1. Accessing the UK Longitudinal Studies via the ESDS Jack Kneeshaw UK Data Archive/Economic and Social Data Service 21 June 2004 ESDS Longitudinal

2. Economic and Social Data Service new national data archiving and dissemination 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 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

3. Specialist data services ESDS Government ESDS International ESDS Longitudinal ESDS Qualidata Greater emphasis on: value-added data and documentation enhanced resource discovery improved delivery services service specific help online support materials training programme outreach and promotion

4. About ESDS Longitudinal

5. ESDS Longitudinal Joint enterprise: UK Data Archive (UKDA) UK Longitudinal Studies Centre (ULSC) based at ISER supports a range of longitudinal data collections but four core collections in particular: 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) National Child Development Study (NCDS)

6. ESDS Longitudinal In addition to core studies ESDS Longitudinal will also: aim to identify other longitudinal datasets for inclusion, e.g. English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) and the 1946 Birth Cohort (NSHD) via the UKDA, continue to make available other longitudinal studies such as the LFS (2 and 5 quarter), YCS, HALS and BEPS

7. ESDS Longitudinal The service already provides: a helpdesk service operated by –email: longitudinal@esds.ac.uk –telephone: +44 (0)1206 872143 –JISCmail discussion list: esds-longitudinal@jiscmail.ac.uk web-based Frequently Asked Questions web-based downloadable data files online data in Nesstar to facilitate the browsing of longitudinal datasets a series of meetings and workshops for both novice and more advanced users

8. Data Access

9. The data – BCS70

10. The data – BHPS

11. The data – MCS

12. The data – NCDS

13. Documentation A variety of documentation is made freely available, including: guides to datasets lists of publications annotated questionnaires interactive data dictionaries (for CLS studies) Data Notes series (for CLS studies) other survey-related doc, inc. Working Papers etc. (for CLS studies)

14. Retrieval and access web access, via UKDA site, to data and metadata documentation (codebooks, questionnaires) freely available to any 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

15. 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 End User Licence (legal undertaking) To access data : register a usage (formerly a project)

16. Registration and Nesstar Demo

17. ESDS Longitudinal Help +44 (0)1206 872143 www.esds.ac.uk/longitudinal www.data-archive.ac.uk help@esds.ac.uk