Teaching datasets
Datasets can be useful
resources for teaching. You can use the datasets for hands-on exercises in methods
courses such as questionnaire design or statistics. ESDS Government have created
a number of teaching datasets for this purpose using the Labour Force Survey,
British Crime Survey, Health Survey for England, General Household Survey and
Expenditure and Food Survey. If you wish to use one of the teaching datasets
or any of the ESDS Government datasets with your students as part of a taught
course you should read the information on Teaching uses of data on the ESDS web site.
You could also use the datasets as
research design examples in methods lectures or alternatively you may wish to
use the data for substantive courses, for example if you wanted to show that
certain ethnic minorities have high unemployment rates you could use the data
yourself to illustrate this or use existing exemplars from published research.
Teaching datasets
can help class tutors to incorporate empirical data into their courses and thus
develop students' skills in quantitative methods of analysis and their knowledge
of large-scale government surveys.
The following teaching
datasets are available:
Unrestricted access teaching datasets
A number of unrestricted access teaching datasets are available from ESDS Government. Users do not have to go through the standard registration procedures to obtain these data - we simply ask for your email address. The following datasets are available:
- Health Survey for England 2000-2001 (used in the Introducing small area estimation techniques workshop)
- British Crime Survey 2007-2008: Unrestricted Access Teaching Dataset
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