Social Sciences & Social Work: Statistics / Data Sets

The UK Data Service / Archive provides access to the largest collection of social, economic and population data sets for research and teaching in academia.

The first time you use the service you'll be asked to register. After that, you will be able to log in to any of the data sets and surveys. A free online training programme of regular introductory webinars is available.

•    Dissertation projects: Introduction to secondary analysis for qualitative and quantitative data, 24 March, 11.00 – 12.30
• Introduction to the UK Data Service, 5 April, 10.00 – 11.30.
• Finding and Accessing Data from the UK Data Service, 11 April, 10.00 – 11.30.
• How to anonymise qualitative and quantitative data, 21 April, 11:00 – 12:30.
• Data Management Basics: Introduction to data management and sharing, 28 April, 11.00 – 12.00.
• Data Management Basics: Ethical and legal issues in data sharing, 29 April, 10.00 – 11.00.
• Depositing your data with ReShare, 5 May, 11.00 – 12.00.
• Consent issues in data sharing, 13 May, 10.00 – 11.00.
• How to become a Computational Social Scientist, 19 May, 11.00 – 12.30.
• Introduction to the copyright: Copyright and publishing, 20 May, 10.00 – 11.30.
• Getting Started with Secondary Analysis, 24 May, 10.00 – 11.30.
• Introduction to the copyright: Copyright and secondary data use, 27 May, 10 – 11.30.

The workshops in the series will have a new practical element.

To book a place visit the UK Data Service events page or click on the links above.

Data is sourced from:

• official agencies - mainly central government
• international statistical agencies
• individual academics with research grants
• market research agencies
• historical sources
• other data archives worldwide

• Annual Population Survey
• British Social Attitudes
• Citizenship Survey
• Community Life Survey
• Continuous Household Survey
• Crime Survey for England and Wales
• English Housing Survey (formerly English House Condition Survey and Survey of English Housing)
• European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions
• Family Expenditure Survey
• Family Resources Survey
• FRS Individual Income Series
• General Lifestyle Survey
• Health Survey for England
• Households Below Average Income
• Integrated Household Survey
• Labour Force Survey
• Life Opportunities Survey
• Living Costs and Food Survey
• Living in Wales Survey
• National Food Survey
• National Survey for Wales
• National Travel Survey
• Northern Ireland Family Expenditure Survey
• Northern Ireland Labour Force Survey
• Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey
• Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (formerly ONS Opinions Survey and ONS Omnibus Survey)
• Scottish Crime and Justice Survey
• Scottish Health Survey
• Scottish Social Attitudes Survey
• Survey of Carers in Households 2009/10
• Time Use Survey
• Vital Statistics
• Welsh Health Survey
• Workplace Employment Relations Survey
• Young People's Social Attitudes Survey

Census data sets are available to academic staff and students dating from 1851.

A range of Census reports for the UK and Ireland from 1801 are available in print at the McClay Library. Please ask at the Enquiry Desk on Floor 2.

• European Quality of Life Survey
• OECD Social and Welfare Statistics
• OECD International Migration Statistics
• Eurostat New Cronos
• OECD Health Statistics
• OECD Employment and Labour Market Statistics
• OECD Regional Statistics
• UNESCO Cultural Employment Statistics
• European Social Survey
• European Working Conditions Survey
• Young Lives: an international Study of Childhood Poverty
• International Social Survey Programme

• Affluent Worker in the Class Structure
• Family Life and Work Experience Before 1918
• Family Life of Old People
• Gender Difference, Anxiety and the Fear of Crime
• Last Refuge