1. Access to Economic and Social Data via the UK Data Archive Jack Kneeshaw UKDA

2. ESDS national data archiving and dissemination service jointly supported by: –Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) –Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) initial five year funding commitment

3. UK Data Archive (UKDA), Essex Manchester Information and Associated Services (MIMAS), Manchester Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research (CCSR), Manchester Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Essex ESDS Partners

4. ESDS Overview provides access and support for key economic and social data distributed service, bringing together centres of expertise in data creation, dissemination, preservation and use provides seamless and easier access to a range of disparate resources for UK Higher and Further Education sectors core archiving services plus four specialist data services

5. Specialist data services ESDS Government ESDS International ESDS Longitudinal ESDS Qualidata Provide - dedicated web sites - data and documentation enhancements - user support - training

6. The ESDS Data Collection

7. Types of collections Data for research and teaching purposes and used in all sectors and for many different disciplines surveys censuses registers aggregate statistics text (digital) and images

8. Sources of data official agencies - mainly central government international statistical time series individual academics - research grants market research agencies public records/historical sources access to international data via links with other data archives worldwide

9. Secondary analysis potential descriptive / background population information comparative research, restudy or follow-up study re-analysis or secondary analysis research design and methodology verification teaching and learning

10. Collection held at UKDA 5,000+ datasets in the collection 200+ new datasets are added each year 6,500+ orders for data per year 18,000+ datasets distributed worldwide per year history data service in-house (AHDS) access to international data via links with other data archives worldwide

11. Access web access to data and metadata data are freely available for the majority of our users data supplied in a variety of formats –statistical package formats (eg spss) –databases and spreadsheets –word processed documents –pdf documents

12. Finding/Accessing Demo