ESDS Government News
Health surveys user meeting
Tuesday 10 July 2012
Royal Statistical Society, London
This meeting will provide a forum for the exchange of information and views between users and producers of the UK health surveys. It is aimed primarily at users and potential users of survey microdata. The programme for the user meeting will contain a mixture of papers from data producers and researchers.
Using multilevel models and MCMC methods and applying them to the Health Survey for England using the new STAT-JR package
Wednesday 11 - Friday 13 July 2012
Basement Computer Lab, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building, University of Manchester
This workshop is jointly organised by ESDS Government and e-Stat, a quantitative node for the ESRC Digital Social Research programme which brings together academics working in statistics and computer science. The focus of the workshop is on the use of new statistical software, STAT-JR, for fitting complex statistical models.
Prerequisites: a working knowledge of multiple regression and the basics of sample design. Some previous knowledge of multilevel modelling, for example attendance at our workshop in 2010, would be beneficial.
Cost: the workshop fee is £95.
An Introduction to the International Passenger Survey
Friday 29 June 2012
Basement Computer Lab, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building, University of Manchester
A one-day workshop to introduce the International Passenger Survey to those with no or little knowledge of the IPS.
Family Resources Survey user meeting
Friday 22 June 2012
Royal Statistical Society, London
This meeting will provide a forum for the exchange of information and views between users and producers of the Family Resources Survey. It is aimed primarily at users and potential users of survey microdata.
British Crime Survey (BCS) changes its name to the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW)
Following the Home Secretary's acceptance of the recommendations of the National Statistician's Review of Crime Statistics (June 2011), the collation and publication of Crime Statistics has moved to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) from 1 April 2012. The British Crime Survey has changed its name to the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) accordingly, to better reflect its coverage. See the ONS Release: Crime Statistics, period ending December 2011 webpage for further details.
Employment guide updated
The ESDS Government guide 'Employment and the labour market introductory user guide' has been updated and is available from the thematic guides web page.
Small Area Estimation guide updated
The ESDS Government guide 'Small area estimation using ESDS government surveys – An introductory guide' has been updated and is available from the analysis guides web page.
New ESDS Government video guide
Downloading a subset of ESDS data using Nesstar
ESDS Government has produced a new video guide on downloading a subset of ESDS data using Nesstar. The guide uses the British Social Attitudes Survey 2009.
This video explains how to use Nesstar to:
• Select only certain variables e.g. political identification, name of daily newspaper read
• Select only the answers from certain respondents e.g. men, and/or newspaper readers
• Download the chosen subset in SPSS, Stata or other formats
Note that you can view univariate frequencies of variables in Nesstar without being registered with ESDS but you must be registered to download data.
Last updated 9 May 2012
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