Accessing the NCDS and the BCS70 via the Economic and Social Data Service Jack Kneeshaw NCDS/BCS70 workshop 21 February 2007 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 six core collections in particular: 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) National Child Development Study (NCDS) English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE)
Data Deposit, Processing, Retrieval and Access
The data themselves - NCDS
The data themselves – BCS70
Data not held at the UKDA some additional data, derived from further minor data collections, data cleaning etc., only available via CLS at present these data are added to the UKDA collection from time to time
Ensuring confidentiality cohort members promised confidentiality datasets deposited with UKDA are fully anonymised datasets go through further process of checking at the UKDA UKDA users undertake not to identify individuals
Documentation A variety of NCDS/BCS70 documentation is available, including: guides to datasets lists of publications annotated questionnaires interactive data dictionaries Data Notes series other survey-related documentation, inc. working papers etc. Available both from CLS and UKDA web sites.
Retrieval and access web access, via UKDA site, to data and metadata documentation (codebooks, questionnaires) freely available to any UKDA 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: obtain an Athens ID sign and return data access agreement (legal undertaking) (to access data) register a usage (formerly a project)
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