Finding data
17 December, 2009 - 15:16 — admin
The UK Data Archive (based at the University of Essex) is a large-scale repository of social sciences, humanities and large-scale government datasets. The UKDA is supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (Jisc) and is a service provider for the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS). Founded in 1967, it houses several thousand datasets of interest to researchers in all sectors and from many different disciplines.
Major thematic categories include:
- Government datasets
- Longitudinal datasets
- Macro-economic datasets
- Qualitative datasets
Data users can browse by subject, browse major studies or new data releases, or search the UKDA online catalogue or thesaurus to find other datasets of interest.
Spatial Coverage:
United Kingdom
Data Publisher:
UK Data Archive, University of Essex
Place of Publication:
Essex, UK
Data Access:
Access for academic use is free, but registration is required.
This article was published on Feb 26, 2013