The UK Data Archive is pleased to announce the release of a number of major
datasets now available for browsing, exploring and downloading via NESSTAR.
Anyone can search for and view the full metadata (catalogue record and
codebook), and non-commercial users registered with UK Data Archive can also
explore/analyse and download the data.
Survey data include selected years from the major data series:
* General Household Survey (GHS)
* Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS)
* Health Survey for England (HSE)
* British Election Surveys (BES) (also available to unregistered
users)
* British Social Attitudes Surveys (BSAS)
* Together with some other individual popular datasets such as the
Scottish Social Attitudes Survey and the ONS Omnibus survey
This online service will be extended to other data collections within the
UKDA on a continuous basis, with more datasets being mounted on the system
over the coming months.
NESSTAR
NESSTAR is a set of internet-based tools to provide an enhanced online
service for data providers and data users that gives easier and quicker
access to data and information about that data. It is available within a
Web browser (NESSTAR Light) or as a freely downloadable application (NESSTAR
Explorer). Users can:
* search for and list datasets
* browse dataset documentation
* browse and analyse data
* visualise data
* bookmark searches and analyses
* download data (including subsets) in a number of formats (including
SPSS, SAS and STATA) (coming soon)
Further instructions on using NESSTAR to access these datasets can be found
at:
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/usingData/nesstar.asp
Louise Corti
Director, User Services, Data Archive
& Deputy Director, Qualidata
University of Essex
Colchester CO4 3SQ
UK
Tel: + 44 1206 872145
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DATA ARCHIVE: http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/
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