ESDS Government Resources

ESDS Government Centre for Census and Survey Research

University of Manchester

ESDS Government

• Supports UK surveys, e.g.• General Household Survey• Labour Force Survey• British Crime Survey • Health Survey for England • Family Resources Survey

– Most are repeated yearly or more often– Important, widely used microdata

• Joint service– UK Data Archive, Essex: registration, data

archive– CCSR, Manchester: intermediary between

data depositor and user

Role- Manchester team

• Helpdesk• Create user guides• Promote the use of the data• Encourage good practice• Bridge gap data collector – user• Provide workshops• Organise user meetings

Annual themes

• Workshops related to annual theme– 2003: Employment/Labour Market– 2004: Health– 2005: Social capital– 2006: Ethnicity – 2007: Consumption– 2009: Crime & citizenship

• emphasise substantive research• thematic guide for data exploration

Internet user support

• FAQs & Starting Analysis• Methodological Guides

– SPSS, Stata– Guide to weighting

• Publications database• Variable search• Links to other web resources• Online analysis with Nesstar• Thematic Guides

Improve usability of data

• Creating themed teaching datasets• Change over time

– syntax to enable comparison

• Harmonising Vital Statistics access and formatting

Keeping in touch

• Biannual newsletter• Email newslist• Home page contains news

– Our news– New data

• Helpdesk

Contact & infoE: govsurveys@esds.ac.uk T: 0161 275 1980www.esds.ac.uk/governmentesds-govsurveys@jiscmail.ac.uk