1. ESDS resources for managing and analysing data Beate Lichtwardt Economic and Social Data Service UK Data Archive Research Method Festival, Oxford 1 July 2008

2.  Overview of ESDS service  ESDS resources and support: ESDS Government Analysis guides Derived variables ESDS International Countries and Citizens: Linking International Macro and Micro Data (formerly: Linking International Macro Micro Data - LIMMD) Cross-national research resource  ESDS NESSTAR catalogue Roadmap

3.  National data archiving and dissemination service  Running from 1 January 2003  Jointly supported by - Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) - Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)  Partners - UK Data Archive (UKDA), Essex - Manchester Information and Associated Services (MIMAS), Manchester - Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research (CCSR), Manchester - Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Essex ESDS The principle UK data service for the social sciences

4.  Provides access and support for key economic and social data  Distributed service, bringing together centres of expertise in data creation, dissemination, preservation and use  Core archiving services plus four specialist data services ESDS Government ESDS International ESDS Longitudinal EDSD Qualidata ESDS

5. Data for research and teaching purposes, used in all sectors and for many different disciplines  Official agencies – mainly central government  Individual academics – research grants  Market research agencies  Public records/historical sources  Links to UK census data  Qualitative and quantitative  International statistical time series  History data service in-house  Access to international data via links with other data archives worldwide ESDS holdings 6,000 datasets in the collection rd. 230 new datasets added each year over 45,000 registered users approximately 60,000 downloads worldwide p.a.

6. Links with other data archives - Europe CESSDA - Council of European Social Science Data Archives ( non- European mainly ICPSR)

7.  ESDS Management Central help desk service; coherent and flexible collections development policy; central registration service; links to other ESRC resources  ESDS Access and Preservation Collections development strategy; ingest activities – including data and documentation processing; metadata creation; data dissemination services; long-term preservation  Specialist ESDS services Government, International, Longitudinal, Qualidata ESDS structure Dedicated web sites Data and documen- tation enhancements Tailored user support Outreach and training

8. ESDS Government – resources

11. Demo (ESDS Gov. resources) http://www.esds.ac.uk/government/resources/analysis/ http://www.esds.ac.uk/government/dv/

12. Demo (ESDS Int. resources) http://www.esds.ac.uk/international/elearning/limmd/index.html http://www.esds.ac.uk/International/resources/research.asp

13. ESDS International – resources

15. NESSTAR  Online data browsing and analysis system  Allows users to search for, locate, browse and analyse and download a wide variety of statistical data within a web browser  UK Data Archive, as service provider for ESDS, hosts a NESSTAR server populated by its most popular data series  Registering with ESDS required, if exploratory analysis beyond browsing metadata is intended

16. ESDS NESSTAR Catalogue

19. Demo (NESSTAR) http://nesstar.esds.ac.uk/webview/index.jsp

20. NESSTAR  Browse detailed information (metadata) about these data sources, including links to other sources  Do simple data analysis and visualisation on microdata  Bookmark analysis  Download the appropriate subset of data in one of a number of formats (e.g. SPSS, Excel)

21. NESSTAR  Introductory guide to using NESSTAR: http://www.esds.ac.uk/support/guides/A2.pdf  ESDS NESSTAR Catalogue: http://nesstar.esds.ac.uk/webview/index.jsp  NESSTAR guide http://nesstar.esds.ac.uk/webview/help/index.ht ml  ESDS registration: http://www.esds.ac.uk/aandp/access/login.asp

22. Contact: www.esds.ac.uk help@esds.ac.uk