ESRC Data Archive
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Address:
University of Essex - Wivenhoe Park
Colchester CO4 3SQ - Essex - England
Phone: +44 206 87 2001 or 87 2103, Fax: +44 206 87 2003
Website:
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Affiliation:
The ESRC Data Archive is a national
resource centre, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council -
ESRC, the University of Essex and the Higher Education Funding Council.
It was founded in 1967.
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Data collections:
The Data Archive now houses approximately
seven thousand datasets of interest to researchers in all sectors and
from many different disciplines. Datasets are covering the full range
of the social sciences and containing information about most areas of
social and economic life. Most datasets have their origins in
academic, government, or commercial research. Although a majority of
datasets relate to post-war Britain, a special collection of datasets
created in the course of historical research is being expanded and
managed within the History Data Unit. Data held in the Archive cover
most aspects of social and economic life across a wide spectrum of
time.
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Data holding, retrieval & provision:
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Further services & facilities:
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Services with further data acess to
- ONS databank - only authorised
academic users
- BES - British Election Studies, 1963
-1992
- BESIS - British Election Studies
Information System
- MIDAS - Manchester Information
Datasets and Associated Service
- Use of Data in Teaching
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Depositing data with links e.g. to:
- Guide to Depositing Data
- Guidelines for documenting data
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Projects:
- The Web Thesaurus Project
- NESSTAR - Networked European Social
Science Tools and Resources
- R.CADE - Resource Center for Access
to Data on Europe
- The History Data Service
- The Document Digitisation project
- The VP-Lab project
- The Opinion Poll project
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Newsletter:
- ESRC Data Archive
Bulletin (incorporating Software Bulletin). Published three
times a year.
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Publication:
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