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

help@esds.ac.uk