1. ESDS resources for managing and analysing data
Beate Lichtwardt Economic and Social Data Service UK Data Archive
Research Method Festival, Oxford 1 July 2008

2. Roadmap Overview of ESDS service
ESDS resources and support: ESDS Government Analysis guides Derived variables ESDS International Countries and Citizens: Linking International Macro and Micro Data (formerly: Linking International Macro Micro Data - LIMMD) Cross-national research resource
ESDS NESSTAR catalogue

3. ESDS National data archiving and dissemination service
The principle UK data service for the social sciences
National data archiving and dissemination service
Running from 1 January 2003
Jointly supported by - Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) - Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
Partners - UK Data Archive (UKDA), Essex - Manchester Information and Associated Services (MIMAS), Manchester - Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research (CCSR), Manchester - Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Essex

4. ESDS 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 Government ESDS International ESDS Longitudinal EDSD Qualidata

5. ESDS holdings
Data for research and teaching purposes, used in all sectors and for many different disciplines
Official agencies – mainly central government
Individual academics – research grants
Market research agencies
Public records/historical sources
Links to UK census data
Qualitative and quantitative
International statistical time series
History data service in-house
Access to international data via links with other data archives worldwide
6,000 datasets in the collection
rd. 230 new datasets added each year
over 45, registered users
approximately ,000 downloads worldwide p.a.

6. Links with other data archives - Europe CESSDA - Council of European
Social
Science
Data
Archives
(non-
mainly
ICPSR)

7. ESDS structure
ESDS Management Central help desk service; coherent and flexible collections development policy; central registration service; links to other ESRC resources
ESDS Access and Preservation Collections development strategy; ingest activities – including data and documentation processing; metadata creation; data dissemination services; long-term preservation
Specialist ESDS services Government, International, Longitudinal, Qualidata
Dedicated web sites
Data and documen- tation enhancements
Tailored user support
Outreach and training

8. ESDS Government – resources

9. ESDS Government – resources

10. ESDS Government – resources

11. Demo (ESDS Gov. resources) http://www. esds. ac

12. Demo (ESDS Int. resources) http://www. esds. ac

13. ESDS International – resources

14. ESDS International – resources

15. NESSTAR Online data browsing and analysis system
Allows users to search for, locate, browse and analyse and download a wide variety of statistical data within a web browser
UK Data Archive, as service provider for ESDS, hosts a NESSTAR server populated by its most popular data series
Registering with ESDS required, if exploratory analysis beyond browsing metadata is intended

16. ESDS NESSTAR Catalogue

17. ESDS NESSTAR Catalogue

18. ESDS NESSTAR Catalogue

19. Demo (NESSTAR) http://nesstar.esds.ac.uk/webview/index.jsp

20. NESSTAR
Browse detailed information (metadata) about these data sources, including links to other sources
Do simple data analysis and visualisation on microdata
Bookmark analysis
Download the appropriate subset of data in one of a number of formats (e.g. SPSS, Excel)

21. NESSTAR
Introductory guide to using NESSTAR:
ESDS NESSTAR Catalogue:
NESSTAR guide
ESDS registration:

22. Contact: