Accessing Longitudinal Data via the

Economic and Social Data Service

Jack Kneeshaw11 July 2006

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 five ‘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)

Finding and Accessing Data

The data themselves - NCDS

The data themselves – BCS70

The data themselves - MCS

The data themselves - BHPS

The data themselves - ELSA

Retrieval and access

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

• documentation (codebooks, questionnaires) freely available to any UKDA user (registered or unregistered)

• in some cases, 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

Demo

ESDS Longitudinal

+44 (0)1206 872143

www.esds.ac.uk/longitudinalwww.data-archive.ac.uk

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