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Looking for data on health and health behaviour?
browsing, searching and downloading
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Browsing ESDS data collections for health data
Retrieve a list of health-related studies by using the Browse by subject
page. For example, view a list of studies where 'Drug
abuse, alcohol and smoking' is the overall subject content of the data
at study level. This will provide a table of studies with links to the
catalogue records.
 Searching
ESDS data collections for health data
Researchers can retrieve a list of health-related studies by searching the catalogue using a free-text search or refining the search by keyword, date, methodology etc. This will provide a list of studies with links to the catalogue records, for example:
use the Catalogue search to search for keyword 'alcoholism' or the keywords 'mental health'
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 Searching using the UK Data Archive's HASSET thesaurus
Use the UK Data Archive Humanities and Social Science Electronic Thesaurus (HASSET) to
search for keywords, and explore their narrower, broader or related terms, for
example:
Looking at variables in the ESDS data collections
Researchers can retrieve a list of health-related studies by searching on the Variables
(variable labels and value labels within a dataset) search option, for example:
Downloading and ordering health data
Registered users can download or order most data for offline analysis. Most
survey data are available to download in standard formats, for example, SPSS,
STATA and tab-delimited. Further information on how to access and download are data is available from our access and support pages.
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