ESDS Government
The large-scale government
surveys, such as the General
Household Survey and the Labour
Force Survey, are key data resources for understanding population structure
and change for the UK and its component countries. Some examples of the research
supported by the surveys include:
- the resources, health and living
conditions of older people
- ethnic differences in family
and household composition
- changing patterns of consumption,
including drinking and smoking
- gender and ethnic differences in earnings from employment
- health patterns in relation to lifestyle and consumption
- social capital and its relationship
to health, employment and earnings
- comparisons across the countries of the UK
and across recent decades
ESDS Government is led by CCSR
and provides user support, runs user meetings
on specific surveys, runs training
courses on key topics of interest, on specific statistical packages and
on methods of statistical analysis and provides
topic-related online
course materials and a range of teaching datasets. The service aims to promote
and facilitate increased and more effective use of government
datasets in research, learning and teaching across a range of disciplines.
The acquisition, processing and delivery
of the large-scale government datasets under this service is undertaken by the
UKDA. Data is available via the
web-based download system and the ESDS
Nesstar system for online browsing and visualisation of the data.
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