ESDS Government

Usage of ESDS Government Surveys

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Recent Usage

• New employment forms – Professor David Marsden (London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); University of London – Management). September 2011

  To examine changing patterns of employment status in different occupations and particularly patterns of 'extended entry tournaments' and of network building in occupations whose traditional entry paths have eroded since the early 1970s. Uses: LFS

• Recent trends in top incomes in the UK – Professor Mike Brewer (Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) – Direct Tax and Welfare Sector). September 2011

  This paper will analyse trends in the level and composition of top incomes in the UK through the late 2000s and including the start of the financial crisis. It will mostly use SPI data. Uses: HBAI

• Thesis supervision – Mr Colin Love (Imperial College London – Business School). September 2011

  I am supervising a postgraduate student's thesis which requires data analysis of employment data for male / female workers in the UK. This is part of a social survey to determin drivers fo female employment in the UK. Uses: LFS

• Scottish identities – Dr Jenny Blain (Sheffield Hallam University – Dept of Psychology; Sociology and Politics). September 2011

  I am looking at Scottish identities and while my work is mostly qualitative I would like to develop some background using the national identities questions from the Scottish Social Attitudes survey. This may involve exploring changes between 2000 and the present. Uses: SSA

• The longitudinal influence of economic inequality on religious disaffiliation in Western and non-Western countries – Mr Marijn Scholte. September 2011

  In explaining religious disaffiliation the importance of economic inequality was recently shown in a study using 60 countries. Modernization, the classic explanation, was of little importance. However, in the Netherlands economic inequality has an opposite effect while the effect of modernization is strong. To test the economic inequality hypothesis more stringent we use countries in longitudinal multilevel models and several economic indicators next to modernization. Uses: BSA

• Geographical study of BCS profile for Nottingham City (TBC) – Mr Craig Hall. September 2011

  The data will be used to build an 'enhanced' geographical BCS profile for Nottingham City. We are the Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership for Nottingham and we are looking to perform a study in partnership with Nottingham Trent University. Uses: BCS

• How can young people be encouraged to save more – Mr Richard Platt. September 2011

  The data is to provide background information for a research we are project that aims to understand savings habits among young people and how they can be encouraged to save more. Uses: FRS Family Resources Survey, 1994-1995

• Inequality; debt accumulation and the great recession – Mr Simon Collie (University of Brighton – Brighton Business School). September 2011

  I intend to use this data for my MSc dissertation project. I am investigating whether increased inequality over the last 30 years contributed to the macroeconomic instability that precipitated the recent "great recession" Uses: FES EFS

• Model Testing – Dr Emma Raven. September 2011

  JBA consulting are updating our in-house built environment model for the UK. Our current model includes information on house types and we plan to include attributes such as property age; building height and other information that we can obtain in the new version. Our existing model has been developed using data from various providers - where this data it is not available to us freely; we have contractual licenses detailing its use. We are currently exploring data sources for our planned updates. Our built environment model will be used to characterise levels of risk from windstorms; floods and freeze events. Since the EHS database is only a snapshot of properties in the UK (17;000 of the 16million); we would only use this data to compare our model results. Uses: EHS

• National Travel Survey data – Dr Xiaoyu Yan (University of Cambridge – Department of Engineering). September 2011

  The National Travel Survey data will be used to build a detailed bottom-up model to estimate energy use and emissions from the UK transport sector. Uses: NTS

• Apprenticeships – Mr Joe Perkins. September 2011

  This work is to contribute to a National Audit Office Value for Money study into apprenticeships. As part of this we would like to know the sector in which individuals carried out their apprenticeships (in order to tell if there are differences between sectors). This variable is only available under special licence. Uses: LFS

• Travel Agent Research – Miss Emma Rose Hurst. September 2011

  Research into the employment and recruitment of Travel agents and how the market has changed especially with the financial crisis. We want to separate Travel agents and tour operators which most data combine. Uses: LFS

• Disability demographics – Ms Cate Fisher. September 2011

  We plan to use this data to get a better idea of the profile of the disabled population in the UK. This will include a look at the age; gender; ethnicity; income and employment profile of this population; amongst other variables. Uses: FRS HBAI LOS

• Calculation of Health Expectancies – Mr Andrew Yeap (Office for National Statistics (ONS) – Centre for Health Analysis and Life Events). September 2011

  Calculation of health expectancies on a national and sub-national level. Users and stakeholders include the Deparment of Health; the Department for Work and Pensions; and various health-related organisations across Great Britain. Uses: NICHS GHS HSE WHS BSA FRS SHES EHS Northern Ireland Health and Social Wellbeing Survey, 2005-2006 SILC LIW

• Marriage and Relationships – Mr Nigel Williams. September 2011

  To study the effect of marriage on other life circumstances, and in the effect of other life circumstances and effects on marriage, beginning with unemployment but potentially branching out wider. Uses: LFS

• Corpus linguistics – Dr Michael Pace-Sigge (University of Liverpool – English). 0000

  Research into usage patterns of spoken UK English. This requires to gain a large variety of natural spoken language material. The reason I would like to have these datasets is there are only small corpora of transcribed speech available (whereas it is is very easy to get or make a corpus that consists of written texts). As my main area of research is spoken English I am trying to assemble as many transcribed exchanges as possible in order to create a new, large compilation that can give a varied reflection of spoken English. Uses: GHS FRS HBAI