Introduction

ESDS Longitudinal is dedicated to building research capacity within the social sciences. In order to enable researchers to extract full value from longitudinal data resources, the service has produced the following resources:

• usage of ESDS Longitudinal data, displaying what registered users are doing/planning to do with the data
• comparable indicators, allowing users to match variables across studies and with the Office for National Statistics Primary set of harmonised concepts and questions
• access to geography variables included in the ESDS Longitudinal major studies
• teaching and learning resources - teaching/sampler datasets, online tutorial for the Malaise Inventory
• biomedical data collected in longitudinal studies
• UK longitudinal data in an international context, including timelines and harmonisation projects
• a search of publications citing ESDS Longitudinal surveys
• other longitudinal survey resources, including resources external to ESDS Longitudinal

ESDS Longitudinal recommendation for Winter 2011-2012

Case studies using ESDS data

See our library of case studies, including many using longitudinal data, demonstrating the wide variety of ways these data have been used. You can identify usage according to topic, data type, and educational course.