ESDS Government

Usage of ESDS Government Surveys

When users download data, they are offered the opportunity to share their project information through this database.

If you have received data from ESDS you can opt to be included, or to amend the details held for you, by going to the project registration page.

Recent Usage

• Change in age-specific health status over time – Dr Jennifer Mindell (UCL – Epidemiology and public health). March 2012

  I plan to compare sex- and age-specific health status in HSE 1991/92 with HSE 2010; for example longstanding illness and self-reported general health; as there is a governmental assumption that age-specific ill-health is remaining constant despite large increases in life expectancy. Uses: HSE

• Precarious Employment in Germany and United Kingdom – Mario Daum. March 2012

  I will examine precarious employment in Germany and the UK. Especially temporary work, fixed-term contracts, part-time jobs and minijobs (below 400 EUR). Uses: LFS

• NICE public health guidance obesity – Dr Nigel Armstrong. March 2012

  To provide data for an individual level simulation for an economic analysis of obesity interventions for the NICE Public Health Guidance. Managing overweight and obesity among children and young people, lifestyle weight management services AND Managing overweight and obesity among adults, lifestyle weight management services. Uses: HSE

• Conference proceedings – Ms Megan Butler. March 2012

  For my MSc I developed a model to derive retirement adequacy targets from publicly available income and expenditure data. This was calibrated to South African data. I'd like to calibrate the data to UK data using the Living Conditions and Food dataset. The conferences are: UK Pensions Conference and the Retirement Planning Summit. Uses: EFS

• Comparison with Experian – Mr Peter Woodhouse. March 2012

  We currently get food expenditure data through Experian. It would be useful to see if Experian actually add any extra benefit or do they just repackage the raw data. This could potentially lead the Co-op to using ONS data directly rather than continue to use data through Experian. Uses: EFS

• Econometrics Undergraduate Coursework – James Godwin. March 2012

  I'm a student who has been assigned a term paper for an econometrics course which requires that students find a unique dataset on which to perform and interpret regressions in Stata. Uses: EFS

• Project Scotland – Ms Jackie Palmer (National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) – Data Management). March 2012

  We plan to conduct some initial basic analyses of trends over time in economic activity and household circumstances for young people aged 16 to 30. Subsequently, we may look to see how these vary across different population sub-groups (e.g. by gender, age within 16-30 age group, region, etc.) Uses: APS

• Input into establishment of smart metering in GB – Mr James Bennett. March 2012

  This data is intended to be used to provide input into the smart metering implementation programme, specifically information regarding the location of the electricity meter and building types, in order to inform participants in the programme of the challenges they face to connect smart meters in all households in GB to the smart metering system. Uses: EHS

• Academic research – Professor Nobuko Okuda. March 2012

  I will the data for my research on labour market of immigrants and second generation of ethnic minorities in the 1970s and 1980s. Uses: LFS

• Attitudes towards the rich – Dr David Weakliem. March 2012

  Research on public opinion about wealth and taxation of the rich. I am interested in the items about taxation of inheritances, which can be compared to similar questions from the United States. Uses: OMNIBUS

• Community Knowledge Profiles – Mr David Leather. March 2012

  We are currently working on updating and adding to the range and content of the our Sheffield Community Profiles which were commissioned to identify the key experiences, views and aspirations of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities, particularly with regard to community cohesion and the provision of education, housing, health, policing and other services in the city. We are also expanding our work to cover non-BME grounds, such as people with learning disabilities, lone parents, carers etc and so would like to get similar information for these groups. Uses: CARERS APS HSE

• Alcohol consumption among people who are obese – Dr Cindy Gray (University of Glasgow – Institute of Health and Wellbeing). March 2012

  We would like to consult the most recent version of the Scottish Health Survey to get information about alcohol consumption among Scottish men and women who are obese. The data will be used to respond to a reviewer's comment on the trial protocol paper that we have submitted to the Lancet. Uses: SHES

• Statistical analysis – Dr noha youssef (London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); University of London – statistics). March 2012

  The dataset is required to help students understand statistics and apply different techniques via the PASW. The students at this stage are required to understand how to explore the datasets and perform the simple operations on them. This data set will provide them with a variety of variables. Uses: BSA

• Education-Job Mismatch; Lifelong Learning; and Quality of Working Life – Dr Milosh Raykov. March 2012

  The intention of this postdoctoral study is to examine repationships among education-job mismatch, lifelong learning, and quality of working life. Also I may use some of examples for the course Quantitative Methods in Educational. Uses: OMNIBUS

• ESRC project into crime – Dr Robert King (London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); University of London – Psychology). March 2012

  We are looking at local ecological predictors of riot behaviours in the recent UK disturbances with a view to predicting future public order problems. Uses: BCS

• Research – Dr Trevor Welland (King's College London – Health Sevice and Population Research Department). March 2012

  The datasets are used in research methods and computer-assisted software analysis demonstration classes with undergraduate and postgraduate students in Sociology and Social Work. Students are supported to explore the value and uses of archived datasets and secondary data analysis in social research and how to download and analyse variables from existing datasets in SPSS and the uses and analysis of existing qualitative datasets in NVIVO. Uses: BCS

• CMO report on multiple risk factors over time – Miss Alison Moody (UCL – Epidemiology and Public Health). March 2012

  I am aiming to get the most complete dataset available in order to look at multiple risk factors including alcohol consumption. The dataset I already have access to doesn't provide all the variables I am expecting from looking at the questionnaire. Uses: HSE

• HSE mortality – Miss Alison Moody (UCL – Epidemiology and Public Health). March 2012

  To look at health, lifestyle and various other socio-economic predictors of mortality in England. To investigate how and why mortality rates have been changing over the last 18 years. Uses: HSE