1. Using ESDS Government Resources for Health Research Vanessa Higgins ESDS Government Centre for Census and Survey Research University of Manchester

2. ESDS Government Specialist service supporting users of the large, continuous, cross-sectional surveys collected (largely) for government purposes Supports large scale (typically repeated cross-sectional) government datasets Part of the larger Economic and Social Data Service led by the UK Data Archive –ESDS Longitudinal –ESDS International –ESDS Qualidata

3. What is ESDS Government here for? Archiving and dissemination of the surveys (UKDA) Other functions at CCSR –Promoting and supporting the use of the data –Providing extra ‘value added’ materials –Training –Facilitating communication between data depositors and users

4. Key supported datasets General Household Survey Labour Force Survey Health Survey for England/Wales/Scotland Family Expenditure Survey British/Scottish Crime Survey Family Resources Survey National Food Survey Expenditure and Food Survey ONS Omnibus Survey Survey of English Housing British Social Attitudes National Travel Survey Time Use Survey Vital Statistics for England and Wales

5. Overview: ESDS Government Health Resources www.esds.ac.uk/government Web pages dedicated to each dataset: –HSE, SHS, WHS etc Introductory Guide to Using the Large-Scale Govt Surveys for Health Research HSE Teaching dataset

7. Introductory Guide to Using Large- Scale Govt Surveys for Health Research General introduction to what’s available for health researchers Strengths of different sources Links to other appropriate sources Updated annually

8. HSE teaching dataset Cut-down data for teaching Excludes boosts Simplified weighting variable 60 variables 2002 data User guide

9. ESDS Government General resources Publications database Variables search Introductory user guides (SPPS, Stata, Weighting) Keeping in touch: Workshops/events/newsletter Helpdesk

10. Publications Database

11. Variable search Variable search based on the names and labels of variables

12. Keeping in touch User Meetings Annual Conference Website contains news & information about consultations/data developments JISCmail esds-govsurveys list Newsletter –Biannual –Contains news Survey news from ONS etc New ESDS resources Summaries of meetings –Available on website

13. The important last slide… Helpdesk: govsurveys@esds.ac.uk (0161)275 1980 Website: http://www.esds.ac.uk/government Jisc list: esds-govsurveys@jiscmail.ac.uk