Thematic Guides
Employment
and the labour market introductory user guide
PDF,
Word
An introductory guide to using the large-scale government surveys for employment
and labour market research. It provides an overview of data sources with hyperlinks
to various documents available on the web.
Introductory guide to using
the large-scale government surveys for health research
PDF,
Word
The aim of this guide is to provide a resource to researchers who want to study
Health. It provides an overview of data sources with hyperlinks to various documents
available on the web.
Guide to data
sources for Scotland
PDF,
Word
The aim of this guide
is to provide a resource to researchers who want to study Scotland. For the
most part the main large-scale government surveys, especially those supported
by ESDS Government, will be covered in detail.
Social capital:
introductory user guide
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Word
This guide provides a summary of the
key aspects of government surveys conducted in the UK where information collected
includes some aspect of social capital. All major government surveys and some
key non-government surveys are included.
Ethnicity introductory guide
PDF,
Word
An introductory guide to using the
large-scale government surveys for ethnicity research. It provides an overview
of data sources with hyperlinks to various documents available on the web.
Guide to data sources for
Northern Ireland
PDF,
Word
The aim of this guide is to provide
a resource to researchers who want to study Northern Ireland. For the most part
the main large-scale government surveys, especially those supported by ESDS
Government, will be covered in detail.
Introductory guide to using
the large-scale government surveys for research on Consumption
PDF,
Word
The aim of this guide is to provide
a resource to researchers who want to study the theme of consumption. All major
government surveys and some key non-government surveys are included.
Introductory guide: Using
government surveys for crime research
PDF,
Word
This document is intended to guide
you through the crime data that are available via the large-scale government
surveys. The information provided is for researchers who want to use the data
from the surveys covered by ESDS Government to carry out their own analysis.
Introductory
Guide to the Expenditure and Food Survey
PDF,
Word
This guide is designed to pull together
essential information about the Expenditure and Food Survey deposited by both
the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and Department for Environment, Food
and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). Although the guide draws heavily on pre-existing
documentation it is intended to supplement rather than replace the user guides
produced by the Office for National Statistics, which should be considered definitive.
Users should therefore consult the user guides before using the data.