ESDS resources for managing and analysing data

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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
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Roadmap

• Overview of ESDS service
• ESDS resources and support ESDS Government
  Analysis guides Derived variables ESDS
  International Countries and Citizens Linking
  International Macro and Micro Data (formerly
  Linking International Macro Micro Data - LIMMD)
  Cross-national research resource
• ESDS NESSTAR catalogue

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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

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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 data
  services ESDS Government ESDS
  International ESDS Longitudinal EDSD
  Qualidata

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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.

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Links with other data archives - Europe

• CESSDA -
• Council of
• European
• Social
• Science
• Data
• Archives
• (non-
• European
• mainly
• ICPSR)

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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

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ESDS Government resources
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ESDS Government resources
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ESDS Government resources
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Demo (ESDS Gov. resources)http//www.esds.ac.uk
/government/resources/analysis/http//www.esds.ac
.uk/government/dv/
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Demo (ESDS Int. resources)http//www.esds.ac.uk
/international/elearning/limmd/index.htmlhttp//w
ww.esds.ac.uk/International/resources/research.asp

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ESDS International resources
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ESDS International resources
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NESSTAR

• Online data browsing and analysis system
• 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

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ESDS NESSTAR Catalogue
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ESDS NESSTAR Catalogue
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ESDS NESSTAR Catalogue
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Demo (NESSTAR) http//nesstar.esds.ac.uk/webview
/index.jsp
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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)

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NESSTAR

• Introductory guide to using NESSTARhttp//www.es
  ds.ac.uk/support/guides/A2.pdf
• ESDS NESSTAR Cataloguehttp//nesstar.esds.ac.uk/
  webview/index.jsp
• NESSTAR guidehttp//nesstar.esds.ac.uk/webview/he
  lp/index.html
• ESDS registrationhttp//www.esds.ac.uk/aandp/acc
  ess/login.asp

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• Contact
• www.esds.ac.uk
• help_at_esds.ac.uk