Access to the LSYPE and associated resources at the

Economic and Social Data Service

Jack KneeshawLSYPE workshop 1 October 2009

ESDS Longitudinal

Economic and Social Data Service

• 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 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)• Families and Children Study (FACS)

• Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE)

Data and Documentation: Locate and Access

Data

Data not held by the ESDS

• The LSYPE data can be linked to three administrative (non-survey) data files using the SURVEYID variable:

– National Pupil Database • includes data on pupils’ attainment at KS2, KS 3 and KS 4 and data about

the pupil such as free school meal eligibility and SEN status.• (N.B. ESDS makes available a ‘reduced’ version of the NPD).

– School Level Data

• contains information about the school each sample member attended at the sampling stage.

– Geographical Data • data from the National Statistics Postcode Directory (NSPD) have been

linked by postcode.

Researchers requiring access to these data should contact DCSF directly, completing the application form from Appendix D of the user guide.

Documentation

A variety of LSYPE documentation is available, including:

• user guide/technical report– inc. survey design, response, fieldwork,

weighting etc.

• documentation for each wave– inc. questionnaires, showcards, derived

variable specs

Retrieval and access

• web access, via ESDS site, to data and metadata

• documentation (user guide, questionnaires) freely available to any ESDS user (registered or unregistered)

• data can be browsed and frequencies run by any user (registered or unregistered) using Nesstar

• full datasets are freely available for download for the majority of our registered users

• data supplied in a variety of formats– SPSS – Stata– tab-delimited text

Online access for registered users

Registered users can:

• download full datasets

• order data via online order system

• browse/analyse/download data in Nesstar

To register:

• login via UK Federation

• click-through or sign/return data access agreement (legal undertaking)

• (to access data) register a usage (formerly a project)

Resources on the ESDS Longitudinal web pages

ESDS Longitudinal

01206 872143www.esds.ac.uk/longitudinal

nesstar.esds.ac.uk/webview/index.jsphelp@esds.ac.uk