FIND DATA
Watch our video to find out how we can help you find the data you need for research or teaching
VIDEO TEXT TRANSCRIPT
I'm Jack Kneeshaw and I manage the Survey Question Bank and the ESDS Longitudinal data services here at the UK Data Archive.
The finding service here at the Archive provides access to over 5,000 digital data collections for research and teaching, covering an extensive range of key economic and social data.
The Economic and Social Data Service provides access to our data catalogue, allowing users to search and browse our collection.
We provide links to census data, to our own self-archive, to our Question Bank - which allows users to find survey questions and methodological documents. We also provide access to data archives around the world and help users identify data from those archives.
Through our catalogue, each record provides: a description of the study; its methods, concepts and outputs; references to publications based on the data; variable lists and frequencies where appropriate; user guides and documentation.
Each record also provides a direct link straight to the data.
Searching and browsing information about data, including user guides and documentation, is free … and requires no registration.
SEARCH OUR CATALOGUE
OUR CATALOGUE CONTAINS OVER 5,000 DATA COLLECTIONS
Our Data Catalogue can be searched and browsed though the ESDS
website
SEARCH AT ESDS
MAJOR STUDIES
For our most popular data collections from across our range of
data services
VIEW AT ESDS
LATEST DATA
For new releases available through the Data Catalogue
VIEW AT ESDS
OUR CATALOGUES - LOOKING FOR CENSUS DATA?
Census.ac.uk
is the home of the ESRC Census Programme with a gateway to data, resources and support services allowing users in UK higher and further education to access the 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001 UK censuses
OUR CATALOGUES - LOOKING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DATA?
RELU KNOWLEDGE PORTAL
brings together data, research outputs and publications produced by all Rural Economy and Land Use (Relu) research projects and also provides direct links to access data and outputs
OUR CATALOGUES - LOOKING FOR PSYCHOLOGY EXPERIMENTS?
UKDA-store
enables us to archive a wider range of research materials, such psychology experiments and smaller research projects funded by ESRC
OUR CATALOGUES - LOOKING FOR EUROPEAN DATA?
CESSDA Catalogue
provides a single interface to data and variables from a selection of data collections from social science data archives across Europe. Data may be searched or browsed and can be viewed in nine languages
OUR CATALOGUES - LOOKING FOR HELP WITH SURVEY QUESTIONS
SURVEY QUESTION BANK
provides access to questionnaires from major UK and cross-national social surveys. SQB displays questions in their original context helping with survey and questionnaire design