Further education and skills: statistical first release. Further education and skills: open data CSV files. Getting started – Understanding Society. First steps Whether you are a PhD student or an experienced academic or analyst, a policy maker, think-tank or practitioner, Understanding Society data is a rich and valuable resource that you can use in your research and work. Efforts to make the data as widely and as easily available as possible are ongoing. The team behind the survey is available to provide helpful advice, training and support to those interested in finding out more and then using the data and findings. If you still have a question after reading all the available information in this guide and after searching the website more widely, please visit the support forum or feel free to email the survey team.
New to the survey? If you are completely new to the survey, here are a few things you might want to do before accessing the data and documentation: Not a researcher? In order to access and use the data from Understanding Society, you need a certain level of understanding and training. Get some training Documentation Contact DAC. Capacity. The use of large scale data-sets in educational research Introduction In the last few decades, there has been an unprecedented increase in the availability and quality of large-scale data sets that are suitable for use in education research. Analyses of these data have the potential to radically improve the robustness and generalisability of educational research (See for example our project on Widening Participation in Higher Education: A Quantitative Analysis ). In an exploratory project funded by TLRP we hosted a series of workshops around the theme of using large-scale data sets in education research.
The purpose of the workshops was to encourage and facilitate education researchers in their use of such data and to highlight any difficulties researchers have encountered when trying to access and use such data. Key findings Administrative datasets have many advantages, not least that they are effectively a census of individuals. UK Data Service. Cranfield School of Management | Statistical Information and Datasets. These subscription and free resources provide access to a wealth of UK, and global statistical information including demographic and macroeconomic data. Access UK Sources Census.ac.uk ESRC site providing access to users in UK higher and further education institutions to data from the 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001 UK censuses.
The data are made available to members of the academic community within the UK for the purposes of not-for-profit research or teaching or personal educational development, as set out in the End User Licence, which must be accepted by users before access is allowed to the vast majority of the data. Enterprise Statistics SME (Small and Medium Enterprise) and business demography statistics from the Enterprise Directorate Analytical Unit of the Department for Business and Information Skills.
Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) UK National Statistics Publication Hub UK Trade Info European Sources Eurostat Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union. Global Sources. Re3data.org | Registry of Research Data Repositories. Home | data.gov.uk.