1. How to get started Vanessa Higgins CCSR University of Manchester

2. Summary Registration Exploring data with Nesstar Downloading the datasets Useful Websites: –The Question Bank –National Statistics –Government department websites

3. Registration

13. Exploring and downloading data

34. The Question Bank http://qb.soc.surrey.ac.uk/ ESRC funded; Centre for Applied Social Surveys, University of Surrey Holds questionnaires from 1991+, no data or survey reports Topics and resources

49. National Statistics Online www.statistics.gov.uk Obtain figures, download tables Publications News, data releases Links to important documents, other websites Other data - business stats, census etc

58. Government department websites -Home Office -www.homeoffice.gov.uk -Department of Health -www.doh.gov.uk

61. Summary: ESDS website –www.esds.ac.uk –www.esds.ac.uk/government Register with the UKDA Access, explore and download datasets from UKDA Obtain questionnaires from QB National Statistics, Govt departments