Accessing the large-scale government
data
You can access the
ESDS large-scale government
surveys by a variety of means.
Registering and ordering/downloading
To access survey data, all users must register
with the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS).
Registered users can download/order
a large and increasing number of datasets direct from the web site (usually
in SPSS, STATA or tab-delimited formats) via its online catalogue record and
via the download/order section of the Major
Studies web page.
Exploring the data
An increasing number of datasets are also available to most registered users
in the Nesstar system,
which will allow you to explore the data online and to do basic exploratory
analysis before choosing to download all, or a subset, of the data. Nesstar
can save data into formats suitable for SPSS, STATA, SAS, Statistica, DIF (suitable
for use in Excel), Dbase and NSDStat formats.
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