The Annual Population Survey is a major new survey of approximately 65,000
achieved household interviews each year. Key topics in the survey include
education, employment, health and ethnicity. The survey is deposited with
ESDS in two forms:
(1) As a dataset available under a special licence that contains
considerable detail, including local authority identifiers:
www.data-archive.ac.uk/findingData/apsTitles.asp
(2) As a dataset available under the usual ESDS End User Licence that
contains less detail. This dataset is currently being prepared for release.
A brief description of the difference between the files is available at
http://www.esds.ac.uk/government/aps/index.asp
If you think you may require the special licence dataset you should read the
access conditions carefully
(http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/orderingdata/specialLicence.asp) to check
whether you meet the specified criteria. It is essential to be able to
demonstrate why you need the additional detail only available under a
special licence.
It is also important to read the Guide to good practice: micro data handling
and security (www.esds.ac.uk/news/microDataHandlingand Security.pdf) that
explains how to meet the security conditions required for data disseminated
under a special licence.
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