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? 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 ). UK Data Service. 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. Registry of Research Data Repositories. Data.gov.uk. Academic Torrents.