Further social science references

QUALIDATA - Economic and social research council

The aims of QUALIDATA, the "Qualitative Data Archival Resource Centre" at ESRC, Essex are locating, assessing and documenting qualitative data and arranging for their deposit in suitable public archive repositories; disseminating information about such data and raising awareness among the social science research community. The centre is concerned with research data arising from the range of social science disciplines, including sociology, social policy, anthropology, social and economic history, political science, social and human geography and social psychology. The user community is viewed to be academic, government and policy, media and archival researchers.

QUALIDATA is not an archive itself: it is an action unit. The Centre locates and evaluates research data, catalogues it, organises its transfer to suitable archives, and publicises its existence to researchers as an information resource.

• QUALIDATA maintains QUALICAT, a searchable catalogue of sources of available qualitative data in the UK

The Resource Centre for Access to Data on Europe (r-cade)

The Resource Centre for access to Data on Europe is an interdisciplinary resource centre that will help researchers and analysts to identify and acquire data from three data providers:

• UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation),

• the ILO (International Labour Organisation) and

• Eurostat (the statistical office of the European Union).

It has been established in the UK in a partnership between the Centre for European Studies at the University of Durham and the data archive at the University of Essex. Access to data is available through r-cade data services. The current datasets page lists, describes and identifies sources of data.