Repeated cross-sections, often continuous– Important, widely used microdata
• Joint service– Team at UK Data Archive ingest and archive data– Team at Manchester deal with users– Registration for the data managed by ESDS
centrally
Role
• Too much stuff? – Navigating users through the right materials– Creating additional materials to help users
discover datasets and supporting materials
• Promoting the use of the data• Encouraging good practice• Bridging the gap between data collector
and users
(Bi-)Annual themes• Workshops and other materials are
related to an annual substantive theme– Year 1: Employment and the
Labour Market– Year 2: Health– Year 3: Social capital– Year 4: Ethnicity – Year 5: Consumption– This year : crime & citizenship
• Ensures that work has an emphasis on substantive research
• Each year a thematic guide is produced which looks at how to explore the research theme with the data
Web-based resources to support users
• Thematic Guides• FAQs & Starting Analysis• Methodological Guides
– SPSS, Stata– Guide to weighting
• Publications database• Data usage search• Links to other web resourceshttp://www.esds.ac.uk/government/resources
Outreach events
Introductory workshops Joint workshops with other ESDS servicesMethodsResearch conferencesDataset user meetingsOther presentationsPosters
Improving the usability of data• Creating annual themed teaching
datasets• Change over time – comparison of
variables, LFS, GHS– Generating syntax to enable
comparability
• Harmonising Vital Statistics access and formatting
Labour Force Survey Resources
• Guide to Employment and Labour Market• Research LFS Teaching Dataset• Analysing Change Over Time Guide• Guide: Analysis of LFS using STATA• Variables consistent over time on LFS• LFS comparability with 2001 Census• Helpdesk
Keeping in touch
• Biannual newsletter• Email newslist• Home page contains news
– Our news– New data
• Helpdesk
For Further info:
Helpdesk: [email protected]
(0161) 275 4722
Website:http://www.esds.ac.uk/government
JISCmail: [email protected]
