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The UK Data Archive (UKDA) is a centre of expertise in data acquisition, preservation, dissemination and promotion and is curator of the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the UK. Founded in 1967, it now houses several thousand datasets of interest to a wide range of researchers and provides resource discovery and support for secondary use of quantitative and qualitative data in research, learning and teaching. UKDA is a designated Place of Deposit by The National Archives allowing it to ingest and preserve public records. UKDA is based at the University of Essex in Colchester.

The speciality of the UKDA is research data created in the domains of the social sciences and humanities, though more recently it has worked with environmental and medical data sources. Among its family of services are the Economic and Social Data Service, History Data Service, UK Census portal, Rural Economy and Land Use Programme Data Support Service, Secure Data Service, Survey Resources Network, Survey Question Bank, and UKDA StatServe. It also provides strategic co-ordination of the EC CESSDA-PPP project.




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