How to get started

Vanessa HigginsCCSR

University of Manchester

Summary

• Registration• Exploring data with Nesstar• Downloading the datasets

• Useful Websites:– The Question Bank– National Statistics– Government department websites

Registration

Exploring and downloading data

The Question Bank

http://qb.soc.surrey.ac.uk/

• ESRC funded; Centre for Applied Social Surveys, University of Surrey

• Holds questionnaires from 1991+, no data or survey reports

• Topics and resources

National Statistics Online

www.statistics.gov.uk

• Obtain figures, download tables• Publications• News, data releases• Links to important documents, other

websites• Other data - business stats, census etc

Government department websites

- Home Office- www.homeoffice.gov.uk

- Department of Health- www.doh.gov.uk

Summary:• ESDS website

– www.esds.ac.uk– www.esds.ac.uk/government

• Register with the UKDA • Access, explore and download datasets

from UKDA

• Obtain questionnaires from QB

• National Statistics, Govt departments