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Welcome to the website of the UK Data Archive. We want to help direct you to the right place.

Want to know about us?

The UK Data Archive is curator of the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom. With several thousand data collections, our Archive is a vital resource for researchers, teachers and learners.
Read more about us and what we do
Who are we?
Where can you find us?

Are you a researcher or a student?

We can help you find data for your research or your dissertation. We also provide guidance and training on how to manage, store and share data.
Find data to use
Find guidance on managing your data
Find guidance on confidentiality
Do you want to offer us data?
Are you looking for training?
Are you researching family history?   We don't have information at the Archive but these Genealogical Links may help you.

Are you a teacher?

Through the UK Data Service, we can help you find data and resources for use in your teaching both in the classroom and for supporting supervising research students.
Read about teaching with data

Are you an archivist or data professional?

We have been curating data for over forty years and have implemented best practices in many areas of data archiving, data access and data management.
Find out about how we help our own users manage and share data?

Are you a journalist?

We provide quick online access to large-scale survey data enabling you to look at results quickly.  We also provide, through the UK Data Service, easy-to-access exemplars of how people have used our data.
Try our online data tools
Find out how people re-use our data

Do you want to collaborate with us?

We are a collaborative organisation working with a variety of sponsors and stakeholders providing services and engaging in research and development.
Find out who we work with
View the kinds of projects we are engaged in

A QUICK GUIDE TO THE ARCHIVE  

1 of 10: We provide continuous access to the UK’s largest collection of digital research data in the social sciences
2 of 10: We hold thousands of data collections for social science research and teaching, quantitative and qualitative
3 of 10: Each of our data collections has a unique persistent identifier (DOI) that makes it easier to find and cite
4 of 10: We hold the only copy of many of the UK's large national surveys charting social research back decades
5 of 10: We are an established national archive at the forefront of managing, preserving, sharing and delivering data
6 of 10: We are certified to ISO 27001, the information security standard, and helped develop the Data Seal of Approval
7 of 10: We are a collaborative organisation supporting emerging and existing creators and users of data
8 of 10: We provide best practice guidance and training in managing and sharing research data
9 of 10: You won’t be able to find your family records on our site. You should visit a genealogical site instead
10 of 10: We don’t provide ready-made statistics, but using Nesstar you can view frequencies from popular surveys

OUR SERVICES  

RELU-DSS 
supporting rural research data management
UK Data Service 
data promoting evidence-based research
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