Sarah KingHele Research Associate User Support and Training ESRC Research Methods Festival St Catherines College Oxford 9 July 2014 Presentation Survey microdata UK survey and l ongitudinal ID: 803224
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UK survey data available via the UK Data Service
Sarah King-HeleResearch Associate, User Support and Training
ESRC Research Methods Festival
St Catherine’s College, Oxford
9 July 2014
Slide2Presentation
Survey microdata
UK survey and l
ongitudinal
studies
Nesstar: online analysis of survey data
W
hy use secondary survey data?
F
inding data and documentation
Slide3Survey microdata
Slide4UK surveys and longitudinal studies
Slide5UK surveys
often commissioned by government and
conducted by ONS or
NatCen
data
about individuals or households (anonymised
)
l
arge sample sizes
n
ationally-representative
many are run
every year
repeated cross-sectional (new sample each time the survey is run)
Slide6Examples of UK surveys
Many topics including:
h
ealth:
Health Survey for England
w
ork: Labour Force Survey
c
rime: Crime Survey for England and Wales
s
ocial attitudes: British Social Attitudes
f
amily expenditure
living costshousing
Slide7Example: economic inactivity by reason
Graph: Labour Market Statistics, June 2014, ONS
Slide8Example:
trends in domestic burglary, 1981-2011/12
Figure 8 from ‘Crime in England and Wales Quarterly First Release, March 2012’
www.ons.gov.uk
(thousands)
Data: Crime Survey for England and Wales and British Crime Survey
Slide9Longitudinal studies
Similar to UK surveysi
ndividual level data
l
arge samples, nationally-
representative
s
urveys are repeated, often
annually
BUT
t
hey follow the same individuals over time
n
ew respondents are added regularly to keep numbers up
Slide10Examples of longitudinal studies
British Household Panel Survey and
Understanding Society
cover different aspects of peoples lives: education, employment, social ties, family life and health
BHPS started in 1991 and has 18 waves of data collection
Understanding Society started in 2009
BHPS sample included in Understanding Society from wave 2
Other
longitudinal
studies
English Longitudinal Study of
Ageing
Families
and Children
Study
Growing
Up in
Scotland
Longitudinal
Study of Young People in England
Slide11Example: perceived discrimination for being turned down for a job by ethnicity
Source:
Understanding
Society: Findings 2012
Slide12Example: reasons for moving home
Source:
Understanding
Society: Findings 2012
Slide13Longitudinal studies: Cohort studies
National Child Development Study (1958) 1970 British Cohort StudyMillennium Cohort Study different decades
– can examine generational change
topics: health/medical focus
social and economic circumstances
Slide14Nesstar: online analysis of survey data
b
rowse detailed information (metadata) and
data online
d
o simple data analysis and visualisation on microdata
d
ownload
a
subset
of data in
one
of a number of formats (e.g. SPSS,
Stata
)
Slide15E
xample: one way frequencyPolitical affiliation (data from BSA)
Slide16E
xample: graph
Age started smoking (data from GHS)
Slide17Example: Cross-tab Main
cause of crime (data from CSEW)
Slide18Why use secondary survey data?
cost effectivesaves timehigh quality
n
ationally representative
m
any topics
allows geographical and historical comparisons
h
elp and support are available
Slide19Help
Slide20Documentation
all survey documentation is freely available on the website – questionnaires, user guides, technical reports, derived variables
documentation tells you about the data
what questions were asked
who were asked the questions
how the survey was conducted
what was done with the raw data to turn it into the final data
You must look at the documentation to understand the data
Slide21Finding data and documentation
ukdataservice.ac.uk
Slide22How to search for data?
discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk
Slide23Slide24Variable and question search
discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/variables
Slide25Sarah King-Hele
Sarah.king-hele@manchester.ac.uk
ukdataservice.ac.uk/help/
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