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The UK's largest digital collection of social sciences and population research data

Standards and procedures

Data access now and in the future

Our approach to data preparation and curation, and the standards we use, means that data can be accessed now and in the future.

We are at the forefront in defining, meeting and supporting the adoption of appropriate and universal standards in this area, and have made many of our own policies and procedures available.