ESDS provides access to over 5,000 digital datasets for research and teaching purposes covering an extensive range of key economic and social data, both quantitative and qualitative, spanning many disciplines and themes. Comprehensive online information, and links to access data, are available for each dataset. Each data collection has a User Guide as part of its online documentation, found in the Data Catalogue. ESDS has also produced guides for specific datasets that include a general introduction to the data series, information on the data and documentation holdings and how to access them, plans for future developments and links to related resources:

• accessing data and documentation at ESDS
• survey dataset guides
• international dataset guides
• longitudinal dataset guides
• qualitative dataset guides